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Good riddance!

But he should be returned to Kirikiri to serve his prison term...
Otherwise, in 4 years he will be running around Lagos with an IJGB accent.
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kereman1:
It's a pity,
A country were a man is tagged a rapist, becos he didn't pull out, wen his partner changed her mind midsex.

Now the girl is playing the victim card, whereas some weeks ago, she was monkeying for this hansome gallant soldier.
The power of a woman, same woman that caused the downfall of: samsom, beheading of John the baptist, Solomon, Adam, and some othe prominent men in the bible.

Same woman dat cut short d life of abacha with an apple.

To all I am karid in this atmosphere, may we walk and never jam delilah. May our letter "I" try more letter "O". More sperm to ur scrotum.

Sexist, misogynistic and disgusting...
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Paroh:
The bible said not to judge. But I can assure you lawyers won't reach 3 in heaven. I pray this guy rapes his lawyer's daughters and wife. Let me know if he'll still plead insanity for him. Idiots.

But that apparently doesn’t deter you from judging...
Anyway, pretty sure that if you (or family) are ever in court you would prefer a lawyer to a pastor!

People often get hung up on the odd extreme case or two, but you forget that it is also lawyers who are prosecuting this soldier (as well as human rights lawyers who brought this case to light and pressured both the army and the state to take action). The VALUE of defense lawyers to society itself is to ensure that the government meets its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt before it could deprive anyone of her freedom or even life. A case like this one may seem clear-cut, but the VAST MAJORITY of cases are not.
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So we give guns to mentally unstable persons in Nigeria?
Anyway, they can treat his psychiatric disorder in PRISON!
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FKseun:
A single mistake and life is turned upside down! We have to be very careful in our dealings.

Which "single mistake"?
Killing and burning the young lady (as alleged)? Or diddling in child molestation?

Realize he's technically just a "suspect" until conviction...
But when/if convicted he should be hung by the balls and then fried! SMH
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Who on earth uses a bus to deliver diesel?
Nigerians are the WORST thing to happen to Nigeria #1,566,738!
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THREAD FAIL!

People who do not understand English should not be trying to teach it.
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Zhegx:
Most of these individuals run away not necessarily because 9ja is a huge pile of crap but because they've given the impression back home that "they've arrived" and starting from the scratch gives them nightmares.........

RIP to the dead......Guess Nigeria failed you......

Fvck badluck jonathan, lifeless buhari, Atiku..

Fvck China with their short ugly stature and wicked faces...................

Spot on! They are determined to remain "in the abroad" even if it's Syria!

koyyess:
Her forefathers laid a foundation her own generation is benefitting from. Her father's generation simply built on that foundation while her own generation is simply just maintaining it.

Don't compare Her country to this sh1t hole.

Nope! More than just maintaining it, her generation has IMPROVED on it...
No guesses as to what our generation’s done to maintain (much less improve) on our fathers’ foundation.

Of course, wouldn’t dare compare Switzerland with Nigeria (being fortunate to have sampled both)...
For starters, Switzerland is not populated by sh*tholers and a population MAKES a country (not vice versa).
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Daboomb:
We Blacks, especially Nigerians, are quite funny and perhaps, stupid!

How does one explain building a #5Billion Terminal, in an environment where the ROADS are almost non-existent, the BUSES that will use it are RAMSHACKLES and the people that will use it are poorer than the fabled Church Rat?

This is all about creating white Elephant projects to make room for looting and corruption.
Is this "part of" where the #9Billion EFCC said Ambode stole, (using his Chief of Staff as front), came from?

Me thinks commonsense will dictate that you first Repair the Roads, Provide the Buses and then do a truly world class Bus Station, IN THAT ORDER so that everything can synergise together.

Nigerians, l hail o, the way una dey arrange things with this una criminals in power, l fear una.

