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Senators issued outdated pay slip to #ournass protesters.

National assembly pay slip #OurNass protesters received contained no new information.

Nigerian lawmakers on Thursday gave youth groups protesting the lack of transparency in their remuneration system outdated pay slip containing no new information.

Hundreds of young Nigerians, who networked through social media, stormed the National Assembly demanding answers to five key questions management of the assembly had refused to answer through freedom of information requests.

They were denied entrance to the National Assembly protest ground.

They were rather restricted to the outer gate of the National Assembly where four senators met and addressed them.

The senate team that addressed the protesters was led by the senate spokesman, Enyinaya Abaribe (PDP Abia state).

In response to the scathing criticism of lawmakers for earning outrageous salaries and allowances in a country where majority live on less than a dollar per day, Mr. Abaribe promised the protesters he would make his pay slip available to the public, if they wanted.

“We have no reason to tell lies,” he said. “If you want my pay slip, you can come and get it.”

When the documents were sent out, the protesters were stunned to find Mr. Abaribe issued them a January 2010 pay slip containing only earnings apportioned by the Revenue Mobilization And Fiscal Commission.

The pay slip captured the legally permissible N1.4 million monthly salary of an average senator, but left out the contentious quarterly allowances, sitting allowances, and other allowances the lawmakers receive, which are the main reasons for the protest.

The pay slip, printed on a white plane paper confirmed that the senators are ranked, with an average senator graded C05. Principal officers of the National Assembly are ranked higher and receive higher perks too.

Although outdated, the pay slip is the first public confirmation of Nigerian senators’ legal earnings.

The pay slip contradicts claims by lawmakers that their ‘outrageous’ quarterly “constituency allowance” is a cumulative payment. Actually, an average senators receives N422 thousand monthly as legal constituency allowance.

A senator’s basic salary is N168,666.67, while he receives a little over N337,000 monthly for housing – rent.

Legally, an average Nigerian senator earns N47,000 daily. But works only three days in a week or six months in a year.

Senate Payroll System

Senate Payroll System

Lawmakers total perks still a big secret

Outside the legally permissible, Nigerian lawmakers are believed to earn extra huge allowances, ranging from sitting to hardship allowances. Most of these allowances, they allocate to themselves.

Neither the public nor any other government agency oversee these in-house allocations.

In December 2010, after Central Bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, put the National Assembly on the spot over its huge overhead expenditures, the Senate president, David Mark, pledged to review the National Assembly’s recurrent expenditure downwards.

“Based on realities of our economic situation and the need to channel our scarce resources towards nation building, we must drastically cut down the cost of running government vertically and horizontally in the three arms of government as well as the three tiers of our federating unit,” the Senate president said while receiving the 2011 budget proposal documents in December 2010.

“In this regard, the National Assembly will lead the crusade. We will make the required sacrifice and review downwards our recurrent expenditure. We expect others to make similar sacrifice,” he added.

That year, rather than a downward review to reflect the senate president’s promise, the National Assembly budget was jacked up.

In the proposal, the National Assembly’s portion in the 2011 budget – including overhead and capital – was N112 billion. But the lawmakers were unimpressed with the figure. So, while passing it, they raised their chunk of the budget by 100 percent, to N224 billion. After an outcry, the lawmakers passed the amended budget, pegging their take of the slice at N153 billion.

Yet, officials of the National assembly insisted they implemented a pay cut of 67 percent at the House of Representatives and 40 percent at the Senate.

According to a National Assembly experts, if the 2011 pay cuts were implemented, the House of Representatives members will earn N15million quarterly, saving Nigeria N30.45 million on each member quarterly and N121.82 million annually.

That indicates that they were earning N45.45 million quarterly.

There are 360 members of the House of Representatives and collectively, the nation would save N43.8 billion annually if the House of Representatives’ cut were implemented.

The senators are 109 and announced a cut of 40 percent. Although they are more discreet about their allowances, savings would have mounted way higher than the House of Representatives’.

Despite the announcements and expectations, the cuts were never backed by official documents or public records. The National Assembly annual budgets never dropped, but has remained at N150 billion – the same amount it was without the cuts.

Since then, the detailed annual budget of the National Assembly remained confidential, hidden away from the public.


http://nnnmorg./2013/09/27/nigerian-lawmakers-issue-ournass-account

gerald09: Its bin really bad, I hope this full under d "bad now, get better later" deal cos d private investors will need a miracle to change electricity in Nigeria.

