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Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Nobody: 8:01pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Sunday, led top chieftains and lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to receive a delegation of US Congress, led by Congressman Darelle Issa, where he said that the state is the citadel for growth and development of Nigeria. Speaking at an interactive session with the US delegation at the Lagos House, Marina, where issues bothering on deepening democracy, trade relations and tackling Boko Haram insurgency taking centre stage at the meeting, Governor Ambode said the US democratic experience was one that would be beneficial not only to Lagos, but also to Nigeria. The Governor commended the US government for its role in ensuring the peaceful conduct of the 2015 general elections, saying that the country has benefitted from their democratic credentials. “The parliamentary structure that we have is synonymous with what is obtainable in the US. APC as a party is the first in the history of Nigeria to unseat an incumbent government and we want to imbibe the tenets of democratic values”, the Governor said. Governor Ambode also told his visitors that the state leverages on its population and cosmopolitan nature and perhaps the most buoyant economy in West Africa. “I want to let you know that you are in the commercial capital of Nigeria, Lagos represents the future citadel of entrepreneurship in this country. As we speak, the population is nearing 21 million of which four million are actually middle class. We’re the fifth largest economy in Africa and our GDP has hit $131billion, more than 42 African countries put together”, he said. He said the thrust of his administration is to be able to touch as many lives as possible and make life easier for residents, saying that the state government is committed to pursuing this ideal in the next four years. To achieve this, the Governor said his administration is ready to entrench moral leadership, saying that it would latch on to the experience of the US to better the lot of its people. “As we proceed, the party is committed to learning the best ideals of democracy and that’s where I want to take this advantage to learn from you. We want to be transparent, we want to be credible, we want to bring a leadership to the table that is open, we want a government of inclusion, we don’t want to leave the people behind. Lagos is more like New York because it is a cosmopolitan state where the largest concentration of foreigners lives. So it’s important that everyone is carried along, we’re committed to that”, he said. He listed the areas of collaboration the state government was looking towards improving upon to include security and trade relations. Earlier, Congressman Issa Darelle, a Republican, explained that though America could be viewed as possessing high democratic values it was also striving towards perfection of democracy, urging that rather than emulate the American democracy, Nigeria should strive to better the America experience. He also urged Lagos State to as a matter of urgency, collaborate with the Federal Government, in tackling issues of insecurity issues in the country, especially the Boko Haram menace, saying the fight could not be left alone for the government at the centre to handle. Among those in attendance at the interactive session include members of U.S Congress, Carolyn Manoney, Sheila Jackson Lee and Blake Farenthold, Chairman, Lagos APC, Otunba Henry Ajomale (right), Women Leader, South West APC, Mrs.Kemi Nelson (3rd left), Acting U.S Consul General in Lagos, Ms. Dehab Ghebreab (2nd left) and the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, House of Representatives and State Assembly lawmakers from Lagos, among others. Source:: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/lagos-engine-room-for-nigerias-growth-devt-ambode/ Cc:: Lalasticlala ,, Ishilove |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Nobody: 8:01pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
This is not a new news. Unless, if my Nnamdi Kalu (or kanu) followers have something to say..... Please I don't mean to insult anyone... Am just trying to comment just to make FTC 1 Like |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by madridguy(m): 8:07pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
Unopposed Center of Excellence Eko akete Eko ile-ogbon Eko ile aje Eko Tinubu Eko Akinolu Eko gbogbo wa Eko O ni baje APC CHANGE 1 Like |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 8:11pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
Wow lagos gdp is now $131 billion. This is their federal allocation compared to kano: Lagos N168 billion, Kano N140 billion. Surely, the northerners must thanking their luck as to how 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 8:23pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
madridguy:What Change? I like pmb but you guys needs to see the bigger picture. Isn't it disturbing more than 99% of the money is going to the federal government? Lagos is being stretched to the limit hence why the human development index is one of the lowest among the big cities in the world. The fact no one seems to care is disturbing 4 Likes |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by kennydee05(m): 8:27pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
