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Orikinla:
Odiaero,

You cannot hate all of them.

Dr. Ola Balogun, Faruk Lasaki, Femi Odugbemi, Mahmood Ali-Balogun, Kunle Afolayan, Lonzo Nzekwe, Chineze Anyaene, Stephanie Okereke, and others have made some worthy movies we can be proud of in any arena.

ow can u forget d amazing Tunde Kelani, Emem Isong, Amaka Igwe and more recently Saidi Balogun

ObamaUS:
African footie is on aserious decline.no spectacular player again.gone are the days of abedi pele,titi camara,george weah,yekini,ikpeba,finidi,amunike,okocha,roger milla etc

Decline ke? Don't confuse 9ja's bull poo with Africa, at a time when the likes of Niger and Botswana are fielding very strong teams and African players are ranking among the best in the world, you are calling old names here.

mukina2:
Most Promising Talent of the Year: Souleymane Coulibaly (Tottenham and Cote d'Ivoire)

What's promising about ds bloke? What happened to the likes of Demba Ba and Joel Obi?

babaearly:
Its been a dry year for african football, no spectacular revelation. no one deserved that award this year.

Dry for Nigeria yeah, but not for other African countries

my homeboy Yahya was great ds year, so were Andrew and Keita.

@sagamite pls stop insulting people who have opinions that are different from yours, even though I strongly disagree with her doesn't mean I'll stoop low to insults. From the posts above I wonder who is a product of the failed educational system here, you or her.

djustice:
The way Fashola and Tinubu have handled this will lead to a response, however long it takes, that may ultimately lead to a breakout of war in Lagos. I'm not talking small scuffles here. WAR!!

Since their response to peaceful protests is this brutal and tyrannical, they should never expect such protests anymore. They've succeeded in removing the veil from the eyes of formerly gullible Lagosians, even some of their former friends. There will no longer be a protest of any kind.

I hope they're ready for what is coming.

Mr man go and sit down jor, what do u know about war? Nigerians and their screams for war every time and the moment they see an agbero with ordinary machete, you'll see them running for their mothers covers.

Goodyness:
@otokx, 300k/month and you have to provide your own water, electricity, school for your wards, healthcare and security. Now, tell me what you get in return as a taxpayer in lagos. Even though I don't live in lekki but I feel the pain of lagosians living there, the street lights along Bourdillon - Alexandra - Gerlad stretch work well at night and the roads are well maintained yet residents of Ikoyi don't get to pay for having that luxury (in Nigerian terms). Let us stand up for fairness, equity and justice. BTW, I live in Ikoyi and only go to lekki once in a while.

Kinikini:
This is a concoction of lies to that only those who don't live on this axis will believe.

Truth be told, traffic have not improved on the road. Compare off peak traffic to peak traffic as evidence of dicongestion is cheap lies. Between Lekki R/about and Ozumba link bridge, it still takes average one hour during peak traffic for a distance of one kilometer orthereabout.

The so called elite you accuse of wanting free service actually pay heavy taxes for no service. My family along pays N300K per month and we would be making nothing less than N50,000 monthly to go to that work that generate N300K to LASG. Is this fair?


AKAINZO please note
Only those who collude with the ACN thieves will endorse the day light robbery called tolling.

Attached are pictures of ACN thugs departing after beating us up at the protest yesterday.

Good government you will say.

Who pays 300k/month in taxes? Haba make una dey lie small small na, the only way that is remotely possible is if you earn over N5m/month and if thats the case, pple like you should be taxed more to accelerate development.

The incident today and the occasional ramblings of some peeps on NL are some of the few reasons why I believe this country is not ready for a revolution We have absolutely no idea what to fight for, all we want is 'the perfect life' we believe exists in the western world overnight without getting our priorities straight;

- ASUU and Doctors go on strike to increase salaries and retirement age while the infrastructures are in total decay.
- I support the increase in tuition fees of our universities on the premise that d money generated from that will be used to bring the schools up to an acceptable standard while the govt provides scholarships and student loans to students who genuinely cant afford it.
- Instead of the protesters to demand for an improved and more efficient public transport system at affordable rates, they are busy fighting for the rights to intimidate the masses with their latest rides without paying a toll.
- Subsidy removal will actually improve the lives of the people if the govt have a blueprint of how to buffer the resultant hardships for the citizenry.