They dont need a miracle to change anything. Most of the infrastructure needed is available. The problem is simply that the present PHCN guys are wicked and do not care. DO you recall that the former power minister, during one of his inspections, discovered over 200 transformers that were being hoarded by the PHCN staff? Those are examples of things that will change when they take over

Abagworo: Funny. If Amaechi should display all his accomplishments ridiculously including "roundabouts" 20 pages cannot contain them.

Big lie! Amaechi is the biggest noise maker I have ever seen. If he has such projects, he will not allow anyone to hear word. Even a road as important as Ikwere road has open gutters, yet he is gallivanting around campaigning for VP to abokis who have not achieved one thing in their enclaves. Very pathetic.

I have always tried to explain the multidimensional process of power on this forum. Even if the FG is producing 50, 000 MW, if the transformer in your area is bad, you will not get a single ray of light. That is why some of the complains made on this forum is very subjective. A lot has been achieved in improving the generation and transmission, but until next week when the DISCOs take over, we will not really be able to enjoy the improvements that have been made. The reason is that the current workers in your area are grossly incompetent and totally uncommitted. They just simply do not care. Many areas have since seen a lot of improvement. In my area, we have gone from 3 hours in 2 days to at least 12hours daily. But I know we can only really attain stability when the new companies fully kick in

ba7man: The question i keep asking is "How has the Federal Govt made the economy more favourable for entrepreneurs"

How?? How?? How

See my dear friend, your problem is simply hatred for gej for no justifiable reason. If the stats was from an fg department, you would have called it fake. Now,.you claim Nigerians are developing by themselves. You sound too lame. Just admit you all were wrong and give gej his due credit. It won't cost you anything

Kamanda: Maybe the president is smarter than he looks.

It is actually an indictment on Nigerians that we always judge people by their looks. It is a testament to our backward and materialistic mindset. A testament of our poor value system. I guess mother Teressa would not have succeeded in Nigeria because she has no swag! Quite sad!

Ada Nri1: Ok. I was closing my eyes in dread of what he might say about our GEJ, then I remembered, ah, he has to behave!

Do you really think the real world thinks like people on this forum? Very funny...

More photos of our beloved President

GEJ is working hard for Nigeria!

This is a continuation of my series on eulogies on President Goodluck Jonathan. Enjoy!

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
New York, New York
September 23, 2013

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA
BEFORE BILATERAL MEETING
WITH PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN
OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

1:51 P.M. EDT

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I appreciate very much the opportunity to meet once again with President Jonathan and his delegation. Obviously, Nigeria is one of the most powerful and fastest-growing countries in the world. I think that's testified by the fact that President Jonathan is going to have the opportunity to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. (Laughter.) I think it signifies how important Nigeria is becoming in the global economy.

We have a very strong relationship between the United States and Nigeria. It’s not just based on government-to-government relations, but also people-to-people relations. And we have an outstanding Nigerian-American community here in the United States that is making incredible contributions in every field every single day.

President Jonathan has committed to building on the democratic process that we've seen in Nigeria in the past. The last election that brought President Jonathan to power was a hallmark on the continent and in Nigeria in terms of free and fair elections. And I know that he is committed to making sure that the elections in 2015 move in that same fashion.

We're going to be able to have an opportunity to talk about the issues of energy and power. Nigeria is a major energy producer, but it’s also an important energy consumer. And as many of you know who were on the trip that I took to Africa just recently, we are really focused on how we can help to bring electricity and power generation throughout Africa -- not just in the big cities but also in the rural areas, and Nigeria is a potential partner in that process.

We want to develop the human capital throughout the continent and in Nigeria. And that's why I'm excited about the Young African Leaders Initiative that is going to allow us to have young African leaders from across the continent, including Nigeria, here in the United States where they can interact with top leaders here in our universities, our businesses, and that will further strengthen the ties between our two countries.

And we're going to have an opportunity to discuss some significant challenges on the security front in Nigeria. In the northern regions of Nigeria we've seen the emergence of one of the most vicious terrorist organizations in the world -- the Boko Haram. It presents an extraordinary security challenge for the people of Nigeria, and we want to be cooperative in that process of building capacity inside Nigeria to deal with that terrorist threat, but doing so in a way that is consistent with human rights. Because we strongly believe that the best way to undermine the agenda of those who would do violence is to make sure that governments are responsive to the needs of people and following rule of law.

On that topic let me just make one last point. I've had the opportunity to speak with President Kenyatta directly about the terrible tragedy that's happened in Nairobi, and we are providing all the cooperation that we can as we deal with a situation that has captivated the world.

