₦airaland Forum

PapaBrowne: I totally agree with you. One of the quickest solution to the Problem in Lagos is the issue of non governmental responsibility. Citizens should begin to take responsibility for thier neigbourhoods and not just thier houses alone. We should start collaboratiing and utilizing collective efforts to create better living spaces for ourselves.
For instance in Lekki, the average land price(600sqm) in non-choice areas(around chevron) is in the region of 20-30 million. Most of the roads in these areas are untarred, have no streetlights or drainages and other basic amenities. Now, on a 1KM stretch of road you have about 100 plots of land. The average cost of building a street road complete with drainages, streetlights, road signs et al varies between N50m-N100m per km.
That means that if each plot of land pays out an infrastructure fee of 10% which equates to 2-3 million Naira each, they would have 200-300 million Naira to play with per km of road which is enough to build out beautiful roads & drainages, solar streetlights and send our unsightly electric cables underground as well as landscape our environs. We would even have enough change to create a few parks and gardens here and there, as well as place security cameras with a control unit.
But despite this possibilities, we would rather spend even more millions paying rubbish fees to our landlords as 10% agency and 10% legal fees which is 20%. Kind of very pathetic how we fail to see the power of collaboration and the attendant synergies that would result.

You do realise that when you buy a plot of land in lagos (Dnt know about other areas) but government allocated land you pay capital contribution which is the bulk of the money paid for the land. That is wht the money is meant for, but no they wouldnt use the money for such purpose. Plus i feel its high time we started paying capital gains tax in that country especially lagos where you see people that have 5 or 10 houses. Pay tax on the income generated from those houses which can then be used for local development.

Then again if out local governments function properly this should be their work, if the owners of every building with occupants in them pay a little contributions to the local government every year, this monies can be used to fund things like, waste collection, road maintenance in the local governments, provide street lights on side walks and local road etc, the state government too cannot do everything

This OP is just an idiot, tell us is it the wooden the bridge that collapsed or the main bridge which from that picture any sane person can deduce that it is still under construction. Dont come here and give us half baked news

I swear some of you SE people are just so dumb even tho you feel you are smart....7000 people and you think it is easy to cover up like that and that main stream media wouldnt have picked it up? una just clueless like joeclueless

THIS IS WHY I CONTINUE TO MAKE MY CASE THAT 90% 0F YOU NIGERIANS ARE STUPID AND CANNOT SIMPLY UNDERSTAND A OR CONCLUDE A CASE FROM THE ARTICLE WRITTEN. IF INEC AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE WHY WOULD THEY JUST ALLOW THEM INSPECT THE ELECTION PAPAERS AND SILENCE THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. IF THE OPPOSITION PARTY HAS A CASE AND SUSPICION, WHY SHOULD THEY COURT STOP THEM FROM INSPECTING THE MATERIALS AT LEAST THEY TOO A RE KEY STAKE HOLDERS. BUT NO SOME STUPID NIGERIANS WOULD JUST BE SHOUTING supporter of APC THIS AND THAT.

WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION FOR A REASON AND IF EVERYTHING THE FG DID VIOLATES WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THERE WHY CANT THEY CHALLENGE IT IN COURT? PLUS WE ALL KNOW THE JUDICIARY IS NO LONGER A FREE ARM OF GOVERNMENT BUT NOW UNDER THE ARMS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND THEY JUST USE IT ANYHOW AS THEY PLEASE.....BAD BAD BAD FOR THIS COUNTRY, THIS MAN KEEPS LAYING A BAD PRECEDENT FOR FUTURE GOVERNMENTS, WE MAY THINK IT IS FUNNY NOW, BUT IN THE FUTURE IT WONT BE

Their lord and saviour, the best thing that happened to nigeria GEJ is adressing all of the "Sigh"

But lets think of it..........how does it affect FIFA, they are not benefitting from the money, it only the NFF and who cares about them anyway. Last last they will ban us from any int'l match abiii

And who does it affect.... the goog Nigerians (Falconets) who have trained their heart out for this competition only for this ill adviced so called C in C to take another dumb decision

PhockPhockMan: APC is abomination in Nigeria, they are terrorists.

When they call you a dense now you will be complaining. You call them terrorists something you and the Chief dense sitting in aso rock have time and time again failed to prove. Why not arrest this so called terrorist? is it that some of you lack comprehension or you just love the cheif dense that you just fail to reason before you talk

What will befall fayose with a APC state house of assembly

FAYOSE`!!!

hmmm... Nigerians dnt see the future, remember whether now or 20 years time an hausa man will still be president of this country whether we like it or not. GEJ is laying a bad precedent, it can suit us now , we are ok with it and shouting they should impeach all of them, but when that time comes...............................

They will kill themselves finish out of greed before they even spend 1kobo (even if FG gives in to their demand)

They want to discredit GEJ

This moderator and so called MR Osewa are biased bastard, there was another thread this morning on some PDP folks that defected to APC about 10 of them, but THE MOFO would not put that on the front page, always APC this APC that. I might actually pay some Chinese goons to HACK this website again

LOOL...this is just the beginning...Fayose is next!!! PDP!!!.....POWER!!

