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LASG finally moves to clear blocked drainaiges
http://www.watchinglagos.com/2014/07/lasg-finally-moves-to-clear-blocked.html

source: http://www.watchinglagos.com/2014/07/lasg-finally-moves-to-clear-blocked.html

mods frontpage please, let us make people aware of this so the government doesn't dump this process halfway. Thanks

first picture mile 2, second one orile

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Over a year ago watchinglagos.com posted a second post after the first post months earlier about blocked drainage channels around mile 2 bus stop going to Orile as a result of trading on the drains cover and indiscriminate dumping of waste materials on the road which either gets blown into drain or is washed into it when it rains.

The drainage got completely blocked and instead of water flowing into the drain, it remain on the the road, turned green and due to that commercial buses avoided the bus stop and instead drop and pick passenger on the road hereby causing serious traffic backlog that at times goes as far as beyond festac 1st gate.

Recently we noticed that the drains around mile 2 and orile bus stops were being cleared but was dumped beside the drains. We hope the government completes this process before the rain washes them back into it.

Also, Julius has moved to their yard around coker bus stop to fix bad portions and finished some parts of the road that was left unfinished years ago.

Pictures from mile 2 and orile below

[quote author=tpia@]Op why are you watching lagos?

Considering the fact that you have nothing good to say?[/quote]https://www.nairaland.com/1216482/drainage-dead-arrival-pictures-attention#14624027

This post from 6th March last year made the front page, yet the state government did nothing about it, now it has gotten worse

[quote author=tpia@]Op why are you watching lagos?

Considering the fact that you have nothing good to say?[/quote]We are not just watching Lagos for bad things, we are watching for the good things too. In coming days we will post about on going road rehabilitation in festac town ( a federal estate) by the state (LPWC) and local government. Also there will be posts about the progress on the 10-lane badagry expressway that is progressing.

Over 6 months ago, we posted pictures here from mile 2 bus stop of drainage channels already filled with dirt. The LASG was informed via its e-channels but up till this day nothing has been done about it. Whenever it rains the outlet meant for water is blocked so the water remains there.

The water is greenish already and this poses serious health danger for those trading around there and commuters who board buses there.

We once again call on the LASG to do some about this and other "newly constructed" drainage channels right from Orile on Badagry expressway already blocked.

http://www.watchinglagos.com/2014/01/epidemic-alert-stagnant-water-at-mile-2.html

Horus: I cannot log to their website

www.watchinglagos.com
it is always up

berem: Interesting! Oga poster, how much you go pay me because i no fit do sonetin free for una . I go concentrate on Lagos -Badagry express way. I get plenty pisures wey i take with my phone.

Hello berem

First we would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year.

Exactly a year, www.watchinglagos.com was launched with a mission to publicise the good and the bad in Lagos, praising the good and attracting attention to the bad for correction, across Federal, State and Local government projects as it affects Lagos residents.

The past year has been both challenging but also encouraging. Since we can’t be in the whole of Lagos at once, we ask anyone who feels an area needs attention or there’s an ongoing project that needs commendation to send us pictures with details (pictures can be taken with mobile phones) and mail to us on watchinglagos@gmail.com or tweet at us @watchinglagos. You can also reach us via BBM on 75F548B3.

Thanks for being there in the past year, subsequent years look very bright, together we can do this.

Thanks.


The WatchingLagos Team

http://www.watchinglagos.com/2014/01/watchinglagos-at-one.html

There would be a comprehensive report on Festac roads soon.

kemifemi: I was about posting this later today only for me see it on nairaland.
This Ayo is power drunken. I saw a group of people gathered on 22nd rd yesterday and they narrated the same account of the happening.
I once witnessed the show of power by Amuwo Odofin LGA chairman when he ordered his men to arrest a man who came to visit his sister in festac but unknowingly parked on the kerb.
The visitor was in his car sipping a drink when AYO got to the place. He ordered the man to get out of the car. Since d visitor didn't know who he was, he felt insulted that someone could just harass him for no reason. So he didn't listen to Ayo. Ayo jerked him out of the car and told him he was the local government chairman.
When d visitor asked what offence he committed, he was told he it was an offence to park on the kerb.
If u are familiar with festac, you'll notice that those kerbs were designed for flowers but due to neglect and non maintenance, weeds have taken over the place, so no flowers there.
The man apologised and explained that he was a visitor and it was his first time in festac and would never park there again. But Ayo did not listen to the man's plea but instead ordered his men to deflate his tyres and tow his vehicle to the LG.
This happened around 5th avenue, very close to central primary school.
So am not surprised at all. Festac roads are very bad. Instead of fixing roads, he goes about harassing people. Almost all the roads are bad.

