₦airaland Forum

I was just sitting here thinking and I came up with my personal things I'd like Sanwo Olu to quickly address once he becomes governor:

Complete unfinished projects such as the lagos Airport road, badagry expressway, the okokomaiko marina rail line, oshodi interchange, onikan stadium and the yoruba cultural center. (this is in he assumption that they won't be finished before Ambode leaves office

Address refuse in a smart and holistic way. Personally I think its about time the government forced coca cola, Pepsi and makers of pure water to form a spv to be responsible for recycling plastic waste in lagos. Majority of the waste in our gutters is made up of soft drink and water bottle plastics, pure water satchets and food containers. If the companies refuse to do so then Sanwo Olu should ban such single use plastics in lagos. The clogging of our gutters by these plastics is a major cause of flood.

Also address traffic in a comprehensive and holistic manner. From other modes of transport, indiscipline on our roads, state of roads, number of cars on our roads etc. With real will and creativity, traffic in lagos can be considerably improved.

Remove the street urchins and hawkers from our roads. There are just too many in this category in lagos.

Remove those who use every available space on our streets to be frying poff poff, akara, buns, fruits, suya, indomie etc. Some people have started selling food right on the walkway at bus stops. And of course the impact is that they mess up the road by throwing waste water, food remnants and food packaging plastics unto the road. I don't deny people right to make a living, but it has to be done the right way. Roadsides is not the place for every business and market.

Although electricity is not in the purview of state government, but it would be good if he can get involved somehow. I recall ambode had some initiative to add 3000MW to lagos state.

Go on a comprehensive road rehabilitation drive. For a state that has annual budgets close to N1trl ($2.7bln). Surely if Lasg contracted RCC, JB, HiTech and maybe Setraco to do proper road resurfacing of problem areas over 2years and dedicate N50bln per year between October of one year and April of next year, we will smile in Lagos. I always say that quality is better than quantity. Some roads done properly by JB in 2001/2 are still serving us well for 18years despite heavy load on them over and above what roads experience in developed countries. Such roads are Awolowo road, ikoyi, ojuelegba yaba Road, kudirat abiola Road oregun etc. If we focus on keeping existing roads well maintained, we don't really need to focus on new roads. Just some smart interventions (the lay by going to Ketu and at iyana oworo were really smart and useful)

Feel free to add yours.

Lagos state government needs to put more emphasis on the quality of the road repairs. The lay by that takes you from outer marina into VI via bonny camp has been resurfaced twice in just over a year and already bad ahead of this year's rainy season. One particular reason is because they pay no attention to drainage. Another is because we allow other externalities to spoil the road. All symptoms of an incompetent government and civil service structure.

halfbloodprince:
You're a fool if you believe schools get involved in the personal issues of students, so much as to demand a fee for student abortions.

Think about it for a second. What happens to the school if the student dies during this $600 abortion? Are there no hospitals in Russia? And since when did students start reporting pregnancies to school authorities? But of course its nairaland so, I expect y'all to question nothing.

Don't be too sure. This is Russia we are talking about here! Not the West!

Looks fake to me. The top of that "thing" looks too smooth and well rounded.

[quote author= post=77687872]Why arrest strippers.. I don get


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Arresting the stripers was unnecessary, they are working and earning their living. Instead of raiding the place why not serve the premise a notice to due to the complaint or something. There is a standard in building establishments like clubs to reduce noise[/quote]If the laws of the land say it is a crime, then so be it.

And clubs should not be allowed in residential area

How does this 24month thing work? Is it through bank or private deal with you?

AngelicBeing:
Lol at official prices, it is high time Buhari should constitute a secret squad of plain EFCC / DSS / NIA officials, deploy them to passport offices nationwide, let them pose as if they want to do Nigeria passport with marked money directly from the federal government and use it to nab all the various armed robbers aka immigration officials nationwide.

The rot and corruption in the immigration services smells like ogbono soup loaded with Kpomo, ogunfe, bokoto to the 7th heavens, those arrested should be flogged out of office with koboko laden with chilly pepper, nonsense thieves called Nigeria immigration extorting Nigerians via egunje

A bi o. Simple way to stop these things but the efcc won't do that

Funny enough I knew from the get go that iheanacho was going to flop in Leicester. The style of the team did not fit his play. Iheanacho is a box player not a line striker. He needs to have loose balls in the box, not have balls punted up to him from the back.

Having pillars is so 2000's design. Nobody does that again. Interior is horrible

allsaint2000:
Sometimes, you just wonder where all that huge IGR in Lagos is channeled to.


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How about we the citizens also don't throw stuff there.

I have not thrown stuff on the floor in like 10 years.

What's the progress on the airport road.

I've been seeing these solar powered masts springing up all around VI and Lekki. Does anyone have any idea what they are for?

I'm suspecting it could be Google free WiFi, but not sure.

Juell:
Shouldn't this be a secret mission?

Very good point!!

dingbang:
and when you have made free WiFi possible, its still the same government that will arrest youths browsing in those free WiFi spots tagging them fraudsters.

May God punish the Nigerian mentality that is dwelling in government officials.

Mr Minister, mind yaself.

Don't be silly. What's good is good and what's bad is bad!!

But Nigerian girls are on another level. The amount of students doing runs, which is just a more respectable name for prostitution, is shocking!! Just go to bars, clubs and lounges all over lagos on friday and see how many girls are hanging on the shoulders of guys.

Schools are finally taking some action despite the fact that this has been going in for decades across the country.

