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jude33084: ...Then put who na?

Kolade9: Later hin go dey crack poverty jokes........person wey poverty hold dey wear suit/snap pic?

BosaLin Onye UtaLi aka Utalinator drops two new songs; “Nwanne” featuring Igbo Rap Pioneer, Mr Raw (Formerly known as Nigga Raw) and “Sexy Die” featuring Dialect of “Jangulova” fame.

“Nwanne” is a wake up cry with conscious lyrics from both rappers while “Sexy Die” is a more commercial song for the ladies.

Bosalin has renewed my belief in “Igbo rap”! He’s definitely an Indigenous act to keep an eye on.

afam4eva: Yes, he can anchor the Ogbomoso center of CNN

johnie: In the seventies, only the Carter(First) and Eko (Second) Bridges linked the Island with the mainland.

Carter bridge was constructed by the colonial government while the military ( I believe Gowon) built the Eko Bridge.

The odd and even number concept was adopted to reduce vehicular movement in the seventies. Odd-number vehicles could ply the major roads on particular days and even-number cars on other days. Ojuelegba and Yaba were two major bottlenecks I remember in those days. Fela's song Ojuelegba , was about the regular confusion at the place. Whenever we we were going to school and climb the overhead bridge at Jibowu (from where we could clearly see the traffic situation at Yaba at a vantage position), my dad would remark Yaba O wo loni o! - meaning Yaba is messed up today.

In those days, people such as my parents had two have two cars -one even and the other odd numbered. My dad still advises me today to ensure that my cars are evenly spread between odd and even - just in case the number regime returns!


The Third Mainland Bridge was constructed by the Babangida government and was actually named after him (Ibrahim Babangida Boulevard) on completion. That name did not stick particularly because of the June 12 Saga which shortly followed the opening of the bridge. In the first phase of the project, Adeniji to Adekunle was done and open to traffic. When completed, the Adekunle-Oworo section of the bridge was not open to traffic for about six months.

Before the Adekunle-Oworo section was opened I was worked variously at Lagos Island and VI and would have to go through Adekunle to join Ikorodu road. That stretch from the Third Mainland Bride through Herbert Macaulay was hell. The traffic used to be very bad. Thank God that in those days, the incidence of robbery in the traffic hadn't started (at least I neither experienced nor heard of it).

That's how we used to "cope" then.