As governments all over the Federation gave account of their stewardship on 2013 democracy day, Amuwo Odofin LGA led by Comrade Ayodele Adewale decided to go on a misguided adventure in Festac town.
On the said day, orange sellers were arrested, a vulcanizer had his machine seized and a shop was hurriedly and illegally sealed just because a bread hawker stopped to sell beside the shop which the shop occupant has no control over, same three other shops just because an orange seller was seen beside the shops.
The orange sellers were taken to Festac police station, the DPO was so disappointed that he ordered them to be released immediately. The shop however, remained sealed with a sticker meant for abandoned vehicles, I don't understand how a shop built legally will be moved.
Pictures below:

source: http://www.watchinglagos.com/2013/05/amuwo-lga-arrests-orange-sellers-and.html

Large Pot Holes At Entrance To Omole Phase 2 From Olowora Junction

We received this message from someone who does not want to be named

See the extent of damage on the road. Please help contact relevant authorities for urgent repair provision of drainage along that road as it is flood prone.
You can cross-check to confirm

Below are the pictures

However, this has been sent to the Lagos Public Works Corporation through their website for urgent actions.

http://www.watchinglagos.com/2013/05/large-pot-holes-at-entrance-to-omole.html

Apathy here is quite alarming, awareness and concern about governance is highly needed.
Something similar can be started for other state, that would be a welcome development
[quote author=IGBO-SON]Good idea! I'd like Anambra, Abia, Imo, Rivers and Delta residents to start a similar thread on their states as well (Enugu is being extensively covered already); highlighting positive initiatives as well as problems of the respective states, so we put them on the spot and help speed up development.

I've come to realise that we (the governed) should take at least 45% of the blame for slow or shoddy development in our respective states. Everything shouldn't be about federal gov't; we need to pay attention to what's happening at home as well, and hold the state gov'ts feet to the fire where necessary.[/quote]

No wahala madam, send the pisures biko

berem: Interesting! Oga poster, how much you go pay me because i no fit do sonetin free for una . I go concentrate on Lagos -Badagry express way. I get plenty pisures wey i take with my phone.

That's why we need the help of everyone as we can't be everywhere at the same time

sheyie2007: Wow... This is awesome. If all the problems could be identified and rectified swiftly, then it's great

Our Yansh: Yours sincerely observed some holes on a pedestrian bridge in Lagos, got some pictures and decided to share.

The pedestrian bridge in question is that at Iyanoworo (hope I got the spelling), just at the foot of third mainland bridge. The holes are not very big at the moment, however its said that "a stitch in time saves nine". So if you know somebody who knows somebody, please draw their attention to this potential hazard.

I rest my case.

Yours truly,

Hon. Our Yansh
(SSCE, OND, B.Eng, VCD, DVD)

Can I post this on watchinglagos.com for more publicity?

On 7th January this year, watchinglagos.com was birthed. Our motive is to monitor developments in Lagos state (good or otherwise) of all arms of government, call attention when required and applaud where necessary.

So far we have been able to highlight a few situations around but because we can't be around every parts of Lagos at the same time, we humbly call on every concerned Nigerian living in or around Lagos to assist us with this.

All you need to do is to take and send us pictures of developments around you, good or bad, most of us have basic camera phones and such pictures will be okay for us. Pictures as good as a road construction in your area or as bad as blocked drainage or roads that need urgent government (Federal, State or Local) attention.

You can tweet your picture to us @watchinglagos or send us an email on watchinglagos@gmail.com. You can indicate if you want to be mentioned in our posts.



Every post that needs urgent attention will be sent to the relevant government agencies for urgent attention/action.

