BTW, the Ikorodu thread is languishing in the Business section.

I checked now, the Ikorodu thread was last updated in 2013!

https://www.nairaland.com/872578/whats-happening-ikorodu-axis-2#16685635

The Badagry thread, 2017!!
https://www.nairaland.com/427403/what-happening-badagry-axis#6431440

Interestingly, you (DisGuy) were the last to comment on the Badagry thread.

DisGuy:


Hinterlands u know...imagine the disrespek!!! Seems these govs don't rate anywhere outside Lekki again!!

Johnie. You had a thread about badagry axis what happened

No disrepeck intended.

I was only echoing the usual refrain of those who accused Ambode's predecessor, Fashola, of being elitist.

On the Badagry axis thread, I got deflated when the Lekki thread was being tossed around like a yoyo.

I hope I can receive enough motivation to rescutitate it along with the thread for the Ikorodu axis.

Contributions to the three threads are heartily welcome!

johnie:

During his speech at the commissioning of theAjah Jubilee Bridge, he listed the following areas as next on the agenda for the Lekki Axis.:

1. Planned construction of 8km Regional Road to serve as alternative route to connect Victoria Garden City (VGC) from Freedom Road.

2. Activation of Badore jetty

3. Creation of a bus route from Badore to Langbasa and Ajah axis

4. Rehabilitation of the Badore Road

5. Alternative routes through Oke-Ira to the Epe expressway

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Unfortunately. politics got in the way after the two year mark. This stalled a lot of projects.

Imagine if that hadn't been the case, the projects listed in his Ajah Bridge commissioning speech would most likely have been completed by now or even before the last elections.

Let's hope Sanwo-Olu will resuscitate those projects and go after them with the same gusto Ambode did when he assumed office.

johnie:

Lekki-Epe Expressway:

Toll Plazas
One of the first things Ambode did when he took over was to stop the planned collection of tolls at the second plaza.

Reconstruction of roundabouts between Phase 1 and VGC

Replacement of Ajah roundabout with the Jubillee Bridge Ajah

Work started in December 2018 and was scheduled to be completed within 18 months.

It was commissioned on May 17 2017, within the estimated time.

Ajah Bus Terminal
This was mentioned in Amode's speech at the commissioning of the Jubilee bridge and work actually started on it but has been very slow.

Pedestrian Bridges
The pedestrian bridges have had the double effect of saving lives of those crossing the expressway and reducing the traffic caused by those crossing.

Emergency Services
The Lekki unit was commissioned at about the same time as the Jubilee Bridge.

Construction of median and installation of lighting from Abraham Adesanya towards Epe

Work started around September 2017 on "expanding" the road from Abraham Adesanya towards Epe.

Other Areas

Freedom/Admiralty Way
Work started on the road in December 2015.

He commissioned Admiralry/Freedom Way, at the same time as the Jubilee Bridge.
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Ambode actually hit the ground running.

Within two weeks of assuming office, he identified and personally visited traffic bottlenecks in the metropolis :

http://akinwunmiambode.com/dev/ambode-visits-major-traffic-points-approves-construction-of-pedestrian-bridge-at-berger-bus-stop/

By December 2015 (within 8 months of assuming office), he had commissioned identified solutions and mobilised contractors to site.

The Ajah bridge and Freedom Way construction began around December 2015 and were ready for commissioning by May 29 2017 - along with other major constructions across Lagos, including "hinterlands" like Alimosho.

He completed the Ojodu-Berger Flyover Intersection; 21 roads and two bridges with a combined stretch of 27.4 kilometers in Alimosho-Agbado-Oke-Odo area within good time and they made significant impact on traffic management.

ifyalways:


Ambo is leaving, how do we rate him ?
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Lekki-Epe Expressway:

Toll Plazas

One of the first things Ambode did when he took over was to stop the planned collection of tolls at the second plaza.

A lot of agitation against the collection of tolls at that plaza had been going on for a while but Ambode took the step of stopping it.

It would be unfortunate if Sanwo Olu or any other governor reintroduces it in future.

