Correction US made an initial pledge of 100 million dollar and promise to commit to long term rebuilding of Haiti.

USA DONATES 70 MILLION TO HAITI
JAPAN === 5 MILLION
GERMANY ------8 MILLION
UK --------------7 MILLION
LAGOS----------1 MILLION

SmashingM:

How did we wire the money? I'm just asking in case we hear stories, you know, nothing passes us by.

Sam Milla:

I want to say something. This is called politics.
Lagos state gave 1 million dollars. Despite that it was a goodwill gesture, it was out of other.
No state jumps over its federal government on such issues.
Lagos should have consulted the federal government to know their plans before throwing money around.

Japan is thousands of times richer than us.
The donated 5 million dollars. before individual wings come in.

There are also countries that donated nothing.
Its not fair though but sometimes we have to check how the affected country respond to such issues as well before doing anything.

All in All, Lagos state shouldnt have donated that money before federal government.
They now make federal government look wicked and careless.
Nigeria is in leadership crisis. Everyone including Fashola should be aware of that.

I guess he jumped and donated that money to make himself look very good to ordinary people of Nigeria.
He succeeded but in some World Govt, he could have been suspended from duty.
Just that Nigeria is not working.

duality:

WHO CARES IF LAGOS STATE GIVES A WHOLE YEARS BUDGET TO HAITI. CAN ANY BODY OR COUNTRY EVER GIVE ENOUGH? AFTER ALL ITS VOLUNTARY.

Mr. Cartha:

Dis money wey dem dey donate na from their own pocket abi na out of the tax money wey man pikin de pay?! See pple wey their house dey on fire and dem still get time to pursue rat. Lite we no get, water shikena, how much good roads not to talk of security. Kai! Kaki boys, were una dey?!!!

tayo_ast:

Abi ooo. Where else in d world did a state govt donate 2wards d relief in Haiti.

We're always misplacin our priorities. So, we couldn't av done any better with d $1m (N150m).

U pple shd be objective!!

America had invaded and occupied Haiti for 19 years, from 1915 to 1934 during which 3,250 Haitians were killed by the invaders who lost 98 Marines while bequeathing Haiti with a $40 million debt. The US returned in 1994 to restore elected President Betrand Aristide and left in April 1996, only to come back eight years later to abduct and exile the same Aristide. Now it is back in the name of aid and this time  it is uncertain for how long it will stay.

selencious:

@Poster!!! U sound so dumb;are you sure you finished elementary school-Primary school as it is called in Nigeria? Simple calculation, Lagos, not Nigeria. Just same way you made a fool of urself at the other thread. The topic looks more like your name sounds-SOUR

Deep Soul:

You sound like you hold a personal grudge againt the poster . . . . .

Wrong place to vent . . . . .

You jst ended up making urself look silly . . . . Just saying . . . .

@OP
In as much as I'm torn looking at all those heartbreaking images on CNN, I'm also thinking of my "town people" in faraway Bayelsa State with no access to something as basic as clean water. Forget electricity. In this case, it wld be considered a luxury. As I have witnessed firsthand, most of these people are forced to cook with water from the river. The same river where they wash their clothes. The same river where they droppings. The same river that has been polluted by the Oil Companies. They cook with this water and they fall sick.

Because we dont have a Government "charitable" enough to establish a Primary Healthcare Center (a hospital would be a dream), most of these people die from such illnesses. They don't all die at the same time. It happens at different times. But at the end of the day, when we sum up the number of deaths over a period of time, it would be equal to the effects of an earthquake. I'm sure these people have people "representing" them in the lower and upper Chambers.

I can't count the amount of people that were killed in road accidents in 2009. Most of which were caused by bad roads. Most of which could have been avoided . . . . . . . . . . . . !!!

The list is endless . . . . .

I sympathise with the people of Haiti . . . .I really do . . . but I'm also torn seeing my fellow Nigerians in similar situations and/or worse.

If we had a functional country with functional leadership, we wouldn't have had to send $1m (or $2m) to Haiti in order for our impact to be felt, heard, seen . . . .

I saw Mexican rescue teams pulling people out from ruins, I saw South African rescue teams, where are the Nigerian rescue teams . . .?

Do we have a resuce team in Nigeria . . ?

It's only a mad naked man that would run after another mad naked man telling him to dress up . . . .

follyg:

@Sam Milla, to the best of my knowledge, "Lagos State Launched an appeal fund of $1m for the people of Haiti". I dont think its already donated and individuals are been encouraged to donate into the account which is opened with Skye bank just as the members of Lagos state Executive Council have donated. I dont think its directly from the State government purse. Lagos State and Federal government are two seperate entities in the eyes of the Law, if federal govt is not responsive there is nothing legally or morally wrong for any state to be responsive as States are only accountable to its legislative arm that represent the people and not the federal government.

The three arms of government should show mutual respect for one another, however, the federal government has demonstrated her disrepect to States, local government, the judicial arm and even the entire people of Nigeria on several occassions.
On this particular occassion, i totally disagree that Lagos State has done anything wrong afterall our presido is on AWOL (Absence without Leave)

noble_gas1:

Cowards!!! of the highest degree.In a place where some people can not afford three square meal, dey are showing off by donating a whole N150,000,000 to haiti, Infact all the countries that donated money to them are a cowards, haiti is like the poorest carribean country and its known for suffering for many years, nobody volunteered to donate money to them then, now cuz of the earthquake, everybody is showing Mr. Nice Guy, we have a couple of them countries including Cambodia,Vietnam and so on dat are suffering and nothing is being done about them, so in my own view, Nigeria shuldnt have donated that Money!!! cuz it culd be used to solve asome of our problems

selencious:

@Poster!!! U sound so dumb;are you sure you finished elementary school-Primary school as it is called in Nigeria? Simple calculation, Lagos, not Nigeria. Just same way you made a fool of urself at the other thread. The topic looks more like your name sounds-SOUR

fynewaka:

Nigeria donated to a physical earthquake in Haiti; what about the psycholgical earthquakes in the country brought about by an absent president, corruption, armed robbery, advanced fee fraud, prostitution, etc. What earthquake could be more than 72 percent of your population living below the poverty line? We need a rebirth in this country. How much have they donated to the victims of these earthquakes in nigeria?

otukpo:

EVRYTHING IN NIGERIA HAS A POLITICAL UNDERTONE.

guy if say your mama or your family follow die or there you won't have mouth to say things about fashola , i think he have human sympathy, he need world recognitions. this is natural disaster ,  it be your turn tomorrow, fasho should keep it up,

THE AMAKA:

yeah i knew you were gonna come with that have some sympathy thing. i do feel really bad but then again. . . i guess.

mama-gee:

Nigeria should be the one getting that help.

violent:

Nope, i disagree, Nigeria does not need monetary help, all we need is a group of snipers,who'd kill corrupt leaders just for the fun of it

Mr. Cartha:

Point taken! We really need the likes of the Washington snipper