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday granted approval for the reclaiming and concessioning of the FESTAC phase 2 project.
The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Ama Pepple, said at the end of the meeting in Abuja that the project is expected to fetch government about N25.7 billion from the concessioner apart from ground rent of about N150 million every year.
The Minister also said the area, measuring about 1,126 hectares of land, which was acquired since 1977 for the African festival of arts and culture, FESTAC, would be concessioned to a company called New FESTAC Property Development Company.
Four other companies including PW Nigeria Limited, SCC Nigeria Limited, Enacco Nigeria Limited and Funtaj Limited would be joined as concessionaires.
The existing FESTAC (Phase 1) is a largely residential area located in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos and providing accommodation to tens of thousands of residents.
Ms. Pepple, who was briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting along with the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro; and Information, Labaran Maku; said Council gave the approval after deliberating on the economic viability of leaving such a vast expanse of land fallow for so long.
"The area involved is about 1,126 hectares of land, and we estimate that when the largely swampy area is completely reclaimed and sand filled, that we (government) will be able to create at least 7,000 plots to make the new area FESTAC phase 2 be like a new city ,with houses, shopping malls, schools, police station, health centres, etc", she said.
The minister explained that the project, which is expected to yield a lot of money for government, had been presented to the council in 2006. She said the project was stepped down because at the time, the money the project handlers said would accrue to government –N10.6 billion, was too little considering the size and location of the property.
"We worked on it again and we looked at what it will cost the company to reclaim the land and the figure that we came up with was N25.7 billion. It is going to be concessioned over a 30 year period, but they are going to have a three year moratorium to enable them to start the project, stabilize the project," she said.
Ms. Pepple said the concessioning of FESTAC is purely funded by the private sector

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http://www.watchinglagos.com/2013/03/federal-executive-council-approves.html

[quote author=SIR KOL!]this news is absolute bullshit[/quote]how Sir?

look properly

Confusion: this your report and picture is simply junk journalism
i expected to see a drain that is blocked, not this picture that says nothing
Please remove from front page

look properly, picture was taken from a vehicle. Look at the water outlet and you will see the blockage

4bobo: cant see any blockage. and still made front page., but I learnt that the road is still under construction. Hissszzxxxxxxxzzzz

the pictures posted are frm mile 2 service lane which has been long completed

fury: The road is still under construction...why the hate?

I pity you guys in satellite, it has been hell for mnths now

Reptyle: Yeah...great improvement. At least we now have between one and two hours of stable electricity every week in Satellite Town, Lagos.

Congrats to Yaba and Ojodu. One day one day, all these "megawatts" I keep hearing about on Nairaland will branch our side too.

the last thread was about GEJ and the work on ApapaOshodi expressway. please always check before posting, thanks

hollandis: another fashola thread.How much are you being paid sef

The canal at Ladipo International Auto Spare Parts Market lined with shanties during the visit of Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) to the Market on Sunday, March 3, 2013. INSET: Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN (2nd right), Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello (right), President General, Ladipo Central Executive Auto Dealers Association, Comrade Ikechukwu Animalu (left) and the Chairman, Mushin Local Government, Mr. Babatunde Adepitan (2nd left).



courtsey www.facebook.com/followlasg

As leadership pledge cooperation with government to maintain cleanliness in market

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Sunday undertook an inspection tour of the Auto Spare parts Market, Ladipo, in Mushin Local Government Area, closed last Monday over environmental degradation, declaring that the Government would reopen it for business once the traders spearhead a clean-up exercise and formally undertake that never again would trading take place on the road or the edges of the canal.

The Spare parts Market was shut in the early hours of Monday following repeated warnings and visits by the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello and the Chairman of the Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences, CSP Bayo Sulaiman, which were not heeded.

However, the Governor’s visit on Sunday to assess the situation of the Market followed pleas by the traders and the leadership of the Igbo Council in Lagos State led by Professor Anya O. Anya, who visited the State House, Ikeja last Monday to present the new Council members to the Governor.

Though no trading was going on when the Governor visited on Sunday afternoon, evidence of the environmental degradation which led to the closure could be found on the damaged roads in the area, disused piles of spare parts and the shanties used for trading on the sides of the canal.

Speaking to newsmen after the inspection during which he also addressed leaders of the traders, Governor Fashola, who described the state of the Market and its environs as “massive degradation of a section of Lagos”, however, said the good thing in the visit was that the traders had seen the lack of caution in their deed and were ready to make amends.

