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The BABA Should go and rest joor
All over the world people are voting in those under 50 yet here we are talking of octogenarian. What is wrong with fielding Fashola and NdaIsah. Which company would hire such old baba talk less of a nation of over 170millions

We do not have the luxury of teaching an cargo what the tweeter, Facebook age people wants.

Please recheck both pics. The guy was said to havedied of gunshot wounds or bled to death. If you look at both pics, you would actually notice he was bleeding on one then the other show a gaping hole on the right rib. Whether he would have survived or killed is another story. The man is dead, let us move forward with our lives.

While the rest of the nation is whining, Ibos are strategically changing the economic structure of Nigeria. Within 24yrs after the people were given N4860 ~£20 each by Awolowo, they have risen to acquire huge real estates in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt while the victors of the civil war are now their tenants and are variously being envied by all. This they did without holding the key Federal position like tbe presidency.

At times I wonder where Ihejirika was during the civil war? May be one of those children that Adekunle could not reach to kill. How time and a people can improve themselves if they have the will. I even learnt that same Adekunle begged Ihejirika for medical assistance in his dying days.

At this rate, should Nigeria remains for another 25 years, the Ibos would be ruling Nigeria economically. The man with the economic power is actually the ruler. Ask South African blacks and Mugabe and you would understand what I mean. I love the Ibo man's entrepreneurial spirit.

Senseless is hallmark of irresponsibility. The students would now study for only 10 weeks instead of minimum 14 weeks in a term. When they get average report in Waec/Neco we start abusing performing states when we failed to the needful. Yet some political bigots are praising the decision. Who says ebola would have been eradicated by October 8? Or was this government not aware of the needed kits since ebola outbreak to have prepared for school resumption?

Opposition should be with responsibility not acting irresponsibly.

Worse than this is the fact that they detest pork. Army strategy should include bleeding pigs and finding means of sprinkling the blood on both living and dead terrorists. All those dead terrorist and bombers should be buried with pork.

Orina: (The following statement was released by the rating agency) MILAN/FRANKFURT/LONDON, September 19 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings

KEY RATING DRIVERS ...Fitch expects internal generated revenues (IGRs) to grow above NGN400bn by 2016, or 80% of total revenue, from about NGN266bn in 2013 (70%), reducing its dependence on federal allocation.

Fitch expects capital spending to remain at NGN250bn in 2014 as Lagos continues to invest in transport (including a light metro transit and a motorway under construction), water, health, education (child-care centres) and social protection. We expect spending to eventually decline in 2015-2016 as a new planning period is phased in after the state elections.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSFit75488020140919?irpc=932

The areas in bold are of interest. Whereas Fitch expects IGR To grow by 150%, it expects Capital expenditure to be flat & even decline. The assumptions are that the reduced capital expenditure savings would be used to service debts implying that APC Would slow down development after they are re-elected in Lagos. A food for thought. The latter is senseless.

Now how will Lagos grow the IGR from N266b To N400b or 150% increase? Answer is that toll fee would be increased, taxes would be multiple and increased, Lagosians should brace up for more of LASMA/LAWMA Tariffs, radio&television fees, market stall charges and several other ways to increase the IGR as projected. If these were the assumptions upon which Fitch came up with the blah! Blah! Blah!!! Then the rating assumption is hogwash! Same as the rating. My opinion please. Kindly respect it and express yours with empirical information not theories.

OP this is mind boggling. Eko ni baje ooooo! The Bourdillon house project is interesting.

To think this is same man being taunted for VP? God forbid. NEVER AGAIN!

Pl get 2.1, average will get you only average. If you are less than 25 Pl go for 2.1. You would have completed your NYSC before 27 and be available for graduates trainee programme which most multinationals are offering. For all you know with 2.2 you may spend the one year at home unemployed and regretting. Your foundation matters in life. if laid on average foundation your building can only be average. This is why I tell people including my children to aim for honours roll.

