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joseph1832:
Then again those complaining about the traffic, weren't they informed before hand about the closed roads?

Many of them probably don't follow the media channels on which the announcement was made.

naptu2:
One of my American friends was complaining about something in the early 1990s and I thought that I understood what he was complaining about, but I didn't. Now I totally understand what he was complaining about.

His complaint was that there were too many TV stations in the US and that was creating "many Americas". He said that people usually watched the same channels when he was younger and that helped to create a cohesive society, but that now (early 1990s) most people do not watch the same channels.

Well this is quite true in Nigeria today. How?


Take this coronavirus issue as an example. Professor Akin Abayomi has been giving regular updates about the crisis and journalists have questioned him regularly, yet you see too many people (the masses) asking questions that have already been answered. Why? I'll tell you why.


These people that are asking these questions would have seen the answers if this was the 1980s, because those answers have been shown on the NTA and LTV and they've also been transmitted on Radio Nigeria and Radio Lagos. Unfortunately today, too many people depend on blogs like Linda Ikeji Blog and Instablog for their news. These outlets do not provide proper news. They only report sensational stories. So a lot of very important information is not carried by these outlets.

I often hear people say, why wasn't this publicised (for example, why wasn't the cashless policy on the bridge publicised)? and I wonder if they've been living under a rock. These things have usually been publicised for months in advance, but these people do not follow channels that provide important information about Nigeria.


I remember something that happened a very long time ago. I woke up very early in the morning and tuned the Hi-Fi system to the BBC. This was during a major international crisis and I was listening to the 6am News Hour while doing my morning chores. My dad was on the porch, watching the sunrise.

Then came 7am and the BBC pips and my dad shouted from the porch, "Will you tune that radio to Radio Nigeria! How can you be in a place and not know what's going on in that place!"

He was quite right. How can you be in a place and not know what's going on in that place? I tuned the radio to Radio Nigeria for the 7am news.

This is why I was shocked when satellite TV arrived in the 1980s and some of my friends boasted that they "do not watch Nigerian channels". What the hell does that mean??

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There have been massive traffic jams this morning as Lagosians suffer the effects of multiple road closures in the city.

Two of the three major bridges that connect the Island to the Mainland have been closed this morning. The Third Mainland Bridge is partially closed for repair works, the Eko Bridge has been closed because of the Lagos Women's Run and this has left Lagosians with the Carter Bridge as the only route to get from the Island to the Mainland.

To make matters worse, several roads on the Mainland have also been closed because of the railway modernisation programme.

The situation is also made worse by the absence of security and traffic officers on many streets in the metropolis since the End SARS riots.


Lagosians have taken to Twitter to complain about what they are suffering this morning.

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