Perhaps he is undergoing Jubrilisation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vibNjdbtaEM?si=Xyly3p7UBH-5liHe

Anyway, while Nigerians (that always call Nigeria Shithole and ask why is Nigeria not like Dubai) quibble over small Costal road that is one small step towards making Nigeria like Dubai, here's the World's First Jet Suit Race in Dubai to entertain you.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRol5tiXNdY?si=ZPK30mpC7a1I0dih

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRol5tiXNdY?si=ZPK30mpC7a1I0dih

Human Beings and cliches, clarion calls and sound bites! The new one for some people that we believe are all Nigerians, is "Unfinished Roads" as a greater priority than a new road. Never mind that what constitute developmental Priority in any nation is subjective and difficult to determine especially in developing nations. A convincing enough argument could be made for national security as Nigeria's most pressing priority. Even one that posit most projects in Nigeria should be suspended and investment ploughed into the Military and paramilitary architecture, including policing. I bet you the Priority champions would not like this. Their common sense and pragmatism would desert them.

I feel sorry for the Lagos Authorities.

Anyway, the current situation of Lagos's development plans ought at least to serve one lesson for all Nigeria state governors. It is this: Do Not Let Unplanned Activities Become Entrenched.

The unstated belief by authorities all over Nigeria concerning unplanned activities such as shanty towns, roadside shops, kiosks, unlicensed realtors , poorly regulated land laws, documentation, haphazard buildings, hawking, price gouging, open defecating, rules braking, public officials harassing, traffic laws flaunting, fly-tipping, railway line markets etc seems to be that of, 'we are third world, let us take it easy on our people because they are poor and unsophisticated. That, as we develop as a nation, things will evolve naturally and the right attitudes and outcomes will prevail'.

Well, Lagos's experience indicate that this will not happen. Lessons from Lagos instead shows us that when authorities overlook disorder and accommodate the unplanned survival activities of the masses, disorder will become Entrenched and evolve into Rights and state progress will become difficult if not almost an impossible task. In the name of advocating for citizens against the Nation/State, Human rights, civil society and a world more tightly connected due to information revolution will place huge obstacles in the path of your developmental plans.

CaptainFM1:
This is an example of what the journalist was asking the useless minister about EIA and he was talking down the lady in a condescending manner?

Today it's multichoice, tmrw it might be the fishing community.

Majority of those fishing off the coast of Lagos are Ghanaians. These are Nigeria waters, mind. In any case, a realtor YouTube vid I watched on beachfront properties, a while back, indirectly revealed this.

I've not read every post so far on this thread so maybe I'm too hasty - but I'm waiting to read text sent from some absurd Nigerian with the latest Apple I phone stating that, "at least Sudanese people can find grass & peanut shells to eat but in Nigeria we can't find even that to eat!"

There's no shortage of individuals on either side of the debate ready to inform you, backed by technical analysis, why Crypto is good, bad, cutting edge, face of the future, fraud, fantasy etc. Yet the rest of the masses are none the wiser about the technology and left to thire own understanding and faith. Hower, there's one or two things you should know and which may help you in some ways. It is this:

1) Governments generally wish to know as much as possible the identity and capacity of her citizens.

2) Governments - you may be surprised - do not want masses of wealthy people. This is because wealthy people pose more danger to society than poor people.

Africa happened to Nigeria!

Niger Republic is the primary guilty party here not Nigeria and certainly not decisions Tinubu is yet to make. By inviting Russians to Niger Republic, the junta in Niemy brought the leading embers of neo cold war to our doorstep!

The secondary guilty party are the very northern governors that are now warning Tinabu not to let America establish thire bases on Nigeria soil if America asks. They were chief among those that warned Tinabu as head of ECOWAs not to intervene to reinstate the overthrown "democratically " elected Niger regime.


Nigeria's only l backup may be China. Nigerians need to understand also that in worst case scenario Russia and America will connive with each other than with any of the West Africa nations. White people will never meaningfully battle each other over black people or black people's interest.

Arsenal pay tribute to Gunners fan Daniel Anjorin after the 14-year-old was murdered in a sword attack in east London


Anjorin, a boyhood Arsenal fan, was killed on Tuesday on a suburban east London street in Hainault while on his way to school. Four other people were injured during the incident.

