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'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi

[size=14pt]When you think that in only 20 years, there’s been such a change in Lagos … cities actually grow faster than humans now. You can develop a whole city in less than 20 years. And in 20 years, Lagos has almost completely transformed itself. Why panic?[/size]

Photo: ‘Maybe there’s a hybrid: the market-mall?’ ... visualisation for a proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge. Illustration: Courtesy OMA
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/26/lagos-rem-koolhaas-kunle-adeyemi

OfficialAwol:
You expect me, or any nairalander to read this?

You must be on a long thing......

Next time, speak for yourself and yourself alone.

I read every letter.

Orikinla:
You have a big problem with logical understanding.
You don't know Lagos.
The Financial Times reporter spent months in Lagos and visited many of the places before writing his report. But you did not even read it before posting your ignorant comment.

You copy and paste photographs of few isolated cases of the failures of few Chairmen of LGAs in Lagos State and want to blame Fashola for that?
What percent of such cases exist compared to the overall development of Lagos State when Fashola was the Governor?

Please save yourself the stress of blowing dogo turenchi.
Na who big vocabulary don epp?
While you posted a news story of seven years ago from an individual journalist who was likely PAID from the taxes of hard working. long suffering Lagosians, below is a ranking of the WORST cities in the world.

Omooba77:
A report released yesterday by The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Lagos as the third worst city to live, maintaining its position at the lowest rungs of the Global Liveability index.


Several other global reports had also said that Lagos, with a population of over 22 million, would in the next few years, become the 4th mega city in the world, with a population of over 30 million.

The city placed 138th out of the 140 cities ranked in the latest liveability survey, just above war-ravaged Tripoli and Damascus.

“Of the poorer-scoring cities, 13 continue to occupy the very bottom tier of liveability, where ratings fall below 50 percent and most aspects of living are severely restricted.

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Steve Ayorinde, Lagos State Commissioner for Information, could not be reached for comments last night as phone calls and text messages to his mobile number yielded no response..


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/lagos-ranks-worlds-3rd-worst-city-live/

After 17 years of ProgreTHIEF looting of the state of excellence that is what we have- persistently consistent WORST ranking of liveability.
Please keep your LIES to yourself and the zombies whose gullibility encourage you to spew such rubbish trash.

dytbabe:
Dec 26, 2014

I am not a politician nor trying to promote any party
But lagos island is in a MESS

I came here for holidays and mehn, words can't simply express it

I was told this has been on for over 6months, ppeople dying and crying for help but non forthcoming
That water stinks

I am so angry, that I had to step out to take pictures.

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Orikinla:
'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi

When you think that in only 20 years, there’s been such a change in Lagos … cities actually grow faster than humans now. You can develop a whole city in less than 20 years. And in 20 years, Lagos has almost completely transformed itself. Why panic?

You need to refund the money of whoever paid you for this image laundering work for Barawo Rogue Fashole.
Below is the comment of someone about the Sailor's Lounge bar in Lekki Phase 1 as of January this year i.e. some seven months ago and the response of the Manger in March i.e. five months ago.

Went in for drinks and everything was a bit sticky, glasses not quite clean. Didn't want to eat there. Garbage in the water between the patio and ramp leading to the seating on the water. Maybe there was a huge party the night before, don't know, will pass on a return visit.

Visited January 2016


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Temitope O, Manager at Sailor's Lounge, responded to this review, March 11, 2016

Thanks for the honest review, we truly appreciate your comments, as it makes us better. Your complaints are duly noted and extreme measure have already been put in place to avoid a repeat. Also, due to the fact we built the floating bar on water, we occasionally have issues of dirt passing by, nevertheless, measures have also been put in place to ensure the passing dirt does not stay.

From: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g304026-d7291430-Reviews-Sailor_s_Lounge-Lagos_Lagos_State.html#review_345649593

Ogbeche77:
Trash... Let's stop celebrating mediocrity in Naija.. This is why this reckless politicains take the populace for granted.. Lagos has far more potential & BRF didn't do anything spectacular... This we have come to realize after his 8 years as governor.. Lagos is a modern day ghetto, public infrastructure is zero, open sewage/gutters, bad waste management, lax public servants..

