₦airaland Forum

Chriz:
You just said it all. Thank you.

Chriz:
You just said it all. Thank you.

millionaireman:
When Tambuwal was getting away with his perfidy, Wumi Akintide of APC was smiling.

When Tinubu tutored ACN Reps to vote against PDP's choice of Speaker position slotted for the SW, in a bid to create enmity between the Yoruba and Jonathan, this Wumi Akintide must have kept mum.

johnbeazy: I agree with you. I am not really a fan of her solutions as it reads like "blah blah blah", " good governance blah balh", "education blah blah ". We have heard all this before.

My interest in the article had more to do with studying the Nigerian society in general from the academic view point. People always clamor for good leadership however in democracy the leadership is from society. If the society is intuitively corrupt then how can the leaders (which in democracy are a lot) are from the society then how can they be good? It seems like it is a self-fulfilling cycle that things would not change.
- We said that democracy would reduce corruption with its various checks and balances which it has not.
- When Obasanjo got into power we complained that we were recycling the old corrupt politicians however in the 14 years of democracy new politicians have arrived and they are very similar or worse than the old politicians (Goodluck did not run for political office till 1999 so he is a new blood, the new governors,)
- Not to mention that democracy has led to even more regional and ethnic tension

Willdidi: Some ppl could b so heartless, my sista is a victim of dis developers scam, she paid 4 a room self contain on numba 26 Alhaji Bashiru street in ojodu Beger only 2 findout a day b4 she was promised 2 move in dat d apartments of 23 has been completely occupied by othre tenants ova nite, this developer defrauded about 123 ppl, she paid 280,000 naira the total moni dis ppl stole wen calculated was about 80million naira. Till date notin has been done, only 4 one fake lawyer 4rm Alausa 2 start asking dis group of ppl 2 pay d sum of 2,000naira each so dier complains can b registered wit d govt. Don't realy know where dis country is heading. N dis set of ppl hav been doing dis same act n getting away wit it.

Ejiné: What kind of rape though?

Is it Statutory Rape (where you have consentual sex with a rather underage person), or the old Drug-n-Rape kind, or Domestic Rape (yes, a man raping his wife)?

I'm afraid Nigeria's definition of rape, by law, is a bit too vague.

Brand_new: It remains mind boggling that the seat of the Northern caliphate remains the poorest state in Nigeria with 81.2% poverty rate while other states like. Jigawa, Plateau, Ebonyi, Jigawa and Zamfara trails closely behind while Niger state has the lowest with just 33%.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/01/sokoto-is-poorest-state-nbs/

E_monkey: Crazy/insane people have always roamed freely in roads in Nigeria for as long as I can remember.
I don't know if there are some parts of the country where this does not happen but right from childhood I have noticed that problem.
Mad people roaming freely, mad men and women.
Even if the government or relevant authorities do not want to do anything about the issue then why do the relatives of these people not do anything?
They are a danger to society, I have seen and heard of cases where they attacked standers-by or passers-by and they cause problem in traffic sometimes. There was news on Nairaland some time ago about one of them obstructing the movement of vehicles on the road by standing in the middle of the road and refusing to move.

I am tired of these things. There is also the problem of those beggers from Niger Republic to deal with but that is another issue entirely. Many Nigerians, like the relatives of these mad people complain about how the Government is problematic and unhelpful but they don't seem to realize that they have to put in effort to help the country.
Relatives of these mad people should not let them roam freely on the streets, even if they cannot be given psychiatric help maybe because there is no money for that, then they should be restrained or their movements should be limited to prevent them form harming others.

Guk: A lot of people rate Governors on Aesthetics. My question is have they provided an enabling environment that makes businesses grow organically. Roads are fantastic and needed but moreso self sustaining industries. Let me use to examples that readily come to mind in Lagos state as i do not know much about other states beyond what i read on their websites. (By the way, you dont have to rely on the media to promote your works. You have your own official website to let the world know what you are doing)

Another key point is, if whatever you have put in place has not attracted businesses to your domain, then it clearly means that state is not investment attractive.

Lagos state is building a railway line and that has even before completion, created prosperity along that route. Value of properties have risen; plots of land are been scrambled for; businesses are expectant; buildres and artisans are extremely busy working on peoples construction round the clock; dead warehouses arecoming to life again. Tradefair complex is booming again.

Same goes for Lagos Epe expressway, where the opening of that area has brought about 18 hours constant activity especially for construction workers.

In contrast, i see some states building fantastic new roads and bridges that is leading nowhere but to the governors' village. No factories; warehouses are spring up as a result of those fine roads been built....there is a disconnect somewhere there.

Also be aware that majority of these infrastructure projects are conduit pipes for corruption.

Having said all of the above, please rate your prefered governor with the yardstick below:

Consensus Oriented (An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole)

Participatory (the broad participation of constituents in the direction and operation of political systems)

Following the Rule of Law (citizens can expect to be treated fairly by a justified government. )

Effective and Efficient (Effective: Adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result. Efficient: Performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort.

