₦airaland Forum

IYANGBALI:
Person no fit play with small pikin again?

You sound like a paedophile

kenchop:
SAMSUNG HAVE NO CLASS. THOSE KOREANS ARE FRAUDSTERS ,THEY SHOULD BE KICKED OUT OF NIGERIA, THEN OTHERS WILL SIT UP.
WHEN THEY TRIED TO SHOVE ASIDE LADOL AFTER THEY WON THE CONTRACT NO ONE KNEW, NOW IT'S PAY BACK TIME THEY ARE PAYING CHEAP PRESS MEN TO SPREAD LIES.

Exactly! Because a country whose government is touting the local manufacture of pencils and toothpicks (and where basic buildings are collapsing every other day) would have been able to build the sort of complex FPSO that is Egina on its own.

The transfer of technology and build up of local capacity and experience that has accrued (and will keep accruing) from the local content component of this project is well worth maintaining the relationship. But unfortunately we rarely see beyond dollar signs and a quick payoff.

NIGERIA! We always seem to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...

Waakanda:
Try add some 'flesh'

Not everyone likes fat...er...thick women.

uuzba:
Commendable. But one more step remains. Like every other major city in the world, there needs to be emissions control. Discouraging pertrol/diesel vehicles in the city and promoting electric ones. Because, this place, as fine as e reach, black smoke go full am O. Carry white hanky there first.
What good is chilling there when black smoke from buses and passing vehicles can splash on your face.

Nigeria has trouble just generating electricity for basic everyday living and necessities (albeit Alstom has signed on to electrify the Lagos Blue Line rail mass transit). Nonetheless, the new high-capacity buses in Lagos that will ultimately replace Danfo on most routes are supposed to be more environmentally-friendly. I think they will be running on CNG.

Jaqenhghar:
Niggerians and exaggeration. Maybe its a few radio stations in New york, Chicago and those places where they have a high number of Africans but una go paint am as if its everywhere you go

First, we are not “Nigger - ians”

Nonetheless, I heard it on radio while briefly passing through West Virginia.

sarrki:
There is nothing you can do to bad roads

Not everything depends on the driver

You can drive extremely carefully on bad roads...

And it helps if you are not drunk or high (like a lot of public transport drivers in Nigeria).

Animal cruelty

sarrki:
Same period 4 years ago

Dear communication was attacking me President

Now they are singing a new tune

Lord please make our enemies bow before us

The result of EFCC persecution.

N3 billion?!

Kai! Nigeria’s foremost Babanriga Banker strikes again!

The underlying misogyny in some of the comments here is truly shocking!

Hard to believe that these commenters have mothers or sisters (would horrifying for their wives/gfs if they managed to have any). SMH

dont8:
You're right, I still don't see the reason why they're sidelining Sowore, we know the reason though. Channel musn't allow this election and sutle support for Buhari to destroy their hard earned reputation.

BON consists of the over 100 radio and tv operating companies in Nigeria, which collectively own and operate over 250 tv and radio stations. The chairpersonship of BON is held by an individual (John Momoh) and not by an organization (ChannelsTV), and the present board of BON includes the DGs of NTA, FRCN and VON, and many competitors of ChannelsTV (such Daar/AIT and Silverbird). Accordingly, Channels TV is not synonymous with (nor does it make decisions for) BON, and in fact in this instance BON does not make decisions for the NEDG.

tiwiex:
Channels unilaterally decided the final candidates for the debate and I guess BON members were upset over it. There is no rationale for Fela to be ahead of so many candidates that could have added value. Fela started showing interest in politics about 6 months ago and he don become channels favourite. I think the handling of this whole debate and clear bias is the end of Channels. IMO

HECK NO! Channels TV did NOT decide on the candidates. Even BON did NOT decide on the candidates unilaterally, talkless of any 1 member.

While I personally thought that Sowore and Donald Duke (or Gana) should have been invited, nonetheless if folks do not have information on these matters, best to ask or simply keep quiet rather than just pull ish out of one nether regions. The debates are primarily organized by NEDG, which announced the five selected parties last year out of the total of Nigeria’s NINETY-ONE registered political parties, following a supposedly “independent” online poll). The NEDG includes several Civil Society Organizations among others, including the reputable election observer group Situation Room (which itself is a consortium of several NGOs and CSOs). On the other hand, BON, which is comprised of the over 100 tv and radio operating companies in Nigeria, is merely the media partner for the debates.