I expected an informed man like BRF to have laid the framework for an efficient metro system in Lagos, a city of this population can not thrive well without metro regardless of the KMs of new road built, but even a tram line has taken 9 years to construct & still not fully functional...

If only you knew where Lagos was coming from. Prior to his tenure, Lagos was nothing but a disaster. A cluster of functionless dirt. Heading over 20 million heterogeneous people within that small geographic space and having the braveness to do what Fashola did in my opinion is not mediocrity.
Let's give it to him whatever credit he got, he deserved.

Ajibel:
What an interesting read. Sometimes I read on NL by some set of folks that Fashola was over-hyped in Lagos and was a media governor.

I just grin at the clowns who've never stepped into Lasgidi.

Which Lasgidi?
The one where even the so-called big boys drink their own sewage inside water seeping into their i-better-pass-my-neighbour boreholes?
Who is the clown that should be grinned at now?

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

From: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawm...rporation-low/

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4 bedroom Townhouse for rent in Agungi. Lekki
Lekki, Lagos Added at 15:09, 13 August 2016, Ad ID: 1000985078

Rent: N3,900,000.00 per annum
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• 4 water tanks of sizes, 5000 Liters and 3000Litres on the ground
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• Small garden strip at the side and in front of the house
• Generator Port
• Good sized security /gateman house
• Large Car port
• LAWMA trash can
• Prewired for 8 Security Cameras round the house perimeter
. Small room outside that can be used for storage or as renter
wishes

More from: https://www./ad/4-bedroom-townhouse-for-rent-in-agungi-lekki-ID15K1VC.html

Bolustic:
Not even Obiano (I'm looking for trouble ) and other PDP governors will perform better than BRF in 16 years (if allowed). Give us a balanced critique and not your politically beclouded sentiments.

Balanced critique of a barefaced thief?
Is it that you have a comprehension deficiency or you just learnt the words balanced critique and had to use it at the first opportunity that presented itself
Otherwise how can you type all that LAWMA trash for a man responsible for this shit?

anonimi:
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More pathetic pictures from this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/2003828/unbelievable-pictures-awori-college-ojo


If I am not mistaken the Eko Project is the $90 million loan from the World Bank that Fashola did not want to disclose how it was spent because "FoI does not apply to Lagos state"

anonimi:


Which Lasgidi?
The one where even the so-called big boys drink their own sewage inside water seeping into their i-better-pass-my-neighbour boreholes?
Who is the clown that should be grinned at now?

What the _fuck are you talking about sir?

Don't you realize that Lagos had so many challenges in the past and successive governments can only improve on what their predecessor had done. BRF obviously couldn't touch every nook and cranny of Lagos state but he did his utmost best to continue with Tinubu's foundation.

Are you aware the of the challenges of giving every Lagosians pipe-borne water into their homes. The government was aware of the challenges and have in their Lagos state developmental plan outlined steps to be taken to make water supply available in the homes of every Lagosian. That cannot be achieved in 8 years. Fash had started it by building new waterworks and dedicated IPPs to power them and it is now the responsibility of Ambode to look at improving the water supply shortage and learn from the past government mistakes and improve on the delivery.

I don't get your bitterness about Lagos. You are always everywhere to _bitch about Lagos sir. You need to change that attitude online. You are known for this on NL.

Ajibel:
What the _fuck are you talking about sir?

Don't you realize that Lagos had so many challenges in the past and successive governments can only improve on what their predecessor had done. BRF obviously couldn't touch every nook and cranny of Lagos state but he did his utmost best to continue with Tinubu's foundation.

