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This is the result of :

1. BAD LEADERSHIP.

2. CORRUPTION.

3. QUOTA SYSTEM.

JUDGING BY THE PRESENT POLITICAL EVENTS UNFOLDING IN THE COUNTRY, IT SEEMS THAT WE HAVE NOT LEARNT OUR LESSON YET.

WE ARE STILL GROPING IN THE DARK!!!

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Yes.

This is the Nigeria I love. The jungle I call home.

The same one our leaders created. The same country that spawned both paupers and leaders.

The pride of the black man and I am proud to call it home because I am not a second class citizen when I get back to the jungle.

Maybe it's time we dispense jungle justice to our leaders since we are all products of the same jungle. Nothing should go amiss except hunger and starvation in the midst of plenty.

God bless Nigeria

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Chidi,
That's good of you to have reminded some of us living outside Naija that all the gimmick about improved conditons of living and the so called rule of law being parroted by UMYA and his AGF are huge jokes.

Which injustice is greater than these photographs of Nigerian citizens living like wild beasts in the jungle. I think we have indeed lost the plot.
:sad:

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Chidi,

These are chilling pictures, but I agree with the Finance Minister on this one:mad: Increasing the budget is not going to solve the problem. In all likelihood, we have the type of budget that is many times what is moving many other countries forward. I daresay this has been the case for several years, but particularly in the 8 years of Obasanjo's thievery. What the Finance Minister is trying to say is that the National Assembly should not add more allocations to cater for the homourable members. The executive branch has catered for itself, as is the usual thing with these budgets. They even have massive allocations for refreshment, eye glasses, checkup for Mr President in Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, etc. It is likely that the National Assembly would request similar allocations for the Belizean President (David Mark) and the Oxford trained replacement for Madam Hairdresser. We cannot afford to waste that amount of money. So, sadly, I am with the Finance Minister - the National Assembly should not add to the waste. Perhaps, in the next life of the country, we might find someone who will be able to use the budget to uplift the masses. Only then can we worry about not increasing the budget.

ochi

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However, what I will bore readers with is the fact that the Finance Minister, one Alhaji Shamsudeen Usman was quoted by the Daily Independent newspaper of December 13, 2007 as telling the National Assembly not to thinker with the 2008 budget as presented by the executive, that allocating extra money will trigger inflation. In effect, this Alhaji Usman is telling Nigerians that providing drinking water for the masses will cause inflation, that providing jobs for the unemployed is not necessary, that all our hospitals are so well equipped that we do not need to spend more money on them, that all our infrastructures are up to date, that our schools rank amongst the best in the world, that Nigeria as it is, is heavenly bliss, the real thing. Mr Usman I beg to disagree.

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I am compelled to bring back my provocation. Before 1960, Some parts of Lagos were equivalent to London. I wrote about that here



So, when I ask harmlessness, shall we lease Nigeria for a 10 year period?, some people ask for my head.

Now, look at these pictures and tell me the Brits will do these to you who are living in UK. I don't think so. AND think of it that you only got one life to live, then you live it in this mess!!!


I don't care now if you take it or leave it, the Nigerians you see in these pictures will embrace the white man with open hands and deep smiles.


They have lost HOPE in the system that continues to fall into the hands of foo ls, idio ts, mad leaders, sycophants, deceivers, liars of the highest order, tyrants, looters, political prostitutes, agents of deaths and opportunistic tropical gangsters.

This is why the latest report I got from Nigeria says that NIGERIA WILL NEVER BE BETTER and my recent interview with my friends online asking them to give me tips for my essay; Good Things about Nigeria, resulted in no single idea, zero input. I ended up thrashing the article.

No one living in Nigeria could tell me ONE GOOD thing about Nigeria. These pictures (which magnifies what I saw exactly one year ago when I visited Nigeria at the peak of the fuel scarcity) simply buttress their zero inputs. I must have mentioned elsewhere in one my essays that I changed my tickets twice to escape the unbearable madness in Lagos.


This is why some people have never bothered to visit Nigeria for over 10 years. The other day I met a top Nigerian doctor at the prestigious Karolinska Hospital who claims to be from old Bendel State. I am sure he doesn't even know if he is from Edo or Delta State. He left Nigeria around 1975 or thereabout. Show him these pictures and tell me he would have the zeal to go back home.


What a tragedy?....one that will continue for as long as the same set of people who lack good ideology and proper vision continue to waylay us and rule us against our wills.

