babaowo: @ op....how do want to see fast development when u ppl troops into lagos 100,000 daily and never go back.If u know ur not comfortable in lagos Pls we will arrange transport fare for u to go back to your beautifull villages thanks.

bolayei: ok lagos..,i was born and bred in lagos until i moved to london, and truth be told lagos is a city like any other city in the western world based on my experience like i tell people the way i know naija might be different to how you know it. the things wey dey freak some whte people are things i grew up with and sometimes that makes me appreciate lagos, im still yet to find a place like V.I here na only celebs go live there, and little pots of areas wey dey lagos sef go represent world wide. Every where get ghetto infact i will prefer to live in some suburbs of lagos than to live in places like Peckham, hackney, dalston, brixton the list is endless. guessing some of these posters only came to lagos less than 20yrs ago so dont really know lagos. last time i went to lagos at night i forget im in Africa its so beautiful. Fashola is doing a good job o o, i never step foot in Oshodi while i was living in Nigeria but last time i went home i could not help but step my foot in Oshodi looked different.Fashola is a state governor not a local government chairman its the local government chairmen that are not doing anything for their communities not fashola. Fashola is responsible for affairs of the state whatever happens in suburbs is down to the local gov. well my idea of nigeria is surulere, apapa,festac,beachland estate, snake island,V.I, Ikoyi and nowadays those estates off lekki expressway used to be bushes when we used to go lekki beach,maryland etc if u lived or travelled abroad na 2 different thing as for me i cant wait to come back to eko ile.
For the record im not political or yoruba only saying the truth and every society have more poverty stricken people than average people the saying not all that glitters is gold. People are suffering and smilling in the western world too. GOD BLESS NIGERIA

bilms: @bolayei, your story is touching and inspiring, but the issue is not about lagos being bad or not, what am concerned about is the benefit of the masses.

Yes fashola is the governor not LG chairman, but am sure you are ware that governor's hold joint account with LG chairman and LG don't receive any dime. only the governor use the funds at will.

A governor governor cant be judge based on the streetlight or stuffs like that,but the citizens which the masses occupy close to 80% of.

my question is, considering the amount Lagos earn, can you rate him a s a good governor? and what exactly has the masses enjoyed from the govt.

Pro Anti: Visit Akwa Ibom State and see the standard roads criss-crossing the state.

Visit Rivers State and see the quality of the Primary schools built by the current administration.

Visit Kaduna state and see what new towns development is.

Visit Cross River state and see the definition of a neat and beautiful environment

When you are done going round, you will realise Fashola is just an average governor who benefits from the concentration of media houses in his domain.

chucky234: I don't even understand how people reason,imagine a sane man saying Fashola has done well because Lagos has 15 million dwellers. What has the dwellers got to do with developing the state,do you how much Lagos state generates daily.
Fashola is only governing Ikeja,Ikoyi,V/Island,Yaba,Oshodi-Apapa Exp. Way as well as Badagry Exp. Way, what happen to the other places where the poor lives like Okoko,Iba,Ajangbadi,Agric,Satellite Town,Maza-Maza,Ajegunle,Amukoko,Orile,Mushin,Surulere,Ijora, e.t.c
The man is ruling the rich instead of the poor,Lagos state has the worst roads in Nigeria,Asaba,Owerre,Calabar and PH have better roads than our darling Lagos. The only roads we can boast of is the Lekki/Epe concession roads which ironically is the only standard roads in Nigeria (but all know the story of that road).
Go to South Africa or Botswana and see infrastructures in cities that has far less revenue generation than Lagos,then you will know that Lagos is a mega bush,we love Lagos and that's we can't do without living in Lagos but to say that Fash has perform with the kind of revenue Lagos generates is a taboo.
8 years is more than enough to record significant achievement with the money we have in this state
Eko Ba Je lo.

Idango: And the condition of roads in lagos, i mean street roads where common people live is so horrible now that in the 12 years that i have lived in lagos, it has never been like this. Somebody will tell me that the local government are not helping out. Some body will tell me that Tinubu is chopping all the money. Fasola can say no to God father-ism like Ngige.