jordanriverz:
you that is talking, do u know the road to your village?

YonkijiSappo:


All these people you are calling "Homeless" actually have villages and hometowns where they could live a much better lives than sleeping under the bridge and living on floating slums.
Nigerians still don't understand that living in a city has its downsides and is much more stressful than the serene environment and lifestyle of the countryside... no be by force to live for city o.

EniHolar:
Nice... but Can't Nigerians do these paintings themselves?

Ten12:


If the amount you spend in building bridges does not equal the amount you spend on education and energy....you ve just been doing beautiful nonsense

OkoYiboz:


Oh, I get your angle now.
You obviously came to this thread to wail yourself silly.

YonkijiSappo:


All these people you are calling "Homeless" actually have villages and hometowns where they could live much better lives than sleeping under the bridge and living on floating slums with no bathrooms or toilets.
Nigerians still don't understand that living in a city has its downsides and is much more stressful than the serene environment and lifestyle of the countryside... no be by force to live for city o.

AshiwajuFoward:


Oh, so you don't know that chap? He's a confam anti-Lagos iPob/pdp goon. Don't be fooled by the moniker.

ninetiethcrown7:

how about if the homeless had their homes and land taken from them due to economic and infrastructural development without due compensation, where should they go to from there. (Dont forget as how lagos is a city to most of us it is also a state/village to others)

Blainz:



The white lady you saw is a Nigerian as well....she has dual citizenship

Sanchez01:

I have been to a couple of art galleries before and most of them often have white folks who are more interested in African arts than other forms. Nike Arts Gallery is owned by a Nigerians and a Yoruba woman, yet you just can't stop seeing white folks, who are not just interested in exhibitions but learning and studying African Arts. That a white woman is painting does not necessarily mean it was awarded to a foreign art company. I stand to be corrected though, I am not sure I have seen a gallery owned by a white person in Nigeria

YonkijiSappo:
Beautiful paintings.

But wait ooo... where are all our prolific Naija painters naw.

YonkijiSappo:


I don't understand this your comment.
Whose "Ancestral" lands have ever been forcefully taken in Lagos without compensation?
I mean like real indigenes?

Factfinder1:
Why was the contract not awarded to nigerians

seguno2:


I think that we are expressing the same concerns from different perspectives.
We black people are not interested enough in promoting our own arts and culture, including investing in the research and documentation of our history.

Factfinder1:
Why was the contract not awarded to nigerians

EniHolar:
Nice... but Can't Nigerians do these paintings themselves?

EniHolar:
Nice... but Can't Nigerians do these paintings themselves?

ninetiethcrown7:


sorry to butt in, i might not have facts showing who has not received compensation but this kind of thing happens everywhere, for example look at the case between dangote and the ibeju lekki community over the land allocated for the refinery in the lekki FTZ

seguno2:


I think that we are expressing the same concerns from different perspectives.
We black people are not interested enough in promoting our own arts and culture, including investing in the research and documentation of our history.

YonkijiSappo:


So the LASG and Dangote took the land of Ibeju indigenes and refused to pay them a dime? That cant be true.
Besides, not all land in lekki is occupied, compensation is for ancestral/communal rights to the land, not because they had property on it

ninetiethcrown7:


let me clarify, dangote and the LASG HAVE NOT taken any land, they are presently in court, claiming the trespass of dangote without due compensation and proof of original C of O,also they are claiming damages for police brutality and harrasment, and yes this land is actually a communal land owned by the 16 small villages in the ibeju lekki community.

all im saying is if these people are not adequtely compensated (and i mean compensation as to the terms agreed on in the contract/MOU) it would lead to another homeless person/people on the street without anyone knowing their story or how he or she got there.

MaziOmenuko:




She is a Lagos-based artist; she has a company registered with the CAC in Nigeria, she employs Nigerians, she pays her tax in Nigeria so she is qualified like everyother Nigerian to bid for the contract, and I am sure she won it on merit.

Stop this myopic view on things.

YonkijiSappo:


Are you saying there is no land in the entire Ibeju Lekki, the single biggest LGA in Lagos by land area, to resettle people displaced by an industrial complex of a few square hectares in size? That, my brother, does not make them homeless people, especially not if their houses are being replaced and rebuilt.
When you say compensation, what do you mean? Replacing their damaged houses, or compensation for the land? or paying them huge sums in cash (I know it is probably the later)
Do you know what is a "homeless" person?

ninetiethcrown7:



i used the word compensation in a generic term leading it to mean whatever they feel would satisfy their interests to their land. so compensation means all what they deem adequate in exchange to their land be it cash, new settlement or even arable land, as long as it is provided for them in the contract.

as for being homeless if you do not have a permanent residence then you are deemed homeless from my understanding.

the compensation might take a year maybe a couple of years and during that period a couple of things can happen.

Factfinder1:
Why was the contract not awarded to nigerians

YonkijiSappo:
Beautiful paintings.

But wait ooo... where are all our prolific Naija painters naw.

Squillionaire:


She might be a white English woman, but she has lived here since 1989; she is as Nigerian as most of us are.