Tolls at the first plaza were however hiked under his regime, to the chagrin of residents.


https://guardian.ng/property/lagos-cancels-multi-tolls-on-lekki-epe-expressway/

https://dailypost.ng/2017/11/04/lagos-govt-halts-lekki-toll-hike-residents-blast-ambode-lcc/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/hike-lekki-toll-motorists-commuters-call-ambodes-intervention/


Traffic at the plaza (with the Ikoyi link bridge) seems to be increasing daily.


The mystery of the concessioning continues.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/2#58909983

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/143629-lagos-terminates-concession-agreement-on-lekki-epe-expressway.html


Reconstruction of roundabouts between Phase 1 and VGC

The roundabouts constituted huge bottlenecks along the expressway until they were removed.

Why traffic lights were not used instead of the roundabout from the onset remains a mystery to me.

First, the roundabouts at Jakande. Chisco and VGC were removed then those at Igbo Efon, Chevron and Third (Ikate/Freedom Way) followed later.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4#55031301

Carrying this out in phases was good as it proved the method (after the first phase) and reduced road users' hardship during construction.

The removal is estimated to have saved the State N87bn yearly.

https://theeagleonline.com.ng/report-removal-of-roundabouts-along-lekki-epe-expressway-saves-lagosians-n87b-yearly/


Replacement of Ajah roundabout with the Jubillee Bridge Ajah

The construction of this bridge tremendously eased the perennial jam that had characterised the former Ajah round about. The jam was there at all times of the day!

Work started in December 2018 and was scheduled to be completed within 18 months.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4#40808717

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/lagos-govt-approves-flyover-bridge-for-ajah-abule-egba/

It was commissioned on May 17 2017, within the estimated time.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/1#56565658

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/1#56603521

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/ambode-commissions-abule-egba-ajah-flyovers-lekki-roads/

While the jam has eased, there remains the problem of traffic between VGC and Fish R/about in the morning when people are going to work and in the evening.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/3#77550706


Ajah Bus Terminal

This was mentioned in Amode's speech at the commissioning of the Jubilee bridge and work actually started on it but has been very slow.

It is located just beside the bridge where the slip road was when construction of the bridge was ongoing.

I guess it is meant to be on the same scale as the Ikeja and Oshodi bus terminals.

Pedestrian Bridges

The pedestrian bridges have had the double effect of saving lives of those crossing the expressway and reducing the traffic caused by those crossing.

Work on VGC bridge however remains uncompleted.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/3#77580546

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/2#57267653


Emergency Services
I know someone personally who was involved in a road accident along the expressway who was rushed to the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi by the Lagos State Abulance Service (LASAMBUS).

I have also personally witnessed accidents where LASAMBUS and LASEMA Rescue Unit (LRU) came to the rescue of victims in a timely fashion.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/1#56566494

The LRU was created under Ambode, if my memory serves me right.

The Lekki unit was commissioned at about the same time as the Jubilee Bridge.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/1#56565746

Construction of median and installation of lighting from Abraham Adesanya towards Epe

Work started around September 2017 on "expanding" the road from Abraham Adesanya towards Epe.

However, the work done has been to ro a slight extension to either side, installation of medians and lighting.

The median has the positive effect of reducing hold ups and a cidents caused by indiscriminate turning by drivers.

To the surprise (or annoyance) of most road users. the Abraham Adesanya round about Easter not removed. Instead, a large ornamental "fish" was installed to beautify the roundabout!

The work on the road now seems to have been stalled.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/2#60129092


https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/1#55670639


Other Areas

Freedom/Admiralty Way

Work started on the road in December 2015.

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4#41014603

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4#41341575

He commissioned Admiralry/Freedom Way, at the same time as the Jubilee Bridge.

It has become a veritable alternative route to the expressway between Ikate and the Ikoyi link bridge/toll plaza.

During his speech at the commissioning of theAjah Jubilee Bridge, he listed the following areas as next on the agenda for the Lekki Axis.:


https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/1#56632809

https://www.nairaland.com/2788913/whats-happening-lekki-axis-4/1#56632445


1. Planned construction of 8km Regional Road to serve as alternative route to connect Victoria Garden City (VGC) from Freedom Road.

