Bintu Meshai

Owe and Yagba are in Kogi, Igbira or Ibira are from Kogi, they are just settlers in Ondo, Ekiti and Edo. The Ebira's are in Okene, Okehi, Ajaokuta and Adavi

Arsene Wenger called for aid from AFRICA

anointed_f:

This guy may soon be silenced by the power brokers who are speaking behind the scene.

He is aware that his time may soon be up, that is why he is making this information public at least Nigerians will know the cause of his death.

george31:


GEJ should be prepared for a huge TASK,but should be careful in interfaring.

G what! that man is a weakling joo

Pinging

Yahoo boy of Tomorrow

He is not computer literate

2 worlds

copper!!!!

Obey Commander

Picture of Adoko the Tailor Drunk.

Old Nigerian Map

Big B1:

People like you are the reason why folks like Tinubu will suck this country dry and other politicians will continue to ignore their responsibilities.

All I have said is our government could have done better not only to prevent this terrible situation, but also to assist citizens.

It is now 3 days, could you pls list all the things these thieves are doing to assist Lagosians? Could you pls list things they have put in place to prevent this from occurring again?

Believe it or not, we are up against or experiencing all these ridiculous scenario because our government knows nothing about priority.

Without a clear understanding of how to structure your priority, you're a lost man.
This is why we are all here today.

Take a ride to Iyano Igbaja and see what real Lagosians are experiencing.

This is a great nation and a wealthy country, we deserve more.

God Bless you
The case of Lagos is like painting a badly rusted ship in the name of renovation, of course the ship will ship in Ocean one day. Fashola is a one eyed man in the city of the blind (among Nija Governors).

Jona u no get balls.

A young man that goes to farm, cultivates 200 heaps of yam and claim to cultivate 400 heaps, During the dry season when he finish eating the the true 200 heaps of yam then he will spend the rest of the season to eat the remaining 200 lies.

cold:

Are you sane,or you just plain dumb?

Both.

U made me to remember my University days my oh my!

This is a welcome development. Congratulation Micheal. Up Chelsea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Osheee!!!

Boko Haram and co can you hear that
I pray God will open your eyes so that you can refocus your attacks towards Jonathan and his collegues, Jona may God punish

Mr Dawodu my Maths teacher for not dedicating enough time to teach us then. From SS1 to SS3 he never finish half of the syllabus.

Jigawa: The challenges of Sule Lamido’s leadership style

Although members of the opposition may be criticising Governor Sule Lamido’s leadership style in Jigawa State, SEGUN OLATUNJI writes that the governor’s talakawa ideology seems to have made the process of rebirth possible in the state

Although he belongs to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has been applauded for executing pro-poor programmes as espoused by the defunct Northern Elements Progressive Union and the late Mallam Amniu Kano-led Peoples Redemption Party.

Lamido, according to observers, has been striving to apply the Aminu Kano talakawa philosophy and political ideology in the governance of the largely rural state in the past four years.

When he was elected into office as the governor in 2007, Lamido did not mince words in telling the people of the state that his administration would be hinged on the talakawa philosophy and ideology in order to fast-track socio-economic development, which had eluded the state since its creation.

Looking at the enormity of what he himself described as “uniquely unmitigated case of underdevelopment,” Lamido was confronted with the “utter difficulty of deciding which of the many nightmares of the common people could be consigned into the dustbin of history.”

But to confront the underdevelopment of the state in a way that could satisfy the yearnings of the majority of the people, “who poverty and misery have reduced to conditions unworthy of human beings,” the talakawa philosophy became the most veritable tool for the governor.

“This ideology simply means democratising love, care and compassion so as to benchmark humanity in terms of dignity and respect,” the governor had explained.

This, perhaps, informed the decision by the Lamido administration to pay N7,000 monthly allowance to every physically-challenged person in the state.

The governor said in an interview that this was done to “first, save the weakest among us otherwise called the disabled, whom physical disabilities and other afflictions have consigned to objects of repugnance in our midst.