In less than two days, 5,000 people donated to a fundraiser for the family and Arsenal decided to pay tribute to the youngster during their Premier League clash at Bournemouth.

The Gunners conducted a minute of applause after 14 minutes had been played at the Emirates stadium, with Bournemouth and the fans taking part too.

Ref: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13382401/amp/Arsenal-pay-tribute-Gunners-fan-Daniel-Anjorin-14-year-old-murdered-sword-attack-east-London-fans-taking-minutes-applause-Emirates.html

A Nigeria leader interested in the wellbeing of Nigeria may have no pragmatic choice than to consider accepting US military bases on Nigeria soil if America asks. This is because the moment Niger Republic invited Russia into Niger Republic, they exposed Nigeria to unacceptable dangers for which an American base on Nigeria soil becomes the lesser of several evils.

Evils:

1) The international affairs that conspired to draw Niger Republic and Russia together almost certainly will boost terrorism in Nigeria. Either because Russia will directly support Terrorism in Nigeria or indirectly cause an increase in terrorism in Nigeria by helping Niger Republic push them out of Niger Republic. Russia are more likely to do both.

2) If Nigeria snobs a US request to establish a military base in Nigeria, US will clandestinely assist terrorism in Nigeria.


Anyway I have a head full of all the possible permutations but I can't be bothered to put them down here....

Actually, it is arguable that no development in history that was eventually responsible for propelling human society forward was a priority at the time, from electricity, computers, internet, to space travel.

And historically the Western nations have often controlled and kept Africa backward by using the Prioritisation argument. For example, India had no business becoming a nuclear power when feeding thire poor masses and lifting millions from abject poverty was Priority at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clGvfCnbuRA?si=pa5ooQCXINE3nJit

Sooner Nigerians understand the often jealous, resentful nature of Africans towards Nigerians, the better. Nigeria needs to look inwards, integrate every inch of Nigeria before looking to join hands with the rest of Africa in any kind of economic and social integration. If Africa could help the West destroy Nigeria in any form they would jump at it.

I was amazed when on many of the Landmark Vs Coastal Highway threads, some Nigerians (actually I doubt they were Nigerians ) were boasting and encouraging investors to boycott Nigeria and go invest in other African nations instead.

Where's the UK Nigeria community?

Take a look at this derogatory, insensitive, inconsiderate head title by a mainstream UK newspaper. They actually labelled him Sword Lad!!!.

They probably laughed in Editorial when suggesting this to whoever gives the go-ahead before newspaper hit printing....

For a city like Lagos that is largely stark and concrete looking and could do with beautification and has a wet undesoil, Lagos is not exploiting the power of nature enough. For instance, Lagos could employ hedging beside roads to create awkward obstacles for people insistent on crossing roads en-masse. It's a cheaper, more elegant and desirable option to ugly industrial looking railings.

Stubborn people could climb over railings, cut and cart away parts in a way they are unable to with hedging. Both can be solutions were best fitting.

Certain hedging solutions species can attain huge heights and are ideal for the Nigeria weather and climate.

Learning from the West is good but we should not limit ourselves to only what the West does or innovated. We should not believe that our own ideas can't be good because the West didn't implement similar first. We Nigerians should be excited about creating aspects of urbanity that are unique to Nigeria. Being different should not worry us it should be something we strive for and embrace. As a new Nation with unestablished infrastructure, capable Nigerians in authority and positions of influence should not be frightened into inactivity by the ignorant masses.

Now, I'm sure if authorities in Lagos think for themselves , they will find ways of taming Lagos's unruly population, costs permitting.

The relevant political pressure groups need to rely less on that Ghana troll house. The kids there flooding Niraland and other Nigeria social media spaces with Igbo marginalisation sound bites are rather foolish. They let down and undermine the great intelligence for which Igbo people are renowned.

ElSudani:


You don't ride bicycles on highways. Not very save as speed limit ranges between 80 to 100km/hr. If you get hit at that speed the next thing you will see is the pearly gate.
Another reason is that most people don't travel interstate on bicycles.

