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fergie0o1:
SOURCE

Money has changed hands...
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oshozondii:
NGOs Withdraw Workers As Boko Haram Plans Massive Attacks On Borno, Yobe Communities

http://saharareporters.com/2021/04/01/exclusive-ngos-withdraw-workers-boko-haram-plans-massive-attacks-borno-yobe-communities

GOOD MOVE...
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McSquishi:
Why do you people hate on Black Americans? It’s like you don’t have actual problems to focus on...

Meanwhile, you try to imitate us in your dress, speech, and all else. Pitiful.

Can ALL of you squish this obtuse line of arguments...
With all due respect, it’s just a series of ignorant stereotyping on BOTH sides.

Growing up in the US, I lived the ignorant bullying over my name...
And it was even worse for my parents’ generation with their accents (despite being well-educated).

Meanwhile, arriving in Africa for the first-time ever to attend high school...
There was just as palpable ignorance about black Americans based on media and film stereotypes.

The reality is that the mainstream (white) media had done a number on folks of color everywhere...
Portraying Africans as poor tree-dwelling folks, and black Americans (and even black Brits) as lazy, violent, criminals.

Even when the term “African-American” was initially suggested, it met resistance by folks who didn’t want to be associated with Africa...
But, conversely, it was black Americans who pushed hardest for the Diversity Visa, which created opportunities in the US for so many Africans.

INTELLIGENT folks should traverse these crude backward STEREOTYPES...
And realize that the condition of black folks anywhere directly or indirectly affects black folks everywhere.

BLACK LIVES MATTER EVERYWHERE!
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Beremx:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9423903/amp/Nigerian-beauty-queen-PhD-student-24-shot-dead-sitting-Philadelphia.html

RIP...

Her dad must horrified to witness that...
Shame he didn’t get the license plate number.
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SarkinYarki:
Definitely killed by a black American.. You run leave Bokoharam and Bandits for Nigeria only to meet those heartless black Americans who kill for no reason

Only because it’s probably a black neighborhood...
Otherwise, of the over 50K gun-related homicides every year in the US, most are committed by white folks.
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Ykc2:
Lagos government want to take the land so they do it their normal way of putting fire

GOOD! So long as they pay them COMPENSATION and relocate them...
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HenryWilliams:
Study this picture very well. The cause/reason for the fire outbreak is there to see.

About time to relocate this Oko Baba sawmill to Ikorodu, as long planned...

Why is there a sawmill and timber market in the middle of a crowded city in the 21st century?
About from the obvious fire hazard, there’s the environmental pollution and health hazard from sawdust particles!
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What happened to Oduduwa Nation boys company?
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Yankee101:
Sorry but 10million is not alot of money

It can finish in 12 months

My thoughts exactly...
But I suppose every bit helps.
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ebukajay184:
Kessydriz Breaks Down in Tears as Governor Wike Fulfils N10m Pledge (Photo, Video)

Nigerian singer, Kessydriz shed tears of joy after she got her alert of N10m from Rivers state government, IgbereTV reports.

The young lady was one of the artistes who performed at Burna Boy's Homecoming in Rivers state following his Grammy win.

The state government promised to to give N10m each to the artistes that reward artistes who performed at the night of the homecoming.

Taking to her Instagram handle, Kessydriz said her life has changed for the better after receiving the money.

She wrote;

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNF5_42lNHI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

While I am against the random “donation” of state funds, good for her...

Government needs to support the creative industry...
But should do so in a structured and institutionalized manner.
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JuanXXx:
Well I don't have much to say before they request I swear.

On a serious note, Islam should be abolished. Our African traditional religion that doesn't support the new developed era was scraped. I don't know why this imported religion that's has outlived it century is doing in the face of earth.

A religion that's can't be modify shouldn't be allow to exist in the first place. Even in Dubai, they change things to accommodate the new development but you see those poverty wretched region of this country that believe they are the real Muslim deputy Allah, they will never develop.

Just imagine for the past 3 month, I have been eyeing one Fulani girl but the fear of being a Yoruba church goer and the fact that I'm not ready to die any unfortunate death has been stopping me.

