IzonOwei:
LETS WAIT FOR TRUE FEDERALISM SO THAT ALL THE OIL COMPANIES CAN RELOCATE TO THE NIGER DELTA AND LEAVE THIS OVERHYPED FOOLISH CITY CALLED LAGOS EMPTY,,...USELESS CITY...

SenseiX:
Vote for JK we said, they refused and chose to play ethnic politics electing a clueless stooge.
For all his flaws, no one would doubt Fashola's competence, composure and intelligence, can't say the same for Ambode. He seems to be on a mission to best Aregbesola's records in bad governance

CharlyNick:
Judge him After 4yrs

Idrico:
We are enjoying Ambode at Alimosho Local Government.Ambode is our Man,Eko Onibaje O.

biafranqueen:
Go and take it up with your traditional ruler Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu’s his death threat and curse that Igbo will drown in Lagos lagoon within seven days if they did not vote for the All Progressives Congress has now backfired in every way possible.
What ever you put out there comes back to you.
The Law of Attraction is Real!

voltron:


May you suffer through ambode's intransigience through the 4 yrs without respite

politricks:
Igbos not Nigerians.

jusRadical:




So the southwesterners have choice on who to vote but you guy curse the southeasterners for sticking with GEJ.

You guys are hypocrites unlimited.

SenseiX:
TRAFFIC is a way of life in Lagos, Africa’s most populous city. Home by some counts to over 20m people, it is among the most notoriously congested places in the world. The “go-slow” piles up long before dawn as businessmen in SUVs and traders in battered buses hit the overburdened roads. It lasts until well after dark. Often the queues can be unfathomable: a rainstorm, a breakdown or a public holiday can condemn a driver to hours in horn-honking hell. Tardy workers proffer one irrefutable excuse: “Traffic is bad.”
Yet the gridlock that Lagosians have suffered in recent weeks is noteworthy even by the city’s horrendous standards. Rush hours have lengthened, and vehicles back up at unusual hours along the bridges linking the mainland with an island business district. Safety concerns are mounting as armed robbers pillage stuck cars while police are far away. Security experts reckon this is symptomatic of a broader increase in organised crime under a new and less competent state government.


[b]Lagos is a hub for investors in Africa—it is a bigger economy in its own right than most countries on the continent, so this is of serious concern. The state’s former governor, Babatunde Fashola, who left office after elections in March, was lauded for improving traffic and security. He curbed dangerous motorbike taxis and brought local “area boys” (street children), under control. Cars were terrified into order by a state traffic agency, LASTMA, whose bribe-hungry officers flagged down offending drivers.
His successor, Akinwunmi Ambode, is full of excuses, but few solutions, for the worsening gridlock. Traffic is always bad during the rains, he says. Nigerians are migrating to Lagos en masse in search of work in a worsening economy, his office adds. Yet the root of the problem is in policy: Mr Ambode cut the powers of traffic controllers by banning them from impounding cars. In retaliation, officers have refused to enforce the rules.


Reform in a culture riddled with corruption is never easy. Mr Ambode’s office says the measure was intended to create a more “civil society”. Less fastidious types think it amounts to weakness, and would prefer that he focused on public transport instead. The biggest concern is that the gridlock is a sign of a breakdown in relations between security forces, government agencies and the new governor. If that is the case, there could be worse to come. That is bad news not only for Lagosians, but all Nigerians too.[/b]
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21677665-why-nigerias-largest-city-even-less-navigable-usual-paralysed?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Fparalysed
Cc lalasticlala

dridowu:
@bolded,hahahahahahahahahahahahha d tin pain am, e turn am to fight.
But seriously, if your city is better than that "foolish and useless " city, then you would have stay back happily.

Lest i forget, you don't have to turn constructive argument into destructive argument by using "dirty words".

mykl01:


Just what I thought , PDP Now controls western media and are out to ridicule our dear Baba who is working very hard . Sai Buhari

Promhize:


That has nothing to do with governing a state. The company has been successful for years without an online presence, in Nigeria you and I know that a website isn't a pre-requisite to a successful business. We just aren't there yet.

You may deny, but you and I know that JK is as charismatic as Fashola, and Ambode is not in their league intellectually. Doesn't matter how many years he has spent in public service

happney65:


You wrong my dear..The PDP introduced it..When in essence Igbos and Yoruba's have being living in peace all these while in Lagos..Inter-tribal Marriages,Business transactions,etc.Igbo's making wave with little or no jealousy from their Yoruba friends until when JK started saying he would do this and that and claiming igbo's are being marginalized in Lagos when in essence they are more or less like Lagos Indigenes themselves..Am not a Fan of either of them though,just laying out the Fact

CharlyNick:

I return it to your Generation! Idi*t..... No be una Vote am? DUD

IzonOwei:
Oya suffer with the ambode na...slaves...for how long would you people suffer as vassals under tinubu...the annoying thing is because true federalism is not practiced we non indigenes have to stay in lagos to work and suffer the results of the collective foolishness of lagosians and the lagos state government...