So that this doesn't burden the government, the salaries of civil servants above maybe level 10 should be capped and only the salaries of those below should be increased. You'll be surprised that monthly salary of a minimum wage earner increases from N18k to N30k, while that of a permanent secretary goes up from N750k to N820k! N12 increase versus N70k increase. The gap keeps getting wider! And its really the increase of the higher salary earners that will cost the government a lot more money.

I also agree that government needs to take a good hard look at productivity. FG and states have waaayyyy too many staff doing next to nothing.Just go to our ministries and you'll see so many people sitting behind desks doing nothing.

Has Air Peace started flying any international route?

Interesting how the female actors are making so much money, yet we don't seem to hear of the male actors making so much money!!

I guess the females are soooo much better actors than the guys, hence why they make so much money.

Even if efficiencies set in, but crude prices double, petrol prices will rise.

And if you wonder why international price of crude will affect local prices, there is something called opportunity cost. If my local price is too low relative to international price, then rather than sell local I might as well export my petrol, therefore local prices will have to increase to attract supply. Its simple economics.

I agree with deregulation of NNPC and petrol. However those arguing that petrol price will come down like telecoms are very wrong.

First petrol is driven by price of crude oil. Telecoms however has a very low marginal cost. Asides those early years of massive investments in base stations etc the additional cost of serving 75mln people may not be very different from 50mln people, cos the masts are already there. To sell petrol to additional 25mln people means you have to buy the equivalent crude, refine it and transport it.

kinibigdeal:
It will make Garri expensive. Farmers will no longer farm for food processing, they will prefer to earn more selling to those factories than mere profit from garri processing

Might be an opportunity for you to go grow cassava and make money selling to them.

naijaguy1234:
Now they want to seel shares worth 500 million dollars after they ripped of millions of Nigerians. People please don't buy an inflated share price, give it few months or years , it'll be cheaper in this case.

Did anyone remember when MTN sim card only use to be ₦35,000 ?

Totally agree. MTN is only selling now because it is not growing anywhere as fast as it did in the good old days. The market is largely saturated. They sell the shares, make a kill and then new owners see that its not as profitable as it once was and then share price comes down. Those who were too excited about buying telecoms and bought Starcomms lived to regret. Fine, MTN and Starcomms are not in the same category, but the concept is the same. Owners of Starcoms sold a dead business to Nigerians and took off, leaving investors with crap.

Interestingly, Buhari's management of the economy itself qualifies to be labelled terrible.!!

If a President really has the interests of this country at heart and the will and the proper knowledge of what to do, Nigeria is actually quite easy to put on the right path. It's just that our politicians never have the will, competence and heart to do what is right, even if what is right at times will hurt many in the populace now for longer term benefits. For eg

Removal of subsidy now and redirecting that money to quality and free primary school education for ALL kids nationwide has short term pain but long term benefit. We will see benefits in 10-20 years time - less kids for Boko haram, more intelligent kids that can plan their own destinies because they dream of a better future, less beggers on the streets, more economic activity, less underage voting etc.

sparko1:
Just because you can't use it for a month doesn't mean is not upto 2.5 gig, there are lots of data draining apps that are present now that were not present then, you can't compare when most nigerians were still using blackberry and symbian phones to when there are dozens of android apps that run in the background.

Thanks for educating the dafties! The amount of content on WhatsApp now and then na the same abi? Now we watch HD videos all day on YouTube and expect the data to last same as 5 years ago!

BruncleZuma:


You mean these law enforcement people?

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This says it all!

9jaRealist:
Akume did NOT “sell” “your” BCC to Dangote Cement - because BCC was NOT owned by the Benue government.

Rather, BCC was a federal government entity and was thus privatized under the federal government’s privatization program launched by the military government of Gen Abdusalam Abubakar under Decree No. 28 of 1999, and seen to completion under the civilian Obasanjo administration. Under the same privatization program conducted by the World Bank-supported Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Sokoto Cement Company was sold to the BUA Group, Bendel Cement Company was also sold to the BUA Group, Calabar Cement Company was sold to Holcim (partnering with Flour Mills), while Nkalagu Cement Company was sold to the Ibeto Group.

Furthermore, in stark contrast to your assertion, the Benue state government under George Akume actually obtusely and obdurately OPPOSED to sale of BCC majority shares to Dangote Cement pursuant to the latter’s winning bid under the BPE’s privatization process (which was btw supervised by the World Bank) - resorting to such primitive and primordial tribal sentiments that Dangote should have bid for CCNN (Cement Company of Northern Nigeria) instead and stating a preference for foreign (white) investors, when no sensible foreign investor was going to risk such a backward climate displaying a disdain for contractual obligations and the rule of law.

Since the privatization, Dangote Cement has modernized the poorly-run and decaying Gboko plant, raising production from 400K/yearly at the time of privatization to the current 4 million tons/per annum - a TEN-FOLD INCREASE (creating more jobs for locals and benefiting the local economy in the process)! In addition, Dangote Cement supplies electricity power to the local community and Gboko town/environs through the cement plant’s modern captive power plant, has built and renovated schools and classrooms, as well as built and funds a community hospital. Nonetheless, pretty sure there are some Tribal Remnants still mad because Dangote is not an “indigene”. SMH

Thank you for educating those who don't read newspapers or listen to proper news, but only base their comments on nonsense social media posts, most of which are fake!!

Well tinubu should be worried because we're getting sick and tired about the incompetence of the current governor

Joromi12:
He has no range rover and money lik olosho Toke. Wey never reach 10 years der

Toke actually works!!!

The guy ain't governor yet. He's governor elect. OP please note!

Actually this makes a lot of sense if it will be done properly and well thought through. Why flare the gas off it can be used right there. The issue before was the infrastructure to send the gas to processing facilities. But if small scale facilities are right beside the gas, it could be a game changer.