I want to express personally my condolences to not only President Kenyatta, who lost some family members in the attack, but to the Kenyan people. We stand with them against this terrible outrage that's occurred. We will provide them with whatever law enforcement support that is necessary. And we are confident that Kenya, which has been a pillar of stability in Eastern Africa, will rebuild.

But this I think underscores the degree to which all of us as an international community have to stand against the kind of senseless violence that these kinds of groups represent. And the United States will continue to work with the entire continent of Africa and around the world to make sure that we are dismantling these networks of destruction.

END 1:58 P.M. EDT

Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/09/20130923283389.html#ixzz2g0JDllCJ

@naptu, I respect your unbiased approach to this forum most times but with all due respect, the Enron project was a major scam by Tinubu. It was never designed to produce any power. It was simply an avenue to syphone and embezzle major funds just like the Lekki concession road. The whole Enron badge shipment to Lagos was a fraud. I will engage you on that if you want me to.

Katsumoto:

You are taking a beating on your own propaganda thread.

You sound like a little kid. You should try and grow up. You delude yourself if you think you are that important.

Katsumoto: It was a simple question - where does it state in the article that Gates praised Goodluck's performance?

Don't shy away from pointing it out please.

I don't do unintelligent discussions. It isn't worth my time, sorry

Katsumoto: The president of Nigeria gave a speech about how millions of Nigerian kids will die unnecessarily if foreign bodies don't assist.
Yet this is the president of a nation where senators earn in excess of $1.4m annually, where the president and his fat wife spend an obscene amount of money on food, and where the president's ugly wife wanted to spend 4 Billion on building a first lady's complex.

Nigerians deserve the kind of leaders they get. The chap has no business leading a kindergarten class yet he is leading a nation.

I don't have time for trolls and partisan nonentities. Shush!

Katsumoto: @ OP

Where in the article that you provided does it state that Gates praised Goodluck's performance?

Are you sure you know how to read? Pathetic question!

take dat: So you believe some of these mushroom, yellow journalism media outlets? The likes of 'Orijo Reporters and Paparazzi magazine'. According to the report, "In the last two months he has shelled out nearly N10bn in various forms to individuals and groups for their supports of his political ambition." The question begging for answers is, 'what is the allocation for Lagos State ministry of works that an individual did not just pocketed N10bn but shelled it out for political patronage in 2 months'? Several interest politicians are eyeing the Governorship seat, and they are ready to plant all sorts of malicious news in the media especially against one they feel is gaining the upper hand. Do not be surprised that an APC member planted this in the media!

Why not? So you only believe it if it involves PDP abi? You are a serious hypocrite?

Kicking Off the Week with Nigeria's President
By Bill Gates


It's the kickoff to U.N. Week here in New York, and while locals like to complain about the traffic (I can see why), it is a great opportunity for me to meet with leaders from parts of the world where our foundation is working—to talk about global health and development projects.

I started off on Monday morning meeting Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan. Besides our work with our partners on polio in Nigeria, we are also working with the government to improve their agricultural sector. I've written before about China's potential to help developing countries in Africa learn from its successes, but in Nigeria we have a really interesting project just getting off the ground where Brazil is working with Nigeria to bring up agricultural productivity in their northern Guinea savannah. Brazil has done an amazing job helping their own farmers in the Cerrado region to improve their yields, which brings tremendous economic and social benefits.

President Jonathan assembled a meeting of experts in New York and we spent a couple of hours reviewing their progress and discussing next steps. I also had a chance to catch up with President Jonathan about the work we're doing with our partners on polio, which is showing encouraging progress. Nigeria had 43 confirmed cases of polio in the first 8 months of 2013, a drop of 50 percent from the same period last year. Finishing the job is quite an undertaking, so having the President's support is a big deal. I was pleased we got to spend as much time together as we did.

http://mobile.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/Kick-Off-with-Nigerian-President-UNGA?WT.mc_id=09_23_2013_day1_tw&WT.tsrc=Twitter

On June 8 governments and aid organisations held a Nutrition Summit in London where they signed a global compact to tackle hunger. The compact will seek to ensure at least 500 million pregnant women and children benefit from nutrition interventions; prevent at least 20 million children under the age of five from stunted growth; and save at least 1.7m lives by reducing stunting, increasing breastfeeding, and treating severe acute malnutrition. These interventions are targeted at poor countries, most of them in Africa.