Really tired of hearing this freedom fighter cock and bull shit story

Freedom fighter that was blowing up pipelines thereby sabotaging the counties economy, freedom fighter that was taking people hostage, freedom fighter that was kidnapping people and collecting huge randoms, freedom fighter that has most of if not all his investments in another country, abeg make we hear word. HE IS A COMMON CRIMINAL

Silly thread....would you rather die poor?? plus the man is in his 70's

4?...2? 3? 9?.....wetin wan come dy productive about this people?

Kai when did issues of eko atalantic degenerate into such barbaric throwing of hate and insult. Africans ehh!!!#

Plus, @ the person that raised the issue of Japan not embarking on such projects. Nice and simple answer, we are in a more stable geographic region, hence we are not prone to disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis etc, thats why we can embark on such projects.Where else countries like japan sit on tectonic plates which makes it virtually impossible to do such

People fail to realize one thing, we do not live with them, we dnt know exactly wht happened, hence we do not need to judge. For the boy to have gone to such extreme, the anger must have been building up for years. There is only so much an individual can take before they lash out and implode. Especially Nigerian fathers too controlling, they want to dictate your life for you, all this things build up gradually and I guess the man took it to the extreme and could not bear it anymore for him to have gone to such length of killing his father (Not saying it is good, he allowed the anger to get the best of him). Even the Bible says parents should not frustrate their chidren

THE USUAL ASS KISSSING...NOT SUPRISED

Redoil: you need serious psychiatric evalution.
How dare you compare nigerian to germany and england when tinub and fashola are paying mininum wage of N18000 per month while workers in germany and england are earning above £7 per hour mininmum wage.

Looool...is it me or you that need check up. Earning capacity has simply nothing to do with the cost of education... what the ratio of the £7 / Hr lets say max £1500 a month, even at that can they still afford to fork out £9000 a year considering they have other expenses?....NOOO. That is why they borrow to finance their education which is still one of the best in the world.
Plus not everybody goes to university, its not meant for everybody.(There are other option)

Come down to Nigeria now, you claim you want quality education.. but you dnt want to pay the price. Hence private organisations are giving people better alternatives to the govt own schools for a very much higher price, as high as 1 million Plus is it Bola Tinubu that set minimum wage?.....NO it this Federal govt that set the minimum wage.

Plus how do you expect the school to run in the long run when students are paying 25,00 its not possible. If a PDP led government come in tomorrow they will do the same. Because its simply not sustaiable when you have lecturers clamoring for salary increase, other resources have to be added to the school to make it function and you expect the schools income to remain the same??

Redoil: Operation damage control.
Tinubu is a waste of sperm who deserve to be tie to stake and shot. How dare him a lousy tout insult the the kings of yorober land? Encouraging fashola to increase the school fees of lasu from N25 thousand to N350 thousand?

Please tell me where I the world would you get QUALITY EDUCATION for 25,000 naira =£100 or $60?. Look around the world my good friend and dont be biased

A degree in the UK would set you back £9000 per year which the Government doesnt pay for you...you finance it or you borrow same goes for the America of Germany . And you wonder why they come to Nigeria to take your jobs and you start shouting

Simple Anwer: IF YOU WANT TO KILL A SNAKE WHT DO YOU CUT OF FIRST?...THE HEAD

PDP have learnt their lesson, all this stories and rumours about Tinubu is just fallacy. The guy is a pain in their ass, and they know once Tinubu is down and out so is APC. Its all simple logic that majority of Nigerians (Mostly dumb and stupid) dnt understand.

This guy ran rampage in 2011 swept the whole SW from under PDP's carpet and you think they wouldnt fight back??


Destroy Tinubu and APC is finished

A fraudster nicknamed 'Fizzy' because of his love of champagne has been jailed for eight years for conning vulnerable pensioners out of their life savings. Frank Onyeachonam ran the UK end of global lottery scam that was orchestrated from his native Nigeria for seven years to fund his lavish millionaire’s lifestyle. It involved hundreds of perpetrators in several countries, detectives say.
In the UK, 38-year-old Onyeachonam conned pensioners out of sums from £2,000 to £600,000, deliberately targeting his victims because they were potentially vulnerable to his tactics
While he bled them of their life savings, Onyeachonam enjoyed a life of fast cars, champagne and designer clothes.
Pictures he posted on Facebook show he spent the cash on Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Armani designer clothes, Rolex watches, Porsches and Maseratis. He even stuck wads of what look like £50 notes in his Buzz Lightyear toy.
Onyeachonam, of Canning Town, east London, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of conspiracy to defraud following a three-week trial.
Lawrencia Emenyonu, 38, and Bernard Armah[b][/b], 51, both of Wood Green, north London, were also found guilty of money laundering. All three denied the charges.
Emenyonu was jailed for 18 months while her partner Armah received an eight-month term.

