ZACHIE:


Village life is a peaceful life and we live within our means
We do not make a comparison with other people,s meals. Our meal is enough for us, one family at a time.
You will think England is your father,s stead.
even besides that, do we have the same earning power as The England you are comparing us to?
See this for an average hardworking Lagosian that is forced to take that Bridge each working day, he must cough out 600/day, which translates 12,000/Month and 144,000 per annum if he must use a bridge built his commonwealth money.

berem: @ naptu, am very angry with the moderators for their refusal to move that inspirational thread to front page after pleading with them to do so. So much could be learnt from that story but instead they prefer to put Tonto Dike frying akara or MC Weird not getting married on front page. smh

https://www.nairaland.com/1306519/make-n5000-daily-street-kid#15958710

Billyonaire:
The Bridge is beautiful and we should thank Fashola for putting on a thinking cap and making use of the "Federal Allocation" and "IGR" to build this bridge, but I totally disapprove the high cost of toll at that Bridge, the aim is defeated by such imposition because, it means, that only the rich like myself can afford to ply that bridge, while the poor people like Eko Ile can only trek across it. I also thank the Federal Government, for allowing Lagos State to build this bridge across her waters without litigation. Fashola should also channel his efforts to Ajegunle, Makoko and the rest of the slumps of Lagos, and alter the dirt constellating those axis of the poor and needy, so that the poor people can feel the presence of the Government.

ba7man: Is it by force to use the bridge There is a cheaper tolled route and a free route. If you can't afford it, drive past it, admire it and go take the cheaper or free route!!! What's so hard to understand there??

soledayo:
What do you mean? Why do i pay tax? It was built with tax payers money and not by any private firm.

Eko Atlantic: Ajumobi is commissioning, Fashola is commissioning, jonathan is delivering speech.

I love this democracy.

Classic.

ilugunboy:

Most of them have absolutely nothing or no reason whatsoever to use the bridge

...its all about negatively painting the govt laudable achievements even when there is no obvious reason to do such..

ZACHIE:

So we should all be mute if we do not patronize the bridge? What about the indigent few who will patronise the bridge but cannot speak up? Today it is their turn, next it will be yours.

Democracy dies when we all choose to me mute, deaf and dumb

ilugunboy:

You still don't get it...do you?

The so called indigents have other alternatives...it's not a MUST they use the bridge.

Those that pay over a thousand Naira daily at the Tarzan jetty for daily crossing to the other side via ferry won't complain.

ba7man: I even think its the operators of the Tarzan Jetty that should be here complaining because they've just given their patrons a far cheaper means of avoiding traffic.

Emmykeyz: I'm sure if it wasn't tolled the danfo drivers would pass there to escape Lekki toll! Imagine danfo traffic inside phase 1 lol

Eko Atlantic: Ajumobi is commissioning, Fashola is commissioning, jonathan is delivering speech.

I love this democracy.

ilugunboy:

With the attendant nuisances they will come along with...

ilugunboy:

Most of them have absolutely nothing or no reason whatsoever to use the bridge

...its all about negatively painting the govt laudable achievements even when there is no obvious reason to do such..

Chillypelly:

Ajimobi is comissioning a super-suspended wooden bench not a bridge... Effect the correction immediately.

Chillypelly:

Will you shout up there midget!!! Lagos is under the foot of the Igbos when our investments are to be considered. Outside Lagos every other city in the west is an abandoned project. If you are sincere you will agree that outside the federal capital city status that developed Lagos, Onisha has the largest commercial cluster in west and central africa. Interestingly Lagos was single handedly developed by the resilience of the Igbos.

naptu2: Latest update: There's a crowd of young people at the office beside the bridge. I think they are hiring toll collectors.

They are working on the canal at the end of Admiralty Road (the junction between Admiralty Road and Itedo Street). That section of Admiralty Road has been closed to traffic, but you can go around it by taking the last turning on the right. I think they want to extend the canal to the lagoon.

There was a New Towns Development Authority pickup truck on Itedo Street with lots of policemen in it. Someone in the truck was making an announcement over a loudspeaker, telling owners of shacks, stalls and shanties that had been built on the road setback to relocate because the task force would come at a later time to demolish everything on the road setback. I gathered that they've been making this same announcement for about a week now. Some people had already started dismantling their shops. I guess they want to expand and fix the road (portions of that road are in a terrible state). Remember that, during the commissioning, the governor said that they would fix the road behind the third roundabout so that motorists from Ajah would be able to use the bridge, rather than using the expressway.

Eko Ile:








With the kind of ignorant, empty and shallow quote above, I see your pain especially not getting even the same wooden bench after begging for 30 years for a common river gather bridge.

Sucks to be you people... smh..

olafolarin: FASHOLA is running Lagos ,the way Nigeria should be run.
Lagos has population, high-income areas,low income areas etc.
With Beach,banks,fun spots all clustered in and around Island.
Fashola is harnessing accruable resources from these areas to
take care of low-income areas like Mushin.

Chillypelly:

Y[s]ou remind me of the ugly days of the apartheid struggle. I will sincerely advise that you do us a favour by going into extinction cos your nuisance outweighs your relevance... Just a polite advise.[/s]

Chillypelly:

Will you shout up there midget!!! Lagos is under the foot of the Igbos when our investments are to be considered. Outside Lagos every other city in the west is an abandoned project. If you are sincere you will agree that outside the federal capital city status that developed Lagos, Onisha has the largest commercial cluster in west and central africa. Interestingly Lagos was single handedly developed by the resilience of the Igbos.

Eko Ile:








With the above kind of rhetoric, disgusting and despicable clowns like you really shouldn't be talking talking...


Please make yourself useful and go beg for some village river bridge.....

porka: Bravo to Governor Fashola and his team.

This is commendable.

One thing our politicians should emulate in the military projects is expansiveness.

It's worrying for instance that this bridge is only four-lane.

Imagine that the Third Mainland Bridge commissioned in the 1990s is eight-lane.

It cuts across all states in Nigeria, politicians only built small/tiny infrastructure only for the population to increase rapidly and render them inadequate.

Bravo though.

naptu2: I forgot. He also said the bridge will be opened to the public on June 1st, when the tents and other things used during the commissioning would have been removed[/i].