Pictures Of The Week (Ugly Side Of Lagos)

Why you feel ashamed showing those pictures public? Nothing wrong with showing poverty pictures.

I have seen MANY MANY MANY GHETTOS/SLUMS everywhere in other foreign countries including USA displaying their poverty pictures online.

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me I don't understand the one about the woman and child in a wheelbarrow
Has she no legs or are wheel barrows now means of human transport in Lagos?

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at peteroby, myopic and senseless statement about the yorubas, God help you

Do you want more 
Yes we want more.

This one sums it all up with my own thoughts of the problem not only in Lagos but Niger itself
 


Oil fouls everything in southern Nigeria. It spills from the pipelines, poisoning soil and water. It stains the hands of politicians and generals, who siphon off its profits. It taints the ambitions of the young, who will try anything to scoop up a share of the liquid riches—fire a gun, sabotage a pipeline, kidnap a foreigner.

Nigeria had all the makings of an uplifting tale: poor African nation blessed with enormous sudden wealth. Visions of prosperity rose with the same force as the oil that first gushed from the Niger Delta's marshy ground in 1956. The world market craved delta crude, a "sweet," low-sulfur liquid called Bonny Light, easily refined into gasoline and diesel. By the mid-1970s, Nigeria had joined OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), and the government's budget bulged with petrodollars.

Everything looked possible—but everything went wrong.

Dense, garbage-heaped slums stretch for miles. Choking black smoke from an open-air slaughterhouse rolls over housetops. Streets are cratered with potholes and ruts. Vicious gangs roam school grounds. Peddlers and beggars rush up to vehicles stalled in gas lines. This is Port Harcourt, Nigeria's oil hub, capital of Rivers state, smack-dab in the middle of oil reserves bigger than the United States' and Mexico's combined. Port Harcourt should gleam; instead, it rots.

Beyond the city, within the labyrinth of creeks, rivers, and pipeline channels that vein the delta—one of the world's largest wetlands—exists a netherworld. Villages and towns cling to the banks, little more than heaps of mud-walled huts and rusty shacks. Groups of hungry, half-naked children and sullen, idle adults wander dirt paths. There is no electricity, no clean water, no medicine, no schools. Fishing nets hang dry; dugout canoes sit unused on muddy banks. Decades of oil spills, acid rain from gas flares, and the stripping away of mangroves for pipelines have killed off fish.

Nigeria has been subverted by the very thing that gave it promise—oil, which accounts for 95 percent of the country's export earnings and 80 percent of its revenue. In 1960, agricultural products such as palm oil and cacao beans made up nearly all Nigeria's exports; today, they barely register as trade items, and Africa's most populous country, with 130 million people, has gone from being self-sufficient in food to importing more than it produces. Because its refineries are constantly breaking down, oil-rich Nigeria must also import the bulk of its fuel. But even then, gas stations are often closed for want of supply. A recent United Nations report shows that in quality of life, Nigeria rates below all other major oil nations, from Libya to Indonesia. Its annual per capita income of $1,400 is less than that of Senegal, which exports mainly fish and nuts. The World Bank categorizes Nigeria as a "fragile state," beset by risk of armed conflict, epidemic disease, and failed governance.

how pathetic and gory, well we need to pray for our dear country because it's still ours and lets play our part on development

Keep on the Good job.

Those women are not prostitutes.
They were innocent women rounded up by policemen on heat.
Many were said to be university undergraduates and ordinary housewives.

Look at the one on the left with wrapper across her chest,does she look like a prostitute?
She looks like a housewife,an ordinary mama Emeka perhaps walking across to buy akara and ogi for the kids and got caught up in a big mess.

@Egin
I strongly believe we should come 2geda to salvage what we can n not post these shots that depict that nothing good is happening downtown.

There is no book that is so bad that it has nothing Good in it.

What do u intend to achieve by posting this pics because i no dt Pat Etteh isnt interested.

1.I put it 2u, ow much was spent on renovating\ and maintaining the speaker's apartment in the country where u reside.

2.As a student of history, i no dt there are many unseen disasters (Natural and Man-made)lurking around most civilized countries that should give u because to post such info and pics for us to be wary of than show us a relic that the C. of O. has been revoked and area cordoned off from the public.

3.The cart-pusher is making a living and one day will own his own re-cycling plant if he dares to Dream.He is not engaged in SHOOTING spree at his peers in school as we see on CNN. You no see dt abi

4.You ought to write to the local govt. where the debris is situated.If u notice that no action was taken. Then u float an N.G.O. dt will be funded by You TO CLEAR THE DEBRIS under the FLY-OVER.
with these approach u will turn that site to EGIN RHODE ISLAND.your name will be Immortalized.

5.There are beggars on major highways all over the world.Abi them no dey 4ur end. Thru public n private participation we can reduce but cannot eradicate them because the holy books sef ackowledge say they will be in our midst and must cater for there needs.Do u av any plans to alleviate their suffering abi na govt. go do am

6.The young guys u posted there are part of the future generation of leaders. It is left to You n I to assist in educating them or else they will become M.D. of the Underworld.N will come around to intimidate us with those thns.

I remain resolute dt na we fit make Nigeria GOOD. not only the govt. and not bypostn abyss of penury pics  from afar. 

Remembering situations like this doesn't make me want to come back home, I better do with the cold. Ben

@ ozallaben
Dont come back. You wl  beg for an entry visa to enter Nigeria when the time comes.
Why should u base your judgement on pics seen here.This does not project the entirety of happenings around.

I av trained my eyes over the years to see opportunities in setbacks. If u meditate well.

@seguno2
On my street i usually organize the children to clean up the enviroment and gv them family support.Why should i wait for the council or fashola govt. to do that.

Also, i teach them how to sew when am back from the office.Av taught them how to complain less and contribute more.

We need to contribute our energy collectively to assist ourselves.No government fit do am alone.So make all the Gani and Kenyamu keep quite. We must all learn to lament and provide Solution.Shikena.

It's so sad to see the once shiny lagos now a slum. Then when FESTAC was in its glorious state, I was so proud to associate myslf wit it, bt its so mch of a refuse dump now - can u believe we had swimming pools then! O! What a shame!

God help us. 

I av noticed that most of the present generation of Nigerians below 45years, are too critical of govt at all levels.

I agree that their impact is not being felt and chop n quench na them corporate Logo.These trend no longer shocks me and I will advice we close our eyes to Lamentation without a concise, pro-active solution.

Our Gurus from fields of sciences$humanities  must continue to relocate back home to share knowlegde n experience acquired in their  respective fields.This will foster economic growth and development.

We av seen the exodus of Soludo,Iweala from the US.n many more who are working on n behind the stage to re-engineer Nigeria.
the efforts av paid off.They too lamented n took part in the on-going reconstruction process.

Egin dey feel like Mungo Park(who we paddled to show the RIVER NIGER).The pics are not educating n am not shying away from the reality.He is mocking his heritage.

A balanced array of pics would av been acceptable.Whereby, he shows the Good,the Bad n the Ugly n leave us to make our judgement. Every country has a ghetto that is worse off than the pics shown up there.