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2 key Issues: Marketing and brand awareness, strategic planning. Once those two issues are sorted out they will be fine. I can bet you most people have nt even heard of Innoson Motors before so its about creating and identity and awareness of their product. If not they wont sell, and even government both now and in te past have always used Peugeot or Mercedes cars which are very KNOW AND PROVEN brands. hence you have to give people REASONS TO BUY YOUR CAR. simple

Mr. Globe:
Fashola is not Fatigued of ideas. His formally smooth media propaganda has hit a brickwall and the man is confused. Here we are talking about an IGR of 30 billion a month when its 40 billion with nothing to show! its funny how ACN the self acclaimed progressives are now gagging their officials, what will happen when they smell Aso Rock? smh

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ave you bothered to ASK yourself how the money is being spent, cos you shout 30bnaira now like the state those not have expenses to bear or capital projects to fund ( Most of whom are PPI's). The state in itself requires diffenent agencies for it to function properly. Wont the staff be paid, wont the agencies have its own running cost, all coming from this 30billion that your shouting. And last I checked when the price of fuel went up last year, Didnt you know it led to inflation in the country and general rise in price which is a direct cost on the government...............Think outside the box bro, learn to analyse issues first.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264166/Algeria-hostage-crisis-20-Britons-killed-injured-bloody-Sahara-gas-plant-battle-Al-Qaeda-STILL-going-on.html
bad belle Nigerians...Cant you see our soldiers loading weaposns for mali ehnn?

idiagbon: Where em wan see the food?

Lmaoooo...........Food they 9ja na......Buh d sun go dy burn everything as e dy chopp

SARCASM!!!!!................Dnt you gettt

look the guy well na.....e no resemble vegetable....look the chai wey in dy sitdown sef......Na alll those life support chair dem..........NIGGAS IS VEGATABLE

Ada Nri1: Dictator rulers in Nigeria!!!!

Dont you think that is what we need in Nigeria....We are all Animals that need iron hand to obey the laws. Democvracy is not working in Africa. We feel we can just break the law and get away with it. IRON HARD FISTED HAND is needed to rule Nigeria, when we adapt and begin to learn, then democracy can take its right cause. Until then we remain a LAWLESS NATION

Simple point, Nigerias educational system does not allow for reflecticve nd creative thinking, its just more of theoretical teaching

Some useless thread again. You identified them....so whts going to happen?.........NOTHING...........how does this help solve the current situation?........N O WAY.

Most people still do not understand some of the key principles of leadership. "Taking fierce and decisive action even in the face of opposition". Decisions cannot favour everybody it will and can never happen. Some win, some loose. However it must be for the better of the generality.

Looking at that road, i can guarantee you i wont last 5years, then the next government in power will award it again. And this is how it is everywhere across the counry. Why cnt all this governors spend money to construct proper access roads that will last for years, rather they will jus level the road and pour gravel on it that its.

Ask yourself one bi question, if they dont ban okadas now, then when?...........Imagine what lagos roads will be like in ten years time if this okadas still remian on the road.

Hard decisions, for proGress and development, not everybody can be a winner. Imagine lagos in 10 years if this okada menace aint curbed...............CCCCCHHHHHAAAAOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSS................

Good and coool story, however, most of this investment or majority of it is either Lagos, the Niger Delta or Abj and it would not neccesarily mean jobs for Nigerians as most of them employ expatriates.....sooooooo

eledalo: from 1999 - 2012 of continuous undisturbed ACN adminstration, how many megawatts have they generated? So in two years you will suddenly get 3000? How can people be so easily decieved? Obasanjo decieve you, Tinubu decieve you, Jonathan decieve you, Fashola decieve you, are you not tired?

I would not like to call you an idiot but I WILL. Ask yourself when did they privatise PHCN then come back and comment.

I think people are missing out some key points in this letter. One for me being the implication of certain well known members of the society. I can remember vividly after that bomb blast how the media circulated stories that this same people were behind the bomb blast. GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA?...and up till now none of this people have been charged to court, we have not even heard anything about this case since then. Something we really need to think about.....

This is what freaks me out about Nigerian Journalism and alll this internet news site, its one thing to just type up somethings and expect people to believe, its another to show us some EVIDENCE EVIDENCE EVIDENCE. Proove they did all this things.

geez*:
What some people fail to realize that if all the Igbos move away from the state, the state won't cease to be an industrial, commercial and major business destination in Africa.

