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Billionaire daughter Adama Indimi release more photos from recent shoot

D'banj's former boo looking stunning in new photos she just shared. See more photos below:

Photos from BBA's Lilian's Homecoming party yesterday

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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Li<span style="line-height: 115%;">lilan Afegbai </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">recently became one of the latest housemates to leave
the </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Big
Brother Africa Hotshot</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">s
house. As is the custom, MultiChoice Nigeria threw her a homecoming party upon
her return to Nigeria. The party took place at Fuse Bar and
Lounge, in Victoria Island, Lagos.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Speaking with the media
shortly before the commencement of the party, Lilian said she was shocked at being evicted so soon</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">"</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I was shocked when IK announced that I have been
evicted from the house, my fans were also in shock but I have come to accept
that my awesome experience in the BBA house forms the bedrock for my talent and
career development in showbiz</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">not
just in Nigeria but across the continent." </span></span></span></blockquote>
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Photos from BBA's Lilian's Homecoming party yesterday

Li lilan Afegbai recently became one of the latest housemates to leave the Big Brother Africa Hotshot s house. As is the custom, MultiChoi...

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In a piece titled "Meet The Man Who Tamed Nigeria's Most Lawless City", UK <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11184759/Meet-the-man-who-tamed-Nigerias-most-lawless-city.html?fb" target="_blank">Telegraph</a> chronicles how Governor Fashola came into 
office and transformed Lagos and also how he effectively managed the 
Ebola epidermic in the state. Read below...<br />
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He famously claims to be "just doing his job". But in a land where 
  politicians are known for doing anything but, that alone has been enough to 
  make Babatunde Fashola, boss of the vast Nigerian city of Lagos, a very 
  popular man. 
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Confounding the image of Nigerian leaders as corrupt and incompetent, the 
  51-year-old governor has won near-celebrity status for transforming west 
  Africa's biggest city, cleaing up its crime-ridden slums and declaring war 
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Next month, he will come to London to meet business leaders and Mayor Boris 
  Johnson's officials, wooing investors with talk of how he has spent the last 
  seven years building new transport hubs and gleaming business parks.<br />
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Yet arguably his biggest achievement in office took place just last week, and 
  was done without a bulldozer in sight. That was when <strong>his 
  country was officially declared free of Ebola</strong>, which first spread to <strong>Nigeria</strong> 
  three months ago when Patrick Sawyer, an infected Liberian diplomat, flew 
  into Lagos airport.<br />
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Health officials had long feared that the outbreak, which has already claimed 
  nearly 5,000 lives elsewhere in west Africa, would reach catastrophic 
  proportions were it to spread through Lagos. One of the largest cities in 
  the world, it is home to an estimated 17 million people, many of them living 
  in sprawling shanty towns that would have become vast reservoirs for 
  infection. To make matters worse, when the outbreak first happened, medics 
  were on strike. <br />

Instead, Mr Fashola turned a looming disaster into a public health and PR 
  triumph. Breaking off from a trip overseas, he took personal charge of the 
  operation to track down and quarantine nearly 1,000 people feared to have 
  been infected since Mr Sawyer's arrival.<br />

Last week, what would have been a formidably complex operation in any country 
  came to a successful end, when the World Health Organisation announced that 
  since Nigeria had had no new cases for six weeks, it was now officially rid 
  of the virus.<br />

"This is a spectacular success story," said Rui Gama Vaz, a WHO 
  spokesman, who prompted an applause when he broke the news at a press 
  conference in Nigeria <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1521278324" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span>. "It shows that Ebola can be contained.<br />

The WHO announcement was a rare glimmer of hope in the fight against Ebola, 
  and even rarer vote of confidence in a branch of the Nigerian government, 
  which was heavily criticised over its response to the abduction of more than 
  200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgent group in April. As a columninst 
  in Nigeria's Leadership newspaper put it last week: "For once, we did 
  not underachieve."
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For Mr Fashola's many supporters, it is also yet more proof that the 
  51-year-old ex-lawyer is a future president in the making, a much-needed 
  technocrat in a country dominated far too long by ageing "Big Men" 
  and ex-generals.<br />