If you are abolishing any imported religion, abolish ALL OF THEM - Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Mormon, etc...
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oilPUSSY:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/04/01/last-moments-bauchi-man-burnt-death-allegedly-insulting-prophet-muhammad-%E2%80%93-residents

PRIMITIVE ZOO...
Full of dumb superstitious people.
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rodeo0070:
https://brandspurng.com/2021/04/01/taraba-state-capable-of-supplying-nigeria-with-rice-governor/

Capable of supplying Nigeria with rice...
But instead is supplying Nigeria with banditry.
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Originality007:
while illegal gold mining in Zamfara is still going on

Nigeriabiafra82:
how many illegal gold mining site have they destroyed in the north

Abegi, Nigerians should quit trying to justify CRIMINALITY...
Two wrongs don’t make a right and anyway a ban on illegal gold mining was imposed with the no-fly order in Zamfara just this month.
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tonye33:
Illegal Bunkry Creek distroyed by men of the Nigerian Navy and Army at Ibeto in Rivers State. The said act have been going on for years not until today when a joint team of Nigerian Navy and Army stormed the area exploding everything on site.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/13339336_screenshot20210331172911_jpegf50c3a1f68c14c79bdfa4b955abbc6d7

Isn’t there some other way to destroy the site without polluting the environment?
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Rossikki:
Source: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/6903995/kelechi-iheanacho-set-to-make-a-packet-as-walkers-release-new-range-featuring-leicester-hotshot/

AN OBVIOUS APRIL FOOLS’ DAY GAG...
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sulaak:
It's called priority!

Spending millions on 800 new buses from Brazil at a time when the blue line desperately needed investment is the reason why the light rail project might never happen.

And further btw (since many folks here apparently swear by Premium Times), here’s a linked report below on the “desperately needed investment” made by the Ambode administration in the Light Rail project (and this does not include the deal with Alstom of France). In fact, most of the Marina Bridge was built during the Ambode government.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/280441-ambode-govt-spends-over-100mn-euros-on-lagos-light-rail-project.html

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PS: If there’s something anyone here should know about me is that I am primarily and principally interested in GOVERNANCE, with little or no appetite for crude partisan politics. That’s why, as a Lagosian, I have always been relatively proud that for the most part since the advent of civilian rule (at least since the Fashola administration), Lagos has seemingly prioritized GOVERNANCE over individual and personal glory-hunting.
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sulaak:
It's called priority!

Spending millions on 800 new buses from Brazil at a time when the blue line desperately needed investment is the reason why the light rail project might never happen.

It’s called “a low hanging fruit”...
While you are building a long-term rail project, people need buses TODAY to conveniently get around the City.

PS: Meanwhile, forget the primitively crude political “probe” which has now been abandoned...
It was the same 820 buses that the current administration launched with fan fare, and used to ameliorate the Okada ban.
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https://brandspurng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sanwo-Olu-Unveils-500-Mass-Transit-Buses-Brandspurng-Launches-Smart-Ticketing-System1.jpg
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ableguy:
My problem is they won't still keep the toilets in prestine conditions even if we pay to use it, after some time it will go from white to brown then you start seeing funny colours on it.
It's always like that in every public toilets except the ones at the airports.

Perhaps the state should use a private Facilities Management company to run and maintain the terminal...
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Bouz:
Are you comparing u.s with nigeria, like seriously sir? . a dollar is 480 oh. atleast their debt yielded a positive change. Am just giving that terminal ten year's Oga you won't be able to use that terminal.

What part of the explicit preface “not to compare Lagos with the US” was so difficult to understand?

But even if we do so, the ONLY difference is one of degree and scale...
The underlying concept of using debt to finance infrastructure remains the SAME!
Sadly, many Nigerians think growth is by sharing money, rather than infrastructural investment.

Meanwhile, you sound like one of those who confuse exchange rate for economic viability...
FYI, Kuwait has the world’s strongest currency (3x stronger the US dollar), but a relatively weak economy...
Meanwhile, one dollar is over 110 Japanese Yen, but Japan has the 3d biggest economy in the world.

