₦airaland Forum

naptu2: But how do you know that won't happen?

Every society needs order. Rules and regulations are enacted to create that order. The people must follow these rules and regulations so that there will be order. Therefore, the first question is, did the builders follow the rules and regulations?

Secondly, even if the government will eventually dialogue with the builders and provide an alternative, the government must make the point that people must follow rules, otherwise people will go out and build all kinds of structures and demand that they should also be given exemptions. The result will be chaos (the type of chaos we witnessed in the '80s and '90s when military governments ignored planning laws).

Oh come on! What rules are we talking about in a city with one of the most expensive real estate in the world where thousands still have no choice but to live on shacks built on lagoons and drinking from same water they poo on? What rule permits the existence of that kind of inequality?
Someone steps in the gap trying to do what the govt. ought to be doing and its termed illegal simply because Fashola is trying to build a city that PRETENDS not to have a poor populace and you think you can justify it? Come on now!

naptu2: I think the builders should sit down with the government and find out if they contravened any rules and how to regularise their operations. That's what the 1004 company did. It took months, but they succeeded.

But should'nt a govt. bogged down with shoccking a level of inequity and poverty be more disposed to helping the poorest people in the land? Why isnt the govt trying to dialogue with this NGO to provide some sort of alternative and acceptable site for such a laudable idea from a foreign funded NGO? Why are they more eager to destroy than see poor children educated?

[quote author=K,k]Like I said 7months ago. " Its cool but dangerous"
I would not want my kid floating on a 3 storey building.[/quote]Why? Cos its not called "The Queen Mary", Lagos Sunburn Yacht or some other fanciful name with elegant designs and airconditioned rooms or branded a "Cruise school"? Make una try get sense na!

alaoeri: Op ask yourself is the place fit for school or is this the kind of school u attended?

Neither did I live in a home of stilts or a floating settlement called Makoko! People are trying to make the best of a terrible situation, quit being an airhead!

effisyman: But really, is it safe studying on that thing?

whirlwind nko?

We don't have whirlwinds in Naija moreover, this is the life these people know. Their homes are built on stilts you'd be too scared to stand on yet on it they live and thrive. In any case, the Lagos state govt arent opposed over safety but "aesthetic concerns". It doesnt matter if it's real people that actually live there, all that matters is a pleasant window sight when Fashola, Tinubu and their guests drive past.

^ Lol @ Jagabandit. Truth is Fashola and Tinubu are just storing up trouble for Lagos and Nigeria as a whole, just this morning I was reading a Standard Bank report that puts the very poor in Lagos at 97% of her residents and yet the government pays them near zero attention while at the same time directing their meagre resources and infrastructure to service the 3% well-to-do. It's so sad.

^ Swthrt, I have no problem with the man Buhari but I find his ideology revolting.

Gamji007: Bross,u get sense at all?

Yes I get, you nko your own done finish?

automaticcarzz: Some of you guys need to just shut up and zip it becuase you don't know what you are talking about. It is this same Buhari who led the military to wipe-out the Ayamatasin who were killing Christians in the North when he was Chief of Army Staff. I know some of of you are kids now and were not born during the Ayamatassin saga. Ayamatassin were like Boko haram back then killing tens of people per day. Ask your parents if you all don't know.

History will judge you all.

Perhaps he exhausted his will to do right crushing the Ayamatangas, there does'nt seem to be any left.

^ An intelligent statesman would ask a group called Boko Haram to sheathe their sword and seek legitimate means of seeking redress besides spilling the blood of innocents and targeting defenceless Christians.
Intelligent posters would recognize your Saint Buhari has deliberately and cowardly failed to do so.

Chylo: Well, isn't it obvious? or do you want me to spell it out for you? He condemns the activities of the sect (i.e bombing), what else do you want? You want him to solve the problem for Mr. Retardeen President?

^ You mean he condemned their "activities" without condemning the group is'nt that so? Perhaps you're too reetarded to tell the difference.