Eko Oni baje (Lagos no go spoil) Itesiwaju Eko lo jewalogun ( Progress of Lagos is our priority) Ambo!!! (We are coming) Atide (we've arrived) |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by OkutaNla: 8:29pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
Dollyak: Nothing could be farther from the truth. I think Tinubu, Ambode and the Lag legislators (ibfact the entite SW lawmakers sef) need to take this up with the FG. Na serious case of highway robbery. The state gets PEANUTS in return relative to the contribution it makes. It's not fair one bit. 4 Likes |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by madridguy(m): 8:30pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
You look like my future wife. Dollyak: |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by madridguy(m): 8:33pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
I understand you but I so much believe in one Nigeria. OkutaNla: |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by OkutaNla: 8:36pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
madridguy: This is not about One Nigeria, it is about fairness. The Niger-Deltans fought for their 13% derivation. Why can't the south west also get special derivation for its contribution to the federal coffers? This is about fairness. 5 Likes |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by sandraokosun: 8:38pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
so u knw, sit ur fat ass down and start following fashola steps. I knw u cant measure brf but do a quater of him |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by madridguy(m): 8:44pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
Okay bro but I believe the Lagos administrator knows better. OkutaNla: |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 8:52pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
madridguy:Lagos administration knows better ? This is just sad. I don't know what we can do to make people fight for their right because it seems my people are hypnotised by the northerners b.s. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable with this if I was a northerner. Sooner or later people's eyes would open of which by then it might be too late. 1 Like |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by madridguy(m): 8:25am On Aug 03, 2015 |
I reserve my comment. Dollyak: |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by PRYCE(m): 8:44am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Yes we agree! But if I were the governor of Lagos state, I'd spend the first half of my tenure fixing slumps! |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by AnambraDota: 9:03am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Dollyak: Love coverth all sins. During census they were told that Kano was more populated than Lagos, they accepted it bc the NPC was a Gambari and President an Odua. Now Kano without virtually anything to the center is getting more allocation than those bringing something. The price of oil is down, Lagos will bear the brunt of Nigeria revenue generation why Kano collects with her 44 LGs. |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 9:08am On Aug 03, 2015 |
AnambraDota:Sooner or later I would be left with no choice but to leave nairaland. You know when you are helplessly hoping and fighting for people to see the light but they are instead closing their eyes.... I thought lagosians were smarter and more exposed than every other states. How wrong was I? I hail the northerners for a job well done in hypnotizing the southerners. |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 9:15am On Aug 03, 2015 |
PRYCE:How can you fix slums when the state doesn't have the money. Their budget is barely enough to keep it running without loans and all sorts. |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by asha80(m): 9:18am On Aug 03, 2015 |
OkutaNla:the 13 percent of niger delta is based on a product not economy..campaign for federalism the way it is supposed to be practised and not what we currently run |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by AnambraDota: 9:19am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Dollyak: The issue is this. I was in Ogun state on December 2011 around Lambe/Akute/Ajuwon area, I saw one massive project the governor embarked on two big flyovers that will connect those areas to Berger Bus stop. Last month I was chatting with my sister who lives around that axis, she told me they are suffering bad road, I asked what happened to the massive flyovers and bridges the governor was building she said they are abandoned at 40percent completion. Now Ogun State is collecting how much from federal allocation despite accommodating many coys that pay taxes to FG, how many LGs does ogun have, how many does Lagos has. Kano have 44LGs when Jigawa was still inside Kano, we Jigawa was carved out of Kano, Kano still retain her 44 LGs while another 23 germinated in the newly created Jigawa from nowhere. So does it mean Kano was having 77LGs before the creation of Jigawa. Now Ogun couldn't complete all her projects because she has many schools to pay teachers salaries from meagre allocation while Kano that have lesser schools that the most backward state in the south will always have enough money to play around. Open your eyes, when Igbos point out all these lopsidedness of the Nigeria state you people will tag us cry babies and wailers. Niger Delta oil is down, all eyes on Lagos and surrounding economies down south because the North is barren. |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 9:24am On Aug 03, 2015 |