Btw, not sure why you believe the terminal would be unusable in 10 years...
The state secretariat (for example) was built by Jakande in the 1980s and still fit for purpose...
Thing run down in Lagos (eg, housing estates) are usually run down by residents, not the government.
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olumzzz:
All that's what was published in the news.
In reality, there are ferries but mostly substandard and overpriced.
A trip from ikorodu to vi is 900 naira. That isn't affordable to the low and middle class which are 80% of Lagos' population.
Government can better regulate the waterways by providing ferries with higher passenger capacity to crash the prices to about 200 or 300.
These are better initiatives that would have immediate impact in the economy instead of spending billions with no impact.

Even though there is LAGFERRY Government should NOT be in the business of operating ferries...
Unless we want them run as a SUBSTANDARD social service, as with most things in the public sector.

The government has expended substantial capital in dredging and maintaining waterways...
That’s akin to building and maintaining roads and highways, and the private sector should step in from there.

PS: Btw, as far as I am aware, Ikorodu to VI on LAGFERRY (public) and Texas (private) is N500.
Nonetheless, Lagos slashed ferry fares by 40% last September: https://shipsandports.com.ng/lagos-slashes-ferry-fares-by-40/
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olumzzz:
It shouldn't have to be one or the other.
We don't have buses, boats, trains, etc.
But we're building bus terminals, where is the sense in that?
Such funds could have been used to complete the badagry expressway with a rail line and BRT lane.
There's an existing BRT corridor on ikorodu road from Ikorodu to TBS with no extravagant bus terminal. This BRT corridor has been running for more than 8 years.
Point is, such funds could have been better utilized for projects with immediate impact in the economy.
Oshodi bus terminal has been completed for the second year running with no economic impact.
Ikeja bus terminal has been completed for over 4 years with no economic impact, infact it has been converted to a mall.

Lagos has a Transportation Masterplan...

That masterplan is anchored on INTERMODAL transportation, encompassing road, rail and waterways.
Even the recently-introduced Cowry Card for BRT buses will be usable on ferries and trains (when the latter is operational).

Nonetheless, development is not necessarily piecemeal...
You cannot wait to finish every aspect of one mode of transportation before you begin the next.

Personally, I think the Lagos Light Rail project (particularly the initial Blue Line) should be much further ahead, but complex and capital-intensive infrastructure projects are not always easy (nor straightforward) to execute. Even in the world’s richest and arguably most technologically-advanced nation, the US, it took 25 years to complete the 1.5km Boston tunnel (the so-called “Big Dig”) and several decades to finally complete the Second Avenue subway line in New York City. Nonetheless, we can see that work continues on the Lagos Light Rail project (the Marina Bridge seems to be nearing completion), and hopefully the revised schedule of end of 2022 (for both the Blue and Red lines) comes to fruition.
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olumzzz:
It shouldn't have to be one or the other.
We don't have buses, boats, trains, etc.
But we're building bus terminals, where is the sense in that?
Such funds could have been used to complete the badagry expressway with a rail line and BRT lane.
There's an existing BRT corridor on ikorodu road from Ikorodu to TBS with no extravagant bus terminal. This BRT corridor has been running for more than 8 years.
Point is, such funds could have been better utilized for projects with immediate impact in the economy.
Oshodi bus terminal has been completed for the second year running with no economic impact.
Ikeja bus terminal has been completed for over 4 years with no economic impact, infact it has been converted to a mall.

But we have ferries in Lagos...
Or haven’t you heard of LAGFERRY (as well as private ferry services).

Lagos has substantially invested in dredging and developing waterways...
And building ferry terminals (at Falomo, Bariga, Ikorodu, Osborne, Badagry, etc.).

This was AFTER having to fight the federal government for YEARS in the courts...
Because in Nigeria’s weird (centrist) “federation”, NIWA controls all the inland waterways.
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Bouz:
You are praising debt, lagos state borrowed money to build a terminal it could afford if, funds were judiciously spent.

The US is the world’s most indebted nation (not to compare Lagos with the US)...
There’s NOTHING WRONG with debt if used for infrastructure that is a catalyst for economic growth.
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BrickDevo:
Well I have been there, looks good in picture than in real life, so many unneeded and unused spaces, i still ask myself what for, walking around that park is confusing and tiring, is so huge that I can't understand why. To be sincere this complex never reduced lagos traffic. Even around the complex there's so much congestion. I have seen so many abdoned terminals or checkpoints in lagos that ain't functioning or in use so why build another one. This is not what we need and it will never reduce the stressful Lagos life.