Judge Rebecca Poulet QC, said there had been 'some very serious outcomes' for the victims caught up in the scam.
She told married father-of-two Onyeachonam: 'I judge your culpability to be very high. This was a very well thought out operation, sophisticated in both its planning and its operation.
'Mr Onyeachonam, you targeted these individuals because they were elderly and likely to agree and be tricked by this scam.'
This was demonstrated in the fraudster’s own notes in which he described them as 'crippled, old or poor', she said.


The harm that was caused to these people could not just be calculated in financial terms but also on the 'dreadful impact ' on their lives, mental capacity and relationships with loved-ones.
The judge went on: 'You contested the case in the face of powerful evidence. You demonstrated the arrogance that you must have carried with you throughout this fraud by continuing after you knew that the police had raided your premises.'
The ruse - known as an 'advance fee' fraud - saw Onyeachonam send victims emails claiming they had won millions of pounds on a non-existent Australian lottery and requesting a charge to release their winnings. Investigators traced 14 victims - mainly from the U.S. but including one from Britain - who were defrauded of a total of around £900,000.
But detectives believe this is the 'tip of the iceberg' with evidence suggesting there may have been as many as 400 victims and the sum may be as high as £30 million.
Onyeachonam was seen as the key figure in the UK but police suspect a criminal network was in place in several countries around the world. Authorities found an alleged co-conspirator abroad had an email containing the details of more than 100,000 potential victims.

The defendant was thought to have started working on the scam almost immediately after he arrived in the UK from Nigeria in 2005, and was said to have carried on into 2012 while he was on bail following his arrest the year before.
His crimes were uncovered in a three-year operation led by the National Crime Agency with assistance from the Postal Inspection Service and Internal Revenue Service in the US.
When they raided his luxury apartment in Canary Wharf police discovered an 'Aladdin’s cave' of evidence pointing to an advanced fee scam.
Among 200 exhibits were notebooks containing the names, addresses, cash tallies and other personal details relating to 406 people. Police estimate that the fraud is likely to have run to at least £5 million and possibly as high as £30 million[b][/b] if all those in the notebooks suffered losses

Mr Brown said he lived a 'cash rich' lifestyle, earning the nickname 'Fizzy' for his taste for expensive champagne. Photographs show him surrounded by cash and bubbly in nightclubs.
His car collection included Porsches and Maseratis while his Thames-side flat was full of luxury brands such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton when it was searched by police.
Onyeachonam was the key figure as far as the 'UK nexus' was concerned but detectives believe this was part of an international enterprise.
The alleged mastermind or 'chairman' of the network is based in Nigerian capital Lagos and he is currently under investigation by authorities there.
Asked how many people were working on the global scam, Mr Brown said: 'Name a country and there seems to be a connection. It’s been almost impossible for us to track everybody down. They’ve all got responsibility for their own country.'
The prosecution has moved for a confiscation hearing for Onyeachonam.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2679755/Nigerian-conman-called-Fizzy-loved-champagne-scammed-pensioners-life-savings-fake-lottery-fund-lavish-party-lifestyle.html

BABAKABIRU301: IF BUHARI WERE ARREST TODAY PEOPLES WILL SHOUT THAT OPPOSITION LEADER WERE AREST AND GEJ WILL CALL A DICTATOR

Bruv its one of two thing: Its either they have no proof of which they shout shut up and work, or GEJ his holding his cards to his chest which would make a a very selfish and pathetic individual for him to watch nigerians die everyday all because of political gains. IF they have any proof they should arrest him we are nigerians people would just shout and shout 2 wks it will die down and they man would be in the docks

SOME POSTERS ON THIS NAIRALAND ARE AND WILL FOREVER BE DULLARDS. FOR OVER TWO YEARS NOW THIS PATHETIC GOVERNMENT HAVE BEEN SHOUTING THAT APC IS BEHIND BOKO HARAM. OVER THAT PERIOD OF TIME HOW MANY NIGERIANS, BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIANS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES? AND YET YOU FAIL TO NOT ONLY ARREST THE "APC MEMBERS BEHING BOKO HARAM" YOU HAVE FAILED TO CURBED THE MENACE AND YET SOME NIGERIANS WOULD HELP THEM SHOUT APC IS BEHIND BOKO HARAM.

HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE?......WE ARE TIRED OF BLAMES UPON BLAMES GET TO WORK.....WORK MORE AND SHUT THE FUXCKKCKCKCKKDFUK UP!!

yorke1: Tinubu should do it

IDIOT, THEY SAID SOMETHING IS A FEDERAL ROAD, THIS ONE IS SHOUTING TINUBU, IS HE THE GOVERNOR? how may projects are at logged head in lagos state which the federal government is stopping them from doing all because they are federal properties..numerous

And the Reno was blabbing about this same road being renovated on twitter, cant pin point to one federal project the FG enbarked upon in the SW apart from the Lagos -IB which they are alredy saying another story again

Any body that belives this stupid, and you think sss would release transcript of an interrogation with suspected terrorists?.........chai Nigerians stupid gan ohhh, why is it not on the mass media, was it released officially by sss?

YA'LL ARE GULLIBLE