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They are in their parents house. Only their pictures are missing

Alamieseyhia has suffered. Even in his grave

Eyah... Rip to him. Hopefully he will stop being gay in his grave

livinbygrace:
Well done,Mr Wise man.As a wise man ,you ought to have been on that seat by now,abi?Nonsense

Lolz. Inferiority complex. I don't have have to be a minister before I bring about change.
And will your godfathers even allow me get there.
#ode

54 years according to the new administration

Buhari can have that slot since he won't be Petroleum minister again

This guy is a born thief

Una for still lose. Jonathan helped save the left over funds

Not a bad idea

Just like we gave you people time to destroy it. mtcheeewee

Nigeria is a joke - Babangida
Pius please tell them ooo

Make I spread mat see who go win the battle.

He has eaten the forbidden fruit... Reno kor Rhino ni

Its called gender equality. After all that's what they always shout. So, no big deal

Terrible is an understatement... but why?

Boko haram is angry. Thatsall

Hmmmmn. This thing must end ASAP... Buhari do something please

You cannot but hate the Nigeria Police more. Bunch of foolls with flat heads that always look for scapegoat or who to blame for their incompetence.
#Policeisourenemy

that's what happens when you have senators with little or no brain whatsoever.
Fashola manoeuvre every question that showed he made many mistakes but because of his eloquence, they were fooled. Awon olodo

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So far we don't end up like Libya and Syria

Congrats Akpabio

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Oyingbo and cultism!

Seriously. Things just got worse in Lagos.
What is Ambode doing?

Recently, the government at the federal level and many states of the federation marked100 days in office. A tradition that is largely supposed to give a clear blueprint they intend to fully
implement in the course of the next (almost) four
years in office. While the average Nigerian can be
said to be upbeat about definite strides at the
federal level especially in areas such as power
generation, in the oil sector, and the fight against
corruption, the same cannot be said of
developments in Lagos State under the leadership
of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. Under him,
instead of Eko oni baje, it is obvious Lagos is
speedily retrogressing.

Even though many may argue it is still early days
yet, and it may appear to be too early judge, by
now Lagosians ought to have begun to feel the
impact of a new administration. A Wolof proverb
says, “A dish which is going to be tasty will smell
good when it boils.” Usually, one can forecast the
shape of things to come judging by the present.
To submit that the Ambode-led government’s
performance has been lacklustre after his first
few weeks of assuming office would be no
gainsaying. In the past couple of months, the
governor seems to have been overwhelmed by the
huge task of running a complex state like Lagos.
Nowadays, Lagos feels like it is running on
autopilot. For one who was peddled as a
seasoned civil servant with cognate experience in
administration and a consummate mastery of the
inner workings of the state, having been a part of
the work force for almost three decades before
taking a bow, one would expect that Ambode
would hit the ground running and not appear to
be testing the waters like a neophyte.
The governor was elected mainly because he rode
on the performance of the immediate past
governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, who
was the poster boy of the All Progressives
Congress up until recently when he was
enmeshed in controversies involving alleged
financial impropriety while he was governor. So
far, there has been no clear direction or landmark
achievement one can attribute to the Ambode
government.

Yes, the governor has projected himself as an
empathetic man with a large heart judging by his
response to some individual’s plight — the case
of Ruth Uche, the mother of three sets of twins
who was abandoned by her husband, readily
comes to mind, as well as the New Year baby
with a heart disease whom the governor assisted
with the required surgery in India as soon as he
assumed office. It must be said unequivocally
that these gestures are laudable, but Ambode
needs to do more by formulating and
implementing policies that will positively impact
the lives of almost 20 million Lagosians and not
just one or two people.
By this time in the last administration, Fashola
had constructed a pedestrian bridge, purchased a
100 BRT buses to ease transport in the
metropolis, completed the second phase of the
Adetokunbo Ademola Road in Victoria Island, and
commenced the dredging and rechannelling of
drainage to ease water transport among other
achievements, a sharp contrast to the donation of
security vehicles and signing of Certificates of
Occupancy that is the present administration’s
legacy after 100 days.

Also, in a recent study tagged CIAPS Governors
Performance Index conducted by the Lagos-based
Centre for International Advanced and
Professional Studies to assess the performance
of governors in Nigeria after 100 days based on
variables such as readiness for office, innovation
in office, ability to be in tune with the mood of
the nation and security and leadership by
example, Ambode came ninth with a 50 per cent
pass mark compared to his colleagues in Kaduna,
Kano, Sokoto and Rivers states who were ranked
first, second and third respectively, thus lending
credence to the observation that he has
performed barely averagely since taking over the
mantle of leadership. Coming ninth out of 36 can
be argued as not being poor until one remembers
that Ambode runs a state that is the commercial
nerve centre of Nigeria and would have been the
fifth largest economy in Africa if it were a
country.