Are you aware the of the challenges of giving every Lagosians pipe-borne water into their homes. The government was aware of the challenges and have in their Lagos state developmental plan outlined steps to be taken to make water supply available in the homes of every Lagosian. That cannot be achieved in 8 years. Fash had started it by building new waterworks and dedicated IPPs to power them and it is now the responsibility of Ambode to look at improving the water supply shortage and learn from the past government mistakes and improve on the delivery.

I don't get your bitterness about Lagos. You are always everywhere to _bitch about Lagos sir. You need to change that attitude online. You are known for this on NL.

Convince yourself first before you try to confuse me & others, you hear!
The progreTHIEF administrators of Lagos state hold themselves out as EXCELLENT, not so?
Go and find out the meaning of excellent and come back here to discuss, okay?
In case you choose to be ignorant, let me help you with facts:

- Annual budget increased over 10 times from N42 billion in 2000 to N489.69 billion in 2015. The state budget has been consistently above N450 billion since 2011.
- Annual IGR increased over 53 times from N7.2 billion in 1999 to N384.26 billion in 2013.

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/09/nbs-data-show-lagos-outperforms-13-other-states-in-igr/#.VR56mNzF82E

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[size=14pt]With a GDP of US$95 billion Lagos has an economy nearly twice the size of Kenya’s-East Africa’s biggest economy.[/size]

Lagos Apapa Port located in Tin Can Island is one of the biggest in Africa, generating over N3 trillion in annual revenue.

The Ikoyi Bridge is one of the most beautiful in Africa and the first Cable Suspension Bridge in West Africa. It took 3 years to build.

Lagos: Africa’s 5th Biggest Economy.
Posted on March 8, 2016 by Perestroika
https://ourtimeiscome.com/2016/03/08/lagos-africas-5th-biggest-economy/

Urban resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.

Resilience is about surviving and thriving, regardless of the challenge.
http://www.100resilientcities.org/#/-_/


Photos Credits: Perestroika
https://ourtimeiscome.com/2016/03/08/lagos-africas-5th-biggest-economy/ and Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima.

clevadani:
It is not a coincidence that our only functioning state has never been governed by Pdp

Please tell us what is functioning with vote-riggers and fraudulent rogues?
Take just this CCTV recycling corruption for one example only oh!

proudly9ja:
Apr 05, 2009

The Lagos State Govt launches 10,000 CCTV cameras for her Safe City Project.

Very laudible in my opinion




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZd744ITJK4

And then again in 2016, Amb-Ole also "bought" another set of 10,000 CCTV for the "sophisticated" Lagosians.

donglazy:
The Lagos State Government yesterday said it had concluded plans to install 10,000 Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras statewide as part of measures to ensure that the state is secure against the activities of terrorists in the light of the insurgency rocking the country

Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, said this while giving a breakdown of the 2016 budget, tagged ’The Peoples’ Budget’, saying the government will also activate the existing 1,000 CCTV cameras already installed in the state.

According to him, “We will be expanding our ICT infrastructure statewide. Consequently, a budget of N9.6 billion has been approved for this purpose in 2016. This will include a Smart City project targeted at deploying technology to enhance security in the state. It will also aid our revenue generating efforts.

“We will be increasing coverage of CCTV installations in the state. Our goal is to have over 10,000 active cameras, connected by Broadband. The existing 1,000 cameras will be reactivated and these will be increased by an additional 3,000 cameras after the completion of the first phase of this project.”

Speaking on the need to beef up security and maintain law and order, the Commissioner said ”We are all aware of the security challenges in the country, and to manage this in the state we have committed about N23.5 billion for the maintenance of law and order, and to support security services in the area of vehicles, security gadgets and logistics.

“We shall continue to enhance the welfare of our security agents by providing allowances, fuelling of patrol vehicles and giving adequate life insurance covers to motivate them in 2016. We will provide more buildings for Police Area Commands in our state to enhance their performance. This budget also includes projects that will enhance security of lives and property in other areas of governance as previously enumerated.