#WorldClassKwarruption

First, the buses using these terminals will not be “ramshackle” (see pic below). Rather Lagos has invested in a new fleet of high-capacity environmentally-friendlier (will run on CNG) buses that will ultimately replace the current ramshackle Danfo buses on most city routes (with the present Danfo drivers/conductors being trained/re-trained to operate the new buses under private operating companies), together with 3 maintenance depots at Oshodi, Yaba and Lekki (including the assembly plant at Awoyaya, that will ultimately assemble future batches/orders). Furthermore, the experience of BRT buses is that these new buses are going to be even CHEAPER than Danfo and there’ll be little (if any at all) danger of being “one-chanced”! Don’t know about you but cheaper, more comfortable, air-conditioned and safer buses sounds a good deal!

https://odinceblog.com/storage/2019/08/cropped-OS-1.jpg

As for ROADS, must confess my befuddlement as to why you apparently believe that it is mutually-exclusive to simultaneously develop roads and other infrastructure such as this Interchange that will COMPLEMENT such road infrastructure. The same Lagos government has rebuilt/expanded/upgraded the federal govt’s Airport Expressway, is still working on the federal govt’s Badagry Expressway, built/rebuilt/upgraded 184 inner city roads throughout the 57 LCDAs (using mostly local/neighborhood contractors to localize the Naira spent), has built the iconic Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, expanded the Lekki-Epe Expressway, built bridges/flyovers at Abule-Egba and Ajah (in addition to the ongoing one at Agege Pen Cinema), and has work gangs from the Lagos Public Works Corporation out every so often to maintain/patch up roads. But road maintenance is an ongoing PROCESS and NOT an event (especially in Lagos where the topography is difficult on asphalted roads). If Lagosians are to wait until every road is fixed, Lagos will never get anything else done.
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Freedem:
I don't understand, why build a bus station like a train station.
They save money in Europe by building little bus stops that are cheap and clean and then use traffic systems to show waiting times. The actual buses are parked away far from the passengers.
This ensures proper distribution, however this technique used here will just lead to overcrowding.

I think he copied Dubai..

Lagos will still have bus shelters/stops (see the pic below)...
And the new ITS system (see my post immediately above) will aid trip planning (see box at top right).

https://www.lagostelevision.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/003.png

4gunners:
You've said it all. Politicians are more concerned about that "gigantic elephants project" instead of many little projects that matters, simply because of the obvious "reasons". Oshodi ought to be improved, better organised before putting up such edifice.

On the other hand, Lagos administrator should think of ways to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. They should improve other methods of transportation. Lagos cannot continued on this trend, or else it will be inhabitable in the next few decades to come.

But Lagos is already build a light rail system, and after years of fighting the federal govt for control of the waterways (in a substantively unitary “federal” System) is dredging and developing several ferry routes.

This project brings under 3 clean and well-organized (and technologically-aided) terminals the chaotic THIRTEEN bus “parks” that used to service commuters in a Oshodi, so it necessarily had to be “gigantic”.

Further, the Intelligent Transport System being developed with these terminals will not only enable commuters to plan their trips (by checking on things like arrival times, delays, traffic updates, etc.), but also provide for cards that will allow seamless transfers between different modes of public transportation (that is, a commuter can transfer from the buses to the ferries or/and eventually to the trains). Eko Oni Baje!
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Amudeneogu:
WHY WASTING PEOPLES HARD EARN MONEY ON A BEAUTIFUL NONSENSE PROJECT? IT IS A BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE YES, BUT THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE CHANNEL THE MONEY IN OTHER MORE IMPORTANT PROJECTS LIKE WARF ROAD AND OTHER IMPORTANT ROADS IN LAGOS.