Come on guys the protest is a stupid waste of time, there are alternatives for those who cant or think they cant afford the tolls; the govt has provided BRT buses that ply the route, there is a waterway from ajah to VI and the worst the commercial drivers will do is add N30 to the transport fare. So park your cars at home and let the roads be less congested jare, make we reduce carbon emissions.

The 3 toll gates are too much tho and the N150 levy should be reviewed downward.

do u have uk used torch2? and if u do, ow much?

ayusman16:
Seriously dude. Ar u sure u live in Lagos or u just watch Africa Magi cos all what u've mentioned makes no sense. Enabling environment my foot.

No I live on mars,

chino11:
Gullible Yoruba people. One day somebody will build super market and their gov will come to claim it as a dividend of democracy, then the likes of this foolish and erratic one will still jump out of his skin. Failed govt! This is the sign of non-focused and criminal governor

Who's this retarded tribalistic fool? All ur posts are full of insults for yoruba people, thats just plain silly. I wont come down to your level and insult ur great tribe cos u must be one of their most imbecilic sons.

ayusman16:
Find achievements of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Workers compensation reform
Redistricting reform
Open primaries
Water distribution
Beefing up the rainy day fund (on the 2010 ballot)
Moving California towards a "green" economy based upon renewable energy

Achievements of Gov Fashola
Partnering the building of Shoprite
Bringing KFC to Lagos
Erecting Toll Gate at Lekki
Christmas lights decorations

Let nobody mention roads o because that is already our basic rights.
And some peeps are jubilating. Good.

-First of all, the mall is not just shoprite.
-Before Fashola, Lagos had only one mall but now we have about 10.
-For KFC to find Lagos a suitable environment for investing doesnt that mean d man is doing something right?
-Tolling is not a Lagos invention dude, almost all major cities in the world have a tolling system in certain parts of the city (i have seen examples in london, new jersey-new york, jakarta, kuala lumpur and delhi), so dont come here and spew rubbish.
-So decoration na bad tin again?

Now to other achievements u failed to mention:
- Office of the public defender (1st in Nigeria)
- Do you know that the police cannot question u in lagos without the presence of a lawyer or video camera (transparency int'l praised this)
- Improved water supply in major cities in lagos (NB: improved not perfect)
- 24hrs power supply to govt hospitals on lagos island
- educating citizens on the need to plant trees (ecological blah blah blah)
- first state to pay new salary scheme
- Atlantic city, lekki airport (only ignorant people will call these white elephants project)
- light rail
- metro ferry system
and so many other things i am too tired to type here.


I wont say Fashola is perfect but can u tell me any state in this country that has achieved close to this? Even Schwarzenegger will praise fashola's achievements (no kidding).

The Federal Government has said that it is targeting complete upgrade and modernization of major airports in the country by 2013 in keeping with its transformation agenda in the aviation industry.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, who presided over the movement of domestic carriers to the international terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja last week in order to revamp the old terminal, which has decayed over the years.

She said that government has started the modernization project on the four major airports in the country located in Abuja, Lagos, Kano and Port Harcourt and the work was moving at a fast pace.

Work has been going on at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos which involves the expansion of the terminal, upgrade of facilities and total overhaul of the carousel (conveyor belt) for easy and uninterrupted movement of luggage and cargo.

The Senate President, David Mark who flagged off the domestic flight operations at the international terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport, Abuja, commended the efforts of the Federal Government, remarking that airports are a window to any nation because airports are first port of call of foreigners and it is from such facility that the image of a country is gleaned.