“You will recall that this administration handed over equipment worth N4.765 billion to the Lagos State Police Command in the last quarter of 2015. In addition to the activities mentioned earlier, we have also made provisions for the completion of on-going court projects in Igando, Imota, Ajegunle, as well as Judges’ Quarters at Falomo, to complement those that had been completed.”

The Commissioner added that attention will be given to improving disaster management, purchase of firefighting, occupational and public safety equipment, and the construction of new fire stations and relief camps across the state.

Ashade said geographic information systems and business solutions will be given special attention in the course of the year.

According to him, activities to be covered under the platform include the expansion of the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency (LASRRA) residents’ registration exercise, the issuance of permanent resident’s cards, and the consolidation of public financial management system reforms.

He said the sum of N6.5 billion has been provided for in the budget for 2016.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/lagos-to-install-10000-cctv-cameras-across-state/

anonimi:


Convince yourself first before you try to confuse me & others, you hear!
The progreTHIEF administrators of Lagos state hold themselves out as EXCELLENT, not so?
Go and find out the meaning of excellent and come back here to discuss, okay?
In case you choose to be ignorant, let me help you with facts:









www.nairaland.com/attachments/3043814_facebook20151105005801_jpeg1027baba4e35e791f3661e85d47d5487

Do you realise that Lagos increase in revenue brings about an increase in population which in turn leads to pressure on existing infrastructures in the state?

So if you are thinking that Lagos revenue would be able to cater for the deficiencies in infrastructure, sir, then you are the one who I'm sorry to say is ignorant.

complete nonsense!

thesicilian:
Lagos has indeed been blessed with what most other states in Nigeria lack : 17 solid years of uninterrupted good governance.

Yes Fashola tried but he is corrupt as other governor.
Imagine using the statement of "I don't sign checks" to coverup frauds cases about unseen water-projects.
What about the 5yrs light rail project? (remember when FG wanted to take full control of it because of the fraud cases even Julius Berger pulled out of it) Remember FG is paying back the money Lagos State used for the uncompleted project ... Ambode had to re-budget for it. Still it's just 40% done

[b]

REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT
ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR
YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which
houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house
hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the
state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College
of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije,
Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo,
Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste
Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase
water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which
was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159
million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher
equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict
vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per
day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-
Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way,
Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat
road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby
creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of
Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification
with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan
Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured
genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this
policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around
the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with
533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he
met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students
(against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum
of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he
had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba
Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the
lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch
of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State
Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management
Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme
which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH
REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF
THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
[/b]

Bonus:
https://www.nairaland.com/3287505/best-governor-lagos-state-ever#48475577

tinkinjow:
I'm highly critical of how people report issues. TRANSFORMED in what way? If Fasholas effort in lagos deserves commendation then he should be commended.
With new roads built, oshodi cleared, bus stops erected etc all in all the infrastructures put in place wouldn't amount to that sweeping statement of transformation.
The lagos we know haven't change one bit: the extortion by area boys at bus stops; the dirt and blocked gutters; the worsening traffic jams; the continued indiscipline by road users n general public; beggars nuisance; the noise n pollution; the no solution floodings; the.... it goes on and on and that is the Lagos we've always known and are still seeing. Lagos hasn't bn transform one bit.
The skyline hasn't change
The ground level hasn't change
The air quality isn't better
Lagosians attitudes hasn't change

So where comes the TRANSFORMED. In fact lagos is as enmeshed in its old self as ever.

I am certain you fall into either of three groups 1. You were born in the 80's 2. You don't live in Lagos or 3. The area you live in hasn't been touched yet. ( hard to believe) Because you don't come across as a liar, I wager a cross between points 1 and 2

AZeD1:
What Nigeria lacks, is what Lagos has: Continuity.
That's the reason why for the foreseeable future, every governor in Lagos would look excellent.

And you think it is only in Lagos state that has continuity since the inception of democracy in 1999.....Go and check record before you swerve

Jengem:
Fashole


A great thief

Exactly! That clueless man raped Lagos financially

Ajibel:
Do you realise that Lagos increase in revenue brings about an increase in population which in turn leads to pressure on existing infrastructures in the state?

