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Ikeja is the capital, the busiest Aitport is also here plus the street know for nightlife on the mainland, Malls, hotels...

Apapa is the port city of Lagos, all the ports are located in the axis..Apapa is just adjacent the Lagos Marina on the island, apapa si surrounded by the lagoons and creeks of Lagos...the roads used to be death and frustration traps but in recent times both the LASG & FG have been doing something to alleviate the situation

Going to the Island from the mainland for folks that live on the mainland and work on the Island is a journey of a thousand miles indeed...but Lagosians are kinda used to it...people wake up as early as 4 just to get to work as early as possible...Ikorodu Road is another connecting road usually taken

Famous third mainland bridge...the main connecting road to the Island from the mainland and vice versa

Someone asked on the other thread why most pictures of Lagos shows pictures mainly from about just 25% of Lagos, the island and Lekki axis, meanwhile the real Lagos where the Industries, seaports and Airport are located is the Mainland, it also has the largest Lg (Alimosho) in Nigeria....more than the population of some states in Nigeria.

The policy of the then western region government to develope greater Lagos away from the FG controlled Lagos (basically Lagos Island/ikoyi & VI) made them carve out industrial areas and GRA's on the mainland, reason why therr are no "GRA's" on the Island axis except the recent one "Abijo GRA" by the LASG.

Not forgetting the "ends" of Ikorodu/ Epe and Badagry..i present to y'all pictures of Lagos without the Island axis with brief summations too...enjoy.

Olumaeme:
Them no go show us all those slums oooo, Na una Sabi sha

You want to see slums abi, i'm sure there is another thread on nairaland that would satisfy your craving...the title of this one states clearly : Road construction and fly over in Epe.

9jakool:
Slow down there.
Badagry is originally Egun. That's why it's headed by the Akran. Most parts of Lagos is Yoruba was historically ruled by obas. Stop distorting facts.

You even had his time...the egub people are a sub group of the larger yoruba group, just like the ijebu's and ilaje...evun is not entirely a different tribe.

seguno2:
Do you know the IGR of Lagos from the huge population?
That is why they can do a little shine shine projects and steal a lot while most of the taxpayers remain mumus who gullibly praise them instead of asking serious questions.

Some of you will never see any thing good no matter what, a few shine shine projects, pls name these shine shine projects, a state that has the largest civil service after the FG and salaries are always paid on time, has to build and maintain the highest numbers of infrastructures...Abeg Oga, Oya ask the serious questions the "gullible" are not asking biko ?

I could do this for cars....but i would need more than 10 seconds sha since i can hold a car in my hands

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
LOL even the one find in Kaduna was carried there by EFCC, Even those money forfeited by Diezani too na EFCC plant the money for her account? I swear your likes will hardly have 3 square meal a day and wil be here supporting those that looted your commonwealth and can buy your entire generation with it..

You don't get sarcasm, we can't roll in real life !

Even before i opened this page, i knew it has to be one and Only Explorers...Thank you sir, everything you posts interests me.

MZLady39:
Oh my brother,

But what if....
You believed by faith--"the substance of things HOPED for, the evidence of things NOT seen", (HEB 11:1) and left it just like that
What if you didn't allow one ounce of doubt to creep in......
Now the question remains...are you ready....when the time comes for your journey to end on this Earth....

Typical of you lots, just quote some fabled text.. was hoping to provoke some thoughts and read other's opinions, it was intended to provoke thoughts.
Simple.

What if death was just a state of total unconsciousness & there isn't really any form of afterlife whatsoever (i.e heaven, hell, judgement day are just religious myths)

If that were the case though, it would be unfortunate for us because we will never find out.
#Thoughtsaloud


Share your thoughts if any.

nepapole:
English is not his mother tongue. Its only here in Nigeria we carry English matter for head like dreads.

You guys should stop this silliness pls, English isn't the official language in China or Japan, the least a University graduate can do is to express him/herself properly....later now he would also complain that there is no job, imagine him writing his application letter like this, do you think he would get a reply.

