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Tinubu has fake certificates
Omisore has fake certificates
Who come remain?

seanet02:
Everybody knows the ibos as the most dubious people in the world. Their top notches have always turn out to be fraud. Name them emeagwali and co. Freaking cannibals

When your Oba must eat human flesh to be king. That is the example you show. All Igbos who are rogues live in Yorubaland and learnt you ways.

Read https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-349159.0.html

lagcity:
Igbo ppl. your sister Akunyili knows you well. that's why she busted you in aba and other Igbo cities. since then, u have been trying to kill her. u guys are the ones ruining our image in the world. that's why i laughed at Dora (an ibo woman) when she started that rebranding nonsense. if she wants to rebrand, all she needs to do is sterilize all Ibo women.

Who is the owner of the drug manufacturing company whose teething powder killed 100s of Nigerian children?
Who are those who sleep with their daughters in order to get visa to remain abroad?
Who are those who forge academic certificates all over the place? Ekiti just sacked 5000 state workers for forged certificates.

Sultan opposes troops in Borno, absolves Boko Haram of violence
http://odili.net/news/source/2011/jul/29/27.html


Islamic banking has come to stay – Sultan

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/jul/29/330.html

EFCC database shows more Yorubas than other Nigerians put together.

lagcity:
u no dey shame? i know u did not say this with a straight face. i know it, u know it, let's leave it at that.

Arent all your leaders jailed criminals
Awo
Obasanjo
Tinubu
Bankole
Name one Yoruba leader that has not slept in prison or police cell. Buncha thieves.

lagcity:
stop giving silly excuses. u Igbo ppl have crime in your blood. whenever they are, give them 1 month for the place to become crime-infested.

This must be the stupidest post here. Yorubas are by far more crime-prone than other humans beings on earth. See what they do in the UK and USA

Gbawe:
Does it make sense , to even you, that Ajimobi  , only 8 weeks into his tenure , be declared as no better than Akala? Are you a fair individual at all? Is that how folks are judged and compared in your book? You would only be right proclaiming Ajimobi as no better than Akala if in the less than two months he has been governor we have seen him looting copiously, sponsoring and abetting NURTW violence, awarding contracts non-transparently to his cronies, hiking up tuition fees arbitrarily and generally formenting chaos throughout Oyo State .

In so far as this is not the case , a fair minded person would be more than inclined to agree that Ajimobi and others are on course to be far better than their PDP predecessor . If you think that 2 - 4 months cannot be allowed for taking stock, especially when the rot on the ground is gigantic, then your reason for writing these guys off is not genuine or objective.

Bad leadership is the only way to conclude the new ACN Governors are the same as the PDP Governors they replaced and this is not the case so far. Amosun , for example, is currently responding directly to the agitation of the people of his state by renovation a very strategic section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway , causing untold misery, that OGD and Bi-Courtney (the company that won the renovation contract for the Lagos-Ibadan expressway) simply ignored . When you say Ajimobi is no better than Akala and Amosun is no better than OGD , it is clear you are only stating your own desire formed in your mind and not reality. Forget those grumbling online who did not even vote and are confusing folks like you . The people of the SW are happy with their Governors so far even if you want to believe otherwise.

Rather than any of you challenging us to show how Ajimobi or Amosun are better than their predecessors , you should show us what they have done , in 8 weeks , that makes you conclude they are no better than Alao Akala and OGD respectively .

We can judge both at the same point. At 4 months old, how is Ajimobi better than Akala when he was 4 months old?

Lanrefemi:
what indices are we using to measure poverty level here? is it how beautiful a state is? or the no of SME as someone was asking on this thread!
I have been to a lot of state in Nigeria, from south to north and I can't see any difference among most of these states, as a matter of fact I was really shocked at the poverty level among the people of Rivers state when I was serving there, despite the fact that they have one of the highest GDP in Nigeria! Even as "rich" as Lagos state is it has the highest homeless and jobless people in the country, a lot of hausas are professional beggars even with all the money the northern leaders have looted over the years

Guys stop arguing about what state is poorer or richer than each other, all Nigerian states have all failed! As a matter of fact I will even say that Ekiti state is a model for other state i.e it's one of the few states in the country that can choose their leaders (governors) without any imposition.
Ekiti state is one of the major state producing the human resource of the country. apart from the professors everybody is talking about go round the major sector of Nigeria economy from the Oil sector, banking, education, Law, civil service, Ekiti people are there, they've done well for Nigeria and themselves.

