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delpee: Its e federal road though Lagos and Ogun state govts can work on it for their peoples sake.

Akpa ife: Hahahahaha I tot them wat 2 chase GEJ out of power y inviting him or begging him 2 join,let's said GEJ join APC will APC allow him 2 run 4 president piple said dat ds APC hav no future at all

ochukoccna: Thanks to the OP who started this thread which is something I sought to do earlier
This particular road was mentioned by Gov Amosun when the President came to launch the reconstruction of Lagos Ibadan Road to which the president said his Works minister would look into it
Even before that rumours abounded that CCECC who are working on the Ikorodu Town-Mile 12 road would fix it and get paid by Lagos and Ogun state govts
I do not want to get needlessly involved in the FG/LASG road brouhaha on repairing this road seeing LASG stopped fixing FG roads under OBJ
I call people to remember the politics that trailed FERMA under the Ministry of Works [headed then by a Lagosian Ogunlewe who is incidentally from Ikorodu] and Tinubu
Also the fireworks between FERMA and LASG regarding the currently been rebuilt Ikorodu Town-Mile 12 road
Currently FERMA is working on that road, but for how long
I was in a BRT bus last week on this road when an old man called a FERMA official 'useless Federal government'
Harsh words you might say
Last year the president gave an order to the ministry of Works to make FG motor able for Christmas [If the FG roads were in good condition, would such a charge have come,I digress]
FERMA moved unto this road LAST YEAR SEPTEMBER 2012
Almost 12 calender months on working on this road, this is the best we have gotten
In saner climes someone would have been sacked or sued but I guess this is the FRESH AIR we must live with in this season of life

APPARENTLY, many Nigerians are not aware that the 25-kilometre Shagamu-Ogijo-Mosinmi-Ikorodu Road was the first major expressway that linked Lagos State, the commercial nerve of the nation, to other states and indeed, other West Africa countries.

 Constructed in 1962 by the Western Region government, before the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was built under the military administration, the road has served as the major route from Lagos through Shagamu, Ogijo and Ikorodu. But today, the same road, which is an alternative route to Lagos, apart from Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, remains a shadow of itself.

  As some of the road -users put it: “It is appalling that the once vibrant road remains without any major maintenance for over 51 years, after its construction.”

  It is, indeed, a road that depicts rot in the entire country, “where necessary and vibrant institutions are left to rot.”

 According to a commercial driver, Salisu Ajayi, “The Shagamu-Ogijo-Mosinmi-Ikorodu Road could be best described as a death trap, where  many have died, property worth billions of naira destroyed and several man hours wasted in harrowing traffic, all due to its deplorable state.”

  Unfortunately, the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) is at present carrying out some palliative repair of the road, “Is that what we need now on a road that is in a total state of collapse?” a road-user asked.

 Many commuters plying the road, while commending the Federal Government for reconstructing the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway with an additional one lane, expressed dissatisfaction over the complete neglect of Shagamu-Ogijo-Mosinmi-Ikorodu Road. To majority of them: “There is nothing to rejoice over because the additional one lane will soon take us back to where we were.”

 The growing population, new property, which now spread from Ikorodu through Odogunyan, Ogijo, Simawa,

Mosinmi to Shagamu towns, bring to question: “Why should any nation, which cares about the well-being and security of her citizens and development, abandon such strategic and important road to become an eyesore and a death trap?”

 Recurrent disaster and pains commuters go through while plying the roads reveal that at any drop of rainfall, numerous portions of the road, would become  a “sea”. 

  “From Odogunyan to PZ, Itaoluwo, Ogijo to Lukosi are overtaken by flood. Vehicular movements also become impossible. Many calamities befall commuters on the road as school children were sometimes swept by floodwater.

 On June 10, two children were reportedly swept away by the flood along the road.”

  Describing another portion of the road, which a commuter referred to as ‘junction of disaster’ a few meters before Ogijo Bus Stop, Ogun State axis, a tanker driver, Rafiu Aremu, said: “Hardly a week would pass away without one or two tankers loaded with fuel or other articulated vehicle somersaulting here due to the bad state.”

  [b]The Guardian further gathered that on several ocassions, many articulated vehicles had rolled back and crushed vehicles coming behind while trying to climb the hilly part of the road.

 A pregnant woman was once crushed to death inside her car when a tanker that was trying to climb one of the hilly parts of the road rolled back and crushed her.[b]  Some federal and state institutions situated along the axis include the Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos State Farm Estate, PZ, Lagos Waste to Wealth Fertilizer Company, Larfarge Cement Company among others.