“It is a massive degradation of a section of Lagos and this is not acceptable. People should not carry on like this. But what is, perhaps, worthy of note is that those who are involved have seen the error of what they have done here and are ready to work with us to clean-up and I have said here that they must take the lead”, the Governor said.

Speaking particularly about the Canal in the market blocked by refuse from the traders Governor Fashola said, “The Canal there poses a lot of danger and we are expecting heavy rains. I don’t want to come back here to pick any dead body. We built the canal and we must make it work by not trading on it and not dumping refuse in it”.

“People told me that they picked engine parts, spare-parts and other things from the canal. It must stop”, the Governor said adding that there is now an agreement between the traders and the Government to work together to clean up the place and continue with the business there.

Earlier, while addressing the leadership of the Ladipo Auto Dealers’ Association led by its President General, Comrade Ikechukwu Animalu, Governor Fashola made it clear to them that before Government would reopen the market, the traders must clean-up the place and put strategies in place to ensure that there would be no trading on the roads in the area and no reversal to the old situation that led to its closure.

“If you must trade here, you must stay behind the property line. You can see the damage you have caused to the road. We have to come back to re-do the road. Now this will be done with taxpayers’ money. It is fine that you want to do business but those who pay the money used to construct the road must also be able to use it and how do they do that if you take over the road?”, the Governor asked.

Directing that the traders must work with the Mushin Local Government authorities to effect the clean-up and sanitation of the market, Governor Fashola declared, “The only reason we are in government is to make you prosper but you must help us do that. You are going to work with the Ministry of Environment. You are going to clean up the place yourselves”.

“You will clean first and when you have done it, I will come back and I will bring members of your leadership who came to me and we will say this is the agreement now. We will sign a new agreement, nobody trades on the road, it must be behind the property line. Nobody trades on the pavement, it is for pedestrians”, the Governor said.

Governor Fashola explained further, “It is in your own interest that the roads are open to vehicular traffic. We have seen the volume of vehicles that ply here, they need parts, but they cannot even get here because of the road. Also disease will come so that after you make the money you fall sick and die prematurely instead of living to an old age”.

The Governor reiterated that in order to bring sanity to the market, the traders and the government must work together adding, “You have to take responsibility. It is not only to come and clean the place and later fall back to the old situation. There is a simple problem here, it is an environmental issue. We must treat it for what it is and get on with our lives”.

Responding, the President General of the Ladipo Central Executive of the Auto Dealers’ Association, Comrade Ikechukwu Animalu, agreed that the environmental situation at the market was bad and apologized on behalf of the traders pledging that he would lead them to clean it up as well as ensure that there would be no more trading either on the road or on the canal.

Comrade Animalu, who said he came into office last year after the election by the Association, also pledged that the traders would henceforth maintain high level of environmental sanitation in the market including keeping the canal clean and free of any materials that could block the free flow of rain water.

Accompanying the Governor on the inspection tour were Commissioner of the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, Chairman Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences, CSP Bayo Sulaiman, Director Enforcement of the Ministry of Environment, Mr. Toyin Onisarotu and Chairman Mushin Local Government Area, Mr. Babatunde Adepitan among other top government functionaries.

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Towering pyramids of ground nut and cocoa sprawling right into the skies threatening to eclipse both the sun and the moon. Barns of yam surrounding beautifully crafted homes, doubling as perennial perimeter fences becomes a common architecture. You could hear the melodious tunes from the soft whistles of young farmers walking in groups to their farms to earn their daily bread. Beautiful maidens, calabash on heads, hurried home under the warmth of the fading sun to prepare meals for families and loved ones.

There was peace in the land,there was calm in the neighbourhood.

Borno state, neatly tucked away in the North Eastern Nigeria was known for its subtle clime, a major commercial border state with a busy multi directional flow of commerce inspiring booming businesses and a thriving economy. Consequently, people of diverse ethnic groups,culture and tongues co-habited together, transacted peacefully in love and unity. Friendships were over time built, established and sustained.

Though not of the same mother, Okechukwu and Aminu saw themselves as brothers. They borrowed money from each other, helped out one another in the farm, drank burukutu together over plates of dried meat roasted by Bassey who was a great hunter.