Paying only N97 per litre of fuel that cost some others about N270 per litre
Paying about 25% of equivalent rent obtainable in some other West African nation
Driving a car without insurance. Even when you do you obtain 3rd party insurance at the cost of 1mnth eqv. in other climes
Abusing your president freely on NL, FB, Tweeter, etc without being detained
Killing and eating bush meat as you like
Owning a shop without obtaining registration from regulatory agencies
Carrying your Bible publicly
Blocking the roads in the name of religious programme
Divorcing your spouse without a life long payments
Paying a paltry N65 for using other bank ATM four times in a month and complaining while my brother in the US pays N1280 ($8 @ $2 per use) for doing same.

Guy, The benefits are innumerable. It is ignorance that makes some of us think that Nigeria is cursed. Please take a trip just within West Africa, not to talk of Europe, Americas or Asia. You are blessed to be a Nigerian.

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has demanded a probe of the N160bn bond the Governor Babatunde Fashola-led administration obtained from the World Bank.

The party in statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, on Sunday, accused the state government of converting the bond to other uses rather than using it to improve the lives of Lagos residents.

The party said Fashola’s defence aimed at rationalising the whereabouts of the funds was “weak, unsatisfactory and diversionary.”

It said, “We are again vindicated by the Debt Management Office’s revelation on the amount Lagos State is indebted to under Fashola. We had said it many times that Fashola has plunged the state into irreparable economic damage going by his monumental and unprecedented debt profile.

“This present revelation of N160bn debt is apart from other local and foreign loans, bonds etc. running into over N1trn. This is baffling considering the fact that the state is not enjoying commensurate development as it lacks adequate and affordable services and infrastructure.”

The party said Fashola’s defence claiming to have spent the loan on infrastructure, was an afterthought.

The statement added, “The major infrastructure is the light rail project, which was erstwhile presented as public-private investment. What is therefore the amount contributed by the private investor who is eventually taking the concession? This is another government stealing by proxy. No doubt the protracted project has been used as a conduit to steal Lagos funds.

“It is our demand that the Governor’s Office must explain the details of this needless loan, while the Economic Financial Crimes Commission probes the veracity.”

However, while inspecting the ongoing construction of the light rail terminus at Orile-Iganmu, Fashola had said the decision of the state government to take a N160bn bond from World Bank was in order.

He added that strategies were in place to ensure that the loan was paid back.

Fashola questioned the intention of the DMO of the Federal Government, which published the report that Lagos owed about N160bn. He added that the loan was approved by the Federal Government.

http://www.punchng.com/politics/pdp-demands-probe-of-n160bn-lagos-debt/

Keneking: After watching the way displaced Nigerians are maltreated in Bakassi on AlJazeera, I have made up my mind that Jonathan should not come back to power next year.

Nonsense...

I thought it was OBJ that gave out Bakassi to Cameroun? How has it become Jonathan's fault

Surprised that you guys are shouting. Have you forgotten that APC government build a kilometre of road for N1billion? In its 88 months in office the Fashola administration has received about N3.8Trilliion as follows:
IGR @ AVG OF N29B MONTHLY =N2.6T
FED ALLOCATION @ AVG OF N12B MONTHLY = N1.1T
LOANS/BONDS = N160B
Question is what did Fashola do with Lagos money?
Eko wake up and sack these thieves pretending to be performers.

[size=18pt]The ball is on GEJ's court. If this is not corrected, NorthWest have aready rigged the election.[/size]

Rawani: I pity them too, I hope they and the 38 million southerners (59% of 65 million) get succour from the failure of leadership plaguing our country. Too bad Ibeto did not belong to a politically superior region.

This is the very reason gradual restructuring is happening. Before 1998, all decisions were based on the Caliphate's approval, that has since changed and by God's grace post 2015, the restructuring would have balanced off. Lets wait and see.

