Redmosquito: [b]lemme say me own
It was my mum that taught me how to drive! Chai! The experience was horrible!
See shouting and commanding and fearful screaming
When on the streets, she will be shouting
"See dat small child oooo!!! See Goat!! See chicken!! See turkey!! See frog!! See toad!! See this and that!! Press horn! Press HOrn!! I say press horn!!" I'm like WHy? THey aint blnd, they can see the close to 6 feet car coming!
"Gazatte ur leg!! Gazette ur leg!!" I was like WTF is Gazette? Naija women heh!
And there are times when she thinks I'm just plain stupid
"Haaa!! See GUtter oooo!! See pit oooo!!! Haaa! Turn ur hand! Turn ur HAND!"
These kind of screamings would drive me insane! I'm like STFU! I'm not blind! I can see the gutter
Or she start shouting
"U are gong too fast!! Press brake!"

This is the funniest thing I have ever read or heard this year. Regards to mummy.
Then later she'll be like
"Are we gonna sleep on the road!"
Mwhn! To teach my wife (when I have one) to drive, e no go easy a swear, but it will sure do some good![/b]

fyneguy:

I hope you know the difference between a GRANT and a LOAN. Lagos state govt will still pay back the loan from its revenue spread over some years. Do you understand now? The loan only gives bulk money and is paid back with convenience.

Parddie: I hold the opinion that most people do not read nor get a hang of the issue before commenting on this forum. There is nothing absolutely wrong with this design and the rail tracks covered the whole of Lagos. I think most people still have their okada mentality, where they expect even a train to take them to their door step or they are still mistaking train coaches for cars, since they most likely haven't seen one before. For my over bloated ego V.I people, you will take the green line and change to the red line coaches at the terminus at marina for your final trip to your ldear and lovely warehouses called airports where you will board your life threatening flights in your ill maintained aircrafts. Tell me as planned as Abuja is, is there anything close to what this man is doing? This man is transforming one of the most densely populated and unplanned land mass in the world. This is the most difficult job for even the best urban town planner in the world, yet this is being done in a world class fashion and and as a model for even the developed world, give credit to what is right and to who ever deserves it. Tell me any government in Nigeria, including the federal government, that provides world class 21st century solution to a century old accumulated challenges like the Lagos state government. This guy solves problem the way it will be solved in newyork,moscow, Beijing, carlifornia or hong kong. This should be an educative and informative forum, where facts are discussed and not an avenue for emotional outburst or expression. Rest my case .

jidegirl12: Who changed the Title? NL I hail thee

AG.gal:
I hate posts lyk dis,cos no matter how rich u are u wont get my luv if ure ugly,i cnt even luk at d face n smile. Besides,nice house

mapet: ... O boy, I tot I was the only one o. I lived in Ikorodu for 8 terrible years, traffic wise. Got to a time I took it for granted (Ikorodu -Ketu/Ojota) 4 times I had Okada Accident and all 4 I was miraculously saved, till I stopped and started planning my trips (leave home 5.30am on any day and return past 11 @ night. I remember one I had an Okada accident, If you say the diary I used to break my fall, you'll thank God for my life....

bilms: @ade,he be like say u sick but no medical attention. How all the agency u mentioned take concern the masses? How has it make life better? Abeg go sit down jor. U don forget how many committee gej don creat?

HNosegbe: I disagree, sir.

We cannot succeed with a constitution that promotes waste and duplication of roles by insisting that ministers MUST be drawn from EVERY state in the country.

We cannot succeed with a constitution that demands appointments based on federal character/zoning and sacrifices merit and competence.

We cannot succeed with a constitution that insists on sharing ALL revenue among three tiers of government, without providing for a national pool of savings.

We cannot succeed with a constitution that gives excessive powers to Abuja and deliberately weakens the states in the name of "national unity".

We cannot succeed with a flawed bicameral legislature with over-paid senators and dishonourable reps members.

We cannot succeed with a constitution that actively promotes "feeding bottle federalism" by sharing oil money at Abuja every month.

We cannot succeed with a constitution that excludes youth from participating in the political process by setting minimum age requirements for contesting for elective office.

We cannot succeed with a constitution that deliberately weakens local governments (the most IMPORTANT tier of government) by failing to guarantee their independence.

We cannot succeed with a
constitution that begins with a lie. "We the people"... Which people? When and where did "we the people" draft a constitution?

Drafting a NEW constitution by means of a TRULY sovereign national conference is an indispensable step toward engendering a true sense of nationhood, the absence of which is responsible for Nigeria remaining a "geographical expression" (apologies to Metternich and Awolowo).

P.S: I'm not denying the importance of attitudinal change.

Symphony007: that was quite a lovely write up but ridden with massive loopholes. You claim 70% of lagos has good roads? Why does victoria island, home to many multinationals get flooded at the slightest rain fall? I guess you've forgotten so soon the rainfall of about a year ago when lagos was almost submerged in water and due to the choas the govt. Had to declare a public holiday the following day. Also you i never said lagos did'nt have an educated work force they do. But it's low. And most of them unqualified. Your corporate tax explanation was just all over the place because i need u to explain to me why a city like abia will have the same tax rate as lagos, abuja or port harcourt. Lastly you did'nt address the tout tax collectors who are killing small buisnesses all over the city of lagos.

Symphony007: thank you for the lecture on lagos being the great driver of the private sector in nigeria. As a lover of economic like myself you'll know that buisnesses need an enabling environment, where is it? Is it the bad roads, or the traffic? Or the uneducated work force? Massive insecurity? They need low taxes. Do u know lagos corporate tax rate? Small buisness need tax relief but i watched a documentary of the bbc that you say is "advertising lagos to the world" were an touts and their groups roam around lagos collecting "tax" for the "goverment"..and the bbc anchor was taken to their houses and shown their expensive cars and one even showed him his imported italian shoes. The anchor was visibly shocked that touts could collect and spend government taxes and questioned if what they were doing was legal and the governour was aware with a laugh they invited to anchor to accompany them the following weel to alausa for a courtesy visit on the governour. And truely they met the governour. After the meeting the touts left in their hummers to a secluded part of lagos where they met up with a musician called pasuma and together they partied and threw money at a crowd gathered around them..the bbc anchor was shocked, i was appalled and i'm sure your international investors will be dying to invest in eko!!! Eko oni baje o!

Symphony007: When one challenges the massive waste of money on parties and canivals they say it's for tourism so wonder how many people around the world or even nigeria will park their bags and say "gee..i'm heading to the most traffic congested city in africa for some senseless carnival".