Mention one Ekiti person that has distinguished themselves within Nigeria. Thank you.
Don't tell me about those abroad. Most Nigerians (mainly Igbo and Yoruba) abroad do well in their respective fields

dayokanu:
I have seen several people including ppl from Imo laud and claim Rochas is better than Ohakim.

T[b]he majority of SW prefer Ajimobi over Akala[/b]

Because they have been brainwashed and programmed like zombies by Tinubu and his war machine
Now show me how Ajimobi is better than Akala. I need facts.

Aigbofa:
Just 30 years ago, people like you are more likely to be tilling the soil somewhere in Yorubaland. I'm still trying to figure out what went wrong.

Could be true or not, I have no clue. But today people like you yorubas are packing loads for Igbo traders in Alaba and manning the gates of houses owned by big Igbo men in Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja

This is the poster's opinion and has no bearing on reality
How is Osun better managed than Ebonyi?

nwabobo:
No normal person would wish them death. Thank God they were revived in a nearby hospital. Must have been charms from Ijebu ode.

Or Ijebu mushin or ijebu ijesha
All these ijebu blah !! blah !! blah!! are so jujuistic

But where are all these so-called professor s from Ekiti? What are they doing for their state?
Are these just passers of book exams with no practical applicability
Or are they parading with fake credentials (olowole)
I hear 95% of the professors there are professing in subjects like History, Yoruba Language, Social Studies, Accounting and Law, all of which cannot solve poverty problems

BTW, where is Reuben Abati from? Has he also eaten the apple like Adeniyi?

dayokanu:
Give examples of good governors that have been booted out.

Duke, Fashola or who. Most good governors get re-elected

I would advise you stick to what you know, Have you seen anyone from the SW complain about the new ACN governors? They are only accountable to SWesterners and ppl are satisfied with them so far.

Its only a mischievious person that would say there is no difference between Akala and Ajimobi or there is no difference between OGD/Olurin and Amosun.

On the bolded, then do not stick your Yoruba nose on Ohakim and Imo State, you little bigot.
Tell me the difference between the new Govs in Osun, Ogun and Oyo and the old ones.

^^^
Solve flooding in SW (Lagos, Ogun, Oyo)
Solve the fact that Lagos will soon be swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean
Solve desertification in the North
Solve erosion in SE and Edo and Cross Rivers.

dayokanu:
So if Odechukwus plan have come to stay, Ohakim would be ruling Imo right now and since he has 7yrs and not seeking re-election what would make him do anything.

In that same vein Mbadinuju would have done 7yrs uninterrupted in Anambra

Look at it the other way too: if a good governor was ruling Imo state, he would not be booted out just because he belonged to the party not liked in the region. Same goes for the SW states where so far, there has been no difference between the PDP governors that were routed and their ACN successors.

Meanwhile, what has happened to the Oil Palm processing industry in Egbema/Ohaji?

dayokanu:
Where are the Ohakims and Alao Akala right now?

If Reetardeen Odechukwus plan were to be that means Oyo and Imo State are stuck to Akala and Ohakim for 7yrs.

Not so fast in judging Akala and Ohakim. So far Ajumobi has not shown how he is different from Akala. Rochas is showing some good signs, yet it is too early in the day to see the full extent of his unravelling.

0lumide:
You are a big tool duude, IS THIS ABOUT FASHOLA?

Fashola has encouraged more Nigerians to invest in Nigeria than anyopne else has done,

Fashola has done more than any governor in the federation, Stop with the comparisons,

Let's focus on this plantaition that isn't even in paper yet just word of mouth,

I'm sure they read this forum, now let us push them to do it not you comparing Fashola at every turn you get, GET OVER IT MAN!!!!!!

The claim is that Rochas has the best publicity machinery and I put a lie to that. So far, Fasola's publicity machinery is unrivaled. Now back to palm oil business.