"He is the best governor we have ever had," said Odun Babalola, a 
  Lagos-based pension fund portfolio manager. "He's made a lot of 
  progress in schools, railways, and infrastructure, and unlike a lot of 
  politicians, who are corrupt, he's a good administrator."<br />

True, the successful tackling of the Ebola outbreak was not Mr Fashola's doing 
  alone. For a start, the doctor's strike that was under way when Mr Sawyer 
  collapsed at Lagos airport turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Rather 
  than being taken to one of Lagos's vast public hospitals, where he might 
  have languished for hours and infected numerous fellow patients and staff, 
  he was instead admitted to a private clinic. There he was seen by a 
  sharp-eyed consultant, Stella Adadevoh, who spotted that his symptoms were 
  not malaria as had been first thought.<br />

She then alerted the Nigerian health ministry, and along with other doctors 
  physically restrained Sawyer when he became aggressive and tried to leave 
  the hospital to fly to another Nigerian city. Her quick thinking help stop 
  the virus being spread more widely, but also cost her her life: she caught 
  Ebola herself while treating Mr Sawyer, and has now been recommended for a 
  national award. <br />

But even by the time Mr Sawyer had been isolated, the virus was already on the 
  loose. Knowing that he had passed through one of the busiest airports in 
  west Africa, health officials had to try to track down every single person 
  who had potentially been infected by him, including the other passengers on 
  his flight. The list started at 281 people and grew to nearly 1,000. as 
  eight others whom he turned out to have passed the virus to subsequently 
  died.<br />

That was where Mr Fashola stepped in. He broke off from a pilgrimage to Mecca, 
  flew home and then helped set up an Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, which 
  spearheaded the mammoth task of monitoring all those potentially infected. A 
  team of 2,000 officials were trained for the task, who ended up knocking on 
  26,000 doors. At one point the governor was being briefed up to ten times a 
  day by disease control experts. He made a point of visiting the country's 
  Ebola treatment centre, a way of communicating to the Nigerian public that 
  they should not panic needlessly.<br />

"Command and control is very important in fighting disease outbreaks, and 
  he provided effective leadership," said Dr Ike Anya, a London-based 
  Nigerian public health expert. "He also said exactly the right things, 
  urging for the need to keep calm. Regardless of whether you support his 
  politics, he has been very effective as a governor and I would be happy to 
  see him stand for leadership."<br />

Born into a prominent Muslim family but married to a Christian, Mr Fashola 
  trained as a lawyer and went into politics after being appointed chief of 
  staff by the previous Lagos governor, Asiwaju Tinubu, a powerful politician 
  often described as Mr Fashola's "Godfather". But while he has long 
  enjoyed the backing of a political "Big Man", is his role as a 
  rare defender of Nigeria's "Little Men" that has won him most 
  support.<br />

Once, while driving through Lagos in his convoy, he famously stopped an army 
  colonel who was driving illegally in one of the governor's newly-built bus 
  lanes, berating him in front of television cameras. <br />

"The bus is for those who cannot afford to buy cars," he said. "I 
  want a zero tolerance of lawlesness, and those who don't want to comply can 
  leave our state."<br />

It was one of the first times Nigerians had ever seen a civil servant 
  confronting a member of the security forces, whose fondness for committing 
  crime rather than fighting it has long contributed to Lagos's legendary 
  reputation for lawlessness.<br />

Armed robberies - sometimes by moonlighting police - used to be so common that 
  few people ventured out after dark. Foreign businessmen would routinely 
  travel with armed escorts, and the few willing to live there would stay 
  mainly in a heavily-guarded diplomatic area called Victoria Island, a rough 
  equivalent to Baghdad's Green Zone. Add to that the suffocating smog, 
  widespread squalor and regular three-hour traffic jams, and it was no 
  suprise that the city had a reputation as one of the worst places in the 
  world to live.<br />

Today, much of the problems remain. But members of the vast Nigerian diaspora 
  say they now notice big changes whenever they go back. "When you return 
  you see an absolute difference - things have improved 100 per cent," 
  said Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian journalist and businessman. "Traffic 
  is not what it used to be, bus lanes have been introduced, and it feels a 
  lot safer. Fashola has been like a Tory mayor for Lagos - he is trying to 
  make it attractive to the well-off." <br />