He lamented that airports across the country before now was not befitting to Nigeria as a nation, stressing that the impression of any visitor on arrival at any of the nation’s airports was the determining factor of for the country. “Airport is what you use in judging any nation because the very first impression starts at the airport. But we have lacked standard facilities until now”. Mark declared.

He urged everybody to take seriously, the transformation agenda of the present administration by keying into it and warned that the upgrade effort would come to nothing if the facilities at their airports were not maintained after modernizing them. He decried the poor maintenance culture among Nigerians and advised that the facilities must be kept clean at all times and to be used accordingly when completed.

The Aviation Minister also announced that on going work at the Kano and Kaduna airports would be commissioned by January 2012, while Lagos would be commissioned in February.

According to her, it was the plan of the government to ensure that air travel remained the cheapest, safest and fastest means of transportation and with the attendant comfort in the country.

Also the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), George Uriesi, said that the transformation has started taking place in form of remodeling of the terminal buildings in 11 airports across the country with that of some key airports like, Lagos, Kano, Abuja, Kaduna, and Port Harcourt.

According to Uriesi, the re-modeling project was designed to expand the existing infrastructure in the terminals of the airports especially passenger areas.

The FAAN boss named airports where work have commenced to include, Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Kaduna while work will begin soon at the remaining seven airports. He said work at the general aviation terminal (GAT) and international terminal of the Lagos airport would be completed by mid-2012.

Uriesi emphasized that passengers deserved better services at all airports terminals and that when completed, the domestic wings of Abuja and Lagos airports would serve as a reference point for domestic terminals across the country.
He noted that with the transformation programme of President Goodluck Jonathan, aviation stakeholders owe him a lot of gratitude for his effort which would transform the country’s aviation sector.

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-targets-2013-for-complete-modernisation-of-airports/105164/

I just hope they get this right before that MM dump embarrasses us any further.

None of them close to the super eagles in anyway, they just cant stop to amaze me with their perennial colossal disappointments. As for GEJ I'm not disappointed in fact i'm amazed that he hasn't run d country aground yet with his cowardice despite the unparalleled support from Nigerians.

I hope twill still b available nxt wk sha.

is it new or same wiv d previous one?

ow much is white?

i have tried going without both for like 2days until I started having withdrawal symptoms like a junkie, won't be trying it again anytime soon.

DamiKhojie:
To Japan a 4.9 earthquake is nothing it happens all the time. Plus their buildings are made to withstand much more, I'm sure they felt nothing more than a small shake.

yeah, their towers nd storey buildings are fitted with a sort of shock-absorption system that can withstand up to 6-magnitude quake.

But still make anything no happen to my little genius ooo (Blatter be warned).

Finally, a concrete plan by the govt. Lets just hope that the cabal do not stick their dirty fingers into this and corrupt it as usual. Nice one prof.

afam4eva:
At last a cinema on the mainland.

Ozone cinemas, yaba (mainland).

Sagamite:
Mate, believe me, there are third world countries that have better roads than our best roads. Places like Morroco, Botswana, Thailand, Indonesia etc.

As good as in you get in India, most likely yes.

As good as in you get in Brazil, most likely hell no.

As good as some parts of London, that is where I ask: "and so what"? Our best roads which are very very few are as good as the worst in London that has thousands of good roads.

The reality is that we have seriously sub-standard roads, and most of the few that are our best that some point to as good roads, will not be approved in a sane country. We accept them because the nation has incompetent officials and a sub-standard thinking mentality. "E don do, we don try" mentality.

u r very right and thats the reality we have to deal with, even Rwanda and Gabon have better roads but we'll achieve nothing by posting pics nd insulting each other on NL, instead of having constructive discussions and criticisms to force our govt to adjust some of their silly policies. For instance, an individual or a private firm cannot repair or construct a road in his area without paying a certain amount to the govt.

On a lighter note:
Thailand and Maroc r not 3rd world nations, Botswana is light years ahead of most nations in Africa and Indonesia is about to invest $1bn in naija so no basis for comparison.

