₦airaland Forum

It is really frustrating driving in Lagos and seeing all the shunting going on at the front of queues, one way driving etc. In spite of all the tough talk of governor Sanwo Olu not much is improving. Granted there are more LASTMA on the road, but they have no desire, motivation or capacity to stop indiscipline on the roads.

Therefore in my view the management of indiscipline on our roads, a lot of which causes traffic should be MONETIZED!

What do I mean?

Publish the fines for the various traffic offences and let a private company pay say N50mln for the rights to implement the laws and collect the fines in say VI, Ikoyi and Lekki over 3 years in conjunction with the police. There would however be a dispute resolution mechanism managed by the private sector also to avoid abuse.

So how does this help everyone? Government gets some revenue, the licencee company will have to be efficient with enforcement to make their money back and their level of efficiency will ultimately add sanity back to our road cos people will know that if they drive one way, drive on the shoulder of the road, or beat traffic lights they will more often than not be caught. This could also apply to those who drop refuse in the floor indiscriminately or cross the express instead of using pedestrian bridge's.

Simply shocking!! I think there needs to be a law to prevent projects from being started without adequate life cycle budgetary or project financing provisions to complete it.

And if a project is abandoned then the commissioner /minister who signed the contract, the permanent secretary of the ministry and others involved should be held liable with a 5year jail time as economic sabatage.

There is mechanic I use beside Globe motors at Ologolo, Lekki. All the boys there are from Benin Republic. They seem to know the work better and cheat less. Fantastic combination if you ask me, especially if you have dealt with Nigerian mechanics.

EDIBLESS10:
Not that they are better skilled than us jst that their prices are cheaper and they are committed to doing the job....

Dude they are more skilled than us!! If you build houses you will appreciate their screeding, plastering, tiling, pop etc more than Nigerian artisans

Ideally our President (or at the minimum Foreign Affairs Minister) should be on the plane to Ghana straight away.

Unfortunately we have such a docile government that Nigeria has become a whipping boy of Ecowas. Ghana and Benin republic treat us anyhow and nothing is done about it. See how US muscles Mexico! Yet tiny Benin is muscling us!!

Chai!!!

But please help me! How does a road get to spoil to this level and a whole state government just looks at it?? Or is it because it is a federal road?

What is wrong with us in this country.

In as much as I don't normally advocate for jungle justice, but nigeria is now getting to the stage where those caught in the ACT should just be burned alive.

I have no confidence in handing them over to the police.

The one installed in Abuja like 8years ago never worked and now they want to install all over again What kind of country is this? One really wants to be optimistic about Nigeria, but really we have serious issues if we are going back to cttv all over again.

Besides we don't have the other enablers to make cctv work. Cctv is not the end, but a means to an end. If the control room sees a crime on cctv and police responds in 1hr after the criminals have fled, then what's the point? If we have no record of number plates, what's the point, if we have no facial recognition what's the point?

What exactly is the national Institute of security supposed to be doing?

greggng:
Hehehe I was told messi and Ronaldo both have PHD in academics that's why the rule football

So quality of primary and secondary school education for Sao Paulo and Lagos na the same abi? Or Lisbon and Lagos? And at what age was messi in LaMaisa academy? Hope you know La Maisa offers quality education as well as football training.

No offence to the girls but the lack of education and therfore intelligence comes to play when you watch both the men and women play. A well educated kid is able to take coaching instruction much better and apply it to the game I. E when to pass, when to hold on to the ball and wait for support, when to tackle and when to just stand and shepard the player, when to make a run behind the defender and when to run wide!

We lack the basics, not just because of poor coaching but also because of poor mental capacity of our players (make and female) to take it in.

After all many of our players are typically from the streets.

THIS IS NOT A 2017 E CLASS!!

This is desperation of the current age! Trying to hustle. The same way our universities are full of runs girls

This is Adeola Odeku in VI yesterday June 14th 2019 in the peak of rainy season.

How on earth will lagos not flood if this is how we choose to live our lives! Both the citizens who throw waste on the floor with reckless abandon and the government that has insufficient policies, ideas and strategies about how to clear refuse are to blame.

But of course the bigger blame should go to government. Most places in VI and Lagos in general where water accumulates its simple because the supporting drainage system is blocked with filth.

Very soon water will start gathering on 3rd mainland bridge because I see the sweepers sweeping sand into the holes that are supposed to drop water off the bridge. Its amazing how we allow illeterate people to do things that should be done with quite a bit of intelligence.

I had the 2nd, 3rd (was actually bought for my dad) and 4th generation. I currently use the 6th and I plan for my next car to be the 8th.

I always skip a generation.

Hmm. Not bad!

Hedious!!!

Norwegian are just toying with us. They are confident we can't score

And must every cross be in the air.

Lacking in football sense just crossing without really looking up, where a cutback might make more sense

Chikwelu is the only Nigerian girl I'm digging her play. Really hustling for the ball and winning her arieal challenges.

Our girls are in too much of a hurry to get rid of the ball. And they just end up giving it back.

They are just swinging legs at balls like they don't play fottball for a living. It's like the legs can't do what the mind is telling it. True sign of poor conditioning.

I blame Yar adua for calcelling the sale of refineries by Obasanjo. No matter what private sector ownership is better than public sector. By now we would have forgot that these refineries are not working.

The solution is to deregulate and sell the refineries..... alas I fear if anyone would want to buy them now considering that a far more modern and efficient dangote refinery will be your competition.

None of us will buy our yams from kogi for N1k and bring them to lagos to sell for N800. Why then do we expect government to do that for us with petrol? The fact that its our resource in the ground doesn't mean that extracting and processing it doesn't come with a cost.

We are all rational with our own businesses, but we refuse to be rational with government business. Same goes for electricity prices.

She speaks the truth.!!

Look at the way we drive! A bit of traffic and everyone moves to the shoulder of the road the beat it.

Government puts out waste baskets but we still drop waste on the floor.

We say government should give us light, yet millions steal electricity bt bypassing their meters.

We say corruption is killing us, yet rather than stand up to it we settle to collect license, passport etc

We say our leaders are our problem, yet we all voted Buhari or Atiku when moghalu was a candidate.

Pity the android auto and apple carplay won't work in Nigeria. I understand the apps won't download to your phone in Nigeria.

Not a bad ride

Makinde should please sanitise trading activities in the road at bodija Market that makes it difficult for cars to drive past.

That ain't 2016!!

Thought Danjuma sold his stake in Sapetro about 5years ago.

What's worth painting roads black and white sef