Biggie9:
@SouthEast, you are shameless for advocating a term of 6-7 years for Governors or Presidents. I hope u are not from the south east as your name says cos u would be an absolute disgrace to the region. its becos of sycophants and praise singers like u that GEJ missed his steps. Guys like u will see yellow but will sweet tongue the president that its green and not yellow. imagine what would have happened in imo state if a tyrant like Ohakim was allowed to rule for 6 or 7 years at a stretch, even if its a single term, ofcouse imo state would never have recovered from it in the next 15 years. May the lord deliver us from GEJ who is now behaving like a drunken sailor thats chasing rats when the ship is sinking!

Hey, slowpoke, chill. It is a two way strait: the good guys get a chance to work for 6-7 years without the distraction of second-term politicking. The bad guys (who will return by all means, anyways, in a  second term arrangement) are effectively knocked out after 6 (or 7 years). That saves us all the money that will be expended in returning a failed first-termer, as well as save us one or two extra year(s) of misrule.

Every other state is working on federal roads and later negotiate with the federal govt for reimbursement. Fasola is a timid local champion that cant even work on a federal road in his state.

If Jonathan can achieve a constitutional single term for the president and governors without it favoring him, then it is a great achievement. So far, he has made it clear that he is not running beyond 2015. Let's watch him closely.

Together with rotational presidency, single term presidency( of 6-7 years) is a good antidote for Nigeria's tribalism, nepotism, mediocrity, incompetency and do-or-die-fraught governance.

Can anyone name one industry operating in Ekiti, even if a SME industry?

KnowAll:
The Governor has one the best publicist machinery going, on that note he has surely hit the ground running all those special advisers are sweating for every free kobo they earn. Na so, Governor, let them sweat for the money.

No better than Fasola's voodoo publicity with which he has hoodwinked Lagosians in particular and Yorubas at large
Fasola plants flowers on streets, Lagosians hail him like a messiah.

