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engrchykae:
cleanup is different from displacing people without compensation or telling them when to come back.
The oppressors don't make excuses for their actions rather it's the oppressed that helps the oppressors to make excuses.
If it's about cleanup,why is lawma there?

There’s only so much you can do to clean-up a pit latrine (in fact, you can’t)...
What this PPP seeks to do is akin to replacing a pit latrine with a sanitized flush system.

Sometimes, the only way to change habits is by structural change...
That’s a metaphor for Nigeria itself! But if it’s your idea of “oppression”, sign me up.
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Gracealone:
Oga, you call it a fruit market, try and visualize the type of airy structures that most of them need, even upon giving it a modern touch, except you are thinking of their usual method of dislodging 5,000 law abiding average traders to bring in 200 wealthy ones or just 2 South African companies in the name of modernization.

You allow people to grow into it. You want only the markets to look like Europe, while the pockets of the people are not and our leaders are not even thinking like European leaders. And our roads are not. We'll wait to see how much they will ask then to pay just like the Ogba Retail Market.

You act as if Nigeria is the only place where fruit markets exist...
Modern fruit markets litter the globe and even here in NIGERIA, Emmanuel Ijewere’s Fresh Farms have inexpensive modern fruit stalls.

Meanwhile, while my post had nothing to do with large grocery stores or chains, suffice it to note that even those SA companies (apparently some Nigerians are just as xenophobic, but just not yet as violently so) depend on LOCAL NIGERIAN farmers, suppliers, logistics, security, etc. Accordingly, apart from the HUNDREDS OF NIGERIANS that they directly employ, they also generate HUNDREDS of other NIGERIAN JOBS all along the value chain. Heck, if that’s the best way to ensure clean healthy produce, more power to them.
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DAVE5:
modernize the market by building shops(rows of flats) that would be too expensive for the former occupants, is that really development

engrchykae:
cleanup is different from displacing people without compensation or telling them when to come back.
The oppressors don't make excuses for their actions rather it's the oppressed that helps the oppressors to make excuses.
If it's about cleanup,why is lawma there?

gypsey:
Ofcourse, that's what they would say, So who is modernizing the market the Lagos state Government or Developers?

And what is the Guarantee that The Government would alocate the modernized shops to these people who have been trading there for years? Or of they could even Afford the Modernized shops.

Issues of PUBLIC HEALTH and safety should not be compromised...
The health of the citizenry is not an area where we should be RACING TO THE BOTTOM.

The reality is that if you go to many markets in Lagos/Nigeria, you will not eat for a while...
Goods and produce are placed on the floor (even on the streets), while meat is often covered in flies.

Then, when folks drop dead at a relatively young age...
The largely superstitious citizens will blame “village people”!

People often look at the price of doing things rather the cost of not doing same...
But if we continue to neglect public health, EVERYONE ultimately pays the price (one way or another).
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philbad:
This is wickedness not that you shouldn't do this but these are the people you governing, why didn't u let them take away there goods, they might proof stubborn but you shouldn't destroy there life like this. Shameless government

Agree...
Even though the traders were being ‘lawless’.
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Gracealone:
Sanwoolu is not even waiting for his second year not to talk of second term.

N2.8b to build shops in the market. Thats $7.8m. A God-fearing leader will conveniently use the same amount to develop 10 markets. This is one of the same markets from where Tinubu's daughter has been consistently exthorting and ripping people off.

#ENJOYYOURAPC!

We should forgo these crappy zink "markets", and build real modern markets...
With proper storage facilities, security, banking facilities, ambulatory services, etc.

PEOPLE'S HEALTH IS AT STAKE!
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gypsey:
That land have Already been sold to Developers, they will build Rows of Flats for sale or let to the highest bidders.

Abegi read the story not just headlines....
They are not building "rows of flats" but modernizing the market.
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ikorodureporta:
Chai....my fruit market! I jst buy loads of fruits there yesterday
I hope d traders wl be compensated, because d extent of destructions & wailing I dey see on TV is v.touching

kcool360:
I just pray the traders are compensated

lagdmark:
Compensation kee?

Why should they be compensated when even they admitted being given notices but chose to ignore it...
The level of IMPUNITY in Nigeria is mind-boggling, from the top (a President who ignores court orders) to the bottom.
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engrchykae:
It all started from fashola,the idea is to rid Lagos of poor people.
With time Lagos will be only for the Rich.

People complain about filth and unhealthy conditions...
But when the govt acts to modernize and clean up conditions, same folks complain.
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Switruth:
This should be the least of Lagos state government problem.

It's NOT the state govt....
But the local govt that they elected.
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This is how we waste time and money in Nigeria...
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LabDNA:
What are the chances that if these appointments are based on merit, these big men children will occupy those offices?

Roadtoyesterday:
Nepotism will not kill us in Nigeria, if they are actually technocrats and competent they would make the list and not be sacked.

Why? "Big men children" are genetically not smart?

First, there are only two people there listed as "big men children" but nonetheless there are many "big men children" who actually are smart and work hard, in addition to the benefit of a good education (at least mostly in schools where sex-for-grades are a principal feature), so without privy to the CVs of these 35 Nigerians, let's not leap to precipitous conclusions.