Styling himself as Lagos's answer to Boris Johnson has not endeared him to 
  everyone. As well as laying plans for a vast offshore business park intended 
  as an "African Dubai", he has accelerated programs to clear the 
  ever-expanding shanty towns, ordering their occupants to return to their 
  homes in Nigeria's poorest east and north. That has led to criticism from 
  human rights groups, although others say it is hard to see how Lagos will 
  ever improve otherwise. "Do I endorse it?" said Mr Nels. "I 
  am afraid it is a bit of a necessary evil."<br />

Another big achievement has been increasing tax revenues, vital in a city 
  where the GDP of $43 billion makes it the fifth-biggest economy in 
  sub-Saharan Africa. Mr Fashola has tried to sweeten the pill by putting up 
  signs on all new infrasructure projects, saying "paid for by your taxes". 
  It is a rare acknowledgement of gratitude in a country where a guaranteed 
  stream of state oil wealth has historically allowed rulers to remain aloof 
  from the ruled.<br />

However, despite being relected with 80 per cent of the vote in 2011, the main 
  hailed as Nigeria's brightest political hope in years is far from guaranteed 
  a life in office. Having served two terms in office already, he is not 
  allowed to run as Lagos governor again. And as a member of a minority tribe 
  and the country's opposition All Progressives Congress, he currently lacks 
  the political backing to go head to head against Goodluck Jonathan in next 
  year's elections.<br />

In the meantime, fresh from ridding Lagos of Ebola, he is focusing on an 
  arguably even tougher challenge, launching a new initiative to stop 
  motorists stuck in traffic jams from blasting their horns all day. As he put 
  it: "If we can overcome Ebola, then we can overcome noise pollution."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">She posted this on her instagram page…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I
 knew I had become matured when I realised every situation does not need
 a reaction. Sometimes you just ‘gotta’ leave people to do the lame 
sh**t they do”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After her 
crashed marriage, actress, Ini Edo has bounced back in style. The 
actress has put her travails behind her and has even promised her fans 
that she won’t allow her failed marriage to deprive her of happiness.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reports emerged during the week that Ini had taken delivery of a brand new 2014 G-wagon, which she has denied in a chat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ini Edo, in a
 recent post on her instagram page, said she had moved on with her life 
and would not want to be dragged into the issue any further, a 
development which may have put to rest many questions on the minds of 
her fans. Many of her fans have continued to ask the actress why she 
walked out of her marriage. Some even suggested that she should have 
continued to endure before she decided to dump her marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ini Edo is 
said to be on location for a new movie is said to be only interested on 
her career for now. The actress recently said that she had realised that
 “every situation does not need a reaction,” apparently responding to 
some of the questions being thrown to her by her fans.</span>

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TheTruth About Ali Baba Finally Reveals, (Things You Didn’t Know About Him)

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif;">Ali Baba, 
one of Nigeria’s foremost pioneers of comedy, was a guest on Olisa 
Adibua’s “The Truth” and he spoke about how he started his career:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He has become quite the compère as he has carved a niche himself as a comedian for both corporate and non-corporate events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to him, he has been in comedy officially for 25 years and he charges between N4million and free for his services.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Asked how 
much he made last year, he replied: “You get to a point in your career 
you don’t make as much, you do less shows and are involved in a lot of 
charity events. A lot more is expected of you.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On who his 
favourite Nigerian comedian is, he mentioned four, Bovi, Basketmouth, 
Buchi and Gordons. “I judge comedians by different standards,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Asked how he
 deals with temptations, he said he has a criteria which are, the lady 
must have an MBA, be older than 45, own a house of her own on the 
Island, not a rented apartment and must be widely travelled. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“She also 
has to have a cerebral endowment… Your mind should be robust enough for 
you and I to sit down switch off the TV and carry on a conversation for 
like 20-30 minutes and not run out of things to talk about,” he 
disclosed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can watch the video below:</span></div>
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I Met Niyola In A Bathroom- Banky W gushes About How They Met