Unfortunately, just because many people watched the debates on Channels TV (which is a credit to Channels robust platform), even though the debates were broadcast live by ALL 100+ BON tv and radio member stations (inclucing NTA, AIT, TVC, ITV, etc.), some uninformed folks apparently believe that Channels organized the debates (when in fact the moderator for the VP debate was from one of Channels competitors, AIT). Meanwhile, the same Channels TV was not only arguably the FIRST tv station to give Sowore a platform when he initially announced his presidential aspirations, but was also the FIRST tv station to afford Sowore a full-hour on air after the first debate to condemn his and AAC’s exclusions from the debates. But yet the uninformed just keep driveling on about this imaginary Channels TV conspiracy theory.

em28:
... Your a looser,

Sai Baba, did you mean “you’re a loser”?

decatalyst:
Poverty is truly a bastard!!!

See able bodied man with no shame...

Poverty? Hmmm...dude doesn’t look like he’s missed any meals.

Backward superstitious population.

Others are developing AI and exploring space, while Nigerians are stealing underpants!

adeadeyera:
He never skipped NYSC.
He was duly discharged.
He's a Lecturer (Adjunct Professor) at Columbia University.
INEC only publishes what a particular candidate supplies.
Sowore only supplied his WAEC Certificate because his other documents, required by the Commission, were not immediately available before deadline.

No, he is NOT!

Sowore lectures at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NOT Columbia University.

NIGERIA: So many churches, so many mega churches, so many church universities...and yet so much IMMORALITY, CRIMINALITY, BRUTALITY and DISHONESTY!

It was obviously a “political” commissioning (because Sai Baba was desperately looking for something to tout on his trip to Lagos), but it is clearly erroneous (if not downright dishonest) to suggest or otherwise imply that the terminal has fallen into disrepair when in fact it is being expanded and improved upon. Meanwhile, the new buses for the terminal have arrived and drivers are being trained/retrained. Eko oni Baje!

UNCL3:
There's hunger in the land, Yes

But that should not make it a license to steal

Such a young man that should be thinking of positive ways to make cash.

Does that dude look hungry to you?

Reality is that even in the best countries in the world, there’s still going to be self-entitled thieves.

Pharoh:
Banks are not public institutions so they are not obligated to provide provision for the disabled. By the way complaining about banks not having provisions for the disabled is preposterous because the Nigerian environment and roads are not planned for that in the first place. Ninety nine percent of Nigerian roads and environment are not friendly to the disabled so why leave that and complain about banks which are private institutions.

Private companies enjoy public services (and the benefit and protection of public institutions and laws), and thus have certain public obligations including obeying extant laws (just like the rest of us).

Section 24 of Lagos State’s Special People’s Act 2011 (aka the Disability Law) requires that all new public or commercial buildings and roads be made accessible by disable persons, while Section 25 mandates all public/commercial buildings and schools in Lagos to be compliant by 2016. It also mandates public transportation accessibility and requires the provision of reserved spaces for the disabled in public parking lots. Accordingly, Lagos BRT buses are wheelchair accessible as are the new high-capacity city buses that will ultimately replace Danfo buses on most routes. In addition, all of the new pedestrian bridges built in Lagos (at least the ones built under Ambode) have wheelchair ramps and the new transportation terminals at Ikeja, Oshodi, Yaba, Oyingbo, etc., will similarly be wheelchair accessible (with ramps and elevators), as is the new Five Cowries Ferry Terminal (LASWA HQ) and the other ferry terminals being built around Lagos. Eko oni Baje!

safarigirl:
She also complained about Access Bank earlier on

GTB have ramps, but their doors are too small to fit wheel chairs. Most other banks don't even have the ramps to begin with, and same goes for about 98% of public buildings in Nigeria.

How many places of worship even have ramps? It's not enough to make these laws, because I hear Lagos State has such a law mandating public buildings to have ramps, but what is the implementation like?

Yes, there is such a law (which also requires corporations of a certain size and turnover to employ some disabled persons), but any observance has been mostly in the breach.

MrsNwaAmaikpe:


It would have been better to ask which one of them have sense?

In that regard, none of them.

