Sibrah:
Lol . . . How will naysayers sleep today?
This is one of the advantages of voting in a single party with a supervisory 'godfather' who picks the top candidates often. Tinubu maybe totally 'useless' . . . but not to 'everybody'

seguno2:


Can you share with us how the:

a) 3 Senators
b) 10 Representatives

from Lagos state in NASS dealt with this alleged federal impediment at the legislative level?
Assuming that your story is not false, GEJ would still be a venerable Saint compared to Buhari who cancelled Jakande's metro line in 1984 after jailing the poor man and paying breach of contract fines in a depressed economy.
As for Tinubu and Obasanjo on Enron barge scandal, they were simply playing politics with their foolish fellow citizens. Are they not waving their APC broom together now?
Open up to the reality, bro.
Don't let yourself be deceived any longer.

Rossikk:
The fact is that despite all her problems, Nigeria is developing, and gradually becoming a modern, 21st century nation. At the rate we're going, this country will look very different in the next 20 to 30 years.

Sibrah:
Lol . . . How will naysayers sleep today?
This is one of the advantages of voting in a single party with a supervisory 'godfather' who picks the top candidates often. Tinubu maybe totally 'useless' . . . but not to 'everybody'

aresssa:



This single issue is a major impediment. Reminds me how GEJ played politics with the Lagos Metro Rail Red Line.


Investors were ready with over 1 billion dollars to invest for the construction of the Red Line from Lagos to Ogun state, but GEJ refused to approve the Iddo station right off way which frustrated the investors till they eventually gave up...

Funny enough, Lagos state started this Metro Rail dream over 30 years ago, they broke ground and stationed heavy equipment in Yaba and even paid millions of dollars which the state lost after the FG refused to guarantee the loan and forex for the projects and this was done by the same PMB as the head of state.

Same way OBJ frustrated Tinubu's 271MW IPP which was the 1st IPP in Nigeria. Imagine Lagos state today without FG's bad bele, lack of vision and foresight and crass tribalism. I see many more Metro rail and fully developed rail system in Lagos state without that shameful and anti progress intervention by the FG 30 years ago and even Lagos state with many more IPPs today if not for the same shortsighted FG bad bele and frustration.


The only silver lining is the fact that Lagos state did not give up on their Metro rail dream, they just picked the right time to dust off their plans and resume work on the same project 30 years later..

Lagos state is not short of good and visionary leaders, the problem is always the FG.

freeborn76:


I am Yoruba, I am Lagosian from Ikorodu, yet I find your comment senseless and infantile...just commend (if you must) and buzz off! Other regions are also trying their bit...Anambra is experiencing agricultural transformation, Cross River is silently developing and the governor of Sokoto state has shown that he is visionary...stop this childish bigotry abeg, it is uncalled for.

bidexmat:
Dude, if you are refering to Lagos as Nigeria then you are right, otherwise your 20/30 years vision is a joke. Not a pessimist though, Nigeria is a dead nation state on arrival. Every other state aside lagos is redundant and two decades backward. I just wonder what lagos will become when It's Eko Atlantic city is completed. Nigeria is loaded with bunch of stubborn people with wrong thinking. When they say Nigeria is a third world country they mean lagos, the rest makes up a fourth world country. I stopped weeping for Nigeria a long time ago cos there's no need. Just work hard, live a good life, be a father to be remembered for good.

bidexmat:
Dude, if you are refering to Lagos as Nigeria then you are right, otherwise your 20/30 years vision is a joke. Not a pessimist though, Nigeria is a dead nation state on arrival. Every other state aside lagos is redundant and two decades backward. I just wonder what lagos will become when It's Eko Atlantic city is completed. Nigeria is loaded with bunch of stubborn people with wrong thinking. When they say Nigeria is a third world country they mean lagos, the rest make up a fourth world country. I stopped weeping for Nigeria a long time ago cos there's no need. Just work hard, live a good life, be a father to be remembered for good.

