YorubaParapo:
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janellemonae:
In case you dont know, 2/3rd of the buildings in cms belongs to the federal government. Some of them were sold to private firms. But all those dilapidated buildings were ministeries, CBN, Nitel .etc. and dt whole 'former business district' is crowded. The FG is d one dt abandoned these buildings and went to build shiny new ones in abuja. No more land in dt area and d FG will not destroy the buildings. Im sure nobody wants to buy them either.

People are now building skyscrapers in victoria island & ikoyi which are meant to be residential areas (see how tiny the roads are). I think this idea was a very brilliant idea. Its killing 2birds wt one stone. Creating another business district & rescuing victoria island from the atlantic.

As for blaming fashola, d FG even gave him problems before he could place dt large car park space in CMS. And lagos state governors have always bn at loggerheads wt the FG cos theyre different parties. Upon all dt, he was still able to renovate the governor generals building from the old colonial era, which now belongs to d state governemnt & is used as a tourist center. Im sure he would have also renovated d large train station or tafawa balewa square/race course if he could. D guy put a large water fountain & garden in the middle of balogun market for christs sake. Kudos to where kudos is due. Ur state governor didnt do 1/10th of anything useful.

mayorkyzo:
There's something lagos state govt does that the federal govt needs to copy from them,they are experts at attracting investors..others states also need to learn from them...If na south south here now only the money community chairman go ask for their hand would drive them away..we should learn to welcome investment and development and not task the investor with unnecessary levy..

anonimi:


No wonder BLACK people will remain forever SLAVES to their white counterparts even though EQUALLY intelligent.
Can you imagine an American or Briton typing the utter rubbish you did above for their state governor?
Well we can all EXPORT ourselves across the desert and Mediterranean Sea to become under-employed there.

BabaO2:
Free lunch indeed. Hahahaha

mayorkyzo:
There's something lagos state govt does that the federal govt needs to copy from them,they are experts at attracting investors..others states also need to learn from them...If na south south here now only the money community chairman go ask for their hand would drive them away..we should learn to welcome investment and development and not task the investor with unnecessary levy..

WETCUNT:
WHAT OF OSUN, OGUN, EKITI AND OYO?

YorubaParapo:
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tplacid:


In economics there is something called 'opportunity cost'

Looking at the cost, time and resources used to build this city, the resources would have been used to build affordable housing, repair and build new roads, modernize lagos' transport sector and make Lagos the mega city it deserves to be.

An average Lagosian won't benefit from this project. Only the rich and foreign investors would benefit from it, thus increasing the inequality gap.

Some policies are geared towards making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

This project is one of such IMO.

#Justsaying

anonimi:


........like Baba Promise & Fail said he would do and the kids are still waiting


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proxillin:
After how many years in government?

So you want him to rush to free food immediately? Let him recover all our stolen money your people stole.

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
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* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

debulle:
How do the initiators of this nice,fine and noble project hope to deal with road traffic so that it will be easy to access the estate from other parts. Of the city.

Firefire:
Fellow Nairalanders, in response to Fashola comments below on not receiving enough support from the federal government to complete the Lagos light rail project.

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"Fashola said all over the world, when cities and states build municipal rails like what Lagos is doing, their central governments support them morally and financially"[/size]

https://www.nairaland.com/2120455/cant-complete-lagos-light-rail

Few months ago same Fashola said this:


[size=15pt]Lagos: How We Spent N160bn World Bank Loan on Light Rail Project[/size]

The Lagos State Government yesterday justified the N160 billion it borrowed from the World Bank, noting that the fund was channelled to finance its light rail (blue line) project.

However, the state government expressed disappointment at the progress of the project, which it said, was not executed as smoothly as possible, but was optimistic of its completion.

The state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said this shortly after inspecting the light rail terminus at the Orile-Iganmu part of the state alongside some members of the state executive council.

Speaking with journalists, Fashola said the project would have been completed in another 12 months despite that the project execution was not as smooth and speedy as he wanted it.

The governor raised questions on the intention of the federal government for publishing the state debt profile in the recent time, wondering what could have informed the decision to make it public.

He said: “I think it was the Debt Management Office of the federal government that published the report that we have a debt of about N160billion. I do not know the intent of the publication.

“But if it was to inform the public, I think we have always kept the public informed anytime we borrow money. If there are other intentions behind that, only those who make the publication would know what the intentions are.

“But you see, when people talk about debt of a state like Lagos, they forget that after Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and one other country, we have the fifth largest economy in Africa.

“When you are talking of about a billion naira debt to a population of over 21 million people; because if you are measuring the debt, you also have to measure the responsibility. Those are the things people keep in isolation.”

He, therefore, explained that the state government already “has in place, strategies to repay the loan. The federal government was in the know of the state’s decision to take the bond and it approved it.”

[size=15pt]He added that the truth “is that what they do not also say is that no state in Nigeria can borrow money outside, from any multilateral agencies without the approval of the federal government.[/size]

“What they did not say is that they approved it. No state can raise money by bond the way we have done without the federal government’s approval. [size=18pt]Both SEC and NSE are all federal regulatory agencies through which we must pass. If they said okay, it means there must be something good about the debt.
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“Our rating as a state is the same as that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, BB minus-stable with a positive outlook. We are the only state in Nigeria that has that rating. The first bond that was taken during my first tenure has been paid; the first tranche has been paid.

“I think the second tranche will be settled around 2016 or 2017. We are already making provisions. The provisions that will be there will be in excess of what is needed,” the governor said

Fashola expressed satisfaction on the progress of the light rail project, though decried the petty delay that was encountered as a result funding, saying the project would have should have been completed in another 12 months.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-how-we-spent-n160bn-world-bank-loan-on-light-rail-project/188736/

400billionman:


Just as the native lekki community people fought with police, shot and killed the Managing Director of Lekki free trade zone..

Lagos governors are forceful with natives..

mayorkyzo:
Guy all lands by law belongs to the government...

proxillin:


Listen to yourself...read what you wrote all over again...

Dubai is built cuz of Foreign investor see what it turned out to be. Lagos shouldnt be an exception.

Enough of Okiriki sellers. They are dirt to Lagos. We want real investors

YorubaParapo:
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ba7man:
And a city rises out of the ocean..........

jude33084:
When you tell your kids that the area those buildings are now used to be part of the Ocean non of them is going to believe you



The city is rising faster than we thought

oluwasegun007:
Having 4 plots of land there wont be a bad ahead.....i need to inform my dad

sukkot:
they dont sell land there. its a planned city. if you want plots of land go to okokomaiko

PaulJohn1:


Also more money for him. Hope you know his road construction company is one of the companies handling the roads and pathways.

tplacid:


In economics there is something called 'opportunity cost'

Looking at the cost, time and resources used to build this city, the resources would have been used to build affordable housing, repair and build new roads, modernize lagos' transport sector and make Lagos the mega city it deserves to be.

An average Lagosian won't benefit from this project. Only the rich and foreign investors would benefit from it, thus increasing the inequality gap.

Some policies are geared towards making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

This project is one of such IMO.

#Justsaying