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banky W for 
the first time gushed about his first lady, Niyola. Niyola who is EME 
records first lady is a very talented R and B singer and her boss Banky,
 could not hold her talent all to himself, he decided to bring her out 
to the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In his 
words; “I was walking to the bathroom of an event center 1 day, and a 
voice from the female bathroom stopped me dead in my tracks. It was the 
most beautiful female voice I'd heard in person. I waited outside until 
the girl came out, and I introduced myself to Niyola. We became friends,
 and over the years I always felt like she would be an amazing artist if
 she just had a different musical environment around her. A different 
support system to help her be better. And now that she's with EME, 
that's slowly but surely coming true. Youtube & see for yourself 
that "Toh Bad" was The best r&b video of the past year... please 
help me help her win this. Take 2 mins of your time” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her sojourn 
into music began in 2000, when she emerged runner up at the Amen Starlet
 Competition. In 2005, Niyola began her professional music career and 
was briefly affiliated with eLDee’s Trybe’s Records, following that she 
put pen to paper on a production deal with Freestyle’s Make Sum Noise 
Entertainment. Niyola’s first three singles; Me n U (In da club), No 
more and Dem say were released under this imprint.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her first single under the EME records was ‘Toh Bad’ which was what made her more popular.</span><br />
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"How He started beating me 4 days after Our wedding" - wife cries out

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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A
 32-year-old woman, Mrs Pauline Ukah, has sought the dissolution of her 
marriage of nine years to her husband, Charles Ukah, before the 
Customary Court, Alagbado, in Lagos State, over his alleged 
irresponsible attitude.<br /><br />She also accused her husband of forcefully taking away their only son under the pretext of taking him to his hometown.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Four
 days after our wedding, my husband started attacking me physically. For
 the next five years, I endured the pain, thinking he would begin to 
treat me as his true love. Even when my husband got a job, he still 
didn’t make any meaningful contribution to our upkeep.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"I
 had to obtain a loan to complete our house. I have been solely 
responsible for the upkeep of our children. Most of the time, I would go
 on commercial motorbike from Lagos Island where I work to Meiran. But 
rather than empathise with me, my husband would lock the door against 
me, thereby making me to enter the room through the window.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Some
 time ago, when I was duped N5 million by some conmen, who wanted to 
help us obtain United States visa, my husband called me a prostitute. On
 that day, they asked us to put all our money and jewellery inside a box
 and we complied. But that was the last we heard of them," Pauline told 
then court</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />She said that her husband was fond of charms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Till
 date, I don’t know why he buried his singlet in the house. When my 
husband was under some spiritual attacks and all he could see were 
reptiles, I stood by him. I took him to a hospital and footed the 
medical bills."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />In
 his response Charles, however, said: "Almost everything she said is 
true. She has been a caring wife and mother. But there is no cordial 
relationship with my in-laws. Since I lost my job, life has been tough.</span></span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Contrary
 to her claim, I don’t beat her. We only have misunderstanding once in a
 while. Each time I intend to pick our children for holidays, her mother
 chases me with a cutlass.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"It
 is a taboo in my tribe for a woman who commits adultery to still sleep 
with her husband again. My wife once confessed to having slept with a 
man who wanted to help us obtain United States visa.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"It
 was at a family meeting that they ordered me to take our only son to 
our hometown for cleansing and I did. If only my wife can cleanse 
herself, she can have our son back," Charles told the court.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />His
 wife, however, reacted, saying, "My husband was given four days to take
 our son for cleansing in his hometown. It is almost a month, but my 
husband has not brought him back. Now, I am agitated because the boy has
 always been in my custody. It’s been three years since we lived as a 
couple.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"I
 was told to cleanse myself if I was still interested in being his wife.
 Since my son has been cleansed, there shouldn’t be a problem. I have 
never fought him over any trivial issue. I always make my intentions 
known to him. God knows I am fed up; so, I want a divorce. He is free to
 see our three children whenever he wishes."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />President of the court, Mr. Olubode Sekoni, adjourned the matter till November 3.</span></span> </div>