Mr. Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spoke at the London summit where he announced committing additional funds towards enhancing nutrition and agriculture in developing countries. Two days after the London summit, Mr. Gates spoke exclusively to Daily Trust by telephone, giving further insight into the goals of the summit and what it has achieved. He also spoke on what the Gates Foundation is doing to help Nigeria develop its agricultural sector. Excerpts:

What would you say is the most significant achievement of the nutrition summit that you attended in London?

The goal of the summit was to both bring attention to the challenge of nutrition and to bring new resources for that effort. And to talk about how improving agriculture sector can help nutrition, focusing on specific things that can be done to help children’s nutrition and the huge negative effect that not giving that nutrition to kids has, both the extra deaths because kids die of diarrhoea and pneumonia if they are not well fed, and then the fact that even if they survive, their brains don’t fully develop, and what a tragedy that is for them and to the country.

We had a lot of experts there. The Gates Foundation committed new resources, the United Kingdom committed a lot more resources, Earth Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation committed new resources. So, people coming together to talk about nutrition and agriculture.

How much money has the Gates Foundation committed to this effort?

We committed on the nutrition side $100 million extra between now and 2020, beyond what we’ve been spending, and on the agriculture side we committed $300 million new beyond what we’ve been spending.

What is your reaction to the criticism by the African civil society that this alliance on nutrition is simply a new wave of colonialism that will stifle smallholder farmers?

Well, giving nutrition to young children so they don’t die seems like a universal value to us. The president of Nigeria gave a great speech about how millions Nigerian children over the years will die unnecessarily unless we improve the health system and we improve the resources in that health system. And the leaders of the Nigerian health efforts like (Health Minister) Dr. Pate who is very capable has been very good at using expertise and resources to see how he can meet the president’s promise of not letting Nigerian children die. So this is about saving lives.

What are the Gates Foundation’s specific agriculture plans for Nigeria?

You may know that Akin Adesina, who is now the minister, worked in AGRA which is an organisation in Africa that the Gates Foundation is a strong backer of. And Dr. Akin was one of the people that was up in London and he has a very great programme for increasing productivity of Nigerian farmers. And we are involved in a number of projects, helping out with that. In making sure that new seeds become available, for example, with cassava that has been on our porgrammes. We are involved in helping Nigeria step up the regulatory safety review, so that they are taking advantage of latest techniques, and they have a really good safety review capability. So we have quite a few agricultural products. Because Nigeria is the biggest in Africa so almost everything we do we have some ways of doing our best to help Nigeria.

How much money is the Gates Foundation committing to agricultural development in Nigeria?

It’s very hard to categorise because we work on diseases for the whole continent and we work on new seeds for the whole continent. We are trying to benefit all the countries of Africa. AGRA has Nigeria as one of its focus programmes. The funding of the African Biosafety Network is actually there in Nigeria; some of the rice work is there in Nigeria; some of its bio-cassava work has been in Nigeria. So it will be hard to come up with an exact figure because it’s all across. Our agriculture strategy overall is about $400 million in a year of which about half is focused on Africa.

The (Nigerian) president created a group of experts to consult on Nigerian agriculture, and our foundation went to that meeting last year where we discussed how to increase rice productivity, how to improve processing and hopefully have Nigeria meet more of its own needs. When I talked to Adesina on Saturday he talked about this dry season rice and how that was really growing and it was a big thing, and it’s starting a significant increase in proportion of Nigeria’s rice production domestically.

Given the corruption levels in Nigeria, do you have any concerns that corruption could affect some of the investments the foundation is making in Nigeria?

We invest in helping get the primary healthcare system fixed so that the kids in Nigeria get their routine immunisation. We invest in the polio campaign because we are very close to eradication and Nigeria is one of the three last and we are making some progress; we just committed a huge amount of money to the final campaign. One thing we do is to bring the vaccines into the country, so they’ve already been purchased through UNICEF, and then we track where they go.

Mostly we operate at the technical level. So while we are concerned about corruption we haven’t in our programmes run into it directly.

What is the latest on the polio campaign that the Gates Foundation is involved in in Nigeria?

