Rossikki:
Some guy posted a video of Allen Ave, top Lagos shopping, dining, and banking district and told us to ''enjoy'' the video. But the street is quite deplorable in its infrastructure. The shops, restaurants etc are high class, and deserve far better street infrastructure.


Watch the Video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_5k5ZIz4nM


Allen Avenue, Opebi Rd axis needs a MASSIVE OVERHAUL and comprehensive redevelopment.

Allen Ave. should be the Oxford Street of Lagos. A high class shopping area with covered drainage and wide pedestrian sidewalks. The streets are seriously underutilized by way of window shopping and impulse shopping that comes with easy pedestrian movement along the streets, a feature that would draw thousands more people including tourists, to the area each day, increase economic activity and incomes for the businesses on the streets and hence more business tax to the state govt. Win-win situation. Here's how Allen Ave. and Opebi Road should really look today:



With THIS kind of setup above, one could literally spend ALL DAY walking the length and breadth of Allen and Opebi on window shopping and actual shopping/wining/dining. Today, that is unimaginable due to the lack of sidewalks, presence of open drains, sand, etc etc.

We need to step up our game, seriously.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
How could this be possible when one person is kneeling on Lagos' neck?
The black race is inherently a cursed race.
Sorry this is a bitter pill to swallow.
You can crucify me however I am very sure that there is no Black country that is properly managed.
Till we are no more, the Black race will forever serve other race. Fact!

Rossikki:


You are clearly very ignorant about ''the black race'', and take your cue from the scandalously negative reporting of ''the black race'' in WESTERN MEDIA.

For your information, Kigali, Rwanda is one of the cleanest cities in the world, not just Africa. It is black people that are running Kigali.

Kingston, Jamaica is a black-run city. All streets, including in poor areas, are paved with sidewalks and covered drains, with no sand on the streets.

Nairobi, Kenya is a black-run city that can stand beside any city on Earth in aesthetics and city planning.

Abuja, Nigeria is a purpose-built, black-run city that is the pride of all Africa.

The same black world you condemn, literally MILLIONS of westerners visit them each year as tourists, visiting countries from Jamaica to Barbados, and from Kenya to Senegal, Ghana, Botswana, and Seychelles.

When WE travel, we need to get our colonised noses away from 'Dubai'', ''New York'', ''London'', and ''Paris''.

Visit the Gambia instead. There are resorts in the Gambia that will make you think you are in Paradise.

Visit Nairobi.

Or Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Or Dakar, Senegal.

Or Zanzibar, Tanzania

Or Luanda, Angola.

These places are beautiful African locations worthy of vacationing by you as an African.

White people leave their countries and travel thousands of miles away to vacation in these places.

You that are close to them are not even aware of their existence and/or value.

Your head is stuck in Dubai and Los Angeles.

The black world is beautiful. Quit the self-denigration and start to love your own.

samincredible44:
lagosians are dirty people,it won't work.

Ykc2:
oga before you start defending your jamaica westerners dont go to Jamaica to visit Kingston they ho to jamaica for their nice beaches,I dont think you ve been to any western nation before you start mentioning kenya,I will show you more of vienna city

forgiveness:


I always thought about this whenever I am driving through Allen and Opebi. Those fence and gates makes it look ugly.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
How could this be possible when one person is kneeling on Lagos' neck?
The black race is inherently a cursed race.
Sorry this is a bitter pill to swallow.
You can crucify me however I am very sure that there is no Black country that is properly managed.
Till we are no more, the Black race will forever serve other race. Fact!

tatatar:

How can you progress when you believe you're inherently cursed ?
Can't you see you're the curse.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
A Black man loves living in denial.

Rossikki:
Some guy posted a video of Allen Ave, top Lagos shopping, dining, and banking district and told us to ''enjoy'' the video. But the street is quite deplorable in its infrastructure. The shops, restaurants etc are high class, and deserve far better street infrastructure.


Watch the Video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_5k5ZIz4nM


Allen Avenue, Opebi Rd axis needs a MASSIVE OVERHAUL and comprehensive redevelopment.

Allen Ave. should be the Oxford Street of Lagos. A high class shopping area with covered drainage and wide pedestrian sidewalks. The streets are seriously underutilized by way of window shopping and impulse shopping that comes with easy pedestrian movement along the streets, a feature that would draw thousands more people including tourists, to the area each day, increase economic activity and incomes for the businesses on the streets and hence more business tax to the state govt. Win-win situation. Here's how Allen Ave. and Opebi Road should really look today:



With THIS kind of setup above, one could literally spend ALL DAY walking the length and breadth of Allen and Opebi on window shopping and actual shopping/wining/dining. Today, that is unimaginable due to the lack of sidewalks, presence of open drains, sand, etc etc.

We need to step up our game, seriously.

MetaPhysical:


Rossikki,
This is nice thread. Things like this we want, to share how we can develop within....rather than relying on instructions packaged as research from UK.


Ok, im not trying to put anyone down but are you aware Marina front in Island used to look like the Oxford street picture you put up there?

No lie! Pictures and stories exist of old Marina. Pictures of old wharf, old UK embassy, David Copperfield, Kingsway, Leventis, old Ministry of External Affairs, old Army HQ, Glover Hall....all the way to the Catholic church, MBHS, General Hospital.

People flooded Lagos and ruined Old Marina.