Source: Nairaland

Our pact with poverty
By Robert Obioha
obioha@sunnewsonline.com
Those who think that things are working in the country should better think twice with the recent Nigeria’s poverty figures released by both the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The Senior Special Assistant to the President and National Coordinator of NAPEP, Dr. Magnus Kpakol, had at a public lecture on “Poverty Solution: The Role of Government in Poverty Eradication,” held in Minna, Niger State, a fortnight ago, disclosed that 70 million Nigerians, about half of the nation’s population, are poor.
That means that one out of every two Nigerians live in poverty. And judging by the global benchmark on poverty index, it shows that about 70 million Nigerians live below poverty line at one US dollar per day. According to the NAPEP boss, 70 million Nigerians now live below N65 a day. The situation might be bleaker if the overall poverty picture can be statistically captured considering our poor statistical culture.
The source of Kpakol’s figure is a recent study by the National Bureau of Statistics. Though this writer does not intend to doubt the figure dished out by Kpakol, it is instructive to point out that the recent poverty figures released by the UNDP show that the poor in Nigeria is 70.8 percent of the population, which is far above the national poverty figure as presented by NAPEP.
All the same, the fact still remains that the number of the poor in Nigeria is rather on the high side irrespective of the huge differences in the two varying statistical figures. Both serve as a veritable reminder that the nation is already having a pact with poverty in spite of all efforts to eradicate it.
It is interesting to note that poverty in Nigeria transcends sex, tribe and religion. It affects all the six geo-political zones in the country, though, in varying proportions and intensity. It has also nullified all the claims of high performance by the various governments in the country. It has revealed, once again, that all is not well with the way we run our affairs as a country.
With this picture of poverty, we can no longer pretend that all is well with the country or delude ourselves into ever thinking that the country is working when more than half of its population go to bed hungry despite the abundant human and material resources available to squarely address the problem.
When did poverty start starring all of us in the face? It is since we collectively abandoned agriculture and pursued the abundant petrol-dollars and inflated contracts. It began when we abandoned production to pursue import trade that has, overtime, made us a dumping ground for any shabby good manufactured in Europe, Asia and America.
A look at the overall trend in poverty rates over the years in the country revealed that in 1980, the figure was 28.1 million. It increased to 46.3 million in 1985 and slides a little to 42.7 million in 1992.It rose very high in 1996 at 65.6 million and 70.0 million in 1999 while the 2004 figure was 54.4 million.
These figures further reinforce the view that the problem is ever increasing rather than being abetted by the avalanche of programmes and interventions aimed at reducing it or out rightly eradicating it from our shores. Given the level of human and material resources at our disposal, Nigerians would, indeed, have no pact with poverty in the first instance.
But the tragedy of our situation is that as more money comes in, the more the poverty level increases disappointingly. Our problem is worsened by corrupt and avaricious leadership that is perpetually and overtly insensitive to the yearnings of the suffering masses of this country that voted them into power to salvage their situation.
Let’s serve you with the statistical breakdown of the poverty rates among the six geo-political zones of the country. The North-East leads the pack with 72.2 percent. North-West closely follows it at 71.2 percent while North-Central came third at 67.0 percent. The South-West came fourth at 43.1 percent, South-South fifth at 31.5 percent and South-East is sixth at 26.7 percent.
The most interesting thing about this regional portrayal of the poverty rates is that the North, which had had the longest hold on power and can boast of a few wealthy individuals, has the greater percentage of the poor than the South. The picture of the North shows that money is not evenly distributed. It is a sharp contrast to the South where wealth is evenly distributed.
The fact that the South-East recorded the least poverty figure is never by magic. It is a reflection of the age-long entrepreneur spirit of the Igbo. It is a portrayal of the fact that the average Igbo does not look up to government or anybody for sustenance. The people do not depend on anybody or government even for projects. That the zone recorded a lower poverty rate is never as a result of government’s institutionalized poverty-alleviation programmes.
The South recorded lower poverty level when compared to the North because of its high level of literacy, which makes it possible for people to acquire skills unlike in the North where many years of misrule and almajiri culture had perpetuated poverty instead of eradicating it.
Poverty in Nigeria is driven by greed and lack of compassion on the part of our visionless and rudderless leaders. It is also driven by the penchant of the privileged few individuals in our midst who shamelessly appropriate our collective patrimony leaving the majority of us highly impoverished.
Many Nigerians are poor not because of laziness or ill luck as some religious zealots would have us believe. People are poor where there is uneven distribution of wealth and factors of production. There is gender angle to it as women are denied access to work by some religious and cultural restrictions. As officially acknowledged, some Nigerians are poor because they lack some tools and capacity as well as the technological advancement to improve their lives.
To bail the poor out of this state-imposed predicament, the government should think of novel ways to tackle the problem of poverty in the land. There is no point recycling old techniques and methodologies, which have proven obsolete and unworkable.
What the government can do right now is to embark on massive job creation. Here, we mean agro-based jobs and not white-collar jobs per se. We say this because Nigerians are hard-working people who will be ever ready to unleash their potentials if the enabling environment is there.
Most of the discontent in the land, even in the Niger Delta area and other trouble spots in the land is poverty-induced and driven. If the 70 million poor Nigerians are uplifted from that unenviable status, it is not in doubt that the country will be better for it.
We have the enormous resources at our disposal to solve this problem now. What remains is for the political leadership to muster enough willpower to address the problem. We have enough arable land for all kinds of agriculture as well as the aquatic cultures for fish farming. We do not lack the hands that can make things happen in the area of agriculture.
We do not lack fanciful proposals on how to solve our everyday problems. The only snag is implementation. A time has come when all the levels of government in Nigeria will treat poverty as an emergency that needs to be tackled with all amount of seriousness it rightly deserved. There is no way the country can achieve its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Vision 2020 and its seven-point agenda when 70 million of its population wallow in abject poverty and deprivation.
What the poor in Nigeria are asking for is empowerment and not necessarily free lunch as obtains in other lands. The time to eradicate poverty in Nigeria is now, as any postponement will worsen the situation.

This also reflects on the fact that the SW is the poorest region in the south.
They may have a few rich men but poverty is so widespread and palpable
This is unlike the SE where wealth is more evenly spread.
Ekiti can make money from selling hard drugs; after all they grow it like people grow flowering plants in sane societies