 These explain the density of population and vehicular moment on the road.

  The lawmaker representing Ikorodu in the House of Representatives, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who spoke with The Guardian on the state of the road, said it was disheartening to see a road like this in Nigeria in 21st Century.   

 Dabiri-Erewa added that the lawmakers representing Lagos and Ogun states were not resting on their oars in the National Assembly.

   The Senator, representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Gbenga Ashafa also described the state of road as appalling. 

Meanwhile, two years ago the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) intervened by constructing a link road from Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to the Shagamu-Ogijo-Mosinmi-Ikorodu Road through Lotus-Simawa-Lukosi, which has given motorists and road –users some relief.

2013-07-04 23:00:42
A 15 year-old boy, Akindele Oyedele, emerged as the National Champion of the 2013 Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition on Thursday.

The pupil of Iganmode Grammar School, Ota, a public school in Ogun State, scored 94 points out of a possible 100 to beat a 14-year-old pupil of Reality High School, Ilesa, Osun State, who scored 82 to clinch the second position.

Obasi Peter, 17, from the University of Nigeria Secondary School, Enugu, scored 81 points to clinch the third position.

Iganmode Grammar School has now won the competition back to back for three years. Akindele Nurein Oyetobi and Uwa Benjamin from the school had earlier won the competition in 2011 and 2012 respectively.

In the Junior Category, 13-year-old boy, Iyoha Omonzokpia of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, scored 93 points to beat Omojola Samuel, of Reality High School, Ilesha, Osun state, who scored 91 to clinch the second position. Amulah Caleb, 14, of Mount Saint Gabriel's School, Benue scored 89 to win the third position.

Over 30,000 pupils from different schools sat for the competition across over 200 centres in Nigeria.

Managing Director, Promasidor Nigeria Limited -- makers of Cowbell Milk, Chief Keith Richards, noted that the intensity, fortitude and integrity of the competition had been sustained since it started in 1998. He added that the competition was free and open to all secondary school pupils between ages 10 and 18.

Lamenting that education was declining in Nigeria, especially in the North, due to terrorism, he regretted that no pupil from the North-East schools participated in the competition.

Richards said, "In the last couple of years, we have struggled because of the activities of Boko Haram and other criminal terrorist organisations that are against education and by doing that, they are threatening the hope and the future of Nigeria's future generations and their children.

"Since the insurgency heightened, the level of participation in the North has reduced considerably. The results of this year's competition further lend credence to the downward trend of education advancement in Nigeria"

Although he acknowledged that Nigeria still had a bright future, Richards appealed to the government and other well-meaning Nigerians to "act fast and save the situation, as it may destroy the future of many."

Director-General, National Mathematics Centre, Prof. Adewale Solarin, at the event called on other private organisations to support educational programme.

He revealed that the centre had embarked on the training of students for the forthcoming Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad to be hosted by Nigeria.

Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, who was represented by the Director, Science and Technology, Dr. Abass Adedibu, said mathematics and science play a significant role in the economic development of a nation.

Winning schools in the competition went home with Desktop computers and printers, apart from monetary gift to the winning pupils.

The best 10 pupils in the senior category were also given laptops.

Iganmode Grammar School won the Benson Oweka Memorial Prize for its consistent and outstanding performance for over three years.

nitlad: Great. Where is it located in Ibadan?

deda: The much expected shoprite has opened in Ibadan. Just see how pple rushed in on the first day.Hope other supermarkets like foodco, parade, etc will still be in business.

harlos: lemme chop d life of my head now, there is plenty of time to be dead.

awodman: lol...ACN members more concerend with PDP internal affairs..

harlos: Lemme borrow dis word


end time is near

By Tayo Johnson

A 17-year-old boy has been handed over to the Oyo State Police Command after he was caught by teachers at St. Luke Grammar School, Molete, Ibadan, while allegedly chanting incantations on a student at a nearby bush where the student had gone to ease himself.

The action, the teachers claimed, was to kidnap the victim

According to the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olabisi Okuwobi-Ilobanafor, the suspect, Chukwu Chijoke, had claimed that the charm found on him was a gift from his grandfather, which has the powers to make him command anyone to do whatever he asked them to do.

But the suspect explained that the charm posed no evil on the student.

He said the name of the charm was “Ezebinafor” and that it was a gift from his grandfather for protection and to invoke command.