AnambraDota:Oh God! This is beginning to get to me now . I am too angry for words. Justice will soon prevail and the people's eyes will open. Most Yorubas don't seem to care about this at all. SW have worked hard to attract big companies and they can't even benefit from their sweats. I heard the northern region has the best roads in the country? This is why I am no longer against the call for biafra. |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by asha80(m): 9:28am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Dollyak:I am not sure issue of roads is really relevant in this discourse because state are in charge of state roads while fg control federal roads |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Nobody: 9:30am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Flat chest beaters are here again. Oil is what drives Nigeria. Oil crashes and the SW goes bankrupt. The Lagos won't be what it is today without oil money flowing through it. What does Lagos produce for exports? Not a damn thing! |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by AnambraDota: 9:31am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Dollyak: Southerners are myopic and stuupid, look at the North wanted Sharia in a secular Nigeria and got it, they have Sharia police in breaking beer bottles in North but they will collect taxes generated from the Booze Industry from the South. Southerners are in the state of trance, they are stupi-id, ediotss and myopic. Have you seen where Northerners sell their cows in Lagos along Agege Railway line, go and see how that place but they will make the money and return it to North without renovating the place and paying any tax, this is their way in East, all the garikis in East are dirty and stinking because of livestock dungs. Southerners are bunch of stuupid and useless people, SE is begging for one more state to balance it to 6 but North Central as 7 states 1 in excess. These states and bogus LGs are how resources down South are being shared, plundered and looted by the North, if we say they tag us enemies of the state. Let's see what will happen now, the only revenue generator now is NLNG and Nigeria custom, plus coys in south that pay duties and taxes to FG, oil has gone down South and remedy aint in sight. 2 Likes |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by dayo23(f): 9:32am On Aug 03, 2015 |
godson36:Brother, be prepared for those yeebos war |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 9:35am On Aug 03, 2015 |
asha80:They are, because they cannot fund it. Newyork contribute about 13% to the federal government. Do you think they can survive on less than 1% like lagos is currently doing? With more populations and companies, you tends to have more to do in terms of project and providing for people's basic needs. The roads is pretty relevant because OGUN state government is not getting enough to run the state despite contributing a large sum. You can't compare it to sokoto who only has teachers, policemen to pay. Are you a northerner or YORUBA? I need to understand the context behind your comments. I don't expect a yoruba or an Igbo person to say the roads is not relevant. You can't just give people peanut and say get on with it. I am pissed. 1 Like |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Flyoruboy1: 9:37am On Aug 03, 2015 |
PvtParts: You this stvpid ex-militant lowlife. I have admonished you to go and learn a skill and quit constituting a nuisance all over the place. Your Delta state is there with it's myriad of problems begging for solutions, even in spite of all the allocation it receives. Receive sense in Jesus name! I cast and bind the spirit of joblessness afflicting you. Amen! |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Dollyak(f): 9:37am On Aug 03, 2015 |
AnambraDota:Tell me about the stupiditty of the southerners. This is the reason I don't take most Nigerians seriously. |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by asha80(m): 9:38am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Dollyak:ok I now understand your point |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Nobody: 9:40am On Aug 03, 2015 |
dayo23: Lalasticlala |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by Nobody: 9:40am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Flyoruboy1: Delta is a far better place than any of your Southwest parasitical ritual sacrifice enclaves |
Re: Lagos Engine Room For Nigeria’s Growth, Devt – Ambode by AnambraDota: 9:45am On Aug 03, 2015 |
Dollyak: Just check the number of senators between North and South, the number of rep members between North and South, the number of States between North and South, the number of LGs between North and south. tell calculate it with the revenue being generated by both sides of the divide and wake me up when your done. When your doing NYSC in North some states doesn't pay at all why the Highest paying state Jigawa pays 5K, but here in South the lowest paying states pay 5K while the highest Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom pay like 15K....Northern NYSC will come down South make money but Southern NYSC members will go to North to live on cheap beans and goat meat N800 a month after which the Southern corpers will do CDS like boreholes and toilets for them through their uniform Federal allawe. and no state alawe to back up. These are the subconscious ways to rob you of your resources but you don't know, you won't know and am scared if you will ever know. |
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