Amina made Jumoke’s hair during leisure, they went to the market square together, took turns to run each others errands without bearing any grudges. They were like half sisters, learning each others language, always giggling and gossiping about the handsome men in their neighbourhood. Even though they were of different tribes and religion, they were too busy being friends to remember mundane things such as religious beliefs and ethnic differences.

Father Rowland was the missionary from Scotland who was the Parish priest at St. Nicholas catholic church. Situated in a very remote Muslim dominated settlement,he basically relied on the locals to do his manual labour and run his domestic errands. With his sparse christian congregation, he mostly depended on the ever agile and helpful muslim youths who would come and clear the over growing grasses around the premises and clean the church furniture. Before father Rowland’s wife Monica came to abide with him in Nigeria, the community leader Mallam Mustapha would mandate his two wives to take turns to prepare meals for the good preacher. Father Rowland slept all night with both eyes closed,in absolute peace and calm. No qualms, whatsoever.

There was absolute peace,harmony and tranquility in Northern Nigeria. People saw themselves as humans,as Nigerians, as brothers and as sisters. If you find a brother who fell off his bicycle in an accident, you assist him, clean his wounds and help him home. Pregnant muslims attended the birth homes ran by christian women who helped bring their muslim babies into the world.

Play time was fun. Kids stayed over at friends homes and had fun until dusk. No molestations,no kidnappings. Mosques were situated opposite churches and worshipers waved each other goodbye before heading right into their places of worship to mind their own spiritual businesses.

Religion was only seen as a means to relate with God. Like footpaths,which may run parallel to each other,but eventually in the end, they converge into the same destinations. That was the mind set, then. Nothing more, nothing less.

Then, young men kept late nights drinking after a hard days work and when anyone gets drunk and falls faced down by the road side or footpath in a drunken stupor. If they are lucky,an acquaintance will help them up to their feet and help them home. If not,the following morning, they will wake up, though personal ego severely diminished and self esteem greatly battered, but their heads would remain intact still upon their bodies.

Hooligans, drunkards, rascals and other such men regarded as “no good” in the society were not mobilized by evil interests to unleash terror on the lands, rather they were redeployed to the farms to unleash mayhem on earth which more often than not, needed ploughing . At the end of the day, even the worst of men, the scum of the earth and the dredge of the society were kept productive and never a menace to the society. Nobody was an infidel who deserved death, nobody was ever mobbed nor stoned to death publicly.

People were happy with the government, and though life wasn’t a bed of roses, there was honesty from the ruling class, hence the people needn’t want more. They didn’t feel cheated in the scheme of things, hence there was never any need to replace the laws of men by the law of God. People never had any cause to blame their woes on the authorities. A days job was equivalent to a days wage and a days wage could take good care of the days basic needs, family inclusive. There was no wanton greed, no diabolical thirst and quest to amass eye popping wealth.

Therefore, there was never a cause to take to arms to demonstrate any kind of frustration to the people who presumably didn’t make lives not worth living for the commoners.

But things have since changed.

Decades later, Northern Nigeria has become a deep shadow of itself. What happened? What did we do to ourselves? How did we allow things to degenerate so badly? Did we fall into a trance while Aliens came and destroyed the fabrics of our society? Maybe millions of demons were belched from the pit of hell into our cities, while we sat idly watching as they possessed our fathers and sons causing them to war each other and ravage our communities beyond repair.

When did we sell every piece of humanity in us that we could raise our arms and destroy our brothers, destroy our sisters, destroy our families and even our selves? What really went wrong?

Looking all around there’s nothing left to remind us of our joyous past, our love for each other,o ur brotherliness and our friendships. The pyramids have collapsed, the barns that towered like babel are visibly grounded, our farmlands now lies desolate and our prosperity is but a mirage before us.

Like a feverish nightmare,all we dreamed of is long lost. Politicians now decide who eats and who starves, who lives and who dies. Repeatedly, they have capitalized on the poverty running wild through our communities to push our sons and husbands to commit heinous crimes and unimaginable atrocities .Our communities have been overtaken by strange looking men lurking in dark corners and smelling of nothing but sheer will to do evil.

They speak in hush tones and whisper in strange languages. The only weapons we knew, bows and arrows once used by our hunters to hunt game have now been replaced by automatic rifles used to hunt men down like beasts.

