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I suppose that this your advert is targeted at only Peter Obi's supporters, right? |
Beatiful and sensible contribution! |
haybhi1:How is CBEX different from IPC (Intelligence Prime Capital) that was the rave aound 2021-2022 before they ran with a lot of people's money? |
Ofunaofu:Dr. Umahi should have asked the contractor, right there at the inspection site, how much of the contract sum they paid back to the ministry officials and other facilitators as bribes! |
NairalandForumo:Let us look at it in another way: 1) Naira is the official medium of exchange in our country, Nigeria. So, using the dollar as a basis does not arise. 2) The governors could have increased the salaries of their civil servants, even by 10%, since they have been collecting increased monthly allocations. 3) The governors should be paying off their debts to local contractors, which would lead to increased money in circulation. 4) The governors should implement palliative interventions with full sincerity from the increased allocations. 5) The governors should allow the local government chairmen access to use their share of the allocation properly at the grassroots since LG chairmen are closest to the grassroots. |
I wonder how genuine this Canada work permit is. Is it the same Canada that they will ask you to bring your father, mother, in fact the whole village before they will give you visa? |
Baatunde:Well said, brother, well said! Just get all your polling agents nationwide together, collate the numbers, and present the total number to the courts! Was it so hard to perform that basic arithmetical calculation? Even if it is true that INEC is an extension of APC, and all Nigerian judges are in the pocket of APC/Tinubu, with the presentation of your own total number of votes that is different from that of INEC, you would have succeeded in casting serious doubts in the minds of a lot of independent-minded people. The PDP guy in Nassarawa got back his mandate by providing numbers collated from all his polling agents to the court, yet they say INEC was bought! Where are your own numbers? |
seunmsg:Don't mind them. At least in Uzodinma's case, he came up with polling booths where his votes were tampered with and by what number he was cheated! Whether the judges in that case were right or wrong is another issue, but Uzodinma came up with numbers, not emotions. Obi and Atiku did not show one polling booth where their votes were stolen, canceled, or allocated to Tinubu or any other presidential candidate! |
NaughtyBrainiac:Spot on! They claimed to have won an election, but when the chips were down, they did not show one polling unit where the result was initially in their favor, and INEC/APC later changed it! Only clowns and jesters do such a thing! |
Elections are about numbers. Please tell us how Obi/LP used numbers to argue their case at the PEPT. In politics, an alliance is a helpful way to win elections and form governments. Vinnie2000: |
No Sir! They arrested him because they discovered that the phone used in making the post was registered in his name. Kindly read the press release again, slowly. yomalex: |
I want to believe that she must have discussed with her twins about how they would feel if she came on SM to tell her story. And she probably got thier okay to go ahead, knowing that some people will be vicious in their comments! |
Well done, Paddy Adenuga! This story is so inspirational to both young and old Nigerians who are pursuing their individual dreams!!! |
How to limit the number of messages received from one person daily. Some people just keep forwarding all kinds of messages to you, sometimes about 15 - 20 in one day. |
Orji o orji: why are 90% of the cp's are Northerners ? And muslim.It is 7 out of 14 which is 57%! Do your Math before misleading the gullible. |
Orji o orji: why are 90% of the cp's are Northerners ? And muslim.Going by the names there are 8 muslims out of 14 CPs redeployed. That is 57% my friend, please let us be objective! |
I have read many posts about this subject with many people holding the position that Lagos is an unfriendly place/government for the Igbos. Well, here is a refreshingly different perspective, please enjoy: THE Abia State government last year came up with an ingenious policy. All non-indigenous employees in the state public service, including teachers, were to be relieved of their duties because the government’s resources were meant for the indigenes. Over 80 per cent of the people affected are from Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra and Enugu states. Most leaders maintained a conspiracy of silence on this policy, which for long will remain one of the greatest impediments to Igbo unity. Abia State was actually treading the path of the Enugu State government, which had in the late 1990s decided to sack all non-indigenes in the state’s public service in order to “save resources”. Almost every casualty is Igbo. But a number of Igbo social activists have now suddenly found their voice. The overnight activists have created an unmistakable mass hysteria in both the social media and the traditional media over the bogey that Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has been “deporting” Igbo people from the state. Some politicians who are determined to make political capital out of the so-called repatriations have been busy simulating the hysteria. But perhaps, unbeknownst to these people, they are hurting in a most profound manner strategic Igbo interests. No people can survive – let alone – progress on a diet of lies and emotions, or by allowing politicians to create and sustain a culture of paranoia or siege mentality, otherwise called persecution complex. The Lagos State government launched a few year ago an ambitious project to turn Lagos, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre with a population of some 16 million, into a true megacity. This entailed, among other things, the enthronement of a new social order and a different aesthetic regime. Consequently, the state began to clear thousands of homeless people, beggars and urchins from the streets. Thus, a large number of “area boys” who are mostly Lagos Island indigenes, like the governor, are to this day still arrested and hounded into “Black Maria” trucks by Kick Against Indiscipline (KIA) officials. Borrowing a leaf from such places as New York and Hawaii, Lagos initiated a programme of returning many destitute individuals to their home states. Over 3,000 of such people have been relocated back to northern states where they have now been reintegrated with their families. When about 80 were sent to Oyo State in November 2009, the governor screamed to the high heavens that “they were dumped on Molete “Bridge” in Ibadan. About 14 destitute people from Anambra State were sent to Onitsha last week because of the failure of the State’s Ministry of Social Welfare to arrange for the arrival of these people, unlike those of Akwa Ibom and Katsina states which made proper logistic arrangements for their own people. A section of the media has since gone to town with the extremely dangerous propaganda that the Lagos State governor is driving Igbo people out of Lagos through “brazen deportations and repatriations”. Even professionals and scholars expected to be more thoughtful and strategic in their actions have capitulated so easily to the mind poisoning reports and have been responding exuberantly. A man who introduced himself as a professor from Nnewi called me on the phone on Thursday morning to assert with so much authority that “only Anambra indigenes are being targeted for expulsion from Lagos because all Nigerians know that Anambra is the leader of the Igbo nation”. A lawyer in Maryland, United States, wrote that Fashola dare not relocate beggars of northern extraction, alleging that the Igbo are the whipping boy of Nigerian politics. He is blissfully ignorant of the thousands of northern beggars taken away from Borno Street in Ebute Metta and environs. How did the industrious, highly republican and intelligent Igbo people embrace, all of a sudden, this level of groupthink that has made us look like a people with unimaginable amnesia? Only last month, a very big plaza in Olodi, Apapa, belonging to Igbo entrepreneurs and housing hundreds of Igbo traders was burnt at night. The next day Fashola was at the site and promised to rebuild it at Lagos State’s expense. No Igbo governor has visited the place up to this moment, and none has promised to assist the victims. Last December, Ngozi Nwosu, an actress, was reported to be down with a serious liver ailment, so an appeal fund was launched. No Southeast government, including her home state of Imo State, responded, just as no wealthy Igbo men and women did. Only N1.5 million out of 6 million needed for treatment in the United Kingdom, could be raised. Fashola provided the remaining N4.5 million. And now some so-called Igbo activists are accusing him of anti-Igbo sentiments. Two months ago, Fashola completed the biggest housing estate he has built and named it for Emeka Anyaoku, an erstwhile Commonwealth secretary general from Anambra State. At a time some Igbo people cannot be hired as teachers or civil servants in South-eastern states, Fashola recruits them in large numbers, with some becoming judges and magistrates. His Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Ben Akabueze, is from the Southeast. The chief executive of the state Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency, Joe Igbokwe, is an engineer and publisher from Nnewi. Mac Duruigbo, from Imo State, is Fashola’s Personal Assistant on the Media. Fashola gave Ikemba Nnewi practically a state burial last year in Lagos, the only non-Southeast governor to accord the famous Biafran leader this high honour. He was the only governor who attended last March the Chinua Achebe colloquium at Brown University on Rhode Island, United States, where he praised Achebe for his monumental achievements at a time the great writer was the butt of criticism by the Yoruba political establishment following Achebe’s unflattering remarks about Obafemi Awolowo in his new book, There Was A Country, a personal account of the Nigerian civil war. So, how did some of us come about the brainwave that the dynamic and cosmopolitan Lagos State governor is anti-Igbo? Simply because his government relocated some Igbo elements to their home state, some of whom came to Lagos to do business but instead took to hard drug consumption and became urchin, better known as “area boys”! Interestingly when Fashola began to crack down on “area boys”, most of whom are from his state, Igbo traders were over the moon, rejoicing that the governor had saved them from the miscreants of “area boys” who had for decades been tormenting the traders daily, extorting huge sums from them and viciously assailing those who refused with dangerous weapons. There are more Igbo people in Lagos than any other state. There are so many investments in Lagos because Lagos has for long welcomed the Igbo people, enabling NdIgbo to prosper in Lagos more than any other state. And no governor in Nigeria’s history has demonstrated as much affection to our people as Fashola. Commonsense dictates we protect in a strategic manner the interests of our people and reciprocate the friendship of well meaning individuals and groups. It will be a colossal tragedy if we savour the dishes of salacious lies and terrible propaganda, which we are being served by opportunistic politicians and garnished by hysterical Igbo social activists. We must be guided at all times by truth and reason. By C. Don Adinuba Culled from The Guardian: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/columnist/129386-adinuba-gov-fashola-and-ndigbo#comments |
Fellow Nairalanders, What I will say on this subject is that we should be wary of latter-day converts, pretending to be on the side of the people. Femi Fani-Kayode, as OBJ's Aide, used gutter language to abuse all and everyone who suggested to the government then to convene a Sovereign National Conference. And now this same man has turned around to recommend what he called some elderly people "mad and senile old men" for. It must be that he is either becoming senile and old himself, or broke and seeking another means of patronage, or both! He is in the same club as those he seeks to vilify, so let no Nigerian be fooled about his newfound patriotism. |
"We voted for Jonathan, not PDP". This is what you get when you look at issues with sentiments. I dey Laff ooooooo!! |
Thank you Odunnu, I appreciate your response. However let's wait and see what other NLers have to say. |
Hello People, I moved in to an apartment in Lagos about 4 years ago and all the six tenants have always paid our rent to a bank account (jointly owned) and taken the teller to the Lawyer in troduced to us by the Landlord because he lives abroad with his family. The Lawyer will then issue a receipt for the payment after confirmation. Recently however, he came back home, collected the rent from two tenants whose rent fell due at about the time, and left again. A few days after his departure the Lawyer sent a letter to all tenants that he no longer worked or represented the interest of the Landlord. About a month later the wife also came home and held a meeting with all the tenents that henceforth all rents must be paid to her and her agents, that she is now divorced from her husband and that the building was constructed using the money she worked for abroad. When we told her that all documents and agreements are in the name of her husband she said she did not care and we must pay her the rent. She then showed us her own apartment and how her husband removed all items from the house the last time he was around. We attempted calling the husband and he admitted that they were divorced but would not deny or confirm his ownership of the house, only that we should not pay her. We later learnt that the bank account(joint) into which we used to pay has been frozen by the bank, after a complaint by the wife that the husband made an unusually large withdrawal that she was not aware of. Since then she has been sending strange people to harass those of us whose rents have recently fallen due. Please what are my options in this situation? Can I pay her, pay to her husband, or deposit the money at the Rent Tribunal? Or what? |
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