Wharf Road belongs to the federal government...
Lagos has already rebuilt the FG’s Airport Road and still rebuilding FG’s Badagry Expressway.
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1StopRudeness:
It will be destroyed...I’m not being a pessimist here..but the palms is not a government establishment that doesn’t care about maintenance...Ambode is gone.. the next government won’t put into account the maintenance, isn’t that why our roads,street lights electric power, and schools are this worse..
Private sector has the only working system in this nation with extremely minimal corruption and good customer service...everything the government runs is seen as doing us a favour, like it’s their personal money and they they are just managing us

.the only way this country will thrive is privatization of everything with government acting as supervision and control to protect masses from illegal and over maximization of gain...

This is a PPP project...
Translink, which put up most of the capital, is unlikely to sit by and watch it destroyed.
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BabaO2:
Anybody can do this within the city that is already developed, somebody had the foresight of banana island, Ilubirin, opebi link Bridge, ikoyi link Bridge, igboelerin, dualised ipaja ayobo, BRT, Water way transportation etc those are the real developments

Banana Island is a private development, Illubirin remains incomplete, while Opebi Link Bridge was from military usurpers who mostly savaged Lagos, so not quite sure that I fully get the point you are struggling to make about “real development”? Government (and governance) is supposed to be a continuum, so not sure what Ambode was supposed to destroy/abandon the things he met on the ground to display this rather strange concept of “real development”?

Nonetheless, Ambode had the foresight to build the Abule-Egba and Ajah flyover bridges, conceive and commence the Agege Pen Cinema flyover (hopefully Sanwo-Olu has the sense to complete same), the Lagos State Entrepreneurship Trust Fund, a first-class Emergency Response Unit, the Code Lagos project, the Ready-Set-Work program, the Critical Care Unit at LASUTH, Oworonsoki Reclamation Project, the 21 border roads at Alimosho, etc., etc.

‘Real development’ is NOT an event, but a PROCESS.
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anthony86:
I think this is one of the many reasons Ambode was oust by APC mandate group. The project though good on pictures but was one big evidence of Ambode misplaced priorities. Just under the interchange you will marvel at the level of disorder and insecurity situation.

What do you mean by “under the Interchange”?
The Interchange is situated on the street level?!

Meanwhile, if only you knew Oshodi before Fashola began the clean-up. SMH
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hefelove:
Abeg those new brt bus na true say free WiFi dey there? I have only seen the charging port In the chairs.

Mind you na the new studio for people to dey snap be this

4gunners:
lol. Free WiFi for where? E no dey work ooo.

It will have free Wi-Fi...
The system is however not operational yet.

PS: Btw, those are not BRT buses...
They are just regular buses that will eventually replace Danfo on most major routes.
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BigBashiru:
Thanks for being brave enough for speaking the truth! A friend was at the Lagos international airport recently when he overhead a customs official complaining he had too much work and that he shouldn't be brought more travelling passengers to reduce his work load. The workers at the so called oshodi interchange will have the same attitude and slowly but surely everything will eventually disintegrate.

Black Africans and Nigerians are a disgrace to humanity!

Mirror, mirror on the wall...
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exlinklodge:
Hmmmm

I commend Lagos State for trying to be different from Nigeria as a whole

BUT............

Where is the interchange heading to? Na still potholes and stupid and unconstructed roads. Eg: cele road, coming from airport. All road around this structure is bad and needs to be reconstructed.

Deal with all those roads Lagos State and stop building new areas and dredging water ....

Eko new city
Eko mega city
Banana island

Build the areas that has been there and stop beating about the bush.

Nice pictures though

All PRIVATE capital...
If Lagos doesn’t want them, they can invest same capital in Dubai or London properties.
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OBAGADAFFI:
That place is just a bus terminal, there is noting Transport Interchange about it

Just like Ikeja terminal.

It’s an Interchange (a hub)...
You can arrive on an Intercity bus from Aba and transfer to an Intracity bus to Mile 2.

Also, when/if the Red Line light rail service ever becomes operational, there’s an Oshodi stop.
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kerzhim:
Nice edifice! If not for the fact that we hate to hear good news in this part of the world..... i could remember when this particular market was destroyed.....