The rattle of guns has since replaced the songs of young wives; the rush of streams, replaced by the roar of lethal explosions.

Brothers have been set upon brothers, suspicion becomes a mask every man bears upon his forehead. Sons have been educated in foreign lands to piece together weapons of mass destruction to fight for God, against what we have always known and believed. Religion has now become a bridge pitching men against their fellow men. If a man is not of the same faith with you, he is an infidel unworthy of sharing life with you. They are to be lured and destroyed before they pollute what is left of the world.

Churches have become a prime target of brutal and desperate animosity, if a brick but stands on its walls, then our place in paradise shall be threatened, so the youths burn and destroy the christian places of worship till its all debris and dust.

Blood which was once sacred is now shed with ease, our youths have washed hands with the blood of their fellow men, the streets have been tainted crimson with them and the sewers overflowing of them. The stench of burning human flesh and bone left after serial attacks stinks to high heavens.

The promise of erotic pleasure with countless virgins has inspired loving sons to become moving bombs. We now are getting used to the deafening sounds of the explosive blasts ripping through dusty streets accompanied by the hot vapor of human blood. Life is now as cheap as a blast of shrapnel and steel mixed with concrete and human bones exploding over a twenty mile radius, a mobile cocktail of death killing and maiming whoever and whatever dares to stand upon its path.

Day in day out, the clouds are contaminated by billowing black smoke which aren’t from burning heaps in the farmlands but from burning roofs and burning men.

Everyday, sons, daughters, parents, sisters and brothers are committed to mother earth so much that we fear we will run out of spaces. We don’t have farmlands anymore,all we have are burial grounds. Yet every day we hope for the authorities to come over and put an end to this madness, this insanity threatening to annihilate all of us. We are trapped in our own homes with nowhere else to go, we are tormented by the shrieking ghosts of our friends, brothers, sisters, neighbours mangled in a gruesome death by our own hands. Even the God we claim to fight for seem so far away from us.

What a sigh of relief we heaved when troops were deployed to maintain law and order in our shredded communities. Alas, peace has come, alas we can all begin to heal this cancerous wound which has tormented us day and night. “May Allah be blessed”, we said, expecting reprieve.

But like zombies, they arrived in the dead of the night and by dawn instead of law and order restored, it was another dimension and depth of mayhem. More bodies littered the streets. Our mothers,sisters and children were not spared this time. They resorted to uncommon violence, they violated our women in the guise of flushing out the trouble makers. Whoever believed the trouble makers hid back into the cavities of their mothers?

They shot at sight, without reason, without cause.

Youths must never have a reason to assemble together, if they did, they will be branded an enemy of the state and a thousand bullets rained upon them. Angry looking soldiers smelling of alcohol and death patrol the empty streets, killing everything, anything that dared to move.

I don’t know,but I heard they came with an order from above to neutralize all enemy units. So now the streets are hellish and the people are being decimated by the day, we know its only a matter of time before our time comes.

But we have been praying God will somehow bring an end to this man-made disaster since we have lost hope in men for they have failed us. But it seems God is nowhere in sight and we will have to undo this pillage ourselves. So with every iota of hope lost, we can only wish that someday the natural swing of change will come along and put and end to this war.

Though we also know we will never recover our loses nor get over mourning our loved ones, we are certain that if the swing of the machete, swirl of the arrows, the rattle of the guns, the roar and rumble of the bombs should cease, maybe we can start from right there to heal. But we are since tired of living in fear, sick of waiting in apprehension to see whose child it will be when next the drapes over the corpses are unveiled.

This is a cry for help to whoever is listening, the NORTH IS BURNING,can someone please help!!!

- Ifeanyi Okoli (on Twitter: @countproject) writes from Lagos, Nigeria

Yes he was eiye but cross-carpeted to join buccanners after gaining admission into lasu. The hit is suspected to have been carried by the confraternity, they've had issues with buccaneers since last year, a source told me.

this is not to praise the FG but to notify the public as we are unbiased, after initially reporting the patch done by ferma

taharqa: GOOD.... Like I suggestd that day on d 'Patching' thread, the initiali stoppage was probably due to d usual budgetary constraints. Hope now that that has bn put behind us, JB and that oda Company, shld mk sure they complete dis very critical route b4 d Middle of dis yr as was originali plannd...