My screen is a bit fuzzy, you mind highlighting where he condemned the Boko Haramites?

It's not funny but I laughed. I laughed very small sha. Ok to speak the truth I laughed sha, after "it" sank in.

For deceiving me, take;

keishik: I keep wondering why Fashola hates the poor so much, not content with destroying poor and innocent peoples properties on land he's carrying over his insanity to the lagoon?
Sometime ago there was talk of converting the Makoko settlement to some kind of African Venice and you'd expect the hypocrite to embrace the idea but no way, this one went on a rampage weeks later destroying peoples homes in a senseless rampage that left entire families drifting in the lagoon for weeks without end. They've managed to gather their lives back and just when the future of their children seems to be under real helpful consideration, the pauper - hating governor is about to roll out the marine bulldozers again!
When in a few years this ids that are about to be denied basic education start robbing and bombing the rich hitherto pampered by Fashola and his band of elitists I hope his asslickers will recall how they all gradually sowed the wind. God help us all.

Very well said.

While we are in the business of celebrating cool "Suspension bridges" in Lekki lets also spare a thought for the poor that must be forced out of sight or crammed into city - sized slums like Ajegunle where they are forgotten in a hurry. One thing Fashola wont tolerate is the eye-soring poverty of poor people obfuscating his well intended and deliberately designed unequal development of Lagos state. It's the govt of the Elite, by the Elite and for the Elite, run run paupers.

Lagos To Demolish Ultra Modern Makoko Floating School

THE Lagos state government has outlawed the ultra modern Makoko Floating School barely seven months after the construction started. The school that is expected to address perennial flooding that truncate access to education by children of the community may never be allowed to operate after-all. The three_storey building with an area of 220 metres was built on a foundation of 256 plastic drums and powered by solar panels suspended on the roof. It is aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, Goal II, which is to boost universal primary education. The floating school being built jointly by the residents of Makoko/Iwaya Waterfront community, Yaba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, United Nation Development Programme, UNDP and a private firm -NLE works, Nigeria, was expected to accommodate no fewer than 100 pupils and their teachers.
The founder of NLE, and promoter of the floating school, Mr. Kunle Adeyemi who spoke to Vanguard from his Netherland office, said that the structure would have served as an extension of the only existing school in the coastal community_ Whayinna Nursery and Primary school. Adeyemi said that the ground floor of the three_storey building serves as an open recreational space for the pupils during the day and as a public arena for community activities after school hours. While the first and the upper floors have classrooms that would have served primary classroom purposes. [b] Govt says it’s an illegal structure:
Speaking on government’s position on the school, the Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructure Development in Lagos State, Prince Adesegun Oniru said; “The floating school has been illegal since inception. The owner of the floating school waited until there was a legal issue in the area before he commenced the construction of the school.” According to him; “So as far as that floating school is concerned, it was erected without the permission of the state government. “The simple answer to the floating school is that it is an illegal structure and it shouldn’t be there.” The commissioner said that its development will affect the government’s redevelopment plan for the area, saying “This wouldn’t deter us to abandon our plan for the area.”

vanguardngr.com/2013/04/floating-school-for-makoko-slum-residents/floating-house/