Anyone resident in Lagos and is a regular
commuter on the roads would have observed the
apparent return of lawlessness across the state.
The ubiquitous motorcycle riders are fully back on
many highways where they had been banned, and
operatives of the Lagos State Traffic
Management Agency seem to be suddenly
clueless about how to effectively control traffic on
the roads. Thugs are back and more brazen than
ever before in Oshodi and some other suburbs of
the metropolis where they engage in acts of
criminality, terrorise the people, damage vehicles
and rob hapless motorists on a daily basis. Many
roads are in a deplorable state, with potholes that
have metamorphosed into craters on many roads.
It seems hardly a day goes by without reports of
one fallen container or the other, yet, the
restriction on the movement of trailers and other
articulated vehicles is only being partially obeyed
as if to dare the government of the day! In a
nutshell, Lagos seems to be going back to the
pre-Fashola days of lawlessness and impunity.
Those who doubted Ambode’s capability to
govern a state like Lagos are beginning to have
their fears confirmed. Indeed, many believed he
didn’t just cut the picture of the kind of leader
that Lagos needed. The fact that he was
practically foisted on the members of the APC by
a godfather didn’t help matters also, as he was
shielded from going through the proper scrutiny
and competition that any intending candidate is
expected to pass through. But for the general
perception that he was the lesser of “two evils”
when compared with his closest rival, Jimi
Agbaje, at the polls, and a section of Lagos
residents felt safer to pitch their tent with the
“tried and trusted” Tinubu camp than the “little
known and possibly out-for-revenge” Bode George
camp, there might have been a different
government at the helm of affairs in Lagos today.
Nevertheless, this is a wake-up call for the
Ambode administration. The people of Lagos need
to feel the presence of the government around
them. As the days go by, more needs to be done
in virtually all sectors of the economy. The
governor must begin to fulfil his numerous
campaign promises by providing adequate
security, employment and basic infrastructure for
the teeming population in Lagos.

Besides, Ambode always knew that Fashola’s
shoes would be very difficult to fill. However, he
must begin to make his own mark as soon as
possible and not just replicate what is being done
at the federal level without considering its
suitability for Lagos State. The goodwill that the
APC has enjoyed in Lagos for the past 16 years
should not be frittered away especially now that
the people are fully aware that the power to vote
out a non-performing government lies solely in
their hands. 2019 is not too far away! The Lagos
State governor needs to prove the naysayers
wrong and the time to start is now!

Ms. Ajekigbe wrote in via l_ajeks@yahoo.com

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered that the report of a study initiated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the shrinking of Lake Chad be made available to him without further delay. Buhari gave the directive shortly after the Auditor- General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Uruka, presented the report of an environmental audit of the Lake Chad to the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said he was disappointed that the Auditor- General did not mention the earlier report in his presentation despite the fact that Obasanjo spent $5m on the study. He said he was interested in the report because the former President had commissioned the study based on an article by a professor in the University of London on the matter, which he (Buhari) read and handed over to Obasanjo. The President said, “I have to digress here based on personal knowledge of this. I saw an article in the journal of National Demographic in 1978 that a professor in the University of London in 1925 has foreseen what we are just seeing. “I handed over the article to Gen. Obasanjo and I understand that Gen. Obasanjo took the initiative sometimes ago. It is on record that he is the only Nigerian that has presided over the country for more than 11 years. “He gave $5m to the study, and the study’s report was that unless some of the rivers from the Central Africa Republic are diverted to empty into Chad Basin, Lake Chad will dry up. “I understand that this report, which was sponsored by Nigeria, has been submitted. I am a bit disappointed that in the speech of the Auditor- General, there was no mention of this report; whether my own report was correct that $5m was given. “One of the recommendations was that at the time the report was submitted, the cost of diverting one of the rivers to empty into Lake Chad would be between $13bn and $15bn.” He added, “I will like the Auditor-General to comment on this, whether they have received this report or it was sent to the Ministry of Water Resources. I think this government will like to see this report and see how we can ask our foreign friends how they can help us. “This is because if that river is diverted to empty into Chad Basin, I think it will affect at least two million Nigerians and another two million from Cameroon, Chad and Niger to resettle, and, perhaps, that will help us to stop Boko Haram around that area.” Uruka however told Buhari that the report was not made available to the group that conducted the latest study, saying it was only made available to the Lake Chad Basin Commission. A representative of LCBC who was at the presentation however told the President that the report had since been in the public domain. The LCBC official said, “The situation is that the study had been completed. The cost estimate for the project is $14.5bn. “We have been consulting the Congo Basin to allay their fears on the environmental impact assessment they want us to add and we need some additional political support to be able to convince them that it is also in their interest to see that this water is diverted to Lake Chad. “We have made efforts with the Champion of Save Lake Chad, former President Obasanjo, to sensitise the international co

http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-demands-report-of-obasanjos-5m-study/

The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, on Monday, struck out an appeal filed by the 2015 governorship candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance, Dr. Alex Otti. Otti was challenging the decision of a lower tribunal sitting in Umuahia, which refused him an extension of time to call more witnesses in a petition he filed against Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party. Delivering judgment in the petition, the Chairman of the Appeal Panel, Justice Jimmy Bada, noted that the lower court did the right thing by refusing the extension of time sought by the applicant. Bada, who delivered the unanimous judgment by a five-member panel, stated that it would amount to waking up the dead if after the parties had submitted their final addresses fresh witnesses were admitted. The court noted that the application failed on the three issues presented before the court, saying, “It was also wrong for the applicant to fail to frontload the pre-trial material from the lower tribunal.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/abia-acourt-dismisses-ottis-appeal-2/

Nigerian students no know book. na only 'nobraday' dem sabi