The Nigerian government, through the effort of Dr. Pate and support from partners that we support, WHO and UNICEF, is making sure the polio campaigns are improving a lot. The quality of the campaign has improved; there have been new people brought in so that we monitor the campaign in different ways; we use satellite maps to make sure were are not missing any villagers or migratory people. So all the data shows the campaign has improved. The big part of a concern right now is that up in the Northeast where you have a state of emergency, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the question is will they be able to do the campaigns up there? So there has been some interruption and that will be a problem because polio could get loose there. But we do feel like there is progress and we hope the insecurity doesn’t reverse that progress.

http://mobile.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/Kick-Off-with-Nigerian-President-UNGA?WT.mc_id=09_23_2013_day1_tw&WT.tsrc=Twitter

On June 8 governments and aid organisations held a Nutrition Summit in London where they signed a global compact to tackle hunger. The compact will seek to ensure at least 500 million pregnant women and children benefit from nutrition interventions; prevent at least 20 million children under the age of five from stunted growth; and save at least 1.7m lives by reducing stunting, increasing breastfeeding, and treating severe acute malnutrition. These interventions are targeted at poor countries, most of them in Africa.

Mr. Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spoke at the London summit where he announced committing additional funds towards enhancing nutrition and agriculture in developing countries. Two days after the London summit, Mr. Gates spoke exclusively to Daily Trust by telephone, giving further insight into the goals of the summit and what it has achieved. He also spoke on what the Gates Foundation is doing to help Nigeria develop its agricultural sector.

Excerpts:

What would you say is the most significant achievement of the nutrition summit that you attended in London?

The goal of the summit was to both bring attention to the challenge of nutrition and to bring new resources for that effort. And to talk about how improving agriculture sector can help nutrition, focusing on specific things that can be done to help children's nutrition and the huge negative effect that not giving that nutrition to kids has, both the extra deaths because kids die of diarrhoea and pneumonia if they are not well fed, and then the fact that even if they survive, their brains don't fully develop, and what a tragedy that is for them and to the country.

We had a lot of experts there. The Gates Foundation committed new resources, the United Kingdom committed a lot more resources, Earth Foundation, Children's Investment Fund Foundation committed new resources. So, people coming together to talk about nutrition and agriculture.

How much money has the Gates Foundation committed to this effort?

We committed on the nutrition side $100 million extra between now and 2020, beyond what we've been spending, and on the agriculture side we committed $300 million new beyond what we've been spending.

What is your reaction to the criticism by the African civil society that this alliance on nutrition is simply a new wave of colonialism that will stifle smallholder farmers?

Well, giving nutrition to young children so they don't die seems like a universal value to us. The president of Nigeria gave a great speech about how millions Nigerian children over the years will die unnecessarily unless we improve the health system and we improve the resources in that health system. And the leaders of the Nigerian health efforts like (Health Minister) Dr. Pate who is very capable has been very good at using expertise and resources to see how he can meet the president's promise of not letting Nigerian children die. So this is about saving lives.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201306131512.html

dayokanu: Nice one Ajimobi.

If your cabinet are not functioning as you want them to, Then fire them

Not like the clueless Retardeen we have in Abuja, Who would tell us members of his govt are corrupt, sabotaging his administration and supporting Boko haram but he wont mention their names nor do anything

It is a terrible indictment on a governor for him to sack his whole cabinet in one swoop! There is no way you can spin that. It simply is a reflection of the governor's incompetence. Sad!

obailala: ...And just to clarify something, a critic of the government reserves the right to be either constructive or destructive. All that matters is that the criticism knocks the government to order.[/color]

The way you post incredibly ignorant statements is alarming. Destructive criticism does not know the government to order. It destroys the country and everything that is in it, including you and the community you live in. Some of you have taken your ignorance to a whole new level. Which investor will want to come to Nigeria if all they read is Sahara Reporters? How will the power sector reforms and privatization have gotten to this level if all they read is Sahara Reporters? How do you hope to achieve Eko Atlantic is all foreigners read is Sahara Reporters? In one breath you go about slagging off the country and pulling it down, in another breath, you go around asking them to come and invest in your mega city. You cannot eat your cake and have it. You folks have become the proverbial child that vows his mother would not sleep. How will you ever see sleep too?

obailala: A few years ago they were one of Nigeria's most credible and fearless whistle blowers but all of a sudden because you have a president you love on the throne, their reporting has automatically become 'biased and hate filled'... Wake up from your slumber my friend, Sahara Reporters did not change; power only shifted hands.

As far as I'm concerned, no matter how ridiculous the stories of SR may sound, there is always an element of truth and the stories end up being perfectly correct 80% of the time. I don't think I can quote such statistics for our government mouth pieces and other media agencies.

Do you know everything the devil says always has an iota of truth? Go figure!

jt2010: Are you sure about what you are saying because that portion of the road you mention is currently a death trap...