Sagamite:
Those roads can compete with any road in the world?

Are you serious or you are trying to be funny?

ok, maybe I exaggerated a bit but they r still good roads for a third world country,  its as good as what u'll get in india, brazil or some parts of london (trust me, I knw what I'm saying).

@all

Pls leave dat ignorant slow poke, lasinoh alone, if u argue with an , he'll end up dragging u to his level, and I dont think anyone here wants to end up a cretin like him.

pix jare nd i prefer communicating by email.

Is d red torch @ 58k with complete acc?

@sagamite

Like which ones?

err, Central Abuja (maitama, wuse II, et al), lekki-ajah expressway, itam-uyo road, and a few other roads.

@lasinoh

either u r grossly uneducated or ur sense of identity is totally lost so much so that u tend to criticize anything from ur fatherland, cos I can't imagine a sane person who thinks that u can build a straight road up a plateau that is 5200ft above sea level. SMH for ur predicament, I no envy u at all, onyeara oshi

@lasinoh

There is a yoruba saying that goes: "omo ale lo n fi owo osi juwe ile baba e". Translation: Only a bastard describes his fathers house with his left hand.

Yes we have bad roads (lots of them) but we also have fantastic roads that can compete with any road the world over. The fact that we are far from where will should be doesn't mean we must condemn everything, praise what is good and criticize what is bad instead of throwing the bath water away with the child.

About the mountain road in obudu:

When designing or building a mountain road there are so many factors to consider such as mudslides, angle of steepness, soil (texture, structure and fauna) et al hence the need to pick the lowest possible to ascend without damaging the mountain structure too much to avoid engineering catastrophes.
BTW: The road was constructed by the same Caucasians you seem to worship.

NB: the picture posted by the @op is a trunk C road wc means its the responsibility of the LGA in dat area, who do next to nothing IMHO wc makes me doubt the point of their existence in the first place

make una sit down there dey blame google for killing naija businesses while the others are making inroads into our market; mocality.com.ng and dealfish.com.ng are kenyan companies FYI. Sit up fellow web developers and lets give this foreigners a run for their money jor!

How can anyone come here and claim dat google is stealing ideas from Nigerian developers? All we do here is recycle ideas dat have worked abroad e.g. 'tradestable = craiglist'. So how is google trader copying them? Google if anything has brought competition and opportunities to the Nigerian market; youtube.com.ng with its featherlite app ensures that users with slow internet can watch videos online. They provide APIs to help web developers. Nigerians should just sit up and start been innovative like the kenyans and mzanzi guyz.

Even if this story is true, it may be armed robbers, this is not d 1st time sumtin like ds will happen. Abeg let us stop empowering BH with myths jare.

LOL, You people got no shame at all.

Congratulating your Muslim brothers for shutting down schools filled with innocent kids.

Why don't you invade the Police Station that arrested the girl bunch of cowards.

MUMU, calling shutting down schools PEACEFUL PROTEST.

ODE na dem shut down schools abi govt?

I'm congratulating them for standing up and making a difference in a peaceful manner unlike urself sitting on ur hands while the govt poops all over u.

NB: the protest was directed at the police

LOL,

These Islamist are still ranting about this issue.

Well you should have bombed the school (just like your folks in the North) to prove your point.

Imagine Muslim adults invading school filled with kid because of Hijab.

Vary soon C&S, Cele people will be protesting too.

Yeye poeple.

Ur yeye laughter and refusal to fight for ur rights is d reason ur govt keeps taking for a ride, call us terrorists, islamists or whatever name the media has put in ur empty head all I know is I stand for something and dats JUSTICE and we'll continue to fight oppression by blockheads like u.

My brothers in IWO thank you for standing up to injustice with a PEACEFUL PROTEST, may Allah reward you for ur strives.

terrorism, prejudice, hypocrisy cannot stop d march of ISLAM