[b]Here's what will happen:
1. Igbo people leave factories where they work as staff and though unemployment rate is low in the SW, the unemployed people will take their jobs. The SW won't notice anything has happened if they relocated the ones they own as they do not control 2% of manufacturing GDP in Lagos
2. The Yoruba tribe is the second largest tribe in Nigeria after the Hausas which means there will still be the human resources to sustain commerce
3. Yourba entrepreneurs will venture into spare parts and electronics business and make for the exit of those businesses. They were the first to establish themselves as Adebowale Electronics and co etc but guess what, these Igbo people came with inferior and substandard goods and rubbished the markets. Besides trading is a no brainier. It's about looking for the cheapest markets to source your merchandise and dispensing them in the most expensive markets. Tell me if Rufai, my driver can't do that. Even my mechanic who is not schooled at all can pull that off.
4. After the north, we have invested the most in agriculture which can and will sustain us
5. Oil? The first question I need to ask is if Nigeria as a country today produces the oil it consumes
6. Leadership. Should have been number one. If you look at the political landscape in the SW and the way we vote during elections, you will realize that we do not in any way tolerate mediocrity. You cannot fail to perform as a governor or mayor and expect to continue in office.

We lead. We always have and always will. Before we were all bundled together under federalism, go into history and find out which region was the fastest developing and most progressive - The West. If we had remained a region, by now SA would be Africa's second best.[/b]

Very very sane point

This thing was done by Fobes : http://www.forbes.com/profile/folorunsho-alakija/
and most people often get this analysis wrong, its not like she has that kind of money stashed somewhere, its the value of all her assets including the oil blocks. SIMPLE

The popular Katangowa market in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area, LCDA of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, will soon be no more. The market is known for second hand clothes business, popularly called Okirika and spare part trading.

With a population of over 30, 000 traders, the market is one of the biggest Okirika market in Nigeria. The traders claimed they have been trading in the area for about 30 years.

Last Thursday, Governor Babatunde Fashola, during a tour of facilities in the Lagos metropolis visited the market as part of plans by the government to build a Digital Village that may cost the government billions of naira in the area.

The plan was to relocate the traders in Computer Village in Ikeja to the area. If this is achieved, what is the fate of the displaced traders in the Katangowa market?

When Governor Fashola was addressed by the traders, he said the government has no plan to relocate them to another area, as they were not the rightful owners of the land.

He said the 17 hectares of land being occupied by the traders and squatters belonged to the state government and the government was not ready to pay compensation to illegal occupants on its land.

The traders had appealed to the governor to resettle them at Amikanle area, which the government had earlier promised to do, but Fashola did not make any commitment to it.

Fashola stated that his administration had kept a track record of resettling and paying compensation to people who had been displaced from their lawfully acquired property.

He, however, said that in a situation where people encroached into government’s land illegally, they should not expect compensation or resettlement when such property is re-acquired by government.

“As far as resettlement is concerned, we have always played an exemplary role . We did Isale Gangan redevelopment, we did Oluwole redevelopment and we resettled the people involved. But in cases where people are squatters, they have no rights over the property.

“The law does not protect illegality, it protects rights and you do not acquire rights by acting illegally. Human rights are legal rights; they are not rights acquired by illegal conduct and we must understand this in a democracy,” he said.

Fashola challenged anybody who claimed to have been deprived of his legally acquired property by his administration without getting compensation to bring forward such claim.

“All of the demolition we did to expand the Badagry Expressway, we are still giving compensation to the displaced people. The people that are displaced in Oshodi will soon relocate to a new market that is ready. We have intervened in Obalende without necessarily displacing the rightful owners.

“I hope that members of the public will understand that they can’t have a right to a place by jumping onto the roadside and saying it is where they must trade. May be, it may be politically popular to agitate citizens who are not aware of what their rights and obligations are.

“People escalate these things. Some people, societies or organisations make profit and get grants at the behest of the so-called masses they claim to be fighting for. The masses don’t have the right to break the law and if they do, we will enforce it,” he stated.

Mr. Femi Adedeji, who spoke on behalf of the traders, said displacing the traders from the market would not augur well with them, as it would have negative impact on them and the state. He claimed that the government had initially said it would relocate the traders to Amikanle area of the state.


HARD AND NECESSARY DECISIONS HAVE TO BE TAKEN. SIMPLE

Good issues raised, but being such a big multinational driving advancement in technology, one would think they would have done their market research, and have different business strategies in place.