Hmmm, I'm not sure your answer is watertight. Safety features can always be made in any prospective bicycle lane incorporated expressway. And if provisions for bicycles are made on expressways, there would be an increase of cyclists to patronise them. I suspect the best argument against bicycle lanes incorporated express ways is cost.


The video below is of a China bicycle highway. Bicycle highways in of themselves don't appear to be a new idea, since a few Scandinavian nations may be first to have created them but the one in China may be more relevant to our discussion since it seems the Chinese incorporated this one beside an expressway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FGNyiGKqlk?si=ovatyy2_fMQhe-ur

ElSudani:


Sidewalk and bicycle lane on a highway? Why can't some of you just ask if you don't know something?

Ok, make ah ask, why not bicycle lane ? And, " because it's not done abroad" will not be an acceptable answer.

I wonder if the highway could make it more difficult for SOME people to deal in illegal oil smuggling in Delta State.

Curious345:
Now you get it

I don't however believe you understood my meaning.

I was very much against any disruption of Landmark business by the coastal highway and very much in favour of the Transport Minister adhering to the former route. Due to this position, someone labelled me elitists. They drew reference to the fact that I was somewhat pleased by the demolition of that Bola Ige Estate, which I thought of as an eyesore. They accused me of showing no concern for the poor but ready to fight for the Landmark beach resort because it was eye candy and playground for the rich and foreigners.

...they asked what or how would those people that lost their homes feel if government had made allowances for Landmark's beach attraction but ignored their much greater needs when they wept and begged.

