₦airaland Forum

chinjo:
OP what about PHCN?

seunmsg:
The Telcos are just greedy. They want to milk their customers dry. Everybody that have looked at the argument of the telcos have come to the same conclusion that the USSD service cost is a sunk cost and doesn’t involve any additional expenditure on the part of the telcos. Still, they want to somehow recover it from their customers.

FG should not back down on this. The USSD charges must remain suspended. Telcos should sit down with the banks and see if they can get a share of what the banks are already making instead of attempting to impose additional charges.

netpro:
Why not just enforce the adjustments already negotiated with the Federal Government? Or are they hoping to get more in some states?

This greed of NLC will get them into trouble. Some Governors will spend 2 years pricing it like crayfish without paying.

maasoap:
This is an acknowledgement of good governance from a chronic hater. We had one dullard who earmarked 2.1 billion dollars for this same purpose but ended up given order for the money to be shared among PDP thieves to secure second term in office.
Concerning our deal with USA, go back and read the delivery timeline again. Half education is a disease

signature2012:
Ok.

The difference between a leader and a ruler.

Johnnyessence:
Buhari's looking for money at all cost, they should just free the guy jare.

solutionist:
https://www.pulse.ng/news/politics/this-is-why-sanwo-olu-cant-blame-ambode-for-the-lagos-he-inherited/g4y1g0p

AutoJoshNG:
Babajide Sanwo-Olu

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Babajide Sanwo-Olu was sworn in as the Governor of Lagos State on Wednesday, May 29, 2019.

He expressed enormous enthusiasm in confronting the traffic challenge in the state.

On June 3, 2019,  Sanwo-Olu donated 35 brand new high-capacity shuttle buses to the Lagos State Civil Service.

On October 2019, just like Ambode, Governor Sanwo-Olu acquired over 800 new buses.

In a series of tweet, the governor declared, "Beyond road construction, we have started expanding the bus rapid transit system and gradually reducing the danfo buses on the roads. I am excited to announce that we have purchased over 800 buses to add to the existing BRT fleet expanding to more routes. We are supportive of private investment in transportation that is non-exploitative".

BRT Vs. Non-BRT

The 800 buses bought by Governor Sanwo-Olu are intended for BRT operations. This is unlike the over 800 buses bought by Ambode. The cost of acquiring the buses is yet to become public knowledge.

The acquisition and donation of the buses to a private transport company by the Sanwo-Olu have come under criticism.

Some analysts wondered why the Governor, who claims he met an empty treasury, embarked on such charity.

They also queried the sense in donating the buses to a private company when they could have been donated to the State government-operated Lagos Bus Services Limited (LBSL).

The donation of the buses came 2 weeks after Governor Sanwo-Olu sent a letter to the state Assembly to get approval for a fixed rate bond of N100 billion from the capital market and an internal loan of N150 billion.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu is the 15th Governor of Lagos State.

iAudio:
did you people see the rural area where the primary school is? What do you expect? A high-tech device in a village school?

But who am I?

Kokolet11:
I pity your children and your children children.

9jahotblog:
Seriously this is unfair from buhari government . Gej didn't do this length , still the Nigeria economy was pretty good.

fergie001:
Before he tore his membership card, who was his Gov and Senator?

valentineuwakwe:
The question you should be asking is; Even as president then, was Jonathan relevant in Bayelsa state?

fergie001:
There was a time Buhari's Gov was PDP.

Who is Obasanjo's Senator again?

MelesZenawi:
Gej plays national politics.

So let him leave local ones for Dickson.

Jonathan should have passed this level.

ANALYSIS: In Bayelsa politics, is Dickson pushing Jonathan out of relevance?

As the people of Bayelsa go to the polls on November 16 to elect a new governor who will succeed Seriake Dickson, there is a question about the influence of the former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, in the politics of the oil-rich state.

Mr Jonathan is not just from Bayelsa, he was a deputy governor and governor of the state before he became Nigeria’s vice president and later president in 2011.

Going by the character of the Nigerian politics, Mr Jonathan is a ‘big man’ who should be pulling strings, at least in his own state, to determine who gets what in the politics of the state. But he is not doing that. He appears not to be bothered about such, as well.

And that naturally comes with a price – disenchantment and withdrawal of goodwill from political supporters.

It is uncertain to what extent this may have contributed to the recent political upset against the former president in his own Bayelsa East Senatorial District, where the All Progressives Congress (APC), the main opposition party in Bayelsa, defeated Mr Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 senatorial election.

