Our Yansh: All they care about is‎​ making money, what about the issues that lead to the closure??

Instead of making arrangements to clean up the market, they're talking about their inability to buy gaRri for their family..

eaglechild:
If your governor only deemed it necessary to put street light on Ikorodu road now after many years of governance i think he should be impeached.

eaglechild:
Really?
But u had no problem getting orrgasms from streetlights hung on Ikorodu road yet providing the source to power your 'world wonder' Ikorodu lights and a lot more is now mediocre.
You are an award winning bigot.

ocelot2006:


Son, why not tell that to other states like Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, and the FCT? They already zoomed past you.

KnowAll: Street light on ikorodu road after 14 years of Tinunbu/Fashola regime. Hmmmm, i am not impressed, if that is their legacy to Lagosians after running d economy of Lagos since 1999 . We must not look at Fashola's regime in isolation.

Both men with d kind of money they see on a daily basis calling them a colosol failure will not be an understament. Give me Lagos's 3 billion dollars revenue and watch a new city emerge from d lagoons of Lagos.

jmaine:

Is this your shameless way of informing everyone your accusation of my unjust and negative criticisms of your pay masters was baseless, and absolutely shameless on your part . . .


Simply a waste of my precious time . . . .


Now let's get back to the thread which is about Three power sub stations installed in Lagos . . . .Enough of your useless and feeble attempt to derail the thread . . . .

ODUA_NEGRO:


can you please advise them to start the cleanup immediately. all the time they waste marching and protesting could be spent. cleaning up their filth.

fashola is not going to back down, he will not reopen until the measures are all satisfied.

peckhamboi: N100 billion daily

N3 trillion monthly (x 30)

N36 trillion annually (x 12)


Nigeria's budget = N4.9 trillion

They claim to be making more than 7 times the whole country's budget in a year.
[size=14pt]Somebody is telling a bold face lie[/size]

c.fours:


please STFU. I live in the USA so I can tell you what developed country looks like. I should be last person celebrating on this thread.
yet I'm still celebrating Fashola because I know he is a doer!!
you talk about the 70s but forget that we only achieved independence from Britain in 60s. Of course all the British structures were still brand new then. besides they are probably restricted to just a few places in downtown lagos and for the rich. How many people owned or drove cars in the 70s?

Fashola is doing great work even by USA standards because I know the governor in my state of New Jersey isn't doing half of what Fashola is doing. America is pretty developed so the work of politicians and leaders in American is much smoother and easier. Most of them will not be able to do what fashola is doing in lagos, the largest city in Africa! they will give up and peg it on backwardness of Africans. Most of the Ameicans aren't doing business in Africa for the same reason. it's hard to work with the people and the society. Fashola is an intelligent man. He could easily move abroad and have a easy life there. but instead he chose to serve his country. let us give praise where praise is due, abeg.

c.fours:

Some may say that street light is "nothing" but in the African context and especially, Nigeria, it is an achievement. let's be honest with ourselves. we should give praise where praise is due. Things are harder to achieve in Africa and everyone knows that. Even the best construction company building street lights all over USA will come to Nigeria and be dumbfounded because it's just harder to get things done in a less developed country. So please, let us keep encouraging our governor because I know he is working hard and it shows!!!

also, for some of the igbo folks on here are talking trash about how things are "better" in Enugu or Abia. Talk is cheap and at the end of the day, they are all flocking to Lagos and other parts of SW. It is migration pattern that is usually the main evidence/determinant of development. So if Enugu was so developed as you say, they why are you still all flocking to Lagos? Please change your bitter attitudes and celebrate progress with us. no reason to be bitter. why should good thing be paining you? I've seen the Engugu thread and folks there celebrate little things as construction worker holding a shovel. so why are you mad that we are celebrating street lights? At least we have completed pictures to show for it. not just minor constructions.

EKO O NI BAJE!!

ACM10:
If streetlight is one of the criteria for becoming our president, then Goodluck rightly deserves to be at Aso rock. Seriously, Govs. Chime, Amaechi, Akpabio, and even Peter Obi, Martin Elechi, Orji had erected streetlights without it hitting the frontpage of NL.

