₦airaland Forum

TimmyTen:
He listened to Nigerians with tankers and articulated vehicles causing gridlock, stress of commuting even deaths. He has failed

datola:
Useless projects everywhere.

The irom casting called Oshodi interchange is not necessary as filling all the.potholes on virtually all Lagos roads.

The bus stop contructions at TBS, Oyinbo, Yaba, Ikeja, etc have not solved any problem rather, created haven for destitute persons to live

How can you solve transport problem by abandoning rail project by Fashola to importing small buses in a mega city

He scored poorly in waste management with his importation of a visionless Dubai company to pack waste instead of the former system that was working.

You don't change a winning team to prove you have a big head.

Major Ambide's achievement is some roads, lay-bys and fly over construction and restriction of the activities of Road safety and VIO on Lagos raids

The man is local and mediocre in thinking.

Sagay212:
It is waste of money. You Nigerians should begin to use your brain. Your roads are extremely terrible, education in lagos is messed up, health care is crap and a useless governor is building useless terminals just to show off.

Bluntemperor:
God bless Ambode and the children of hate would still criticize him on such a project by reminding us that light rail is more important.first,the light rail is majorly a World Bank Project,funded by them,same with Ikorodu World Bank Road project during Fashola era people should get history right.
Secondly It could be that not much political push was placed on the light rail completion from Mile-2 towards Marina but my personal observation revealed that works never ceased as the triangular connection between Carter-Bridge Rail movement,Underwater Crude Oil by-pass with Heavy Engineering Works involved highly experienced Experts with Marine Engineers working day and night.Go there now and see the great work being done over the sea by the Chinese Construction Company linking the bridge to Marina.This has been going on for the past 2and half years.!This is the most delicate and technical aspects of the job,yet some people who don't understand what technicalities are spewing rubbish.Is it a must that a Governor must fight the elders of the party before you can appreciate his works.i was at Oshodi last week and I went down where Planet Engineers are working was very amazed.may be in years to come we appreciate Ambode's vision then.

tolanibae:
Common, being a woman doesn’t mean i should support manipulation. There are no perfect family anywhere under the sun. The man was clearly going through some crisis, he needed help. It was the likes of banky and one of the p squares that was there for the poor guy when he almost lost it all while tiwa was crying all over the internet busy saving her supposedly tarnished hoe-ish image.

My guy used to have some substance addictions issue, i helped him through it, i didnt abandon him so i know what it feels like. We are doing good now and we are stronger because we have gone through a lot together.

If i was in tiwa’s shoe, i would have done all i can to get my family in order, teebillz would have apologized publicly for saying tiwa sleeps around, blamed all he said on the depression he was going through. But no, tiwa sacrificed her whole family to prove to the world that she wasn’t a hoe which she eventually proved otherwise to the world. Over time, Teebillz has undergone rehab and seemingly doing fine, Tiwa has dragged her reputation as a mother many times with her dressing and choice of lifestyle (even with a rumor of dating somebody that calls her husband uncle).

Different strokes for different folks but the bottom line is that no one is perfect, if you will throw someone under the bus for something that people will eventually know to be true, it shouldn’t be the father of your only child, it shouldn’t be the person that saw something in you when no one did, it shouldn’t be someone that needed help. I don’t support the use of drugs but family should always come first.

sexybaby22:
You say 'she ruined her family' when it was her husband that started the whole drama and the interview was the only way she felt she could defend herself. Tiwa that was the breadwinner and covering up for his lapses till he lost it. You are a woman and you should have empathy for your fellow women after all we all know what a lot of women go through in their marriages.

Kiddogarcia:
Goodluck to them.happiness is the major key

Daninya111:
Lateef was treated poorly by the U15 Coach at the last Afcon.
I believe that demoralized the young lad psychologically at the U17 camp.

Dude didn't give his best and he was dropped.
Manu Garba for me is the only Nigerian coach that I know whom to a large extent is fair and transparent. The young lad should be patient and keep working his socks off,he may still have a chance of making the U17 squad for the World cup.

For the records, he still has Nigerian flag on his profile. He comes from a family blessed with immensed football talent. Even his elder sister deserves a look in by Super Falcon Coach,Dennerby.

Dude had a bad experience with the Cadet Coaches at the U15's.So he is not too blame if he reacts the way he did.

He should wait patiently for his time.
Who knows he may be our own Pele.

The kid is just bitter,he will get over it.
He needs our support and love.