My brother, it’s a corrosive POVERTY MENTALITY!
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Toro2015:
Breath taking my as.s.. That is one of the most wasteful investment I have seen in Nigeria.. $70 million for an interchange in the midst of poverty. They should have invested in building good roads, schools and provision of security.

I work at Illupeju industrial estate and I use that route almost everyday except for holidays like this one.. under that bridge/interchange is a big slum.. My phone was almost snatched one morning after I finished a night shift and was going home.. They wasted alot of money in the midst of poverty

The pictures you see here are not even close.. I have never seen a place so dirty like that place..

Guestlander:
Thank God your phone was not snatched. Please used the same phone to take the pictures of what you described above for the benefit of other nairalanders, so we may fully understand what you are talking about.

Are you saying you don’t believe his taste-de-money?
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magicfingers009:
What's the usefulness of this project? This is a very honest question. What is the interchange about?

Basically, it....

(1) reorganizes a chaotic “system” of 13 bus parks into 3 terminals, with each serving different purposes (intercity, intracity and BRT); (2) serves the social purpose of re-engineering the place by removing the touts, pickpockets and thieves who populated those bus parks; and (3) serves the economic purposes of bringing in new consumers and businesses into the area (both within the Interchange and nearby).
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J111333:
It must be a Nigerian woman with the PhD, na so dem dey borrow borrow student loans dey get useless degrees.
One Nigerian nurse working at a military hospital was boasting to a patient that she was doing her PhD in nursing and her much more senior Philipino colleague asked her what was the use of paying for several students loans acquiring degrees when it wouldn't change her salary status at the hospital.
She was just opening her mouth anyhow and finally said she enjoyed going to school. That day, I concluded that most Nigerians acquire degrees just for show off.

Or perhaps to actually be better educated...
People (like the Philipino) who equate value of education with salary are FUNCTIONAL ILLITERATES!
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koyyess:
Foolish woman.

You don't know what sacrifices your forefathers made for you.

Don't worry. You and Ik ogbonna's ex wife will soon be having a cup of coffee together when your eye finally opens.

Its only a matter of time.

Meanwhile, see 1diots praising her. The same 1diots that complain day and night about their wretched lives and how they want to leave this country.

A white fish head blinded by the head and d1ck of her black lover is making you all love the leadership of booohari and his cohorts.

I am sure because of this white female, you have even decided to vote for booohari for 3rd term in 2023.

Mumus.

Switzerland is mostly better TODAY than under her forefathers/parents...
Nigeria is mostly worse TODAY than it was under your forefathers/parents.

Draw your own conclusions!
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nextstep:
Please. Don't compare an organized society where people spend their talents being useful, to a country where people squander their talents on being generator operators and water bearers.

Truth be told, every place has its dependency: if petrol/kerosine deliveries were made in Nigeria for two weeks, we will all kpeme, generator or not. How will all those imports - including food - be cleared from customs?

I'm not sure why people see that as some kind of condolence... it's like saying: "those people who lived before antibiotics were so strong". I don't think anybody would like to go to that era where you suffered endlessly from what are now easily-curable diseases. Sure we may laugh when they go nuts after 15 minutes, but it's sad that we here are so used to chaos and disorganization.

Each country was made so by its people...
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Richard-whipped!
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Chukwurah003:
Nonsense. I blame PDP for this moral decadence

EKO ONI BAJE!
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I thought it was all Ambode’s fault...
And now that he’s been ousted the problem should have long ended.

Ambode brought in a multinational company with proven track record in several countries...
But the APC Landlord(s) saw PSP licenses as bribes for party apparatchiks, and sabotaged the CLI! SMH
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Dailyhappenings:
After the khafi's occurence this morning, her management has responded and demands an apology from SUN.

See the press release...

Source: https://www.musictori.com/2019/08/bbnaija-press-release-khafis-management.html

Thanks management for publicizing the story...
I was totally unaware of it until now, but will check it out pronto.
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