So if you are thinking that Lagos revenue would be able to cater for the deficiencies in infrastructure, sir, then you are the one who I'm sorry to say is ignorant.

Is it not the increased population that rather leads to increased revenue or WHO do you think generates the revenue? Is it the land by itself or the people working the land?
Think, bro, think! Haba!!!
Meanwhile, below is a brief synopsis of Jakande's achievement with much less per capita revenue/budget some 35 years ago.

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
[img]http://4.bp..com/-V0NhGHyjMG8/UWlggCCvKbI/AAAAAAAAAXA/8W0vlN0V5o8/s1600/jakande2.jpg[/img]

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

Lagos is a cosmopolitan city built by all Nigerians and foreigners in Lagos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU5LtF3DCz4

lexyclasy:
And you think it is only in Lagos state that has continuity since the inception of democracy in 1999.....Go and check record before you swerve

Can you point out were in my statement i said its only Lagos that has continuity?
Every man and his dog knows Delta State doesn't lack continuity.

Orikinla:
Photos Credits: Perestroika
https://ourtimeiscome.com/2016/03/08/lagos-africas-5th-biggest-economy/ and Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima.


www.nairaland.com/attachments/4168306_Lagos10_jpgfa8fd96d4ff81fce98265f8acfd5d04b

E be like sey your oyoyo photos don dey finish as you dey repeat old ones just like the 2009 sponsored journalist's article that is your OP.

Orikinla:
Lagos is a cosmopolitan city built by all Nigerians and foreigners in Lagos.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4168636_Lagos10_jpgfa8fd96d4ff81fce98265f8acfd5d04b

Orikinla:
They are reading it, because they are not lazy members like some people we know comment first without even reading.

Maybe they are not all lazy.
Maybe they have read it several times before since it first appeared in 2009 just like your recycled, repeated non-representative pictures.
Maybe they also know it is a bunch of LIES that was paid for to polish the dirty image of the fraudster minister of darkness.



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tinkinjow:
I'm highly critical of how people report issues. TRANSFORMED in what way? If Fasholas effort in lagos deserves commendation then he should be commended.
With new roads built, oshodi cleared, bus stops erected etc all in all the infrastructures put in place wouldn't amount to that sweeping statement of transformation.
The lagos we know haven't change one bit: the extortion by area boys at bus stops; the dirt and blocked gutters; the worsening traffic jams; the continued indiscipline by road users n general public; beggars nuisance; the noise n pollution; the no solution floodings; the.... it
goes on and on and that is the Lagos we've always known and are still seeing. Lagos hasn't bn transform one bit.
The skyline hasn't change
The ground level hasn't change
The air quality isn't better
Lagosians attitudes hasn't change

So where comes the TRANSFORMED. In fact lagos is as enmeshed in its old self as ever.

Which part of Lagos do you reside?

Yet, the only university owned by the Lagos State government, Lagos State University (LASU) suffered massive deaccreditation of its academic programs. More than half of its programmes were deaccredited by NUC.

The once leading law faculty in the entire country has now stopped admission into its law degree programme even while a senior lawyer was running the state.

That is how 'transformed' Lagos has been.

[size=14pt]It is really a problem discussing with people who don't read before commenting.
The author of the report is Matthew Green and he is an expert and it is only rational to read the report instead of making off point childish comments out of context of the subject matter.
He did not say Fashola as Governor made Lagos into heaven on earth. He reported what the residents of Lagos State said on how he transformed Lagos.
The transformation of the notorious Oshodi bus stop is enough for millions of people in Lagos who dread the old Oshodi.
If you have personal scores to settle with Fashola, please, take the nearest flight to Abuja and go and confront him with your grievances and petitions.
Stop posting irrelevant and illogical comments like primary school boys arguing in a public school.

The following is the biographical profile of the author and if you cannot match his proven educational and professional qualifications, please don't argue like intellectual illiterates.