"How He started beating me 4 days after Our wedding" - wife cries out

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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In an Article titled "Meet The Man Who Tamed Nigeria's Most Lawless City", <i><u>UKTelegraph </u></i>Explains
 how Governor Fashola became Gov. and transformed Lagos and also how he 
effectively managed the Ebola epidermic in the state.<br /><br />He famously
 claims to be "just doing his job". But in a land where politicians are 
known for doing anything but, that alone has been enough to make 
Babatunde Fashola, boss of the vast Nigerian city of Lagos, a very 
popular man.<br /><br />Confounding the image of Nigerian leaders as corrupt
 and incompetent, the 51-year-old governor has won near-celebrity status
 for transforming west Africa's biggest city, cleaing up its 
crime-ridden slums and declaring war on corrupt police and civil 
servants.<br /><br />Next month, he will come to London to meet business 
leaders and Mayor Boris Johnson's officials, wooing investors with talk 
of how he has spent the last seven years building new transport hubs and
 gleaming business parks.<br />Yet arguably his biggest achievement in 
office took place just last week, and was done without a bulldozer in 
sight. That was when his country was officially declared free of Ebola, 
which first spread to Nigeria three months ago when Patrick Sawyer, an 
infected Liberian diplomat, flew into Lagos airport.<br />Health officials
 had long feared that the outbreak, which has already claimed nearly 
5,000 lives elsewhere in west Africa, would reach catastrophic 
proportions were it to spread through Lagos. One of the largest cities 
in the world, it is home to an estimated 17 million people, many of them
 living in sprawling shanty towns that would have become vast reservoirs
 for infection. To make matters worse, when the outbreak first happened,
 medics were on strike.<br /><br />Instead, Mr Fashola turned a looming 
disaster into a public health and PR triumph. Breaking off from a trip 
overseas, he took personal charge of the operation to track down and 
quarantine nearly 1,000 people feared to have been infected since Mr 
Sawyer's arrival.<br /><br />Last week, what would have been a formidably 
complex operation in any country came to a successful end, when the 
World Health Organisation announced that since Nigeria had had no new 
cases for six weeks, it was now officially rid of the virus.<br /><br />"This
 is a spectacular success story," said Rui Gama Vaz, a WHO spokesman, 
who prompted an applause when he broke the news at a press conference in
 Nigeria on Tuesday. "It shows that Ebola can be contained.<br /><br />The 
WHO announcement was a rare glimmer of hope in the fight against Ebola, 
and even rarer vote of confidence in a branch of the Nigerian 
government, which was heavily criticised over its response to the 
abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgent group
 in April. As a columninst in Nigeria's Leadership newspaper put it last
 week: "For once, we did not underachieve."<br />For Mr Fashola's many 
supporters, it is also yet more proof that the 51-year-old ex-lawyer is a
 future president in the making, a much-needed technocrat in a country 
dominated far too long by ageing "Big Men" and ex-generals.<br /><br />"He 
is the best governor we have ever had," said Odun Babalola, a 
Lagos-based pension fund portfolio manager. "He's made a lot of progress
 in schools, railways, and infrastructure, and unlike a lot of 
politicians, who are corrupt, he's a good administrator."<br /><br />True, 
the successful tackling of the Ebola outbreak was not Mr Fashola's doing
 alone. For a start, the doctor's strike that was under way when Mr 
Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport turned out to be a blessing in 
disguise. Rather than being taken to one of Lagos's vast public 
hospitals, where he might have languished for hours and infected 
numerous fellow patients and staff, he was instead admitted to a private
 clinic. There he was seen by a sharp-eyed consultant, Stella Adadevoh, 
who spotted that his symptoms were not malaria as had been first 
thought.<br /><br />She then alerted the Nigerian health ministry, and along
 with other doctors physically restrained Sawyer when he became 
aggressive and tried to leave the hospital to fly to another Nigerian 
city. Her quick thinking help stop the virus being spread more widely, 
but also cost her her life: she caught Ebola herself while treating Mr 
Sawyer, and has now been recommended for a national award.<br /><br />But 
even by the time Mr Sawyer had been isolated, the virus was already on 
the loose. Knowing that he had passed through one of the busiest 
airports in west Africa, health officials had to try to track down every
 single person who had potentially been infected by him, including the 
other passengers on his flight. The list started at 281 people and grew 
to nearly 1,000. as eight others whom he turned out to have passed the 
