naptu2:

I'm not even talking about the spelling. A title like "Fashola Provides Skill Training For Street Traders, Beggars And Area Boys" would have been ok. There's no reason to include "yoruba, igbo, efik, ibibio" or any ethnic group in the title.

naptu2: Hawking and street trading have always been illegal in Lagos (I can remember street traders being arrested from as far back as the 1970s). It is also illegal in most parts of the world. It is illegal for the following reasons and more: -

1) It is dangerous: hawkers can easily be hit by moving cars.

2) It impedes the flow of traffic: buyers usually slow down to purchase things from the hawkers, thereby causing traffic jams. Motorists also have to slow down to avoid hitting hawkers.

3) It can cause accidents: motorists swerve and hit other cars, fall into ditches, etc, because they are trying to avoid hitting hawkers.

4) Armed robbery: (a) People approach your car pretending to be hawkers or beggars. They carry out surveillance to find out if you have valuables in your car (bags, phones, the type of watch you are wearing, jewelry, etc) and inform robbers, who then attack you in traffic. (b) Those criminals that walk up to your car when you are stuck in traffic and point a gun at you are able to do this because police and other motorists mistake them for hawkers.

5) It is illegal to send children out onto the roads to hawk. They should be in school, playing or resting.

There are more reasons.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee_man

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_(trade)

dplordx: abeg, tell them. if Afam and his cohorts arent enemies of the Yorubas, i hope they make this frontpage!
God bless BRF. God bless Lagos! God bless my ppl

naptu2: I wish the word "ibo" had been removed from the thread title. It's just going to lead to another round of ethnic bashing.

berem: I guess the moderators aren't blind not to have seen the title of the thread and modify it. this is just a trick to get traffic on the thread.

Ngwakwe: Who conceived such barbaric headline, unless I am being told that Igbos are now majority in Lagos State.

From the photographs above, I can only see mostly Yoruba guys in those Labs and Workshops.

Propaganda of the Yorubas by the Yorubas and for the Yorubas.

berem: what proof do you have that the boys in the lab are mostly Yorubas?

talktimi: Lets call a spade a spade, the ibo's are usually at the receiving end of insults & derogatory name calling especially here on nairaland. They have no rights to defend themselves or fight back without having their posts hidden or being outrightly banned. Their only crime being that they're from the SE. Im not saying some ibo's arent guilty of being vile also but this disgusting e-war between you guys should just end make reasonable people hear word abeg...

berem: what proof do you have that the boys in the lab are mostly Yorubas?

[size=14pt]Isopakodowo Oshodi market complex ready for business[/size]

Tuesday, 04 September 2012 00:00 Chuka Uroko

The Isopakodowo ultra-modern market in Oshodi, Lagos State, is now ready for business men and women who want to do their businesses in a marketplace that is decent and secure.

The market, which was wholly funded by the Lagos State government, has 546 shop spaces in 11 blocks on two floors that the state government says will help take more traders off the street in compliance with the provisions of the new traffic laws in the state.

“This is a market and it is meant for people who genuinely want to sell their wares. The plan of rebuilding this market was to expand and make it more secure. Anybody who comes here will be secure and that was the aim of this effort. One of the provisions of the traffic law is that people should not display their wares on the road,” Femi Hamzat Kadiri, the state commissioner for works and infrastructure, said.

Kadiri who was on inspection tour of the new market disclosed that provision of the market was part of government’s intension to discourage people from selling on the road, adding that government wants to arrange mortgage facility with which it will be easy for people to buy the shops and pay back the mortgage at regular intervals for as long as 10 years. “The mortgage also allows the shop owners to go to banks to build their business. We are discussing with banks to create the mortgage. Our role as government is to create access for people to get the facility,” the commissioner stated.

By the time a buyer gets a shop with good documentation, meaning that the buyer has a good title; something that could be collaterised, he could use his shop as collateral to access loan from the banks, he added.

According to the commissioner, there will be a facility manager who will maintain the place and even fix the cost of the shops; as such a manager is going to ensure the place does not rot and that all the facilities are functional.

At Ilasamaja, along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, where there is a failing pedestrian bridge, the commissioner announced that contract had been awarded to Messrs PW Nigeria Limited for its replacement. The bridge, which has been a subject of many public complaints, he said, will be pulled down by Saturday, September 8, 2012, to make way for a new one.

While stating that the process of replacement had commenced with the completion of the sub-soil investigation, the commissioner noted that the bridge had been sealed off to avert any serious mishap and to protect the users from any possible danger.

He said it was important to state that though the road belongs to the Federal Government, the state had sought and obtained the consent of federal authorities so as to proactively replace the bridge that had at an earlier time been rehabilitated.

Hamzat also noted that the public might not see much of work at the site due to changes in the method of construction, assuring however that the construction work would be completed within the stipulated period of four months.

The commissioner who visited other project sites including the Ojuelegba- Lawanson-Itire road, Ajiliti Road in Mile 12 and Multi-Agency Office Complex in Alausa, explained the rationale behind the construction of the multi-agency complex at the old public car park, saying that the proposed three-block complex will end the era of government agencies renting office spaces all over the state, adding that it will promote adequate networking among the agencies.

He explained that the project, sitting on a 24,700 square metres of land, will house one eight-floor block and two adjoining blocks of five floors with pedestrian inter-links and two level parking area that can accommodate 600 vehicles.

Ngwakwe: Question

bankyblue: All those big f**l that was calling for the head of BRF, where re u
Now?

Is only in lagos that u will see a ogbo commissioner,

is only in Lagos u will see an igbo lady rule the state for 24hours,

Is only in lagos u will see the Governor pay the medical bill of an igbo lady

Is only in lagos u will see the governor trying to better the igbo guys life on the st

I wish ur weak, selfish, and good for nothing governor in SE can
Do something gud for u like this.

GOD bless u BRF
GOD bless u Lagos
GOD bless u Nigeria

naptu2: [size=14pt]Fashola Commissions Cg-eko Automobile Services, Skill Acquisition Center (PICS)[/size] by Eko Ile: 2:28pm On Jul 20, 2012


https://www.nairaland.com/995497/fashola-commissions-cg-eko-automobile-services

aryzgreat:

Guess the Coscharis-Eko partnership CG-Eko is a way fashola provide skill to igbos too. I know how much tax Coscharis pay to Lagos state Govt. This Partnership from a company owned by an igbo man Dr Cosmas Maduka Coscharis group, equip and give skills to lagosian mostly yorubas, but we won't hear word bc fashola trained an igbo hawker. I know many igbo owned companies in lagos with yoruba top management staff earning a living from the sweat of igbo businesses and companies, heaven did not fall cos an average igbo is profit minded as long as u r doing ur job, he cares less wia u r from, these tribalistic people will not allow us rest. Egbe igwe gbagbukwa unu dia!

dplordx:

His 6 plots of lands? Really? It was something, but stop flaunting that on our faces. Mention something else.
Your people are ingrates! You need to learn to be grateful. Lagos has created many IBO billionaires and millionaires, and the least you could do is comply with the laws of the land. BRF isnt the tribalists here, it is you people!

berem: Answer it na! I guess you are a lecturer and you should be able to answer my question.

naptu2: People are just arguing based on emotions and how they "feel" without backing it with logic and reasons.

All they want is for people to join them in proclaiming that Fashola is satan, without the people questioning them.