₦airaland Forum

ZACHIE: Q: If both the U.S. national anthem and the national anthem of a foreign country were being played at an event (in the United States), which one would be played first?

A: Traditionally, as a courtesy, the foreign anthem is played first.

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El Caballa: pls prof.,is Bill Clinton on a state function?

jmaine: Thanks Naptu . . . . . . You did well to illuminate few minds here . . . .

jackbauersballs: I am delighted to read that the American Anthem was finally Dropped!

Ise ya

Ise ya

Omo Ogun Ise ya!

Fvck you Clinto-ris.

Mad Cow: The attitude of the Yorubas towards Ndi Igbo is not the least bit surprising!

I agree that the Igbos plying their trade in ANYWHERE need to get their shiit together. I mean seriously, we cant do business like animals with zero regards for our surroundings.. (e.g Onitsha markets, Ariaria & co.), but the methodology employed by the Lagos State government is antagonistic at best. Let us also not forget that these people do pay their taxes to both the Federal, State, Local governments and other levies placed on them by other government agencies and even ALAYES & OPC. The government seems to be placing all the responsibility squarely on the traders and forgeting that they also have their role to play. I wonder why Molues that are also an Environmental and road harzard has not been harrassed like this. What about the Abatoirs that have zero health standards that litter Lagos.

LASG needs to be careful with their actions.. You can only jerk a people around for so long.

if the flag of a State and the National Flag are to be flown at the same time in a public place in that State or elsewhere in Nigeria, the National Flag of at least the same size as the State flag shall fly above that of any State flag.

Jakumo: Lagos is infested with "pole monkeys" who in the past would shimmy up the poles of city street lights, one after the other, in order to harvest the fixtures for re-sale at Alaba International Market, Africa's one-stop shopping venue for all things electrical and stolen.

ebyoneluv:
Lagos state(public) funds was deployed by Jakande to build the Lekki expressway, LCC resurfaced and ask us to pay for what they did not build, i pay tax of over five digits to Lagos state every year, the alternative route is a stoned paved road that leads me back to where i am coming from, obviously you are the one spreading lies and it`s political sychophants like you that is giving ACN a false sense of confidence in a state they are loosing.
Lagos state(public) was deployed by Jakande to build the Lekki expressway, LCC resurfaced and ask me to pay for what they did not build, i pay tax of over five digits to Lagos state every year, they alaternative route a stoned paved road that leads me back to where i am coming from, obviously you are the one spreading lies and it`s political sychophants like you that is giving ACN a false sense of confidence in a state they are loosing.

[size=14pt]Lagos govt shuts down Ladipo market over sanitation offence[/size]

February 25, 2013 | 10:19 pm

By OLASUNKANMI AKONI, BOSE ADELAJA, MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO & DONALD ARJI

…Arrests 10 armed bandits, recovers dangerous weapons

LAGOS—LAGOS State Government Monday made good its threat to shut down the popular auto spare parts market, Ladipo in Mushin area of the state for allegedly contravening the State Sanitation law, paralysing business activities of traders among other users of the market.


Arrest and recovery of weapons

During the exercise the taskforce claimed 10 suspected armed bandits were arrested from a section of the  market. The taskforce said they included five hoodlums who initially prevented the taskforce from carrying out the operation.

However, Vanguard gathered that those arrested were members of the proscribed “Bakassi Boys”  put in place by the union to provide security and check other criminal activities in the market.

One of the suspects, Samson Apeh said: “We are not  criminals. We are security guards employed by the President of the market union. All we do here is to protect the goods of the traders. The machetes and other arms found with us are security equipment used for protecting the stalls from thieves who always attack the market at the close of the day.”


Commissioner’s visit, warning

Before the closure, Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, had visited the market and decried the wanton degradation of the environment including filthiness of the area, warning that if nothing was done, the market would be shut.

However, the traders were said to have taken government’s threat lightly and did nothing to remedy the situation until officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed the market to shut it.

Before the closure, it was gathered that trading activities usually took place on the streets without regard to the law against such activities.

Also, shops, attachments, were built around the market/canals while abandoned vehicles parked within the market, indiscriminately.


Task force

Vanguard gathered that as early as 4a.m., hundreds of  armed taskforce officials led by its Chairman, Chief Superintendent of Police, Bayo Suleiman, stormed the market and shut it down having dispersed the traders.

An Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, was stationed at the Toyota end of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway, while the area was barricaded, although some of the traders claimed they were caught unawares.


Issues wrong with the market

Taskforce Chairman, Suleiman, claimed that there were several issues wrong in the market, ranging from hooliganism, lack of toilet facilities, degradation of the environment with diesel among others.

