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Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Nobody: 3:47pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
atasteve: Impressive! Fashola MUST not allow them to build the lost structures under bridges again. It's dangerous as no bridge is built to last forever. One day, it will surely collapse and what will be the fate of people living under it? Anyway, I commiserate with the victims. Too bad , so sad. But If I may ask, why can't God, the so called omnipotent, for once prevent all these stuffs? Why? why?? Just asking |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by tpia5: 3:48pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Until i read it from authentic news sources. . . . . . . I think it would be quite foolish of me to believe everything i read on nl given the high number of scammers operating freely here. I googled "fire on third mainland bridge" yesterday and saw a video dated 2010. So, the whole thing remains fishy until confirmed through the proper channels. Seems like 2012 is going to be a wierd year, with all out assaults on people's common sense and mind games will be the order of the day. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Nobody: 4:03pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
tpia@: I can't but laugh. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by bigfat01: 4:04pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
@ tpia come down to ebute-metta to see things for your self and really if you confirmed if it is really true, what can do about ,you are just another powerless citizen like us here,all you like to do is to argue and argue about politics and cant do anything to change things ,the powerful ones are in charge and MR TPIA ,the is nothin you can do about ,i wish you can just SHUT UP YOUR BIG MOUTH.i CAN ONLY RESPECT YOUR IF YOU can do something about incident like this and nigeria as a whole. . |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by bigfat01: 4:05pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
[size=15pt]SHUT YOUR TRAP ONCE AGAIN, [/size] @TPIA |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Pharoh: 4:09pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Artists document Oko Baba as Lagos goes mega http://ndn.nigeriadailynews.com/templates/default.aspx?a=7022&template=print-article.htm I am very sad because i lived most of my life in ebute metta and i do know that place very well. That is where we all get our wood for different purposes and truly speaking a little fire will ignite the whole place just as someone already explained. The government should speed up the process of relocating them to a safer and conducive place, my condolence to the dead people and the child in that picture. The bridge should be checked immediately because i don't think it is safe for cars to pass through it anymore without adequate repairs. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Oba234: 4:25pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Why are people living under a bridge anyway? This is not safe at all. The bridge can collapse killing people underneath it or there could be an an accident where cars can and debris can fall on people. I really don't understand the attraction of living in Lagos. It looks like a big slum |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by extension: 5:02pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
only 3 people dead. what a cheap country. Na waoo for this country ooo. Isreal govt exchanged one citizen for 1,000 pakistans. In Nigeria who cares. Now Nigerians dont care or value life anymore. only 3 people? |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by calculusx(m): 5:10pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
@ poster: I read this post this morning and i'm happy you went ahead and take pics to prove your story. May GOD bless you. @ all the doubting thomas, i don't know what to say. We Nigerians hardly believe or trust ourselves. I reserve my comment to all those who doubted your story. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Fhemmmy: 5:51pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Sad to read this . . . But hope this will trigger the people to stop the govt from spending all their money and nothing to show for it |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by highjumper: 6:11pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
no b small thing a day 2 new year pple no get home to celebrate new year shap bad news |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Reference(m): 6:48pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
No it did not happen until I see it. I see it but will not believe unless it is video probably with an authentic copy of today's newspapers. No there are no structures under the bridge. It crosses over water alone. No I'm in construction buildings are not permitted near buildings. How anyone can say these things beats me. There are countless flyovers near buildings all over Lagos, countless kitchens, mechanic workshops refuse dumps, petrol tankers and other fuel harzards under bridges everywhere. Ebutte-metta water front has been like that for a generation. Fashola proposed to remove them after the last major flood that sacks them regularly and causes flooding right up to Yaba. Pity fire has stepped in. For those passing the 3MB and hasn't seen buildings underneath, learn to be more conscious of your environment as it could save your life. These are the guys that do the fishing when vehicles and passengers go overboard. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by EkoIle1: 7:03pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Fhemmmy: This sounds very off base and simplistic. Are you suggesting that the state should build freeking house for every poor folks in lagos or to go to the border and start handing keys to free houses to poor folks from every corner of nigeria as they cross into lagos? The only solution is for other states to improve their economic conditions and living standards, also for the federal government to institute better people oriented economic policies and not the current situation where the federal government is spending 80% of the national budget on itself while the rest of the country scrambleso for the remaining 20%, L agos can not solve everybodys problems or provide for all the poor people in nigeria. When is this going to stop? When 50 million people crammed inside lagos with shanties all over lagos state even makeshift houses floating on the marina?. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by bigfat01: 7:08pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
i am jobless nigerians are dying doesnt concern me thou ,
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Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by moremi2008(m): 7:10pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Watch Tinubu and his boys reclaim the land for luxury villas managed by LCC! |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by tpia5: 7:49pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