Planning for the future is a concept that so many Nigerians still seem to struggle with...
Usage at the Interchange is not yet at full capacity (even though it’s already processed over 2 million commuters).
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olumzzz:
Good, we all need to think outside the box.
We don't need buses sitting in bus terminals. What we need is to have buses available and timely at bus stops. The buses wouldn't wait more than 5 mins at each stop, you can expect people to ditch their cars at home and goto oshodi first before taking a bus to their destination.
They should be able to take a bus to their destination from their nearest bus stop.

Perfection should never be the enemy of improvement...
Even in NYC, Paris or London, you often have to wait more than 5 mins for your bus.

Folks can either remain stuck in their personal cars for hours on end...
Or suffer the small “inconvenience” of going to Oshodi for a comfortable and relatively quick commute.
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Doing BETTER is always a GOOD thing...
And perfection should NEVER be an enemy of doing better.

This project (and the Lagos Bus Reform Initiative) is a MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT!
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ableguy:
And you want to use restroom they ask you to pay? Is that supposed to be so? Besides the buses no longer put on ACs, especially Ajah routes most times we ride without ac plus no WiFi in the buses like the op stated.

It’s unfortunate that they have to ask for payment for use of the WC facilities....
But without it those toilets will not be well-maintained and will become a cesspool in no time at all - checkout all the free public toilets in Lagos!
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thebosstrevor1:
So this interchange was created because of buses.

So you spend millions of dollars to build a bus station....this is hilarious

I give that place 4 years, it will turn to waste site, the toilets will be filled with feaces, urine smell will be over the place, people trying to sell things will occupy everwhere.

Reminder of what this part of Oshodi used to look like...

https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Oshodi.jpg

When I posted this picture previously, some Nairalanders like you may inadvertently and mistakenly be led to think that the Oshodi Transport Interchange project is just about “beautification” and/or aesthetics. It is much more than that.

The “old” Oshodi used to a nightmare, populated by all manner of Agbero, thugs, touts, pickpockets, thieves, sexual harassers and molesters, etc. It was almost always one of the most unpleasant places and experiences in all of Lagos, but was almost unavoidable for a large segment of the population because it was a bus transportation hub, not only to different parts of the city but also further afield to different parts of the region and the country (as well as the West African subregion).

What the Oshodi Transport Interchange project had done has been to take THIRTEEN (13) different, disparate and chaotic “motor parks” run by all manner of self-anointed transport ‘unions’ and EXTORTIVE motor park touts and thugs, and consolidated them into these 3 well-organized and well-delineated terminals, while eliminating the touts and rogue elements in the process. Accordingly, the Oshodi Transport Interchange project has a social, economic, security, physical and (yes) aesthetic impact.

Finally, it’s NOT just “a bus station”. The Oshodi Transport Interchange, together with the now-completed Oshodi-Abule Egba BRT route and the Red Line Light Rail project (whenever that one finally comes to fruition), effectively anchors a district regeneration program.

EKO ONI BAJE!
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Nastydroid:
Lagos is better than Nigeria

No lie!

Unfortunately, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link...
And the rest of Nigeria (particularly the North) is dragging Lagos (and Abuja) downwards.
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docdes:
Thanks for your effort and for sharing. Looks good. Please, I have a few questions:
1. Is this now the ONLY place in Lagos where ALL bus journeys begin and end?
2. Is this a model for more terminals?
3. If not, what makes Oshodi the choice beneficiary for this?

I'm not jealous though

There are other terminals built or being built, but no other of this scale...
Ikeja has been completed, Yaba seems abandoned, while Abule-Egba just got started.

Meanwhile, the new Oyingbo Terminal was burnt down by post-EndSARS hoodlums.
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ibietela2:
All these rubbish stats way una dey take deceive una self thinking say Nigeria is moving

It seems that FACTS (not feelings) dey pain you...
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