Allen Avenue would not be immuned from similar ruin if you make an Oxford out of it.

Rossikki:


Sorry, I disagree. In fact if you visit those places you mentioned, they look BETTER than they did in the colonial days. A lot of renovation of the island and CBD has taken place.

Tinubu Sq for instance looks better than it did decades ago:

Rossikki:


Kindly take your racist horse shit and disappear from here, you wretch.

Ykc2:
oga before you start defending your jamaica westerners dont go to Jamaica to visit Kingston they ho to jamaica for their nice beaches,I dont think you ve been to any western nation before you start mentioning kenya,I will show you more of vienna city

Rossikki:


I've been travelling since before you were born. Kindly drop the snide remarks. Who said (or cares about if) westerners go to Jamaica ''to visit Kingston'' and what has that got to do with the thrust of my post?

''Vienna city'' is a dull, antiquated place of medieval architecture that only a colonised African will value over modern, vibrant, colourful, bustling African cities like Nairobi.

Nairobi, Kenya

tatatar:

How can you progress when you believe you're inherently cursed ?
Can't you see you're the curse.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Bro sorry but that is the fact!
Nigeria, the most populous Black country in the world is in ruins.
The same oil that is a curse to Nigeria has transformed UAE, a desert into one of the most preferred destinations on earth.
Damnit! You can't flip through the National Dailies without being greeted by tales of corruption in the country amidst heavy infrastructural deficit.
Why would our rulers plunder the wealth of our countries with impunity and starve the continent of basic amenities if we are not cursed.
From Angola to Zambia is the same stories.
I would rather die than deny that the Black race is not cursed
I have come to the realisation that, the White, Arabs and Asians have a higher IQ than the Black hence we are backward and inferior to them. Fact!

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Sorry the truth hurts bro! However, you have the prerogative to live in denial as a Black man while the truth stares you in the face.
Yelling racism just to appeal to the emotion of those who dwell in the dreamland does not change the reality.
Can you show me a single healthy Black nation on this planet? NO!
Black nations are characterized  by chaos, egoistic fulled wars, endemic corruption and economic collapse etc.
Is it not shameful that after independence, most of the Black countries exist at the mercy foreign aids to fund their budgets.
Tomorrow, we will board rickety boats to Europe enmasse, turn up where we are not wanted and are  treated like dogs.
Africa till this day, remains inarguably the poorest continent in the world, inspite of the vast natural resources she is endowed with.
Tell me what is your own definition of an accursed place.
Don't trigger off my resentment abeg abeg abeg....

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Bro sorry but that is the fact!
Nigeria, the most populous Black country in the world is in ruins.
The same oil that is a curse to Nigeria has transformed UAE, a desert into one of the most preferred destinations on earth.
Damnit! You can't flip through the National Dailies without being greeted by tales of corruption in the country amidst heavy infrastructural deficit.
Why would our rulers plunder the wealth of our countries with impunity and starve the continent of basic amenities if we are not cursed.
From Angola to Zambia is the same stories.
I would rather die than deny that the Black race is not cursed
I have come to the realisation that, the White, Arabs and Asians have a higher IQ than the Black hence we are backward and inferior to them. Fact!

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Please tell him.
I love Trump for his bluntness.
Africa is a shithole, we can choose to accept the truth or shout racism when we are told the painful truth.

RuudVanNisteroy:


Windhoek, Namibia

Don't believe the propaganda, the African continent is not a shithole.

Rossikki:

RuudVanNisteroy:

Typo mistake- I was showcasing the beauty of Windhoek,Namibia.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
How could this be possible when one person is kneeling on Lagos' neck?
The black race is inherently a cursed race.
Sorry this is a bitter pill to swallow.
You can crucify me however I am very sure that there is no Black country that is properly managed.
Till we are no more, the Black race will forever serve other race. Fact!

Rossikki:
Some guy posted a video of Allen Ave, top Lagos shopping, dining, and banking district and told us to ''enjoy'' the video. But the street is quite deplorable in its infrastructure. The shops, restaurants etc are high class, and deserve far better street infrastructure.


Watch the Video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_5k5ZIz4nM


Allen Avenue, Opebi Rd axis needs a MASSIVE OVERHAUL and comprehensive redevelopment.

Allen Ave. should be the Oxford Street of Lagos. A high class shopping area with covered drainage and wide pedestrian sidewalks. The streets are seriously underutilized by way of window shopping and impulse shopping that comes with easy pedestrian movement along the streets, a feature that would draw thousands more people including tourists, to the area each day, increase economic activity and incomes for the businesses on the streets and hence more business tax to the state govt. Win-win situation. Here's how Allen Ave. and Opebi Road should really look today:



With THIS kind of setup above, one could literally spend ALL DAY walking the length and breadth of Allen and Opebi on window shopping and actual shopping/wining/dining. Today, that is unimaginable due to the lack of sidewalks, presence of open drains, sand, etc etc.

We need to step up our game, seriously.

BabaRamota1980:
[s][/s]

Do you know how much iindividuals are taxed in those countries where Oxford exist?
They pay income tax, sales tax, luxury tax, property tax, parking fees, license fees, all kinds of levies. Over here in Lagos they ask you to pay ordinary income tax na wahala, but you want look like Oxford. I smh!

RuudVanNisteroy:

Stop making excuses, it was done in Windhoek, Namibia.