Seethrough:
The simple reason is our age grade players are all cheats. So a truly talented kids lateef doesnt stand a chance, because he will always be regarded as too small or too fragile.The same way we lost David Alaba to Austria and till today we don't have one like him in left back position.

kunkelhanspeter:
We all know his too small to play for under 17 in Nigeria ��
Our under 17 are 25-28 years old above so a 15years old like him will never make it

uuzba:
Oh?
So where are the people?
We are looking at the boundary of two separate functional towns with a road separating both. People can transact their full business on either side of the road. The road does not divide their town and they don't need to cross it. Amenities are provided on either side.
The road was put there first. Both towns expanded from their city centres outwards. The houses at the edge are the cheapest houses on the cheapest land because of vehicle noise from the roads.
The fence protects children living in these areas from venturing to the road. In UK, I saw fences along the railway line. They were placed specifically to prevent people trying to commit suicide.
The point remains that Western nations do not build 10 lane roads in the middle of town, put fences on them and expect people not to cross the roads or damage the fences in the process of trying to do so.
Don't just be in UK or US vexing for Nigerians. You have to study the people and their history. Then you will understand why certain things appear the way they do.

uuzba:
Oh?
So where are the people?
We are looking at the boundary of two separate functional towns with a road separating both. People can transact their full business on either side of the road. The road does not divide their town and they don't need to cross it. Amenities are provided on either side.
The road was put there first. Both towns expanded from their city centres outwards. The houses at the edge are the cheapest houses on the cheapest land because of vehicle noise from the roads.
The fence protects children living in these areas from venturing to the road. In UK, I saw fences along the railway line. They were placed specifically to prevent people trying to commit suicide.
The point remains that Western nations do not build 10 lane roads in the middle of town, put fences on them and expect people not to cross the roads or damage the fences in the process of trying to do so.
Don't just be in UK or US vexing for Nigerians. You have to study the people and their history. Then you will understand why certain things appear the way they do.

raumdeuter:
The killer of Murtala were executed immediately not protected like Ifeajuna and co

uuzba:
Excellent pictures.
NOW, can you see any residential houses and market nearby? Where are the pedestrians?
NONE.
Wire mesh is used in the non residential areas. No market, no school, nothing to attract pedestrians.

Our own is upside down. 10 lane road right in the middle of residential area. How won't people cross the road everyday and break the fence?

Focusmind:
Here we go again. Nobody is denying the fact that iron mesh is not used in other parts of the world. Most times, it is used in low density areas and not in a high urban centers where traffic - both human and vehicular are much. The picture you posted showed were they were used in an express way and low density area. See how scanty the area in the picture you posted looks.

Compare it to Lagos, where population density is high, with street hawkers everywhere and unruly commercial bus drivers. You need to up your game and ensure that whatever material you are using in those areas could withstand human interference. These are all factored in engineering process.

See another express with wrought iron

Beedude:
These ones na original compare to what we have here

Originalsly:
I'm not surprised. I blame the planners. Why would they have mountainous overhead bridges in high pedestrian traffic areas? Did they consider people with load?... the aged? Can some supporters of these costly inconveniences explain to me why traffic lights were not placed to regulate the flow of both pedestrian and vehicle traffic? Not against the fence... but I'm against the ridge in this 21st century... maybe a good idea 1940/1950.... that's not at all progressive in these times.

Triniti:
Maintenance culture =zero, this is what happens when you don’t maintain already existing public infrastructure, it starts deteriorating.

uuzba:
In the '60, Oshodi area in Lagos was empty. The government was just building the expressway then. And they cleared off some "village" lands there. My dad lost a "village" plot he purchased there.
After the road was built, they didn't stop people from going back there and building houses all over the place.
The Government didn't do it's duty. And never seems to do it. They just open the back door and collect bribe from individuals who end up building markets all over ther road and hawking gala right on the road.
It's not fence that will solve the problem.

uuzba:
Who caused the poverty?
Everybody was chilling in their villages before minding their humble business. But city people will not allow them hear word. Now they all rushed to the city and the city people cannot employ them. Why did you do shakara for them in the first place? They are here now and will mess up the whole place and will never go back to their villages.

OgogoroFreak:
A serious government would have been through with this work before now. Ambode is not a good person.

uuzba:
.I lived in UK once and visited a few other European countries. They don't have fences on their roads. And people don't cross the roads. Why?
They don't build 10 lane expressway in residential areas as we have done. Their expressway is out of town. There's no houses there. So nobody has to cross it.
Inside the town, where the houses are, they have small dual carriage roads with traffic lights and zebra crossings. EXACTLY AS LAGOS ISLAND.
It's called panning.

Now in America, their roads are bigger. But almost everyone has a car. They buy cars using monthly payment schemes. You don't have to save complete money for car. Just pay minimum monthly sum over 2, 3, 4 years and the car is yours to use NOW.
If you have car, what are you doing crossing road?
It's called planning.