One of them called Waje is a high school baby mama who used her over-inflated udders to gain social media popularity while the other is an ashawo Kobo Kobo whose love for preek is second to none

Has either of them ever begged you for money?

Some Nigerians are so judgmental, and yet they are often the biggest losers with a cemetery full of skeletons in their own closet. The one CERTAINTY in life is that no human being is perfect and every person will make the occasional misstep or misjudgment. Fortunately, the true SUCCESS of life is not an absence of mistakes and faults, but how people manage and overcome them. I do not know Waje or Beverly from a can of paint but much respect for what they have apparently managed to do with their lives (without asking you for help or a penny) - particularly Waje who could easily have aborted her pregnancy to avoid the HYPOCRITICAL holier-than-thou judgment of losers like you.

theenchanter:
did i say he didnt try?

I said we're too mediocre in this country. He's only doing his job jare

Only if u even know what an ex-lagos governor benefits after service.

Even people merely doing their jobs received commendation for it. Meanwhile, have ordinary Lagosians duly done their own governance “job” of fully and timely paying their taxes?!

BTW, transportation is not all that Ambode has elevated in Lagos. The employment trust fund (LSETF) set up by his administration has given grants and low-interest loans to hundreds of SMSEs set up by Lagos RESIDENTS - i.e., all residents of Lagos are eligible regardless of so-called state of origin. The Ambode government also provides FREE education to over 1 million students in Lagos public schools - again, without regard to so-called state of origin. His administration has renovated scores of public schools (under the direct supervision of the Deputy Governor, who happens to be an Educator), trained and re-trained teachers, raise teacher salaries and provided some headmasters and principals with housing and/or car loans. In addition, the FREE Code Lagos initiative (to train a minimum of a million coders) and the Ready-Set-Work training and internship program has provided better and more employment opportunities for young graduates and the youth. Its FREE adult literacy program (Eko nke koo), for which it recruited and trained 1000 recent graduates as facilitators, had over 50,000 adult enrollees in just the first year. In health, the Ambode government has inaugurated the biggest sub-national contributory healthcare insurance scheme in Africa, renovated/upgraded primary healthcare centers, and has set up a first-class Critical Care Center at LASUTH (headed by a Professor from Howard University, Washington DC), among other initiatives. Furthermore, even though the Security Trust Fund was initiated before his administration Ambode has sustained and improved on it, including increasing death benefits to policemen killed in the line of duty to N5 million (and bear in mind that this is s federal police force which should not be the state’s responsibility in the first instance). One could go on and on, but suffice it to note that virtually all major projects by the Ambode administration often has a sign with the notation “Your Taxes at Work”!

Nigeria is in such a sad state because we often mock and deride success and hard work, while elevating failures and rent-seekers. SMH

BabaO2:
Only sincere enemies of Lagos and mischievous people who want to score political points will praise or try to embellish ambode. In the committee of planners of these above listed projects, Ambode can't tell you that 90% of those completed projects were initiated by him. Out of vindictive attitude he made Lagos too difficult to live, he concentrated all Lagos resources on Epe axis while more important bigger and more economic towns on Badagry axis were neglected.

If he was merely completing the projects initiated by others, why was the Agbero Peoples Congress saying that he was replaced for not following the “masterplan”?

Childish conspiracy theories.

If Channels TV had anything against Sowore, they will not have even bothered to air the debate.

life2017:
Very funny.
Debate is a waste of time. Even in United State, debate doesn't decide the winner.

Tell Jeb Bush that!

Of course only voting decides the winner, but debates are an important component of the process.

immortalcrown:
I like this. Do American police officers jubiliate for any reason?

Yes, when they shoot un-armed black men.

Tats:
Turning the area around the Bus terminal to a shopping mall is not the best. This is all aimed at maximising revenue to the detriment of the sanity of the place and its clearly an afterthought. The whole area becomes congested and its all back to square one. If the land was huge, then its a different case. It looks like the car park spaces meant for short stay drop off or pick up of passengers is now being used for the mall and any spaces left will now be competing as car park for shoppers and it will no longer be convenient for passengers. There should only be a few shops or restaurants inside the terminal for passengers selling refreshments and food.

But a mall was included in the original plan (same as Oshodi), and was listed as Phase 2 of the development.

flejnr2:
starboy Dey for you

Ouch!

Good luck, but I can’t shake the feeling of impending DISASTER!

ZOO!