“Four years on, we can look back with satisfaction and say that, yes, we made the difference generally and there is no better testimony than that ground now named Mallam Aminu Kano Triangle, built in honour of the talakawa struggle or the smiling faces of our disabled brothers away from the gloom and despair of yesteryears.”

With the application of the talakawa political philosophy to the administration of Jigawa, political watchers in the state say that Lamido has successfully made serious impact on some critical sectors of the state.

They are quick to cite the deplorable state of the education sector before Lamido assumed power in 2007. An educationist in the state, Mallam Abdullahi Mohammed, said that the Lamido administration had in the past four years turned around the sector by making significant impact.

“The story of the education sector in Jigawa State before the coming of this administration needs no further narration here. Suffice it to say that in a situation where you had cow sheds as classrooms, it needs only a little imagination to construct a mental picture of the rest. The government had to start all over again,” he said.

On the achievements of his administration in the education sector in the past four years, Lamido said, “We have in the last four years, constructed 1,061 classrooms across the state. We also purchased 62,981 pieces of classroom furniture. Out of the total number of 779 dilapidated schools we inherited in 2007, we have renovated and restored 648 to full standard and equipped most of their laboratories to WAEC standard. Another 19 new Junior Secondary Schools were established in addition to two new primary schools.

“On nomadic education, we have constructed 216 nomadic schools across the state. Approval has also been given to construct 64 schools and the renovation of 27 others. To ensure quality education for the nomadic pupils, various working and school materials were distributed to the students.”
Also, as part of its efforts to economically empower the people of the state, the Lamido administration said it had constructed, reactivated and equipped six skills acquisition centres in Birnin Kudu, Dutse, Hadejia, Gumel, Ringim and Kazaure, where hitherto unemployed youths were being trained in various trades ranging from shoe-making, cell-phone repairs, chalk-making, paint-making, photography, tailoring, horse decoration, plumbing, auto mechanic and other skills.
The various skill acquisition programmes, the governor said, would restore the artisans in the state into their rightful place in the emerging and expanding service sector in Jigawa State.

To promote and further boost economic activities in the state, it was learnt that the state government facilitated the establishment of the popular payless Sahad Stores in Jigawa. This was made possible by the decision of the Lamido administration to give free allocation of land to the owners of the store in Dutse, the state capital, where the one-stop shop supermarket now operates. And today, people from across the 19 northern states troop daily to Dutse to purchase various goods from the store because of the rock-bottom prices at which it sells.

Before 2007, according to some residents of the state, getting fresh bread in Jigawa was virtually impossible. In fact, bread was being “imported” from the neighbouring Kano State. But today, this has become a thing of the past as the Lamido administration was said to have also facilitated the establishment of ultra-modern bakeries by some Chinese nationals in the state capital through the offer of some incentives, including free land allocation to the foreign investors.

“It is common knowledge that agriculture in this part of the country accounts for over 90 per cent of our people’s preoccupation. But it is not only subsistent, it is also human labour-driven in the hi-tech 21st Century. Not only is this condition pitiable, we are also harassed by the protocols of the World Trade Organisation when the Jigawa farmer is put on the same pedestal with his European or American counterpart.

“It was with this in mind and to save the Jigawa farmer from slipping further into perpetual hunger and poverty that we rolled out certain programmes to assist our farmers in terms of rock bottom fertiliser prices, improved and high yielding seeds, subsidised tractor prices and hiring, loans facilities for work bull and appliances, farm extension services, crop fumigation and pests aerial spray, opening of Fadama irrigation in suitable local government areas for our youths and government’s purchase of excess harvest as incentive to grow more,” the governor added.

To underscore the importance attached to the easy movement of people and goods across the state, the Lamido administration said it had expended over N43bn on the provision of road infrastructure in the past four years.

The governor said, “Without basic infrastructure, especially in road network, the required stimulus to economic growth and the opening up of the towns and villages will not be possible. Also, our efforts in education, health and agriculture will come to naught if that level of movement of goods and services was not put in place.

“We have in the last four years spent over N43bn on roads, ranging from asphalting major arteries, which intersect across the state, to building new inter-town/inter-local government network that has made Jigawa to assume spider web in road facility today. One may not be far from the truth if one says Jigawa State has the best road network in Nigeria today.