There is one thing people fail to analyse. Each governor has focused on diff things. If Mimiko has focused on the welfare of the people, considering the fact that Ondo is a small population compared to lagos. However one cannot expect fashola to focus on the welfare of everyone in lagos and then have money to spend on capital projects as well as other expenditures on the part of the govt. Lagos Lagos has far been ignored especially during the time of obj and being the capital city in Nigeria it became neccesary to put in proper and adequate infrastructure that would support the ever growing population of the state, new roads, bridges, capital projects whilst also laying down rules and reg for the future of the state. If they had not banned okada's in certain areas of lagos and major highways, think what it would be like in 10 years time , or if all these laws are not put in place and enforced now, what will Lagos be like in 10 years time. So everything happening in lagos is all about working towards the future and steadily carrying along the private sector which is the key player in the growth of any economy. Its the private sector that would benefit from all these development in the long run. Even is we say lagos is making more money in terms of revenue, its is also contributing to the national purse and think of the number functioning agencies the Lagos state government has, just to create jobs for people, all these are expenses as well. Its times like this Nigeria needs leaders that can take bold and decisive actions and decisions that would benefit that state in the long run. SACRIFICES HAVE TO BE MADE

Cunninlingus: Hypocrites are here responding. When this thread was up there were more peeps defending Tinibu

[b]1. 4, Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi: A 5-bedroom detached house on one acre of land which was originally the Lagos State Governor’s guest house since 1979, but which now belongs to Tinubu. The certificate of occupancy of the property valued at N450 million was signed and released to him by Fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office.

2. Tinubu’s residence at 26 Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi was initially falsely presented as Oando Plc Guest House. Later, he purportedly bought it from Oando, and used public funds to rebuild and renovate it. The Lagos State Government bought the property and paid an undisclosed sum to him and thereafter gave the property back to him under the bogus Pension Bill he signed to law shortly before he left office in 2007. The property is worth over N600 million.

3. The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450 million, purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after Tinubu left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before leaving office.

4. The 250-hectare land valued at about N35billion and strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa Local Government but was stolen by Tinubu and handed over to Trojan Estate Ltd – a company owned by Deji and Wale Tinubu – to develop as Royal Garden Housing Estate at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

5. The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Lakowe near Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which is partly- owned by Tinubu and Fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd (ARM) as ADIVA project.

6. The prime land of 157 hectares with 2.5km of Atlantic beachfront valued at about N10billion and stolen by Tinubu from the communities of Siriwon, Igbekodo, Apakin, etc in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Ibukun Fakeye – his crony to build a golf course and luxury villa with little or no compensation to the villagers. In addition, Tinubu paid $20million (N3billion) out of public treasury to Ibukun Fakeye to commence the project in late 2006. Fashola has since released additional funding for this project, which is not owned by the state government.

7. The 14-hectare Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola Tinubu.

8. While in office, he allocated to himself the former Strabag yard beside the Lagos State Secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja. The property is now being developed into a shopping mall as big as the Palms in Lekki. This is public property brazenly stolen and now owned by Tinubu, aided by Fashola.

9. The choice property at Lekki-Epe road on which he built and owns the multi-billion naira Oriental Hotel and the extension of multi-storey car park beside it. Also, the multi-level recreation centre by Mobil in Oniru Estate on Lekki-Epe road jointly owned with ARM and Tunji Olowolafe. All these assets valued at over N25billion were obtained without paying a kobo to the Lagos State Government.

10. Tinubu and Fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front – Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices:

• The 3.8-hectare of land of Lagos State Fisheries office in VI (beside the Institute of Oceanography) valued at N3billion.

• The fishery landing jetty at Badore (where the Ilubirin fishermen were to be relocated) valued at N500million

• The entire Ogudu foreshore scheme initially earmarked for a low-cost housing scheme valued at N5billion

• The Ilubinrin housing estate (which used to house Lagos state civil servants and judges up till 2007) valued at N2.5billion.

• The former Julius Berger yard at Oko Orisan, Epe valued at N450million.

11. Tinubu raised a loan of N4.7billion on Eko Akete project for which nothing was achieved before he turned around to sell the property to his Chagouri friends of Chagouri & Chagouri and Hitech Construction Ltd at a ridiculously low price at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

12. Tinubu applied to personally purchase the Federal Secretariat building while in office. When he couldn’t get to buy it, he directed Fashola to stop the eventual owner of the complex to develop it. The complex is presently wasting away courtesy of the Lagos State Government.