However Boko Haram has set the North-North about 10 years behind Nigeria. How will they catch up? If this generation that depended on FG patronage leaves, what is the hope of the masses of 'almajiris' being grown in the North? I recalled serving (NYSC) in Bauchi years back and I saw the mass of young children (6-15) who should be in schools then just hoarding behind their mallams to beg. Now these children are grown and they have nothing to do other that to sell 'gworo' on the streets or fetch water 'mai ruwa' or serve as 'mai guards' or join Boko Haram.

The north need to wake up and take their destiny in their hands and stop living in delusion and looking for who to blame. Truth is with time, these Bako boys will turn against their elites. I am wondering where all the rich men (Oil magnates and captains of industries) in Iraq and Syria back then are now? Just imagine what will happen if the North see no danger around them now to make amend.

On the born-to-rule mentality, that is now history. The Middle belt re-awakening and Boko Haram insurgency has perfectly nailed that.

sunex: Don't talk dat way, according to d movie, a man tested God's power say not even God can sink the Titanic ship due to how big it is then God showed him how powerful he is... doh innocents suffers d consequence.

The God we serve does not kill people just because of what they say. However, the Bible says that "By your words, you are justified (saved), by your words, you are also condemned" Matt 12:36. If you pronounce death upon yourself, God would allow it because you desired it. "Whatever you desire, when you pray believe you have recieved it and it would be yours" Mark 11:24.

By that singular declaration, the Engineer or whoever activated something in the spirit. And you know what, God does not violate His Word because He said "... the word that I speak to you now, they are Spirit and life ...". If you arm-twist God with your idle talks, the devil would capitalise on them and there is little God can do as it it your desire.

Someone saying God cannot sink the ship is also implying that God cannot also save it. That is his belief and God would be handicapped as that is his desire

OBJ can hardly win in his polling booth yet he is still regarded as king-maker?

Out of 54 years of Nigeria's existence as an independent nation, OBJ ruled for 22% of it (3 years 258 days as Military ruler and 8 years as civilian) totaling about 12 years. If OBJ had done well in these 12 years as Gowon did in 9 years (built Lagos and post-war reconstruction), Nigeria would have fared better.

[quote author=teskyg]supporter of APC.dreaming since 1914.[/quote[size=18pt]]

It is J.an,jawee.ds dreaming since 1914.[/size]

You see, it CANNOT BE MODIFIED. Beat the J.anja.weeds to it!

Oyimzy: Oshoala GOLDEN BOOT canadians love dat girl

This girl may likely gain admission to Canada soon with all the accolades she has been getting from the local Canadian press. CBC has been particular about her performance, I won't be surprised seeing her representing Canada in Women's World cup team soon! Mark my word.

On the robbery, the Referee capitalized on Anyila's error and over-zealousness. The ball was clearly crossing the line, so no need for another touch. The team did very well and should be encouraged towards future competitions.

To those arguing about age, my question is at your age what is your contribution to building Nigeria?

tola9ja: THE QURAN DOSE NOT CONTAIN A SINGLE CONTRADICTION BECAUSE IT IS THE WORD OF ALLAH(IN ENGLISH GOD) NOT THE WORD OF MUHAMMED CAN THE WORD OF GOD CONTAIN CONTRADICTION LET THE BIBLE SPEAK

pls anything to say about these?

Yes! You never read any of those verse to understand the context of those phrases you listed. Try and read just a few and come back here to correct yourself

lorRhyMeZ: Suprisingly no Muslim has even replied any of d comments above mine...Allahu Akbar! Pls my Muslims Brothers and Sisters,I urge u to ignore these people,no matter how compelled u feel to reply and b dragged into blasphemy..

Juma'at Kareem.