2. Activation of Badore jetty


3. Creation of a bus route from Badore to Langbasa and Ajah axis


4. Rehabilitation of the Badore Road


5. Alternative routes through Oke-Ira to the Epe expressway

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Ondo State govt to build road linking Araromi beach to Ibeju Lekki

Dede Falana

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu has revealed that he has awarded contract for the construction of a coastal road linking Araromi beach in the state with Ibeju Lekki in Lagos.

This is part of an ongoing infrastructural development of the coastal area of Ondo State, which include plans to build a Seaport and an industrial Free Trade Zone.

“Yesterday! Contract for Road already awarded. Feasibility study for Ondo Port and masterplan for our FTZ already done including sand filling of FTZ site in Ugbonla, ” Governor Akeredolu tweeted on Monday.

“We have always believed that developing the South is the key to transforming Ondo State. Transforming The Beach and its environs is a high priority of this administration. The Araromi to Ibeju Lekki road and Ondo Industrial City FTZ both straddle the beach front, “the governor continued.

In September 2018, Ondo State government signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with a Netherlands firm, Maritime Business Transport Business Solution Ltd, MBTS on a deep-sea port and Industrial Mega City project in the coastal area of the state.

According to a business adviser to the governor, Ayo Ipaye, the project would be all encompassing as the mega city would house the deep-sea port, the free trade zone, Industrial as well residential areas.

His words, ‘we are not just building a trade zone but a city. It will be housed on a 2500 hectares of land. It will have facilities for import, export and coaster shipments. Electricity to the city will be supplied by a 250megawatt turban. There will be free access to the state through a well developed road network and there will be access to Lagos via Lekki which will be connected directly to the zone. It will be dubbed ‘the Ondo Industrial City,” Ipaye said.

Araromi beach, which is 3 hours drive from Akure, has been described as the largest coastline in West Africa.

http://www.todaysecho.com/exclusive/ondo-state-govt-to-build-road-linking-araromi-beach-to-ibeju-lekki/

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johnie:

Then we have the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka

Then a comedian becomes president of Ukraine.

johnie:
Saraki will never be president of Nigeria. This is his last bus stop.
He will end up as a "party leader" like Atiku and Tinubu!
Which party?
Watch this space!

Hmmm...

johnie:

Then the Peruvian ex-president shoots himself dead!

Then we have the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka

Mbediogu:
You people should stop laying on this forum. In what capacity did she do that? She was not educated, not a politician - just the wife of a catechist and market women leader who was conscripted to give the entourage a balanced look.
From being the first woman ever to drive a car (whose car? Even Bishops did not own cars then) I see her being pushed to level of national leader.
This is simply after effects of blues from the love of Fela's music, and I admit he played good music in his lifetime.

You are joking, right?


She was the first female student of the Abeokuta Girls’ Grammar School, a Christian missionary school founded in 1908.

She took her Preceptor’s Examination at the School and taught there until May 1919 when she was sponsored by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) to study in England.


She studied domestic sciences, education, French and music at Wincham Hall College.
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She returned to Nigeria after completing her studies in 1922 and taught at the Abeokuta Girls’ Grammar School from 1923 to 1924.

Her future husband, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti was an Anglican minister and the school’s principal at the time.

He later became the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) from 1931 to 1954, the first multi-ethnic and nationalist association in the country.

He was also a human rights activist; and both he and FRK worked to end colonialism in Nigeria.

She was known throughout her career as an educator and activist. She organized literacy classes for women in the 1920s and founded a nursery school in the 1930s.

In 1942, she founded the Abeokuta Ladies’ Club (ALC) for educated women involved in charitable work.

She also started the Social Welfare for Market Women club to help educate market women (the first adult education program for women in Nigeria).

Along with Eniola Soyinka (her sister-in-law and the mother of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka), she merged the ALC and the market women’s club to form the Egba or Abeokuta Women’s Union, which had a membership of over 20,000 women.

The core objective of the organisation was fighting against the arbitrary exercise of colonial power by the British-supported king of Egbaland, the imposition of taxes on women without granting them the right to vote and the attempt by the British to control markets run by women. Through this project, she also supported Nigeria’s independence movement.

She also oversaw the successful abolition of separate tax rates for women.