So sad.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram was paid more than $3m (£2m) before releasing a French family of seven, a Nigerian government report says. The confidential report, seen by Reuters news agency, does not say who paid the money. Both France and Cameroon deny paying a ransom while Nigeria has not commented on the issue. The French family, including four children, were captured in Cameroon in February and freed last week. They were handed over to the Cameroon authorities last Thursday. The Nigerian report also says that Cameroon freed some Boko Haram detainees as part of the deal, according to Reuters. If confirmed, transfer of such a significant amount of money given to Boko Haram could serve to strengthen the firepower of the group, the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos reports.
Over the past week, violence in northern Nigeria has escalated as suspected members of Boko Haram have targeted the army and police. Reports say more than 200 civilians have died in the violence. While the army is unable to prevent such attacks, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a committee to prepare the ground for offering an amnesty to the militants, our correspondent says.
The French family, who live in Yaounde, where Tanguy Moulin-Fournier worked for the French gas group Suez, had been returning from a holiday in the Waza National Park in northern Cameroon when they were kidnapped by gunmen on motorbikes on 19 February. Mr Moulin-Fournier, his wife Albane and four children, aged between five and 12, had been joined on their holiday by his brother Cyril. In a YouTube video released about a week after their capture, the militants demanded the release of prisoners in Cameroon and Nigeria. One of them also criticised French President Francois Hollande for sending troops to fight Islamist militants in northern Mali in January. The French-led operation in Mali has ousted the Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda's North African branch, from cities and towns in the vast desert region they had captured a year ago in the wake of a coup.
Boko Haram, which began its insurgency following a deadly crackdown on its members in 2009, had previously said it was not involved in hostage taking. It has usually followed a Nigerian agenda, and says it wants to establish an Islamic state. During its insurgency at least 2,000 people have been kill in northern and parts of central Nigeria.

m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22320077

[quote author=Omo_Tier1]Will you shut up and stop complaining? Oh, have they also decimated your "cursed" drippings from the Presidency ...Enjoy your fresh Air jor.... [/quote]What is wrong with you?

Maxymilliano: Mallam Isa Yuguda will be more suitable for the position ...

No lets appoint Abubakar Shekau or even Abu Qaqa. Oloshi!

mikeansy: Jonathan stands heads and shoulders above who?

Above Obasanjo?

Above Donald Duke?

Above Fashola?

Above IBB?

Above Alex Ekwueme?

Above Abdusalami Abubakar?

Jonathan Goodluck is no leader I am sorry to say. I have never heard him make a lot of sense. Please let us not make this thread a debate about Jonathan abeg!

What a wretched list you managed to conjure! Now repeat after me, Jonathan stands head and shoulders above IBB, OBJ and Abdulsalam. This should'nt be an issue for debate, the facts speak for themselves. As for the others I'll wait till they become president before I compare them with GEJ.

mikeansy: Jonathan Goodluck is not competent to run even a Local Government

But his competence can not be measured by the activities of Boko Haram. Nobody can defeat Boko Haram except the local people in Kano, Borno, Bauchi reject this group.

But what we have is a tacit support of this group by the locals and hatred for the President of Nigeria is no justification for this kind of behaviour by Hausa Fulanis or Kanuris!

No Nigerian leader before or after Murtala - The populist - can be deemed "competent" to run a local government and that's a fact you can only argue. However, I'm consoled knowing Jonathan stands head and shoulder above the entire lot and that's also a FACT you can only argue, so I'm left to wonder your point in making such a statement if not to mollify the bitter and hateful mallam you're arguing with.

13volts: Boko Haram is a product of Kanuri. Kanuri being a minority tribe in Nigeria. Mohammed Yusuf, Abubakar Shekau, Mamman Nur, Habibu Bama, Shuiabu Bama, Abu qaqa 2, Bakaka, Senator Sherrif, Senator Zannan & Senator Nndume are all Kanuris. Am Hausa, I don't understand a single word in Kanuri, half of Kanuris don't speak or understand Hausa. Yobe & Borno States are the only 2 Kanuri states in Nigeria, hence Boko Haram only 2stronghold. Kanuri are from Kanem Borno empire, we Hausa are from Othman Dan Fodio empire, so historically we are not the same. We Hausa are not in support of Boko Haram, we despise them, we exposed them. Having wonder why they suffered most in Kano state in terms of human & logistics. If a mare 25% of Hausa people by chance supported Boko Haram, the over 3 million Christians will not be calling Kano state home today. We are victim in this madness called Boko Haram, the Hausa-Fulani Muslims who are seen to be the culprits even in situations where they are victims; even the lacklustre performance of the Jonathan administration is attributed to the “evil Hausa”.