Degi Wangagra of the APC is currently representing the district in the Senate.

The APC also won Brass/Nembe Federal Constituency election, which is under the Bayelsa East district.

The APC candidate for Brass/Nembe federal constituency election, Israel Goli, scored 41,150, while the PDP candidate, Marie Ebikake, scored 19,279.

Mr Jonathan is from Otuoke community in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state.

The Nation newspaper reported that the PDP almost lost in Ogbia Federal Constituency election as well, but for the effort of the current commissioner for information in the state, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, and other appointees of the state governor, Mr Dickson.

The paper described the PDP performance in Mr Jonathan’s Otuoke community as “poor”.

Jonathan ignored, pushed aside by Dickson?

There have been reports of a rift between Mr Jonathan and Governor Dickson over the just concluded PDP governorship primary in Bayelsa.

Mr Dickson’s man, Douye Diri, a senator representing Bayelsa Central District, emerged the PDP governorship candidate after defeating 20 other aspirants, including the former managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe, who was reportedly backed by Mr Jonathan.

Although government officials in Bayelsa have dismissed it as being untrue, there are reports that Mr Jonathan was not consulted by Mr Dickson over the choice of Mr Diri as the man to succeed him as governor, and that the former president and his supporters felt let down by the governor.

Mr Jonathan’s kinsman, Michael Ogiasa, who was a special adviser on power development to Governor Dickson, recently resigned his appointment from Mr Dickson’s government, according to a report published by the Punch newspaper.

It is not clear if the resignation is in connection with the succession politics in the state.

The paper also reported the defection of the PDP chairman of Ward 8 in Brass Local Government Area, Intelligent Owei, to the APC.

The PDP national leadership on Friday set up a peace committee headed by the former president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, to work towards the reconciliation of Messrs Jonathan and Dickson.

Wisdom Ikuli, a leader in the Ijaw Youth Council, is Mr Jonathan’s kinsman, as well as a strong political supporter of the former president.

Mr Ikuli’s remark during an interview with PREMIUM TIMES, on Saturday, somehow symbolised the way some people perceive the status of the relationship between Governor Dickson and Mr Jonathan.

“Does Dickson have any relationship with any leader in Bayelsa state, except those who are serving him or surviving from him?” Mr Ikuli told PREMIUM TIMES when asked about the relationship between the two leaders.

“Go and ask the people who introduced Dickson to A.J. Turner and Jonathan, and they will tell you what is happening.

“Dickson has deliberately relegated the great leaders who made him what he is today. He has messed up all these leaders,” he said.

“Honestly, we shouldn’t be talking about who he (Jonathan) supported, we should be talking about who he brought out. Whether you like it or not, in the Nigerian context, as a former president he should be given the respect to make input or determine who the next governor of Bayelsa State should be.

“If we say he should be given that right, we are not asking for too much.”

Mr Ikuli, however, said this does not mean that Mr Jonathan’s influence has diminished in the politics of the state.

“I am sure that as a father to all, whoever emerges as the governor of Bayelsa State, he is going to support him.”

Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the commissioner for information in the state, dismissed the reports of a rift between the governor and the former president, saying that the relationship between the two remains “very cordial”.

In an interview published on Sunday by The Guardian newspaper, Mr Iworiso-Markson said it was unfair for people to be accusing Mr Dickson of sidelining the PDP elders during the PDP governorship primary. The governor, he said, consulted the former president and other party elders in the state several times.

Jonathan Obuebite, the commissioner for education in the state, supported that position. He said both leaders are enjoying the best of relationship. He likened the relationship between the two to that between a younger brother and the elder brother, with Mr Jonathan as the “elder brother” here.

onyfrank:
IT IS GOOD TO BUILD A BEFITTING HOUSE.
THESE HOUSES BELONGS TO OUR AMIABLE GOVERNOR.
THEY ARE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER THE PREMISES WITH YOUR PHONE, ALL THE WORKERS SUBMIT THEIR PHONES AT THE GATE, SO THAT THE PIX WON’T BE MADE PUBLIC.
BUT NATURE HAS ITS WAY OF EXPOSING CERTAIN THINGS.
GUESS WHOSE HOUSE? I MEAN THE GOVERNOR THAT OWNS THESE EDIFICES?

seunmsg:
But he refused to allow women to vote throughout his tenure as premier of northern region.