Noone can reply because there is nothing to reply. 'Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it' Uthman Dan Fodio your Islamic progenitor echoed here

caseless: sharrap , feeb! U cant dispute what i've written objectively and u ar saying they'r subjective. He's not a man of his words: he told us pwr generation wil increase by 4000mw b4 d end of last year, did he do it? After privatisation, it is the same old story of darkness. The refineries to build in lokoja, lagos and bayelsa..whr ar they? He went on amanpour and lied to them that power supply had improved, only to b countered by Nigerians on d street on d same programe b4 d whole world. His action against ASUU, NMA , etc proves he's a liar. He was d 35th signatory to d MOU that pwr shld go to north, with evidence on ground, he still denied this. He told suswan, babangida aliyu, bukola saraki and a host of others govnos that he wld nt contest d 2015 election, his body language says otherwise.
Eleme road was repaired when he was goin to bury his inlaw. The east west is there and that's whr his inlaw died.[b]
He spent 4 times highier to renovate a rail-line of less than 600km(frm lagos-kano) than what was spent to build a new rail-line from d capital of tibetan region to capital of china(distance over 4000km). [/b]How do u explain that? He's corrupt becos he stole our $20billion. He spent more on defense to increase insecurity.
What ar u sayin?

Feeble and incoherent! Did you check where the tibetan- china raw materials were sourced from? Do you have 100% local contents of the materials and capacity for the rail system? You may also do well to tell us how much Fashola is spending for a less than10 kilometre rail in Orile-Festac light rail. We are await your kind knowledgeable reply sir!

This man is always in the news for the wrong (bad) reason. Amaechi should please grow up as he is SS a bad name!

Richhommie: Very interesting esp the one about psalm 117,118 and 119.
Fp tinz

[size=14pt]Just to add that though disputed by some theologians, the middle verse of the Bible is Psalm 118:8 and it says 'It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.'
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Itoroetti: my only problem is dat returnee APC boko haram specialist and initiator.
that ex gov of yobe

His return is good to some extent as he would likely be able to strike a cease-fire with the Boko-boys before YE. Lets watch and see.
Truly, APC is on the brinks! GMB would be regretting going into this merger. There is nothing that endear GEJ to me except his humility and silence in face of utter provocation. His sincerity is a thing we have never had in nigeria except with Abdulsalam Abubakar and may be Murtala Mohammed. All other were bent on satisfying the cabals that have destroyed Nigeria since 1960.

The man is silently pulling down all established mafia and 'god-father' structures of the old order and enthroning free and fair elections. If he can fully institute this in Nigeria we can move forward from there and say #NeverAgainToElectionRigging

GEJ till 2019.

Fashola, do not worry the EFCC will be visiting Lagos sometime from September to review how you have been looting tax payers and local government funds.

Let them finish with Lamido first, their next investigation is in Lagos. It is called VALUE FOR MONEY (INVESTIGATION) AUDIT.

Do not forget that Ribadu is now to mentor EFCC the OBJ-style. Shey you want to be VP that is why you now rant? Goodluck to you and Tinubu!

arewafederation: The only thing I like about the Ibos is their ladies. They are the easiest to find everywhere and the cheapest to sleep with.

That is why they collect your money, build businesses and houses and you would come to beg for work. They employ you and you use the salary to pay them rent! Who then is the fool
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Waiting for answer? YOU ARE THE BIG F00L!

[size=18pt]GEJ till 2019 and Ribadu for President - 2019 - 2027 by the Grace of Almighty God. PDP all the way till Nigeria breaks or Jesus returns whichever comes earlier! [/size]

Have they sued or are planning to sue? APC and her leaders are always 'going' to sue but never does. We are still waiting for GMB to sue Asari and all other threats of going to court. Lai Mohammed should leave matter ... we know the truth about APC.

Ribadu has discovered who they are and left, soon Osoba would be leaving and you know what, they will do thanksgiving for these loses. Hypocrites!

I only pity the governor of Kwara, who is following Saraki to his political graveyard instead of carving a niche for himself. I love the guy but he may lose in 2015.