it has to be reported by valid newspapers, thank you!!! the op or a concerned citizen should send them the photos and tell them where to go. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Limaoscar: 7:53pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
BIGFat01, good job! NL is a complicated place to want to argue with people about something you witnessed. Too many tend to use this place as a vent-off location. So , don't even bother to continue to respond to them. Some have been on NL so long they behave like they Own Seun Osewa meanwhile the guy himself do not even try to show, "I run things here" or stuff like that. If you want to know if this is a habit with particular people just go to most threads and read their post and you will see the consistencies in their ignorance. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by deols(f): 7:57pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
tpia@: accept u'r wrong or better, not reply and move on! |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by norrisman: 8:33pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Some people cant help but dig themselves deeper into a hole. Even the biggest news organisations sometimes refer to citizens accounts of breaking news events over the phone before they can get their crew and cameras to the scene. Why dont these organisations refuse to report these stories until they see pictures? |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by 2mch(m): 8:42pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Well this is a good opportunity for the state government to secure the area with high voltage fences. People are not supposed to be living under any structure or infrastructure. What about in the event of a collapse or a car that flies over the bridge? More casualties than a fire. Fashola shoul really start implementing policies to stop people trooping into lagos like this. This is so inhumane. All that free, free stuff he is throwing about will attract more of this. Lagos is simply too small for this. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by bigfat01: 9:30pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
10,000 Nigerians have viewed this news and nothin has been done till now,till you and I die for Lagos nothin will be done, i cant imagine nobody has told fashola about this case or maybe he just want to bury the case until third mainland bridge spilt into two and like 2,000 people lose their lives . After all the wahala i did to post this things nothin has been done .NA WAH , DRUNK, |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Nobody: 10:04pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Jeez! That area need to be cleared of brothels, squalor and be cleaned up! . Lagos need total cleanup! |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Fhemmmy: 10:09pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Eko Ile: Not to build homes for people, however, i am sure the govt could have stopped this by not allowing people to build and reside under the bridge. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by princeonx: 11:16pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Its kind of becoming scary for people to say any thing any more on this forum. Whatever you say or however you put it someone will jump from no where and start calling you names. A life is a life even on a sick or death bed but in some Terrible, dangerous, or deadly situation or instances 3 can be addressed as "only" not because of no regards or value for life but because it could be worst or way more than 3 people. America lost over 3,000 people in the world trade center in sep of 2001, how I wish it was only 3 people? We've all heard of Plane crashes killing hundreds of passengers! How I wish it was only 3 people that died out of all on board? Someone mentioned middle east where people die in hundreds on a daily basis! How they wish it was only 3 people every time the suicide bombers strike/attack. In my own understanding and as explained in the dictionary, only means "not more" because whatever that figure with "only" involved could be more! Way more!! Make Una no name me killer oh cux I call or follow call 3 dead people only! |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by EkoIle1: 11:17pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
Fhemmmy: Obviously, you were insinuating something different. Anyways, im all for the government enforcing it's laws, but short of deporting millions of these shanty settlement dwellers or just let them move to other parts of lagosian state and course same or more problems. What'sneeded is a root course solution from the federal to state level. Even with this fire situation, thousands of other potential slum dwellers are crossing into lagos to join in or create their own settlements All these simplistic one liners don't mean nothing. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by princeonx: 11:27pm On Dec 31, 2011 |
tpia@:Just wondering or rather curious to know how many you sent out monthly or even yearly! Abi you be one of those people that just wait or want other to do everything |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by fm7070: 3:30pm On Jan 01, 2012 |
it is same people that set Yaba Market on fire that did same to this place. They have been asked to vacate that place a long time ago. Another place you may see this kind of occurence is Makoko Let's watch out. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Ossaifamous(m): 11:53pm On Jan 01, 2012 |
it really happen even someone I know lives there it's very devastating ,my friend wasn't hurt and his kid weren't home ,that was his saving grace He told me the fire was started by a woman's electric cooking |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by kaykaybaba(m): 1:08am On Jan 02, 2012 |
tpia@: ^^ I can't believe you came back to post that trash. You and kobojunkie must be sharing a single brain. We're talking of something happening in Lagos at almost midnight, you're talking bullsh1t about google. nonsense. Please examine the half part of that brain you're using and when you're done, come back and apologize to bigfat01. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by Nobody: 1:22am On Jan 02, 2012 |
Eko Ile:I agree on helping slum dwellers but not to create more slums. There has to means of controlling these slum dwellers from resorting to creating more slums everywhere. Jeez! The govt. need to be strict on enforcing the laws and find something useful for these population and chase them out of the bridge areas. |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by bigfat01: 10:11am On Jan 03, 2012 |
[size=15pt]this happened and nothin still has been done ,the masses are rats who dont mean anything to the government.The Govt doesn't even see you and me cos we are JUST MAKING NOISE IN THS FORUM,why wont any AVERage Nigerian be corrupt when the govt doesnt give a damn about them.GOD HELP US.[/size] |
Re: Serious Fire Outbreak At Ebute Metta, Near 3rd Mainland Bridge by ignis: 9:07am On Jan 04, 2012 |
May God help us. |
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