LeoMax: What are you gonna do with the response ? What do you intend to achieve ?

Cargoed: The main reason is due to failure of LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS many now don't know their responsibilities why because you and me forget to elect our chairmen we leave that for the touts so guess what they give back the touts what they want. which is .....

Local Governments are suppose to generate revenue from fines. Please show me a single Local Government that has generated N1000 from fines.

Fines include: Motor Park lawlessness,
Wrong parking,
Speeding fines,
banning/controlling commercial cyclists this is actually 70% the cause of rowdy metropolis.
Using the wrong horns on vehicles/motorcycles and trucks.
Sound systems from shops being above a certain decibel db,
Storekeepers exceeding their shop boundaries and taken over footpaths and junctions.
illicit sale of alcohol.
Footpaths constructed for pedestrians and fine pedestrians not using foot-ways
Barriers constructed at busy pedestrian junctions
Functional Street Lights
Parking bays for bus drivers, fine those outside it, dropping or picking passengers in wrong places
Establishing more one-way systems and fine defaulters
Waste management from the grass root up. So you can fine anybody that dumps in the wrong place.

Go and check most countries threat these things as emergencies and major issues. So we must learn Cut all support to L.G.A from federal level these are where they should generate their income from.


Ignorance they say is bliss.LG's Nigeria make money from all sorts of legal, illegal and semi legal fines. They plant touts (give them ID cards) to stop any flashy car to ask for the 'sticker' because flashy cars are usually company cars and company must LG stickers. If a commercial vehicle or company travels from Lagos to PH you need a minimum of 19 different tickets which your renew every year.

Every market in Nigeria from the smallest village to the biggest towns, the market women pay a daily rate to LG, all motor parks pay a daily rate to the LG's.

and there many other examples of how LG's extort and collect taxes and fines all over Nigeria

Olodostein: Very possible. Make me the President and I will show you how its done .

afam4eva:
Can your tongue touch your head?

Olodostein:

What has that got to do with executing such grand plan if you make me the Presido?

Can President Obama or Jonathan tongue touch his ass?

Ceteris paribus; Nothing is impossible .

zurine: well in the past, cyber cafe used to be the in thing and the only money making venture through which hard wo9rking intelligent young Nigerians could rack their mind and estort some unclean sum from their foreign counterpoint whom they consider as the mugus and the the maga. well that may seem like a fairy tale but it is just as true as believing you need oxygen to be alive! virtually every cyber cafe has a clic or group of these yahoo maga who would spend as much as 16 hours daily perfecting their plan on how to trick the magas into paying huge sums. but, come to think of it, are there no better ways by which an average Nigerian could make clean money by taking advantage of the internet? these and some other questions were what i had in mind when i decided to explore the internet and its possibilities> but thank God, i stumbled over a website, www.edirectsms.com and so an advert where the owner said he could build a bulk sms reseller package website for a very psaltery sum of 10,000 naira. this is only about 4months ago, and today, i run a bulk sms website and have several clients that pay me a very fair sum for the service i render to them. although i may not be a yahoo yahoo millionaire, yet i am contented with the measure of business growth which i have. friends, there are very many legal ways to make clean money here in Nigeria with peace of mind. i enjoin you to consult him. it may be one of those lucky breaks you have been waiting for

afam4eva:
The point i'm trying to make is that as a president, your portfolio does not define that you maintain cities. That's the Job of the governors and local government chairman.

alj harem: No it is not possible. reason being that commericial centres are usually of not all the time Over populated.

No matter the amount of town planning one put it, a commercial centre would always be a commercial centre.

Population is an important factor in serenity of any town or state.

If there is a low population, then you get a serene environment (also planning comes to play)

If there is an over population, YOU CANNOT GET A SERENE ENVIRONMENT.

Olodostein:

My guy, your format too bam. Nice one.

Olodostein:

My guy, your format too bam. Nice one.

Olodostein:

It is very possible Alhaji. Good urban planning and a civilized populace will do the magic.

Having been privileged to spend sometime in places like German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cairo and Moscow(very populous states like Lagos). It can be blended.

slumcat:
boyz are not smilin...we no fit chop grass.

alj harem:

Good planning for were

Nwannem, no matter how good the plan is. A plan is only as good as the envisage population used during the plan. As we all know, places like Hong kong etc were planned by even the colonial masters and the chinese themselves. Today Hong kong is still very much "none-serene".

My brother, no matter the amount of planning A commercial centre can never be serene.

Cairo is a none-serene place. Here is cairo

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Also Moscow (Russia) has a very low population density (Population in ratio to land mass) and still looks non-serene

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Here is a serene environment calabar

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here is another one

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Olodostein:

Yesoo bro, Hustling continues. Just like this young fella;

A boy found a bag of money and called one FM radio station saying; Boy: "Hello, I found a lost bag wit $100,000.00, an I.D and a mastercard belonging to one Mr. Ifeanyi Arato, plot 4 Park View Estate, Ikoyi. Presenter: u r such an honest boy! So, I believe u wnt 2 return d bag? Boy: No oooo I dey craze? for what? I jst wnt 2 dedicate a song 2 him... play me, MY HELPER OO.. MY HELPER..