virus to subsequently died.<br /><br />That was where Mr Fashola stepped in.
 He broke off from a pilgrimage to Mecca, flew home and then helped set 
up an Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, which spearheaded the mammoth 
task of monitoring all those potentially infected. A team of 2,000 
officials were trained for the task, who ended up knocking on 26,000 
doors. At one point the governor was being briefed up to ten times a day
 by disease control experts. He made a point of visiting the country's 
Ebola treatment centre, a way of communicating to the Nigerian public 
that they should not panic needlessly.<br /><br />"Command and control is 
very important in fighting disease outbreaks, and he provided effective 
leadership," said Dr Ike Anya, a London-based Nigerian public health 
expert. "He also said exactly the right things, urging for the need to 
keep calm. Regardless of whether you support his politics, he has been 
very effective as a governor and I would be happy to see him stand for 
leadership."<br /><br />Born into a prominent Muslim family but married to a
 Christian, Mr Fashola trained as a lawyer and went into politics after 
being appointed chief of staff by the previous Lagos governor, Asiwaju 
Tinubu, a powerful politician often described as Mr Fashola's 
"Godfather". But while he has long enjoyed the backing of a political 
"Big Man", is his role as a rare defender of Nigeria's "Little Men" that
 has won him most support.<br /><br />Once, while driving through Lagos in 
his convoy, he famously stopped an army colonel who was driving 
illegally in one of the governor's newly-built bus lanes, berating him 
in front of television cameras.<br /><br />"The bus is for those who cannot 
afford to buy cars," he said. "I want a zero tolerance of lawlesness, 
and those who don't want to comply can leave our state."<br /><br />It was 
one of the first times Nigerians had ever seen a civil servant 
confronting a member of the security forces, whose fondness for 
committing crime rather than fighting it has long contributed to Lagos's
 legendary reputation for lawlessness.<br /><br />Armed robberies - 
sometimes by moonlighting police - used to be so common that few people 
ventured out after dark. Foreign businessmen would routinely travel with
 armed escorts, and the few willing to live there would stay mainly in a
 heavily-guarded diplomatic area called Victoria Island, a rough 
equivalent to Baghdad's Green Zone. Add to that the suffocating smog, 
widespread squalor and regular three-hour traffic jams, and it was no 
suprise that the city had a reputation as one of the worst places in the
 world to live.<br /><br />Today, much of the problems remain. But members 
of the vast Nigerian diaspora say they now notice big changes whenever 
they go back. "When you return you see an absolute difference - things 
have improved 100 per cent," said Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian 
journalist and businessman. "Traffic is not what it used to be, bus 
lanes have been introduced, and it feels a lot safer. Fashola has been 
like a Tory mayor for Lagos - he is trying to make it attractive to the 
well-off."<br /><br />Styling himself as Lagos's answer to Boris Johnson has
 not endeared him to everyone. As well as laying plans for a vast 
offshore business park intended as an "African Dubai", he has 
accelerated programs to clear the ever-expanding shanty towns, ordering 
their occupants to return to their homes in Nigeria's poorest east and 
north. That has led to criticism from human rights groups, although 
others say it is hard to see how Lagos will ever improve otherwise. "Do I
 endorse it?" said Mr Nels. "I am afraid it is a bit of a necessary 
evil."<br /><br />Another big achievement has been increasing tax revenues, 
vital in a city where the GDP of $43 billion makes it the fifth-biggest 
economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Mr Fashola has tried to sweeten the pill 
by putting up signs on all new infrasructure projects, saying "paid for 
by your taxes". It is a rare acknowledgement of gratitude in a country 
where a guaranteed stream of state oil wealth has historically allowed 
rulers to remain aloof from the ruled.<br /><br />However, despite being 
relected with 80 per cent of the vote in 2011, the main hailed as 
Nigeria's brightest political hope in years is far from guaranteed a 
life in office. Having served two terms in office already, he is not 
allowed to run as Lagos governor again. And as a member of a minority 
tribe and the country's opposition All Progressives Congress, he 
currently lacks the political backing to go head to head against 
Goodluck Jonathan in next year's elections.<br /><br />In the meantime, 
fresh from ridding Lagos of Ebola, he is focusing on an arguably even 
tougher challenge, launching a new initiative to stop motorists stuck in
 traffic jams from blasting their horns all day. As he put it: "If we 
can overcome Ebola, then we can overcome noise pollution."</span></span> </div>

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