“We have embarked on the transformation of all our local government headquarters into modern cities with asphalt township roads and drainages, complete with street lights before the end of our tenure in 2015.”

In the health and potable water sectors, the state has in the past four years made significant improvement, according to the governor, when compared with the situation of things when he took over in 2007.

“Like education, the health sector fared no better. As at the year 2007, statistics showed that Jigawa State had the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the country. Our hospitals and other health institutions were only so in name. Today, we have developed an effective and impressive health care system under the Gunduma Health Care System with a bottom-up approach from primary health care to the secondary and the tertiary.

“The Rasheed Shekoni Specialist Hospital, the most modern equipped hospital in Nigeria, stands in testimony to this. Jigawa State today offers free maternal services covering delivery and the child’s life up to the age of five. This is in addition to regular and periodic vaccination on polio, malaria, measles and similar diseases. The sparkling eyes and smiling faces of mothers and babies all over Jigawa State bear testimony to this.
“Because water is such a very fundamental human need, it beats one’s imagination that, since independence, this simple fact has not been seen and taken as such. Water holds the key to human development and accounts for over 50 per cent of our health problems, starting with personal hygiene. Whatever efforts or monies spent on education, health, agriculture or infrastructure will come to naught if the water question is not settled. Therefore, in Jigawa, water was identified as one of the biggest nightmares.

“Without bothering you with statistics, we have today as I’m speaking to you, achieved 90 per cent potable water services to our people. In the last water conference held in Nigeria, Jigawa was cited as a model worthy of emulation by other states in the federation,” Lamido said.

The opposition camps are, however, of the view that the Lamido administration, in spite of its lofty achievements in the past four years, has been biting off much more than it can actually chew with the various development programmes it has embarked upon.

“Although we understand that he is making efforts to further dignify the office of the deputy governor, the chief judge and the grand khadi, the billions of naira he has spent on the construction of new offices and official residences for his deputy and these two heads of the judiciary in the state could have been used to provide some other needs of the people,” Kabiru Mohammed, a leader of the opposition Congress for Progressive Change in the state, said.

But in spite of the criticism of the Lamido administration by the opposition, the governor has continued to receive accolades from unlikely quarters and even beyond the confines of Jigawa. One of such is from the renowned academic and socialist, Prof. Eskor Toyo.

Toyo, who ordinarily would not associate with politicians, was for three days in Dutse, the capital of Jigawa to attend the May 29 inauguration of Lamido.

He said at the Sawaba Monument located inside the Mallam Aminu Kano Triangle in Dutse, “What I have seen done here is because this governor happens to be a NEPU man, a Sawaba man. What we call Sawaba is what they call socialism in Europe. Call it anything you like but it is for the salvation of man, of the common man or the common people from suffering. They work hardest. Why should there be so much suffering?

“If all the people governing Nigeria are like this governor, the common people will not be suffering like that. Unfortunately, Nigeria is being governed by all these selfish, greedy, colourless people; people who make money for themselves. But we didn’t fight for Nigeria for some people to become millionaires.”

Lamido has, however, assured that his government would always remain accountable to the people of the state in everything it does.

tayoTFC:

ALL ABOUT PDP,
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IBORI     PDP
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IGBINDEDO, PDP
BANKOLE, PDP
IYABO, PDP
GBENGA DANIEL PDP
AKALA ----PDP
FAYOSE, PDP
AUDU, ABOKI, PDP
ETTE.   PDP
NAFADA, PDP
OGUNLAFOR, PDP
ANEINE, PDP
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OHAKIM, PDP
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Audu is a member of ANPP. Meanwhile this is an attempt to stop him from contesting for the 2012 guber election in the state.

dollypi:

And this crap made the front page?

Too Bad. What makes it a crap?

I wont blame the ambassador 'cos at times a bad problem may require a bad solution, some women are bad problem (animals, precisely goat). May God guide male nairalanders that are not married yet in choosing a wife. A WOMAN CAN DETERMINE THE ETERNAL DESTINATION OF A MAN (Heaven or Hell).