Accountable (the obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results)

Transparent (the concept of removing all barriers to —and the facilitating of— free and easy public access to corporate information and the laws, rules, social connivance and processes that facilitate and protect those individuals and corporations that freely join, develop, and improve the process

Responsive(Readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals, or efforts)

Equitable and Inclusive(Must recognise diversity and difference. Must accommodate differing meanings of citizenship that cut across gender, political, cultural, and social lines)

Eko Atlantic: Don't mess with Lagos, it not a place where village chiefs gather to share colanut and tell moonlight tales.

Eko oni baje, never

afam4eva: Before i joined Nairaland, i was a pan-Nigerian and i didn't know what it meant to take sides on the basis of ethnicity. People like Murtala Muhammed and Obafemi Awolowo appealed to me because of what i heard about them from the mainstream media. Back in primary school we even had a song for Murtala Muhammed. At that point i even thought he was the Prophet Mohammed that Muslims talked about. I also respected Awolowo because i was told that he provided free education in the western region and did a lot of good things back then. Now fast-forward to when i became a member of Nairaland and being introduced to the other side of the truth about these people. I was introduced to the truth that the mainstream media seem not to highlight. But i still think Awolowo was above his pairs at that time. He did a lot of the western region and he created the firsts in so many things.

There's nothing wrong in appreciating what Awolowo did back then but the question now is: Are those things still valid till date? Most of Awolowo's achievements were evident in Ibadan which was the capital of the western region but when you see that city today, you begin to wonder if it's something to be proud of. It seems that town has been dwarfed by other towns that were nonentities back then because the tide has changed.

Yorubas may have at one point being the most educated Nigerians in terms of volume but is it still so today considering the fact that every part of Nigeria especially southern Nigeria have become educationally compliant with Imo, Delta and Anambra being the state with the most people going to school. Even if Yorubas still have more educated people, it's not in astronomical dimensions.

Now i ask, why the fixation on the name Obafemi Awolowo? I think he has done his own part at his own time but it's embarrassing and disgraceful that today politicians from the south-west are using that name to play on the emotions of their people. They're not following in the footsteps of that man yet they shout Awo wherever they go. It's unfortunate that what this man did decades ago is still being used to score Yorubaland. I think it's downright shameful. I think SWesterners should not sit down and watch their rulers decieve them claiming to be following in the footsteps of Awolowo when in deeds it's the opposite.

General Garicks: RCC constructed Benin-Asaba expressway. Definitely a good company but Julius Berger is the best.

take dat: Max, there is no way the mobilization fee won't run into billions of Naira. Here we are talking about due process and rule of law, no budgetary allocation was made for this project so where will the FG get the mobilization fees for the rehabilitation of the road from if the FG wants the contractors to move to site now? IMO, I think the FG should review its stance by giving Bi Courtney the remaining six months for their contract to lapse so that we won't be saddled with having to pay compensation to them, within that time the Budget for 2013 would have been sorted out and funds would have been allocated for the project. There is little or nothing the contractors can do between now and the yuletide season!

Idokojimmy: Globalization has made international politics interesting, especially with the adoption of Darwinian theory which emphasizes survival of the fittest. The interdependence of nations, has made countries to have friendly and hostile ally, even though there appears to be no permanent friends in international arena. Friendly allies are those that will be readily available to offer assistance in times of trouble, hostile ones will stop at nothing untill they frustrate your policies, programmes, diplomatic relation, international image, and in most cases they work towards disintegrating that country. These hostile nations use foreign media, international NGO, and other machinery to further their agenda.
It will be recalled that the USA once predicted that Nigeria will disintegrate come 2015. As a follow up to this prediction, they have carried out propaganda about our dear country, writing fake reports using internationalal Organisations, questioned our policies, fault our programs, frustrated our economy, and will stop at nothing to see that their prediction becomes a reality.
I will not pretend that Nigeria is a better place, but all well meaning nigerians must express optimism. That it isn't good now doesn't mean we will remain perpetually backward. Most of these reports are exaggerated to suit their plan. For instance, how do they collect data for these reports? How many Nigerians do they contact to get data from? Do they interview our parents in the village, or visit the hinterland where common men live? Obviously they don't. They come with preconceived idea, run around in Abuja, recruit disgruntled persons that will serve their interest, use and dump them. The product is: Nigeria is worst, don't go there, and the likes. Their reports are biased, preconceived, totally false and ultimately against our unity.

What do we owe our nation? Follow them condemn Nigeria, and allow their prediction come to pass or work to correct perceived challenges?

Myself2: I don't give a flying f[i]uc[/i]k what goes down with Ifeanyi Uba and Cosmas Maduka;na them sabi per any biz deals gone sour between 'em.
However,I hope this whole episode exposes and disgraces Aig Imokhuede and the criminal operations he runs under the guise of banking.Using fraud and dubious strong arm tactics to steal or forcefully kill or take over the businesses Access bank granted facility as well as taking over even banks(intercontinental bank for instance) that Aig's companies are indebted to,shows this man is worse than all the oil marketers he is purportedly investigating put together.
I spit on Aig Imuokhede and his Access bank of fraud