NaijaHulk:


You actually don't have to stay anywhere... You can quit and leave to go back to wherever you came from as soon as the "collective foolishness" is too much for you to bear... There is freedom of movement across all the states of the federation.

Going Further, for whatever flaws Tinubu has, the man is still a hero as he and his successor in Fashola have taken Lagos to where it is today in 16 painful years of being in the opposition but you wouldn't know anything about that would you? Only for us to hand it over to JK (& PDP) in opposition. Hell NO!!! Our "collective foolishness" would not let us do that and we are not sorry about it. And to emphasize again you can leave whenever you get tired of it.

If Amubode is going to stagnate Lagos temporarily we will patiently wait another 4 years when we will vote APC again (except their pro-development policies in Lagos change) and I am sure it would be a better candidate. The gains of aligning in the center are already imminent and materializing as all approvals for the rail and port /free trade zone projects will be given and the traffic gridlock will subside eventually. But again you wouldn't know anything about that.
NB - I haven't written Ambode off yet.

Lastly, for those who are really in the know, you will realize that the Economist pushes a pro-western agenda and not everything they say is gospel truth as they are after all just journalists and merely offering an opinion. Time will truly tell.

I rest my case

ODUBEZE:

hmmmmm... It is well but sincerely speaking Ambode is yet to get ONE thing right since his resumption.
He is now the gov. so we have no choice!
So he should come down from his high horse and collabo with Fashola for a better Lagos!
EKO oni baje...

IzonOwei:
y'all should keep displaying your endless foolishness...keep celebrating your blood sucking oga as a hero...the tinubu slaves in lagos is one reason why blacks are considered as perpetual slaves...young/old man free yourself... ....

CharlyNick:
Judge him After 4yrs

dridowu:
You got it wrong. Those individual that curse Easterners for voting GEJ are the hypocrite not Westerner in general.

billyG:

They are even cornering Intl media like Economist,BBC,Rueters,Time e.t.c 2 paint this new govt. in bad like,they are planning 2 sponsor civil societies,militants,Ipob 4 sucession,Disgrunted pple in Apc control states 2 protest 4 all electorial promises 2 be fulfil in just 5mnths! even without budgets.

9jatatafo:
PMB is slow so why expect Ambo to be fast?

mykl01:


Analogue no fit connect to digital nau!!! Does 3310 have Bluetooth

femo86:

Bro, abeg shift make I siddon...

TRAFFIC is a way of life in Lagos, Africa’s most populous city. Home by some counts to over 20m people, it is among the most notoriously congested places in the world. The “go-slow” piles up long before dawn as businessmen in SUVs and traders in battered buses hit the overburdened roads. It lasts until well after dark. Often the queues can be unfathomable: a rainstorm, a breakdown or a public holiday can condemn a driver to hours in horn-honking hell. Tardy workers proffer one irrefutable excuse: “Traffic is bad.”
Yet the gridlock that Lagosians have suffered in recent weeks is noteworthy even by the city’s horrendous standards. Rush hours have lengthened, and vehicles back up at unusual hours along the bridges linking the mainland with an island business district. Safety concerns are mounting as armed robbers pillage stuck cars while police are far away. Security experts reckon this is symptomatic of a broader increase in organised crime under a new and less competent state government.


[b]Lagos is a hub for investors in Africa—it is a bigger economy in its own right than most countries on the continent, so this is of serious concern. The state’s former governor, Babatunde Fashola, who left office after elections in March, was lauded for improving traffic and security. He curbed dangerous motorbike taxis and brought local “area boys” (street children), under control. Cars were terrified into order by a state traffic agency, LASTMA, whose bribe-hungry officers flagged down offending drivers.
His successor, Akinwunmi Ambode, is full of excuses, but few solutions, for the worsening gridlock. Traffic is always bad during the rains, he says. Nigerians are migrating to Lagos en masse in search of work in a worsening economy, his office adds. Yet the root of the problem is in policy: Mr Ambode cut the powers of traffic controllers by banning them from impounding cars. In retaliation, officers have refused to enforce the rules.


Reform in a culture riddled with corruption is never easy. Mr Ambode’s office says the measure was intended to create a more “civil society”. Less fastidious types think it amounts to weakness, and would prefer that he focused on public transport instead. The biggest concern is that the gridlock is a sign of a breakdown in relations between security forces, government agencies and the new governor. If that is the case, there could be worse to come. That is bad news not only for Lagosians, but all Nigerians too.[/b]
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21677665-why-nigerias-largest-city-even-less-navigable-usual-paralysed?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Fparalysed
Cc lalasticlala

olatunji21:
Akinwunmi Ambode destroyed in less than 140 Characters....Gv it up to the west, they are simply amazing....