Except his truancy is adding to your own work load, i see no reason why this should bother you, do your job and mind your business bro....Bope Boya, HR will notice and do the needful.

This picture is about three years old though

vizkiz:
Only cowards take their own lives. Rip to the dead

You are ignorant of what level of depression one has to get to consider that whatever is next ie better than this life...get some enlightment on this topic.

RIP to the victim.

Yes , every one who commits suicide is a VICTIM.

peteregwu:
Abeg, Nigerians should just leave this pastor alone Na. Haba! Instead of tackling the government that is suffering the masses. Na pastors dem go dey look for. Rubbish! Weak Christians with their bad Belle. Have we ever seen Muslims speaking against their alfas and imams? Mtcheewww... .

Pls, Mention one Alfa/Imam that you know of that is in the mould of Entrepreneurs pastors first.

coolesmile:
No matter how hard life gets, always remember your loved ones before you act.

It doesn't matter to a chronically depressed person...it just doesn't...to them it would be better for everyone concerned for them to go...we have to enlighten ourselves mpre on this silent mental ilness..it kills slowly.

hobermener:
I just pity Christians in the north that voted in this govt cos they're obviously the most stupid set of humans to ever walk the earth. Some blood thirsty youths murdered a woman in kano and walked round the city with her beheaded head in their hands, they were apprehended by the police and went scot free, even threatening to do worse if given another opportunity, yet audu is being arrested over and over again for posting incitive comments on Facebook, by a governor whose incitive comments are littered over cyberspace!!
So much for northern hegemony!!!

Why do some of you like to make a bad situation worse, that woman was not beheaded, even her husband said it was a mob action by some animals and that she wasnt beheaded, and no they didn't parade the streets with a head they didn't cut off.
Anyways, back to the topic..Mr El rufai should release thIs guy or charge him to court , this is a civil matter and should not even get to this extent, El Rufai should rather wagr wars against his killer herdsmen.

Eke40seven:
It is unfortunate that these kind of pictures still makes it to front page of renowned forum like Nairaland! It only shows how backward we are as a society.

Not one iota of respect for even the uniformed man!

In a sane country, the family of the deceased will sue whoever published these pictures online.
I plead with Seun and the mods to apply caution in posting pictures of dead people and accident victims. It goes against every ethics of journalism or even against the norms of a civil society.
Many a time, these victims have families and loved ones and these gory pictures do not depict how they would want to be remembered by their loved ones.
Even victims who survive these accidents go through psychological trauma and have life long psychological scars, many never recover from the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Many go through nightmares.
Could you imagine a girl who had gone through great stress to make up and look good, then probably became a victim of an accident, do you think she would want the bloodied mess of her body to be on display everywhere on the internet?
Or may be a mourning mother who just recovered from the sad loss of a loved son on opening a Facebook page, incidentally got to see a religious post with the inscription against the picture of her son's body in a jelly of blood and tissues, "Type "Amen", if you don't want to be a victim of accident this year".
Sad sad! Please, Mods take note.

Why not do some work, look for the names and nice pictures of the victims and upload and still generate traffic instead of showing them online in this gory fashion?

CC: Seun, Lalasticlala

Thank you for taking the time to write this, it is something i always point out online till i felt i was shouting my self hoarse ...i mean, one can't post pictures of people making love , one of the most natural and pleasurable thing in this world vut no qualms showing beheaed/bloody gory pictures of dead bodies.

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. If you want better content than whatever goes on in Big Brother House, create it; if you can’t create it, propagate what someone else has created it. We are a country of some 170 million people; some of us cannot decide what the rest of us watch in our homes. Let people choose what they want to feed their eyes on. Until the Federal Government sets up the National Moral Police Force, the National Hypocrisy Commission must keep its cosmetic morality to itself.

