Maxymilliano:
DEFECTION to another Party INVALIDATES a Certificate of Return.

Any sane person with a sense of law and order, knows Umahi and his Deputy don't have a case

chinedu234:
Nigerians and the entire world have been awash with information and propaganda as to how it is easy to do business in Nigeria. Here we go with the first major step for the new year: a wastepaper basket that must be changed every year with all irrelevant papers dumped on every truck found on Lagos roads. Unfortunately, this practice is perpetuated by improperly identified hoodlums at various street corners where they lurk to capture their victims. This practice is all over the major commercial cities in Nigeria and we have a government that mouths ease of doing business. Our question is if ease of doing business ends with registering a business in 24 hours for#5,000 but can never take off? We spent#15,000 today for one truck on the seventh basket and the irrelevant papers.

chinedu234:
Nigerians and the entire world have been awash with information and propaganda as to how it is easy to do business in Nigeria. Here we go with the first major step for the new year: a wastepaper basket that must be changed every year with all irrelevant papers dumped on every truck found on Lagos roads. Unfortunately, this practice is perpetuated by improperly identified hoodlums at various street corners where they lurk to capture their victims. This practice is all over the major commercial cities in Nigeria and we have a government that mouths ease of doing business. Our question is if ease of doing business ends with registering a business in 24 hours for#5,000 but can never take off? We spent#15,000 today for one truck on the seventh basket and the irrelevant papers.

Plantiff:
Apartheid has no better meaning than a group of Nigerians building walls and gates to segregate those of low social status by preventing them from passing through residential roads.

Let's face it, that was the practice in pre-1995 South Africa where a native South African needed a special invitation or permission of a Dutch or English South African to access certain parts of their own communities. There are so many similarities between the Southern and Western African apartheid systems because those who segregate have uninterrupted power supply, constant water supply and other basics of life that are luxury for those they segregate.

Excuses may be made for the defunct South African constitution which omitted details of free movement but enshrined in the Constitution of Nigeria 1999, the grundnorm of our democracy, is the fundamental right to freedom of movement anywhere in Nigeria.

Distinction must be made between a private property and a public property. No matter the unanimous decision and decree of all real property owners living in a location to foster security of their lives and properties, a pathway for driving or pedestrian use is not a private property and is free for use by everyone by virtue of their citizenship or residency in Nigeria.

That Nigerians, most of whom live below the global poverty line , genuinely belief that the order of residents of an estate to prevent free movement is normal and superior to the constitution and other legislations is thought-provoking.

Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44, this thread needs a wider audience please.

naptu2:
I remember what happened when they tried to implement this policy c1999.

Two things that Governor Tinubu talked about as soon as he took office were (1) the return of mission schools to their owners and (2) the MOT programme.

Lagos had for long been known for its rickety danfo and molue buses. The government made it mandatory for all public buses to undergo the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) test. Vehicles that were not road worthy would not be allowed on the road. He had reached out to the auto assembly plants in Nigeria (PAN, VON, etc.) and major car companies to assist public bus owners to repair their vehicles at a discount.

Then the police and the newly formed LASTMA started impounding the buses and that's when the NURTW decided to show its power.

I went out to see things for myself and you won't believe what I saw. NURTW went on strike. There were massive crowds at bus stops as people who went out earlier in the day could not go back home because of lack of buses. Danfo buses were arriving at bus stops just to mock passengers. The conductors would call destinations and people would rush towards the buses, but they would speed off as soon as the crowd got near. Bus conductors were telling people to go and call Tinubu to come and carry them. I also saw a long convoy of danfo buses on Ikorodu Road and I learnt that they were on their way to Alausa. Okada riders made a killing on that day. Lagosians blamed the "wicked new governor" for their problems. People were calling in to radio shows to berate the government.

Then on the third or fourth day the government capitulated. The NURTW had won.

It'd be very interesting to see how they'll implement it this time.