13. It took several months of horse trading and underhand payments before Fashola could allow the new owners of 1004 flats to redevelop the complex.

14. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Government Reservation Area Ikeja were forced to succumb to the outrageous demands of Tinubu, Fashola, Commissioner Abosede and other officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning Ministry and were made to pay ridiculous amounts to private accounts before their redevelopments were approved. Those who refused or were unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the skyrocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.

15. Tinubu converted all the plots of land where Lagos Polytechnic was located at Ikosi near the old toll gate. He chased away the Polytechnic in 2006 and went ahead to locate the choice plots to himself, his cronies and political associates. The headquarters of Television Continental (TVC), which is owned by him, is located there. He deprived the youths of Lagos of decent education because of his greed.

16. Tinubu singlehandedly sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, Victoria Island which was recovered from some allotees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy.

17. Eludoyin, fronting for Tinubu, built the estate directly opposite Goshen Beach Estate in Lekki area.

18. Tinubu’s wife, Remi Tinubu, built the massive New Era Foundation youth camp at the junction of Eleko, off the Lekki-Epe express road, with Lagos State funds and has now converted it to personal use.

19. Tinubu owns the Fara Park Estate and the Beach Wood Estate both in Lekki.

20. The Critical Care unit at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja, built and equipped with state funds, is now owned personally by Tinubu. He has put one Dr. Sikiru Tinubu, (a supposed cousin of his) to run the outfit. It is run as a private unit and the proceeds are pocketed by the duo. The unit charges its users exorbitantly and most Lagosians can hardly afford to pay its high charges. Much of the revenue is derived from fees paid by the State Government for patients referred there by its General Hospitals.

21. Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Governor Tinubu and incumbent Governor Fashola over the years without paying a kobo. Many of them had turned around to sell the land to third parties at substantial profit. Many top officials in the police, INEC and the judiciary who participated in the 2003 and 2007 elections and tribunals in states where Tinubu has interest were compromised with parcels of free prime Lagos land and cash. If the Lagos State Land’s Bureau could publish the names and identities of beneficiaries of land allotees from 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa, now a Senator, and Mrs. Awofisayo were the conduits through which these acts were being perpetrated. Both were also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own.

22. Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to Tinubu and Fashola for “jobs well done” or for being privy to sensitive information, notably:

(a) Dele Alake, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, was sold a whole house on Alexander Road, Ikoyi where he lived as official quarters at a give-away price.[/b]

I am sorry, your facts MAY BE right, but if you cannot provide an outta source of evidence of where you got all this information from, how are to believe you, you could have made up all these stories. (We all know Tinubu is corrupt but typing al these alone doesnt mean anything)

lukaino: El- Rufai did no harm but gave his opinion based on figures given by punch. Govt &all should learn a thing or two frm it

Thank you oo............If Government want to defend themselves they too should provide credible stats for us ( Which we kno is not possible, when t okupe's of this world would Come raging like a mad dog...They should give FACTS AND FIGURES)

Really freaks me out when Nigerians cant think outside the box and see the larger picture..........so much inefficiency within the civil service

Rubbish.........there meant to pour all those criminals on road work, street cleaning and railway construction and make them WORK, let them do something usefull for the society ( I mean sit would save companies and govrnment a whole lot of money in terms of hiring people)

Something they should have done a long time ago..... common every body knows that the civil service has a lot of inefficiencies, and those clamouring that there will be high unemployment again, RUbbish. When you spend money on capital project, a bulk of it goes down to the private sector who in turn employ people. Common 70% of the yearly budget on expenditure for wages, which sane government does that . Look around the world most governments are even reducing public servants and cutting their budgets, whilst spending on capital projects that will provide jobs.

But then again this is Nigeria!!!!! (Principles of Economics Dont always work)

Intellectual wetin if i hear..........mob dance is not their idea neither was dancing competition. Its snot like they published anything or released any material relation to it. So they can shout all they like, they kno they cant even stand a chance in court...POOOOOOO......eldee njoy ur life jorr

This is such a uselesss report, Nigeria seats on the Security Council of the United Nations because of all the intervention works OUR MILITARY HAVE CARRIED OUT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, we still remain the largest donor of troops to ECOMOG and the AU.............This reporter needs to do her homework first.

And 12 people so far believe this crap unbelievable....take a look at the way the person wrote for crying at loud..............cmmon sense

Nigerians are very judgemental, we do not know te circumstances on ground, someone jus came and posted four line here and we are already commenting as if we know all the issues surrounding the family.