You must be confined to only Lagos if you think that it is only Fashola that is working. Some other governors are outperforming Fashola with little or no funfare. Chime erected streetlights for all the major roads in Enugu without commissioning them. Why must Fashola continue to flaunt his meagre achievement?

ACM10:
Why is it that anytime Fashola does his routine job as a governor some people will start posting "Fashola for President"?

9ja_I_hail:

In conclusion your point here is that a sensible Govt in a civilized world will displaced it citizens just like this without alternative, to make matter worst the said Govt does not contribute penny to growth of the citizens. Now it is clear you Nigerians are daft more than Somalians.

Jaidey-one:
thank you very much!!! ketu market was closed for the same reason ladipo was shut down. There are hundreds of yoruba pepper sellers in ketu market. the enlightened igbos would never look at the ladipo issue from a tribal point of view but the dumb igbos play victims at every given opportunity. Anyone that is not satisfied with the way fashola is running Lagos is free to leave.

Chairman, Mushin Local Government, Olatunde Adepitan described the closure of the market as a welcome development and long overdue, saying this is the only way forward for the Local Government.

“The hooliganism here has gone out of control. These people have turned themselves to another government. When you interfere in their matters here, they will tribalise the issue and that is why as a government we take things easy so that it will not escalate into a tribal issue..


http://www.thebeat99.com/news/lagos-shuts-ladipo-market-seizes-charms-and-dangerous-weapons-25-02-13

Ngwakwe: What are we to do now, Start singing eternal praise for Fashola? Mbaa nuu.

Enough of this over flogged publicity.

Can we move to issues of national interest that will add value to stability, equal right and justice for hard-working Nigerians?

Instead of using cover up news to hide the atrocities of ill conceived government.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (middle) in a group photograph with the President General and Leader of the Igbo Council in Lagos State, Professor Anya O Anya (6th right) and members of the Igbo Council shortly after a meeting to present the new Council Members to the Governor at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Monday, February 25, 2013. — at Lagos House, Ikeja. Lagos. 25th February, 2013.
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (middle) in a group photograph with the President General and Leader of the Igbo Council in Lagos State, Professor Anya O Anya (6th right) and members of the Igbo Council shortly after a meeting to present the new Council Members to the Governor at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Monday, February 25, 2013. — at Lagos House, Ikeja. Lagos. 25th February, 2013.
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He said: “I can assure you, without any doubt that it is far from the preference and far from the objective of the first lady to have the project turned down. One, it will amount to an abdication of responsibility by Nigeria and the diplomatic recklessness will be worst for the country.

Certainly, the First Lady will not expect Nigeria to behave in such a reckless manner. “The First Lady would not also want the project abandoned because it is an undertaking that the country has made to the continent. It means therefore that the credibility of Nigeria will drop significantly if it goes back on its deliberate and willing commitment to host such an organ for the continent and at the request of the continent. “Africa First Ladies Mission said, give us a secretariat and you agreed that you will do it and then five years after, you wake up and say you don’t want to do it again.

The seven kilometers stretch of Ikorodu Road from Jibowu flyover to Maryland Underpass popularly known as the Independence Tunnel on Monday night glowed brightly as Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday switched on the lights, stating that it demonstrates the State Government's commitment to safety and security more than anything else.




The Governor said when the idea was muted over five years ago that it was possible to light up Lagos at night, many said that it was not doable and doubted the resolve of the government, adding that from one street to two streets, the government has developed the capacity to light up many parts of Lagos today.

He added that the work continues and that in one single year from one street to two streets at a time, the state did over 40 streets and is going to do more this year.

Speaking specifically on the Ikorodu Road project, the Governor declared: "The project involves the erection of 192 poles stretched through an existing road and that was why it was most challenging. This is because in other situations we had the street lights built into the construction of the road project. And I believe that over 250 new bulbs were installed in the project. I must thank the resourcefulness of our contractors for this."