While nobody should receive an unfair advantage because of parentage, neither should anyone suffer an unfair disadvantage because of same!
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Happyguy201:
Nigeria own is too much,

Maybe and maybe not...
In the US, for example, there are about 50,000 gun-related homicides every years.

Not sure more bad stuff is happening...
It’s just the Internet dumps it on us these days. Before SM, would we have heard this story?
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Happyguy201:
the amount of bad things happening in Nigeria eh one would think its a curse

Unfortunately bad stuff happens EVERYWHERE....
In the US (for example), a 6-year-old shot and killed his 3-year-old brother.
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Aarenaija:
We care too mush about worthless things.
What's wring with pointing fingers my dear bros?
Let us allow him be...........

We didn’t vote for him to point fingers...
Rather, we voted for him to take actual ACTIONS!
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The HARDEST-WORKING person in Lagos....

https://i0.wp.com/www.pmnewsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sanwo-Olu-1-e1551368592511.jpg?zoom=2&resize=700%2C467&ssl=1


......is Gov Sanwo-Olu’s OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER!!
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I like to think of myself as a feminist as well...
But frankly I am struggling to see how this relates to feminism.

Small Doctor had his WhatsApp jackoff video posted all over the Internet...
Can he also claim gender violation or it is a straightforward case of privacy?
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seunlayi:
Forcing others to buy it or making it a condition for others to be able to participate is what I hate about aṣọ ebi

You don't have to attend the wedding or be part of the wedding party...
If you keep your behind at home, nobody is going to begrudge you Aso Ebi.
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yomi961:
its a shame, that the govt depends on private individuals to provide essencial services

Even in the US, the world's richest-ever nation, individual philanthropy is HUGE...
Unlike many folks on NL, the good doctor appreciates that Nigeria bequeathed him the values to be successful in life.

May he long continue to prosper.
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BEST WISHES to the couple...

However, after 5 kids...
The big to-do seems redundant.
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nograv:
Why do Nigerians take great pride in marrying out? Other groups in the world like the Japanese or Swedish take the opposite view..

Inferiority complex sha...

It does not matter where anyone finds a good partner...
Afterall, without the British we might all be from different countries.

What sometimes bothers me personally is...
When some (not all) Nigerians treat marrying a white person as an "achievement"!
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AryaSand:
Wow! A mother of 5 with body this nice?? Well done!

Geminita1:
One of the benefits of marrying a white man.

Huh?!

Abegi, you have to explain that one because ayam not understanding.
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MiddleDimension:
eucation is not the cause for not wanting to have fewer children. surveys only show correlation, not causative factors.

majority of highly educated people stay in urban centres where raring children can be expensive. that's not the case in rural centres. in rural communities, there is farm, the children work on farms thereby offsetting the cost of taking care if them. there is large space for settlement in villages and this means you can have more kids. in the city, space is expensive. if you are a family of say 5, you will need a three bedroom flat. that can cost alot in cities.

That's part of it but only a small part...
Because more educated people in RURAL areas also tend to have LESS kids.

The primary causation is that the longer in school people are, the later they tend to get married and thus the later they tend to have kids (not that marriage is necessarily prerequisite to bearing children). Educated people also tend to more likely become employed and or pursue professional careers after their education and thus will not have kids immediately which might be disruptive of their work or occupation. In fact, if not for the proverbial fertility "clock" many professional women would probably defer childbirth until much later. Finally, many educated women tend to be aspirational and want to manage the number of kids they have so that they can accord their kids a high quality of education and life in general.
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Not surprised at all...

The more educated people are...
The less likely they are to have many kids.

Ultimately, parenting is not about QUANTITY of kids...
But rather about the QUALITY of life we accord those kids.
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KolaShangOne:
It's all lies.

[b]The truck driver making an enquiry is actually giving bribe to the FRSC officials. [/b]We have seen that before.

I don't know what happened but I don't believe the FRSC

And so, upon seeing such corruption, the Mercedes driver was so incensed and decided to kill them?

We Nigerians seemingly never fail to leave substance and instead preoccupy ourselves with chasing shadows.
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Slawormir:
My niggar
am tired
Niggars abuse the use of English too much

You see niggarz in this forum always Say birds of the same feather instead of "birds of a feather"

That is how one Niggar was saying founds instead of fonds

Er...it's actually Nigger and not Niggar...
Or "Nigga" if you want to use the AA vernacular.
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Idowumanuel:
In oyo the government decided to give free waec past questions to sss 3 students.

Do the head to head

Wc move do u think carries weight??

Both are NOT mutually-exclusive...
But try writing exams on an empty stomach!
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Nigerians are the WORST thing to happen to Nigeria...
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Better than nothing...
I bet you more parents willingly pay taxes in that Oyinbo country.
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Fitting that she’s CRYING...
Because that’s how most of us feel about Nigerian ‘democrazy’!

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netpro:
What cave is the OP from? Nothing stands out here. Just a typical Governor's convoy.

It’s said no one can ride you unless you are bent over...
Some of you Nigerians are firmly gripping your ankles! SMH
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