On the issue of the show being hosted in South Africa, here is another misplaced anger. Where is our recuperating President currently being hosted? Where do private jet owners in Lagos prefer to park their jets due to the expensive cost of parking them in Lagos? Ghana! Where do our political thieves save their stolen money when not saving it andreyakubucally? Anywhere but Nigeria. Where do the rich send their kids for studies? The US, UK, UAE, Malaysia etc. Where do the not so rich Nigerians send their kids when they can’t afford private universities here? Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Sudan etc. Where do our fruits often come from? Benin Republic. If most Nigerians had a choice, where do you think they’d rather be? You know the answer. Let us stop pretending about our reality. Life in Nigeria is hard and tough, the more we pretend about the effects of this reality, the more we ask the wrong questions. Big Brother Naija will cost the organisers a lot more to host in Nigeria because they’d need an extra budget to power the house for starters and they’d need to move several hi-tech equipment over; they’d need to house the technical team in expensive hotels after finding it pretty tough to get them visas and while at that, they’d need to protect them from the now ubiquitous kidnappers.

Patriotism is a beautiful ideal and you cannot say President Buhari is not a patriotic man. But you see, when it comes to life and death issues, when it comes to making rational decisions like, “what kind of education do I want my children to get?”; “when it comes to ‘what’s the best holiday my money can afford?”, patriotism often takes a humble seat, because it knows enough to know that it is not built on a vacuum. It is built on a two way street; your country cannot ask patriotism of you if it does not even care enough whether you are dead or alive. Or do we now know the names of the thousands of people killed by Boko Haram? Do we have the names of all the citizens killed extrajudicially? Let us even start by protecting lives and property then go a step further by dignifying the dead whenever we fall short of protecting citizens.

One day, we can justifiably wonder how irrational a company can be; to leave Nigeria where it is much easier and cheaper to host a world class show, then take it to another country that offers less value at a more expensive price. Because you know what? Big Brother is not a charity show; it is a business. The winner gets N25m and an SUV. You can bet though, the organisers make at least that amount via the daily voting to keep housemates in the house. Then, do the numbers for the 11 or so weeks it gets to run for, do the numbers for the advertising and then the numbers for the partners. Why is no one asking why Big Brother Naija is hardly even a Nigerian idea. It is just a foreign idea being served to a Nigerian audience using Nigerian ingredients. We can do better as a country but we must start by deciding to get angry at the right things. And people.

This piece by J J Omojuwa was originally published in Punch newspaper of 01/03/2017. Republished here with permission.

The other day, the Director General, National Orientation Agency, Dr. Garba Abari, speaking, said: “A significant percentage of our younger ones will not even remember that Nigeria is the original name of our country” as he pushed for Nigerians to stop calling the country Naija.

I engaged Mr. Olateju Oyelakin, the ace comedian popularly known as Teju Baby Face, just before his interview with Garba, two weeks ago in Lagos. I wanted him to take up the DG on why the NOA acts like it is set up to propagate agendas in the interest of the party in power instead of a national agenda that defies the interests of whoever is president per time or whatever party is at the centre. Mike Omeri, the immediate past DG of NOA, ran the organisation like it was the media and propaganda arm of the last government. If the NOA is 90 per cent dead and irrelevant, Omeri, in my opinion, contributed 89 per cent of that. But the current DG, while seemingly now interested in an agenda that is about our collective interest has started off by missing the point completely. This is a big example in how to miss the point. Calling Nigeria Naija is not the issue.

Small Lesotho is defined as The Kingdom In The Sky; picture-esque Madagascar is also called The Red Island; Rwanda is called the Land of a Thousand Hills and South Africa is the Rainbow Nation. The United States is Uncle Sam; Chile is the land of Poets; Iceland is the Land of Fire and Ice; what is Nigeria? We do not know at the moment! Someone should tell Mr. DG that Nigeria will always be officially Nigeria, that it is okay to funkify it into “Naija” for cool points, that there is nothing wrong with that, because Naija is part of our identity now and our younger ones will not have issues remembering ‘Nigeria’ because the older ones know when to use Nigeria and when to use Naija. Or are the teachers in their schools now teaching them ‘How the British Colonised Naija’ now? Or the “Constitutional Development of Naija from 1914 to 1999” is a topic now? Please! Let us not try to justify the existence of the National Orientation Agency because really, it is free to die if it can’t find a reason for it to be funded.