"This completes the lighting up of the main artery road in the heart of Lagos from Central Lagos where we started on the Marina, right through Eko bridge, down to Alaka through Agege Motor road on the other side all the way to Oshodi and now from Jibowu to Maryland. The work continues and by the time we complete the lighting up of the Mile 12 to Ikorodu town, the whole of that stretch driving from Lagos Island into the heart of Ikorodu would be lit up. We are taking it one pole at a time, one street at a time, but we are on our way", the Governor said emphatically.

Speaking earlier, the State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr Obafemi Hamzat said the new street lights which is from the service lane of Jibowu from the flyover area to Maryland Underpass, the Independence Tunnel, is connected to PHCN and powered by two sets of 250 KVA generators.

He added that from today, the people passing through the route can enjoy their movement because it will be well lit.

He stated that the lights are made up of 91 4000watts double galvanized amps,67 250watts double amps galvanized lights, 11 250watts double cup galvanized bulbs and another 15 250watts wall bracket types.

The brief ceremony was witnessed by members of the State Executive Council including the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Engineer Taofik Tijani, the Special Adviser on Public Private Partnerships, Mr. Ayo Gbeleyi among others

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Revolva: well am sure fashola has a very good plan to initiate with the visit of eric schmidt..let keep watching

manny4life:

Here you go being clueless again...

Yes fingers being crossed, hoped he passed the interview and was able to convince Google to establish a base here in Africa... My friend, don't take everything in tribal tone... Geez, yall need to relax...

prost80:

Not holding breif for the lagos government but state allocation and lagos IGR is grossly inadequate to fund all these projects. The blue line alone takes $1b( N160b and rising because of instability in building materials) , the Lagos- badagry 10 lane expansion takes N220b. Now I havent mentioned the mile 12-ikorodu (N60b) and other smaller projects but important projects littered across the state. Lagos IGR as at June 2012 was I think N23b, State allocation I think is N72b yearly(i think but not sure). Also remember that if lagos waits to take the tax, time will be going so how it is done the world over is use bonds, or loans(at low interest say 1% ) to fund porjects and pay at your conveninet on a monthly basis or so, which is what I think the man is doing. Fashola is no saint but I will personally prefer him in government compared to GEJ.

Billyonaire: Stop regionalism today so you can grow in the ambiens of natural jurisprudence. Nepotism breeds a cultural divide which is anti-sacrosanct with principle of nationalism. Lagos cant do much without the Federal Government. Much of Lagos revenue comes from Tax on Oil Companies, Filling Stations, Oil Magnets properties, Petro-Tank farms, logistics companies taxes, Staff of Oil & Gas firms, tenement rates on properties own by Oil boys, and even the adverts by these companies. If Oil & Gas related firms move, major malls will close and cinemas are not watched by the poor peasants and lagos will become like London - a Beautiful tax laden heaven with little or no creativity in fiscal manoeuvrings. I hope you are lettered enough to understand my grammatical symphony cos many of you went through school by the schools did not go through you. Lagos is what it is cos of the Federal Government continuous inputs on an hourly basis. I love Lagos.

slim fit :


Tax are necessary people have been paying tax right from the beginning of civilisation we are happy to pay our tax tell your own governor to do the same it's not a crime to pay your tax.

slim fit :


What did marwa do Mr man watch your mouth. That man just played with our emotions fact. Non of the things he did had long time values to lLagos. Let me help you if other states were performing people wouldn't come to Lagos. Yoruba people want visitors but we don't want dirty once that can't obey simple rules and regulations. You instead of hating go and challenge your governor stop wasting your time.

colombiana:
Shut up wetin u knw about leadership ur gran papa fit afford house for banana island go and ask who owns most of the houses der u see dey oil related. U tink say ur economy fit stand witout am. Mtcheeeewur governor na just inconsiderate man, all dis one wen e dey do na eye service e go use tax and monopolised govt destroy all of una. #back to rollin ma ballz#

J12:

Nigga you're funny. Good leadership my azz.
Did the good leaders build the MMIA? Build the ports? How many roads did they build?
The strategic location of Lagos and the harboring of key capital investments(thanks to the FG and the British) has always given Lagos an edge over other states. Without these, Lagos will be like another calabar, jos or old port Harcourt.