Matthew Green (born 17 October 1975) is a British journalist and author. He was raised in Hampton Middlesex where he attended Hampton School before he studied African politics at Oxford University and spent five years on the ground in East Africa reporting for Reuters. He is currently the South Asia Security Correspondent for the Financial Times.Matthew’s first book, entitled The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted, documents his search through the war zone of Uganda for Joseph Kony, the mysterious rebel leader known for abducting children and using them as child soldiers.

From 2007 to 2009, he was based in Lagos as the West Africa correspondent for the Financial Times. In September 2009, Matthew took up a new assignment as the FT's South Asia Security Correspondent, covering Afghanistan and Pakistan from Kabul and Islamabad. He also reported from the frontline in the last Iraq War whilst embedded with US marines.

http://matthewgreenjournalism.com/category/financial-times/

'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi

When you think that in only 20 years, there’s been such a change in Lagos … cities actually grow faster than humans now. You can develop a whole city in less than 20 years. And in 20 years, Lagos has almost completely transformed itself. Why panic?

Photo: ‘Maybe there’s a hybrid: the market-mall?’ ... visualisation for a proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge. Illustration: Courtesy OMA
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/26/lagos-rem-koolhaas-kunle-adeyemi

Kunlé Adeyemi (born 7 April 1976) is a Nigerian architect, urbanist and creative researcher. Adeyemi is founder and principal of NLÉ, an architecture, design and urbanism practice, based in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Adeyemi studied at the University of Lagos in Nigeria and Princeton University in New Jersey, the United States. Before starting his own office in the Netherlands, he worked nearly a decade at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunl%C3%A9_Adeyemi

World famous architect Rem Koolhaas co-produced "Lagos Wide and Close" documentary with Bregtje van der Haak. It was based on research by Koolhaas’ Harvard Project on the City and he is the author of "Lagos: How It Works" (Paperback – 1 Mar 2007)
"Lagos: How it Works" is the result of more than eight years of research in Lagos, Nigeria. As a symbol of West African urbanism, Lagos contradicts almost every defining feature of the "modernâ city. And yet itâs a city that works.
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your second picture was posted online by me sometime in 2011 and it is my Alma Mater Festac Grammar, the building was no more in use but has now been replaced with a modern storey building.

You're so engulfed by hate I wonder if this is the anonimi I knew in the early days of nairaland.

anonimi:


I see that you also bought into the propaganda paper development.
Sorry to disappoint you, bro.



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pheesayor:
your second picture was posted online by me sometime in 2011 and it is my Alma Mater Festac Grammar, the building was no more in use but has now been replaced with a modern storey building.

You're so engulfed by hate I wonder if this is the anonimi I knew in the early days of nairaland.

Thanks for the clarification about the 2011 picture. However there are many schools that still have such deplorable buildings and the APC administration has done very little for education in their 17 years of complete and total rule of Lagos state.
It is not about hate. It is about deception and the need to ensure our leaders do the best with our money. Is that a bad thing

OfficialAwol:
You expect me, or any nairalander to read this?

You must be on a long thing......

I read every single bit of it. FYI, am not jobless, am just attracted to write ups that adds value to my knowledge base.

anonimi:


Thanks for the clarification about the 2011 picture. However there are many schools that still have such deplorable buildings and the APC administration has done very little for education in their 17 years of complete and total rule of Lagos state.
It is not about hate. It is about deception and the need to ensure our leaders do the best with ouperfo money. Is that a bad thing

You can't tell me little has been done about education. My secondary school is not the same way it was when I left, there has been a new building, better lab and ICT equipments, teachers are better motivated increased and students performance is improved. In those days we bought our desks but today the govt provides then, etc

pheesayor:


You can't tell me little has been done about education. My secondary school is not the same way it was when I left, there has been a new building, better lab and ICT equipments, teachers are better motivated increased and students performance is improved. In those days we bought our desks but today the govt provides then, etc

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Thank you.