Rossikk:
Sorry, but that 's a load of absolute garbage you posted. Thank goodness we don't have your type in power.

bidexmat:
I would have chosen to ignore your lame thinking but I need to let you know you have said nothing to negate, rather than communicate, all you dish out of your mouth is just pathetic. I don't do rofo rofo fight kid. You will live to understand your foolishness today. Continue barking like a toothless bulldog.

Rossikk:
I could be your dad, 'kid'. You have an awful lot to learn.

Rossikk:
The fact is that despite all her problems, Nigeria is developing, and gradually becoming a modern, 21st century nation. At the rate we're going, this country will look very different in the next 20 to 30 years.

TerrorSquad147:
I've saved this comment for future reference

Ryabcool:
don't be deceived. That guy is not yoruba. He's nothing more than a troublemaker, and his views are not the opinions of yoruba people in general.

hotwax:
[size=16pt]I can see pained people posting pictures of ancient city of Ibadan. Ibadan is an old city. We are proud of it. Yes the red roof makes it unique.

What else do you have?

Lagos and Ogun state are growing everyday. Modernizing. Osun state is growing too...[/size]

seguno2:


Can you share with us how the:

a) 3 Senators
b) 10 Representatives

from Lagos state in NASS dealt with this alleged federal impediment at the legislative level?
Assuming that your story is not false, GEJ would still be a venerable Saint compared to Buhari who cancelled Jakande's metro line in 1984 after jailing the poor man and paying breach of contract fines in a depressed economy.
As for Tinubu and Obasanjo on Enron barge scandal, they were simply playing politics with their foolish fellow citizens. Are they not waving their APC broom together now?
Open up to the reality, bro.
Don't let yourself be deceived any longer.

[b]While the Blue Line (Okokomaiko -Marina) corridor is now reaching about 96 per cent completion, with expected test running commencing in the next two months, work on the red line had met a brick wall as the Federal Government has failed to respond to a request by the state government to allow it use the Federal Government’s right of way.

It would be recalled that the state governor, Babatunde Fashola had repeatedly stated that the red line light rail project has not commenced because the Federal Government has failed to respond to the application to allow the state government make use of the right of way from Iddo for the commencement of the project.

Sharing the same view, the All Progressives Congress (APC ) had also accused President Goodluck Jonathan of being hypocritical over his persistent claim of reviving the railway when he has bluntly refused to grant the necessary right-of-way approval to the Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA ) for the construction of its redline light rail project from Iddo to Ifo in Ogun State.[/b]

fourthworld:


And my question is this; is this so called FG allergic to development? What sort of human beings are they? It's quite appalling that sane human beings will play politics to stop development. That's why the zoo best describes this nation

hotwax:
[size=16pt]I can see pained people posting pictures of ancient city of Ibadan. Ibadan is an old city. We are proud of it. Yes the red roof makes it unique.

What else do you have?

Lagos and Ogun state are growing everyday. Modernizing. Osun state is growing too...[/size]

aresa:




The FG is indeed allergic to development, but the problem goes deeper than that, it extends to tribal and regional sabotage by the head of state or president in power, politics and shallow an shortsighted thinking to make sure one region doesn't develop faster than their or other regions.

What happened to the 1st Lagos Metro Rail system back in the 80's was pure tribalism and sabotage to slow down progress in the SW.

Lagos state lost millions of dollars on that project and in fact, till recently the FG was still deducting funds from that project from Lagos state's allocations, same with the Lagos state's first 271MW IPP, we are still paying for FG sabotage with allocation deductions.


Look at Dangote refinery in Lagos, this is the largest investment in AFRICA at the moment, we are talking about the largest single refinery in the world, largest petrochemicals, fertilizer plants in Africa costing over $14 billion.

The point is, this project was slated for Olokola FTZ in Ondo state, but the silly PDP state and governor played games endlessly with the project before Fashola jumped in and did everything under the sun to divert the project and Dangote to Lagos. That was a major investment coup and Mimiko should forever bury his head in shame.



Like I said before, Lagos don't give up, they just keep coming back regardless of the set back.


Eko o ni baje is not just a slogan, it's a state of mind, way of life, culture and call to duty...

Now i know why Mimiko no longer command respect in Ondo state, Jeez what was he thinking?.