In 1953, the Egba Women’s Union became the Federation of Nigerian Women Societies, which subsequently formed an alliance with the Women’s International Democratic Federation and FRK was made World Vice-President in the same year.

She also received the national honor of membership in the Order of Nigeria in 1965.

The University of Ibadan bestowed upon her the honorary doctorate of laws in 1968.

In 1947, the Nigerian Union of Students led by her husband became the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), the party of the first Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe. She became a key member of the NCNC as a result of her close association with its roots and led the women’s wing of the party.

sparog:


Yes bro

Try to read about how other countries got their independence and you'll see.

fr3do, read about the Mau Mau.

johnie:




Why is it that no one in the delegation was obese?

Could it be the diet they lived on then?

A similar delegation today would likely comprise of obese people.

194? vs 201?

Emary:


Please, can you give the link to the original video? One of the men looks like my Grandfather but I would like to confirm it first.

The men in the delegation were Nnamdi Azikiwe, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr Abu Bakar Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe, Malam Bukar Dipcharima, Chief Nyong Essien and P M Kale.

Which one is your grandfather?

reality1010:
Thanks for putting things straight.The OP posted the woman's personal pictures saying she was the one that led d delegation to UK whereas it was a party delegation led by the party leader.Imagine hw ppl distort history.We need to be careful of some kind of ppl.

We should always seek reality as your monikers says.

I urge you to read my other posts on this thread.

There is a difference between facts and truth.

The video/picture is a fact of history but what is the truth behind it?

If many knew the truth, they would not engage in tribal chauvinism or bashing.

I think this is a big deal.
Congratulations to the staff and students of Unilag's Creative Arts Dept.

MetaPhysical:


Her popularity did not diminish in West, even past Independence. Study the Kuti's family history to understand how she became outspoken. They are Egbas and her husband was a Baptist Minister.

Abeokuta was a citadel of political and missionary pioneers. Madam Tinubu was also Egba and a model for Mrs Kuti.

In 1951 she ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the regional assembly as the candidate of the NCNC.

The NCNC rejected her bid for a second candidacy for the assembly in 1959 so she ran as an independent candidate which split the NCNC vote and ensured the opposing party’s victory. She was subsequently expelled from the NCNC and formed her own party, the Commoners’ People’s Party, which was disbanded a year later.

That marked her downward spiral in Nigerian politics.

She lost her relevance as a national political party leader and then allied with international bodies.

When she became world vice-president of the Women’s International Democratic Federation, her alliances with the East in the Cold War days (culminating in vists to China and USRR as well as winning the Lenin Peace Prize) made things worse as she was seen as a threat by the West.

It should also interest us that the 1947 delegation did not include anybody of the Hausa/Fulani stock.

It essentially comprised Zik, two yoruba men, and representatives of minorities- Women representative, a Kanuri man, an Ibibio man and a Cameroonian.

This is instructive in terms of the national and gender outlook of the NCNC, something only the NPN, PDP and lately the APC have able to achieve.

It was easy to bury ethnic differences when fighting the colonialists under the likes of Herbert Macaulay. Immediately independence was achieved. those differences became very obvious.

It is just like CPC, ACN and ANPP buried their differences to fight and defeat their common enemy - PDP - in 2015.

The differences became apparent once power was achieved, culminating in intra-party squabbles of national proportions.

Most political parties in Nigeria have had ethnic/sectional origins which always worked to their disadvantage eventually.

Unfortunately, NCNC lost that national outlook and became a regional party.

If FRK had maintained her popularity and leadership position in politics by the time the country became independent, Fela most likely would have ended up being a politician and not a musician.

It is no surprise he floated his own party in 1978.

johnie:

This was the NCNC delegation led by Azikiwe (Igbo) that visited London to protest the Richards Constitution of 1945, the two men, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin (Ijebu Yoruba) and Dr Abu Bakar Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe (Ilorin Yoruba), were members of the delegation. Others were Malam Bukar Dipcharima (Kanuri), Chief Nyong Essien (Ibibio), P M Kale (Bakweri Cameroonian), and Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Yoruba).