Curious345:
Landmark alone is entitled to over N350b

. $200m x ₦1,288= ₦257. 6b

Then add 37% of ₦257.6b to compensate for interest on loans obtained..

~~~₦257.6 + ₦95.312b = ₦352.912b is what tinubu should pay landmark ltd

In terms of the compensating aspect not the amount you declared, what Land Mark infrastructure do you believe government should compensate? Take into consideration government owns the part of the beach being worked on. Government doesn't seem to have demolished any part of Landmark owned infrastructure or at least any financially significant portion of it. Or are you refering to potential lost earning due to disruption caused by construction work in front of the wining and dining areas and or loss of the beach as an attraction to the business?

Positive Nigeria content used to be Tayo Aina's bread and butter untill he discovered the power of portraying Nigeria negatively. Nigeria still feeds him but from the de-marketing of Nigeria perspective. If you're a Nigerian or black person, there is an entire world of Africans out there waiting to embrace, love and support you if you specialise in disrespecting and insulting Nigeria. This is however gradually changing as Nigeria slowly surmounts all the pushback and obstacles that comes from being a dynamic black nation on a planet that very much fights this.


Tayo has a superficially likable quality. He reminds me of those individuals that you get to really like but in time you begin to see that they lack the debt of character worthy of investment. The type that wouldn't be reliable friends when you most need them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVhL8nJRI0?si=YfPelmgPMKu36CJy

frugal:
The police tasered him. Would have been shot multiple times if he was black.

Seems as if people stood by filming with mobile phones while he was being killed.

A 14-year-old boy killed in the London sword attack did not hear a warning about the assailant because he was wearing headphones, a neighbour has claimed.

Details of the horror in Hainault yesterday continued to emerge this morning as it was also revealed that the boy - named locally as Daniel Anjorin – attended the same school where Nottingham stabbing victim Grace O'Malley-Kumar was a pupil.

Daniel went to the £24,990-a-year Bancroft's private school in Woodford Green, where Miss O'Malley-Kumar - who was killed last June - was also a former student.


The chaos in Hainault saw a man armed with a sword go on the rampage, killing Daniel and injuring two other members of the public as well as two police officers.

Neighbours recalling the scenes yesterday morning said the attacker first spoke to a woman, asking her to confirm his location, before she saw the weapon and fled. She tried to warn Daniel, who is said to be a Nigerian boy, but it was too late.

Witness Aiste Dabasinskaaite told ITV of the moment she saw a man fatally stab the teenager. She said the man asked her for the address of the area they were in, then put his foot on her foot so she 'couldn't back off'.

She said: 'Once I told the address, he sort of moved closer towards me, he put his foot on my foot so I couldn't back off and then that's when he like drew out the sword. It was arm's length. It was honestly petrifying. I just ran down the road, I didn't even look back to see if he was chasing me.'

Ms Dabasinskaaite said she tried to warn the teenager, adding: 'My instinct was to shout and wave at him, which is what me and another neighbour did but because he had just his headphones on I don't think he heard either of us.

'It was sort of a moment where we just went from shouting to just blankness, just felt empty. You wouldn't think that would happen on your doorstep, you know.'


Daniel's mother works at Holy Family Catholic School, which published a statement on its website addressed to parents and carers that said: 'It is with great sadness that I share with you the news of the death of the child of one of our staff members.

Mrs Anjorin's son was taken from this life suddenly this morning on his way to school. Please keep Mrs Anjorin, her husband and their other children in your prayers.'

The O'Malley-Kumar family are from Woodford Green, which is about three miles away from Hainault, and offered their support to the Anjorin family today.

Speaking on ITV'S Good Morning Britain (GMB) today, Miss O'Malley-Kumar's parents Sinead O'Malley and Dr Sanjoy Kumar offered to meet the boy's family and said they 'empathised' with them following yesterday's attack.

It had chilling echoes of their daughter's murder 11 months ago – with both incidents seeing suspects go on a knife-wielding rampage and crash a van, before being tasered by police and arrested.

Mrs O'Malley said: 'I don't think there's anything that anybody can say to alleviate their heart and their pain so we wouldn't try to minimise that, but all we can do is empathise and hope they will heal with time.'


Her daughter was repeatedly stabbed to death after she came to the aid of her friend Barnaby Webber, also 19, instead of fleeing the scene.

Dr Kumar told GMB: 'It seems every day something like this is reported in the press. It's absolutely appalling, you can't even imagine what the parents are going through. This is the most difficult thing for any parent to endure.


Miss Kumar, an England under-18s hockey player and University of Nottingham student, died a hero as she bravely tried to fight off Valdo Calocane, 32, during a city-wide rampage in Nottingham on June 13 last year.

Caretaker Ian Coates, 65, was fatally stabbed by Calocane and left for dead.

Calocane was sentenced to detention in a high-security hospital after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

But there will be a hearing on May 8 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for a sentencing review.

Miss Kumar's 'astonishing bravery' was recognised during a previous court hearing in which Dr Kumar praised his daughter as a hero who shunned the opportunity to run away.

MPs and senior police officers have called for her to posthumously be given the George Cross - the highest civilian award for acts of 'the greatest heroism or of the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger

Her parents both support the call and told GMB they were 'humbled' by the suggestion she should be recognised for her bravery.

Also today, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said a female police officer suffered 'horrifically serious' arm injuries in the Hainault attack.

He told LBC that the officer had undergone several hours of surgery yesterday and faces 'a long journey of recovery' after nearly losing her hand.


He said: 'The surgeon spent many, many hours basically putting her arm back together.'

A male officer also suffered serious hand injuries and is recovering in hospital.

Speaking about the victim, Sir Mark said: 'The first thing you have to say is for the parents involved, who've lost their 14-year-old, that is just horrific, and it's everyone's worst nightmare. I'm sure we're all thinking about them.'

Terrified residents hid as the swordsman climbed over garden fences, before police managed to Taser and arrest him.

The 36-year-old suspect remains in hospital after being injured when he crashed his van into a house.

Chief Superintendent Stuart Bell, of the Metropolitan Police, said he did not believe it was a targeted attack, and it is not believed to be terror-related.

Teenage boy killed in London sword attack
By Reuters



LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy was killed and four other people were injured after a stabbing in London on Tuesday involving a man with a sword.
Police said they did not believe the incident was terrorism-related and there was no ongoing threat to the wider community.
Police tasered and arrested the man after the incident near Hainault in east London. Video footage showed a man wielding what appeared to be a sword.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-police-arrest-sword-wielding-man-after-reports-stabbing-2024-04-30/

Nigeria is a very wealthy Nation. Poverty stricken people aren't going to complain about cushy train chairs, the width of railway tracks of the efficacy of coastal highways versus beach front retreats....