That is not true. Most of the PH end of the east west road has been done. The major work going on is in Bayelsa and Delta. Almost all the bridges are on either Bayelsa or Delta. Amaechi is a drama queen. This his all out war will not end well for him. You cannot fight a war without the support of your base. I have never seen a serious politician that relies on the support of people outside his state. Foolish move

Amaechi is a sinking man trying to grab at straws. I feel sorry for him. He thinks weeping up sentiments will save him? That is laughable. The people of Rivers state are on the ground and are going to so kick his butt when the time comes. He can keep appealing to South west people all he wants. Let me see how those people will save him.

While I will not want to bash Amaechi this morning or necessarily go along with the @op, I do wonder one thing. Why is it that almost all the defenders of Amaechi are Yorubas living in the south west, yet they claim they known PH better than Rivers state people? Most people of Rivers are tired and pissed off with Amaechi right now. He has completely abandonded the state and is going around campaigning. He is more interested in NGF and VP position right now than Rivers state. Something will happen very soon. Just watch.

THE Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Friday said it has fully granted the Akanu Ibiam Airport in Enugu international status.

Director General of NCAA, Capt. Folayele Akinkuotu, said the authority’s role in civil aviation is regulatory, as the federal government controls policy, which it exercises and directs by its prerogative and generally in aviation matters through the Ministry of Aviation.

He explained that the NCAA’s standards, with respect to airport, aircraft, passenger and operational safety, security and experience are primary and not necessarily determined by designation of an airport as international or domestic.

The NCAA chief noted that the relevance of such designation is only to the extent of the nature of equipment, traffic, security and uniform safety concerns.

He added that in any case, an airport being gazette is not one of NCAA’s considerations, with respect to safety, security or passenger comfort and experience.

Akinkuotu noted that it is entirely false and preposterous to insinuate that gazetting constitutes a factor in NCAA technical analysis and certifications.

“The Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, having complied with all the requirements, is permitted to receive and embark internationally-bound aircraft and passengers.

“The facilities and facilitation of passengers, crew and goods in international travel at the airport comply with globally accepted safety and security standards,” he stressed.

Explaining further, he said other relevant agencies, such as the Immigration, Customs and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) are satisfied with the airport and facilities for the purpose of carrying out their statutory duties, adding that airlines and aircraft operating internationally to the airport have also conducted their necessary inspections.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/133417-no-going-back-on-enugu-airport-international-status-says-ncaa

geeez: Fayemi has done well and with his performance, he would easily be the best governor in some other zone

However, he needs to up his game and move at the speed of Lagos, Ogun and Osun

Ekiti has a lot more potentials than just N1bn in IGR monthly

The speed of Lagos, Ogun and Osun? Oh, you mean the propaganda speed!

nku5: They call him a bigot and he's actually a weak leader not dumb at all.

Rather I would call a 60 year old boy who blames his failure (multiple aircrashes) as minister of aviation on witches and wizards, a daft mofo. It don't get dumber than that.

You kids are very funny. How do you call someone who has never lost a political battle weak? Maybe your idea of strong is when a man talks trash like FFK or El Rufai. The strongest people are almost the quietest. If only you had an idea. Maybe this picture will give you an idea.

Xriss: The politicians in Abuja are using resources from all over Nigeria to develop Abuja the same way past 'leaders' of Nigeria used resources from the country to develop Lagos.....

Fashola is doing a good job in maintaining the facilities under his purview but whether you like it or not Lagos was developed by the federal government when Lagos was the federal capital.....

The federal government built over 80% of the roads, flyovers and bridges in Lagos....

The FG built the seaports and airports.....pls note that MMA2 is a building

Dont mind these funny APC people joor. I am enjoying this thread. It hasnt dawned on them that it is the turn of other people. I thought they said Fashola built Lagos. Let us see how he will continue to build it then. If you ask them to show you pictures of how beautiful Lagos is now, 95 percent of the roads and bridges they will post will be FG roads built in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Yet they give Fashola the credit.

It is this same nasty and barbaric attitude that made NFA to abandon the Lagos stadium. These agberos will go to a Super Eagles match and start boing our boys

Horus: [img]http://2.bp..com/_Mf2suMFxc0U/THQCLnxBHRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/QChtrzi2lxk/s320/2.JPG[/img]

This is one of the entrances to the once adorned pitch.
It has since been turned to a urine bank.

Good. That is what you get when you continue to act like agberos, just the same way you guys behave here on NL...