They were also relatively young then

She was 47

Zik was 43

Prince Obafemi Adedoyin was 35


Abubakar Olorun-Nimbe  was 39

Nyong Essien, probably the oldest, was 55

I find it amusing that the people accusing Awo have not once mentioned the intra-party squabble between Zik on one hand and Adedoyin and Olurunnimbe on the other hand.

These two were the principal actors in Zik's failure to clinch the central seat.

Adedoyin and Olorunnimbe (both members of the 1947 delegation in contention here) were eventually expelled from the NCNC.

Zik himself went back to the east to dislodge Chief Eyo Ita,. leader of government business in the east (but from a minority ethnic group and likely a protege of Chief Essien of the 1947 delegation).

This was majorly an intra-party affair that had national consequences.

The closest contemporary analogy is to blame Jonathan for Saraki's emergence as Senate President in 2015 when it was majorly an APC intra-party issue.

FRK was often in conflict with Azikiwe and the rest of the party leadership because she felt women were not as well-represented as men. She herself was eventually expelled from NCNC.

"There are no permanent friends is politics, only permanent interests" , so they say.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery to politicians, ethnic jingoists/chauvinists and religious bigots.

FRK (Funmi Ransome-Kuti) was selected to be on that delegation as a top member of NCNC, and also to represent the womenfolk.

Like the op (sarrki) said, maybe that's why Fela referred to her as "the only mother of this country" in Unknown Soldier.

Elemosho478:


All these revisionist and bullshit wouldn't change the fact that Treacherous Azikiwe betrayed Awolowo to joined the North and Igbo is the tribe of Slaves, losers, Cowards and Traitors they are guilty of whatever they accused Yoruba of and they are the biggest Hyprocrites in History, shameless tribe. May Azikiwe never know peace wherever he is

Is Oyeyemi. the author of the article in the second link, a revisionist too?

Elemosho478 and mandeyy, both of you should read:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/05/awo-stopped-zik-going-centre/

and


https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/oyeyemi/121602.html1

Mandeyy:
None of your links pointed to the fact that Fela's mother led Zik and others to London. In reality, it was Zik that led them to London.

My post was to clear the confusion about the delegation being of Yoruba kings and Zik.

It was an NCNC delegation selected from various parts of the country and not a Yoruba delegation.

Like I said earlier, I will not join the ethnic bashing tirade!

johnie:


My mistake.

I should have posted the link where I lifted the first part of my post verbatim:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/05/awo-stopped-zik-going-centre/

I will not be drawn into this tribal bashing thing.

Ironically, that link will probably fuel the tribal war further.

If only people would stop looking at things from their tribal prisms.

cc mandeyy

To balance the opinion in that link, readers are advised to also read this:

https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/oyeyemi/121602.html

archangel1:
elsewhere, I asked; who led who?

My mistake.

I should have posted the link where I lifted the first part of my post verbatim:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/05/awo-stopped-zik-going-centre/

I will not be drawn into this tribal bashing thing.

Ironically, that link will probably fuel the tribal war further.

If only people would stop looking at things from their tribal prisms.

cc mandeyy

This was the NCNC delegation led by Azikiwe (Igbo) that visited London to protest the Richards Constitution of 1945, the two men, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin (Ijebu Yoruba) and Dr Abu Bakar Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe (Ilorin Yoruba), were members of the delegation. Others were Malam Bukar Dipcharima (Kanuri), Chief Nyong Essien (Ibibio), P M Kale (Bakweri Cameroonian), and Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Yoruba).


They were also relatively young then

She was 47

Zik was 43

Prince Obafemi Adedoyin was 35


Abubakar Olorun-Nimbe  was 39

Nyong Essien, probably the oldest, was 55

sarrki:
The year 1947 when Olufunmilayo Kuti (Fela Mama) led an entourage of Yoruba Kings, Royals and Chiefs plus Nnamdi Azikwe to London on a major quest for independence from British colonial rule. Fela was right when he said "She is the only mother of Nigeria.

Why is it that no one in the delegation was obese?

Could it be the diet they lived on then?

A similar delegation today would likely comprise of obese people.

Beautiful!
How much is this per sq?

Yakubu is a transliteration/cognate of Jacob and James .