Focusmind:
AutoJosh leave matter. Our standards are just too low in this country. This kind of thing is done using wrought iron. Go to Europe and see how wrought iron that have stayed for centuries were used for road division and this type of work as shown in the picture below

Here, we use one fake gauze iron for things like this, despite the fact that the disorder in this country is second to none. Check some of the flower lanes and bus tops where these fake and sub-standard wire gauze were used, they have all spoilt. For you to build things that will last, use superior material.

Beedude:
Inferior fence to start with. Though we lack maintenance culture both the citizens and govt. I saw some of these fences in Dubai and I know those that did the work in Lagos just use it to syphon money. How can an iron fence be destroyed in less than 4 years when it wasn't hit by a Truck, Lorry, Tata bus, or Bulldozer. I weep for this nation

allsaint2000:
A nation without a culture of maintenance. So, what do you expect?

9jaBloke:
Bottom line is that he is open to a political appointment from a government he publicly castigated.

nograv:
Then answer my questions and stop being a coward. What are you?

Ordinary Nigerians are not to blame for their predicament, it is Nigerian leaders that have failed them. Do you agree??

As for the issue being bigger than me, of course I know that. That is why push for reforming Nigeria, not its breakup as Nigeria will be the lodestar for Africa.

Most Nigerians year think money will bring them happiness it doesn’t. If you are fortunate enough to travel and mix in elite circles, you realise how few black faces sit at the top table. How few of us actually sit across from others as equals. That’s why I rail against the mistreatment of my people. Unlike you who denigrate them and blame them for their failures.

I maybe smart and have a bit of cash in my pocket, but regardless of my hard work, luck played a huge role (family etc). I am no better than any Lagos area boy or poor street urchin. They are victims of Nigeria’s failures..

I checked out your profile, I was surprised you had a picture of brother Malcolm of all people. You are one confused foreigner and you call our people and me a Nigger. Hilarious..

Gtfo...

nograv:
I agree with you on the need for legislation, I have said as much in other posts.

On whites thinking they are superior or having racial bias I have experienced that first hand. From guys assuming I cant code to folks addressing subordinates in a meeting only to be politely informed that I a black man is the boss..

Legislation can only achieve so much. As blacks and asians suffer higher unemployment and lower wages in the UK and US even when they are better educated. In shoet whites favour their own even when laws are in place and the black person has more skills than his peers..

Likewise I am sorry to say we should do the same. Nigeria is and should be for Nigerians. As the US and UK are for Europeans in the main..

So I will not accept some foreign bastard like Jaqenhghar coming on a Naija forum and saying ordinary Nigerians are the problem and that we are Niggers..

As for Nigerians thinking they are racially superior to others, I am saddened by this. I personally have never seen it.

If you are talking about tribalism that is a different thing. I not against saying some groups like Igbo have more progressive, democratic and meritocratic values than say Hausa. But I think that is down to culture not some inherent racial superiority. I say this as a man who is half Yoruba and Igbo.

But if a man says he his tribe is superior to another just because, I will quickly tell him to shut up..

nograv:
I agree with you on the need for legislation, I have said as much in other posts.

On whites thinking they are superior or having racial bias I have experienced that first hand. From guys assuming I cant code to folks addressing subordinates in a meeting only to be politely informed that I a black man is the boss..

Legislation can only achieve so much. As blacks and asians suffer higher unemployment and lower wages in the UK and US even when they are better educated. In shoet whites favour their own even when laws are in place and the black person has more skills than his peers..

Likewise I am sorry to say we should do the same. Nigeria is and should be for Nigerians. As the US and UK are for Europeans in the main..

So I will not accept some foreign bastard like Jaqenhghar coming on a Naija forum and saying ordinary Nigerians are the problem and that we are Niggers..

As for Nigerians thinking they are racially superior to others, I am saddened by this. I personally have never seen it.

If you are talking about tribalism that is a different thing. I not against saying some groups like Igbo have more progressive, democratic and meritocratic values than say Hausa. But I think that is down to culture not some inherent racial superiority. I say this as a man who is half Yoruba and Igbo.

But if a man says he his tribe is superior to another just because, I will quickly tell him to shut up..

nograv:
I have relatives in Ikoyi who do treat their workers badly. But they dont think they are raciallu superior, I assure you a lot of Indians DO!!!

I have even had Indians say to me, "You are a smart black, but you have to admit a lot of blacks are really dumb" as joke.. They werent joking they believe it..

The problem is that blacks dont identify with each other. I assure you whites do, asians and everybody else..

nograv:
One wrong does not negate the other. Also the examples you cited are class based prejudice. Indians typically engage in RACE based prejudice and that is very different.

One can work hard and change their class as my grandfather did. One cannot change his or her race and only deluded blacks try...