Boko Haram in the last few months have suspended attacks in Bauchi, Yobe, Adamawa & Taraba and have concentrated their efforts in capturing Kano which seen as the nerve center of the North.

I was privilege to have visited JTF detention center in Kano, guess what? 90% of Boko Haram suspects under detention are Kanuris with the remaining % their Kano collaborators.

A greater % of non Kanuris Boko Haram members either killed or capture study or lived in Yobe or Borno.

I can't blame igbos for Alluu massacre, 'coz I know the linguistic compositions of Nigeria.

Accept my sympathy but you have to understand this is "willful ignorance". We do not want the "dregs of the earth" telling us you're different and do not believe in the same things, we want to hear it from your Ayotollahs and your Supreme leaders, yes let them come out and distance themselves from the Kanuri's.
As far as everyone down South is concerned, y'all have drunk from the same poisoned chalice of twisted religion and there's absolutely no error in genaralizing here. It's like trying to draw a distinction between the Sunni's and the Shiite's over the ongoing madness in the Middle East, who gives a shiit? They are all Muslims and that's that!
As long as you guys keep exhibiting same attributes of having no respect for human life, intolerance and extreme religious views, you're no better than those actually throwing the bombs. The other day, that roach that started this thread was talking about pushing Niger Deltans into the Atlantic Ocean for challenging Northern authority and here you are preaching a sermon about being different from a band of blood letters with same ideology as yours, abeg spare us.

Whatever stops the bloodshed. If its money let them have it, I assure you these guys are baiting us just as much as we are baiting them. If this works out, the entire nation would benefit so all in all, it's good news.

^Uhm, was actually suspecting you. There seemed a note of bitter regret in your first post. You kinda sounded like uhmm; "these Chinese ediots are prolly the reason I'm in this crazy world"

^Dont be a coward, give us names.

Asiwaju & Co. PLC (Public Looters Corporation) is a legitimately incorporated company registered in the Virgin Islands since 1999. Every act of looting carried out by the company is legal and backed by Laws of the "State of Lagos". Haters can go drink alomo.

Seems the Chinese are about to venture into producing anti-retroviral drugs and are seeking to establish a new "black"- market! Here's hoping they look away from Africa's biggest market sha.

More than 110 million Chinese-made condoms have been seized in Ghana after laboratory tests revealed they were faulty, Ghanaian officials have said. "There are holes in them and... the condoms burst easily," a Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) spokesman told the BBC. The condoms were being distributed free as part of an HIV/Aids prevention campaign by the Ghana Health Service. About 200 million of the faulty condoms are believed to have been imported into the country.
The BBC's Sammy Darko in the capital, Accra, says the condom packaging is silvery white with a red Aids ribbon incorporated into the design and the words "Be Safe" also in red. The FDA has issued an alert about their safety. Thomas Amedzro, head of drug enforcement at the FDA, said the condoms had been imported via Kenya from a Chinese manufacturer. All imported condoms are supposed to be tested by the FDA before distribution, he said. "Somehow there was a lapse; the batches of the condoms were not submitted as duly required for the appropriate testing to be conducted," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme. Anybody using them could be "exposed to sexually transmitted infections or be saddled with unwanted pregnancies", Mr Amedzro said. "You may not be able to see the holes with your naked eye but when you look at it under the microscope you can see holes," he said. About 230,000 people in Ghana are living with HIV They were also not adequately lubricated, the FDA said. Our reporter says the health service took delivery of the condoms in February this year, but they arrived in the country in the last quarter of 2012. "Since the alert went out, a number of individuals and organisations have already reported to us that they have stocks, which we are already retrieving," Mr Amedzro said. A publicity campaign was underway to ensure that all the other unsafe condoms were found, he added. According to UN figures, an estimated 230,000 people in Ghana, which has a population of 25 million, are living with HIV.

m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22221363