Where are the good men and women in Nigeria? Where are SANE people? Is this what it means to be the giant of Africa?

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This article is fundamentally dishonest.

The pictures are true. They are pictures of the slums of lagos. They are not "images of lagos 2007."

It is important that readers and commentators see these pictures within context. Lagos is listed as one of the 10 largest cities in the world. Overcrowding and slum settlements are twin problems of most major cities.

This is absolutely not an attempt to explain away or excuse these gory sights. Slums are not habitable. But to call those the "images of Lagos" is intellectually dishonest. A fuller spectrum of reporting would have compelled the author to provide a fuller picture of lagos state.

A few months ago i was in Hong Kong and China. Other than the world class airports and finer places. I also saw their slums. Those slums are not "images of Hong Kong". A few blocks from White House and the hallowed halls of the US Congress lie the slums of Washington D.C. Those are not the "images of Washington D.C." Anyone flying into Dubai in UAE at night would say that one is descending into the pearly gates. But a brief taxi ride downtown one runs into the slums of Dubai. But that is not the "images of Dubai" The author lives in the UK. I have had the dubious honor of seeing the slums of London. They are not the "images of London"

Those slums are unacceptable. But calling them the "images of lagos" is cynical and dishonest.

Several years ago, when the government of lagos state forcibly removed the residents of the slums of Maroko, pundits yelled injustice and accused the then military governor of unprintable crimes. Yet no one agrees on how to walk the fine line of dealing with slums and making real estate available for development.

I hope our debate goes beyond populistic sentiments to concrete, issue-based debate.

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=udokaamah;4294973130>This article is fundamentally dishonest.

The pictures are true. They are pictures of the slums of lagos. They are not "images of lagos 2007."

It is important that readers and commentators see these pictures within context. Lagos is listed as one of the 10 largest cities in the world. Overcrowding and slum settlements are twin problems of most major cities.

This is absolutely not an attempt to explain away or excuse these gory sights. Slums are not habitable. But to call those the "images of Lagos" is intellectually dishonest. A fuller spectrum of reporting would have compelled the author to provide a fuller picture of lagos state.

A few months ago i was in Hong Kong and China. Other than the world class airports and finer places. I also saw their slums. Those slums are not "images of Hong Kong". A few blocks from White House and the hallowed halls of the US Congress lie the slums of Washington D.C. Those are not the "images of Washington D.C." Anyone flying into Dubai in UAE at night would say that one is descending into the pearly gates. But a brief taxi ride downtown one runs into the slums of Dubai. But that is not the "images of Dubai" The author lives in the UK. I have had the dubious honor of seeing the slums of London. They are not the "images of London"

Those slums are unacceptable. But calling them the "images of lagos" is cynical and dishonest.

Several years ago, when the government of lagos state forcibly removed the residents of the slums of Maroko, pundits yelled injustice and accused the then military governor of unprintable crimes. Yet no one agrees on how to walk the fine line of dealing with slums and making real estate available for development.

I hope our debate goes beyond populistic sentiments to concrete, issue-based debate.

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That particular photo showing a half-fallen skyscrapper in Lagos central business district (CBD) does not depict a slum dwelling. Lagos CBD is supposedly Nigeria's financial hot bed. Thus the picture is Lagos in 2007.

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At first, when I saw the picture of the skyscraper on the front page, I thought "Wow, we have really developed o! That is one really creative curved roof design."

But then I took a closer look... and I was shocked at what I realised.

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A few months ago i was in Hong Kong and China. Other than the world class airports and finer places. I also saw their slums. Those slums are not "images of Hong Kong". A few blocks from White House and the hallowed halls of the US Congress lie the slums of Washington D.C. Those are not the "images of Washington D.C." Anyone flying into Dubai in UAE at night would say that one is descending into the pearly gates. But a brief taxi ride downtown one runs into the slums of Dubai. But that is not the "images of Dubai" The author lives in the UK. I have had the dubious honor of seeing the slums of London. They are not the "images of London"

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udokaamah, my dear:

..abegi go bring your pictorial illustrative evidence to support dis your bogus/dishonest statements..me want see, too....i have been to all dis places you mentioned..me never see dat kind of slums wey we get for lagos..even their slums better pass the best parts of lagos..at least they dey enjoy constant water, sanitation is ok, electricity dey steady..abeg komot for here befor i carry you go drop for lagos....bushman!