Another recent Nigerian anomaly is the Big Brother Nigeria. Nigerians are asking tough questions about the reality show but we are mostly asking the wrong question as usual. We are complaining about the so-called immorality being espoused by the show as though whatever is being reflected in the show is not a telling reality in Nigeria. Or is it our usual, ‘it is okay to do bad, but at least keep it in the house’ mentality? The show is rated 18, it means that before you commit to watching it, you must know that there is a likelihood that there will be pictures and sounds that should not be fed children and teenagers. If you, an adult, then goes ahead to watch it, only to complain about immorality, sorry, you are a hypocrite. And it is impossible for your kids to feed on it consistently, if you, the parent or guardian is not also binging on it. Back at school, their friends with the abnormal liberty to watch anything on TV in their own homes can tell them stories about what went down but the chances of your kids seeing a lot of Big Brother Naija without you seeing a lot of it yourself is pretty low!

If you want to make change happen in a system, fighting against the prevailing reality is not your best bet. Life comes with contradictions; such that, the more you fight certain things, the more people want to indulge in it. To make change happen, you have to offer an alternate reality. Let people have a competing choice. I’d rather schoolchildren tune in to Cowbellpedia Mathematics Quiz competition instead of Big Brother. But if you as the parent continues to complain about the show you don’t want the children to see while completely ignoring the one you want them to see, you’d have made the un-preferred the popular. We shouldn’t always be about what we do not want.

flexshop:
I'm well versed in the chemistry of refining.
However setting up a refinery is a different ball game.

Like I said what the government can do is standardize the practice.

1. Get a data of the refiners
2. Merge them in groups to increase capability and capacity
3. Create a quota system in which a certain percentage of crude oil is sold to them at half the market price or less
4. Ensure the build refineries that are environmentally friendly
5. Invite foreign partners to educate then and enhance their technical skills
6. Have a standard for locally manufactured diesel.
7. Ensure that the business climate is conducive for them to sell the locally manufacture diesel eg 5% local diesel use law or something

There are a gazillion ways the government can think up to harness this and create entrepreneurs who might in the future drive our industrial revolution.

If only we had individuals with 1% brain capacity in government

May Sense to Krinkum Krankum sir, this is what i have bn preaching for a while now, all these folks that keep condemning this guys are the folks that are confined to the box, thinking out of the box is what we need to solve our peculiar situations...govt can come in anf help these guys, creates economic activities, teach them to standardise their operations in the modular form.

But some think there is only one way to do things, the one the white man says is right.

I know the economy is bad but so manh of y'all are really frustrated, even someone with half a brain would see she meant this as a joke....gosh..

May this economy pick up before somebody will kill another untop joke wey dem no get !

bignero:
ur very correct... it wasnt even a helicopter, it was a full fledged war plane, i saw it with ....for the doubters, the video de youtube

and i recall its was the same time south africa vowed to deal with nigera...and seized funds meant for arms acquisition...i supose it was some sort of military response to SAs threats....leave simpletons to keep on making noise

I hope this is sarcasm, if not......Wow !

Pls explain, how an hovering aircraft would bring down a building but first, hope your brain is not paining you.

No need for all these tribal bashings...
Yes, it is only normal for you to provide food for your guest and yes ...Yorubas for whatever reason do it well...igbos on the other hand organisparties to drink well...this is supported by empirical evidence

Depending on the one you care for, Each to hIs own



But yorubas are generally known for throwing the best gigs in town.

benueguy:
Devilish show. If Christian parents don't stand their grounds, I'm afraid this will be the last generation to know Christ.

So A tv show that barely last 3 months on tv and no one is forced to watch is powerful enough to stop generations from knowing your version of Christ.

Interesting !

The word "husband snatcher" must be the dumbest word out there..

Or is "husband" now a handbag that can be snatched..

All these kids on nairaland sef..