He said: “The state government had issued several warnings to the traders without result and their action had posed serious threat to the environment. The Commissioner for the Environment has visited this place and advised the traders  accordingly, but nothing was done. We came here two weeks ago, but the officials of the market did not show up. There was serious trading going on in the streets and there were lots of shanties here. We shall make sure that this time around, proper sanitation is done by the traders before the market will be re-opened and they have to submit to the chairman of Mushin Local Government.”

On when the market will be re-opened, Suleiman said: ’’I have no authority to disclose when it will be re-opened but I am sure the traders know what is expected of them.’’

[size=14pt]Lagos govt shuts down Ladipo market over sanitation offence[/size]

February 25, 2013 | 10:19 pm

By OLASUNKANMI AKONI, BOSE ADELAJA, MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO & DONALD ARJI

…Arrests 10 armed bandits, recovers dangerous weapons

LAGOS—LAGOS State Government Monday made good its threat to shut down the popular auto spare parts market, Ladipo in Mushin area of the state for allegedly contravening the State Sanitation law, paralysing business activities of traders among other users of the market.


Arrest and recovery of weapons

During the exercise the taskforce claimed 10 suspected armed bandits were arrested from a section of the  market. The taskforce said they included five hoodlums who initially prevented the taskforce from carrying out the operation.

However, Vanguard gathered that those arrested were members of the proscribed “Bakassi Boys”  put in place by the union to provide security and check other criminal activities in the market.

One of the suspects, Samson Apeh said: “We are not  criminals. We are security guards employed by the President of the market union. All we do here is to protect the goods of the traders. The machetes and other arms found with us are security equipment used for protecting the stalls from thieves who always attack the market at the close of the day.”


Commissioner’s visit, warning

Before the closure, Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, had visited the market and decried the wanton degradation of the environment including filthiness of the area, warning that if nothing was done, the market would be shut.

However, the traders were said to have taken government’s threat lightly and did nothing to remedy the situation until officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed the market to shut it.

Before the closure, it was gathered that trading activities usually took place on the streets without regard to the law against such activities.

Also, shops, attachments, were built around the market/canals while abandoned vehicles parked within the market, indiscriminately.


Task force

Vanguard gathered that as early as 4a.m., hundreds of  armed taskforce officials led by its Chairman, Chief Superintendent of Police, Bayo Suleiman, stormed the market and shut it down having dispersed the traders.

An Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, was stationed at the Toyota end of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway, while the area was barricaded, although some of the traders claimed they were caught unawares.


Issues wrong with the market

Taskforce Chairman, Suleiman, claimed that there were several issues wrong in the market, ranging from hooliganism, lack of toilet facilities, degradation of the environment with diesel among others.

He said: “The state government had issued several warnings to the traders without result and their action had posed serious threat to the environment. The Commissioner for the Environment has visited this place and advised the traders  accordingly, but nothing was done. We came here two weeks ago, but the officials of the market did not show up. There was serious trading going on in the streets and there were lots of shanties here. We shall make sure that this time around, proper sanitation is done by the traders before the market will be re-opened and they have to submit to the chairman of Mushin Local Government.”

On when the market will be re-opened, Suleiman said: ’’I have no authority to disclose when it will be re-opened but I am sure the traders know what is expected of them.’’

[size=14pt]Lagos shuts Ladipo Market, seizes charms and dangerous weapons[/size]

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The Lagos State Government today shut the popular auto spare parts market, Ladipo Market in Mushin area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Ten suspected Bakassi boys were also arrested during the closure of the market. Dangerous weapons and charms were also confiscated during the raid.

Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed the market as early as 4.00a.m  and shut it because it was filthy.

Last week, the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello visited the market and decried the wanton degradation of the environment and filthiness of the area and warned that if nothing was done, the market would be shut.  The traders took government’s threat lightly and did nothing to remedy the situation.

Hundreds of fully armed taskforce officials  led by its Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, a Chief Superintendent of Police besieged the market and shut it down, with thousands of traders shut out.

The traders were dispersed by taskforce officials with several canisters of teargas.

An Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, was stationed at the Toyota end of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway while the area was barricaded.

The traders said they were caught unawares as they never expected the market to be shut.

A trader, who craved anonymity said, “we don’t like the closure. It will bring suffering to us. We came in this morning and met our market shut and the police stopped us from entering. No notice was given to us and what are we going to do now?”

Another trader, Uche said he did not expect the market to be shut, while another trader, Nduibuisi appealed to government to re-open the market as the traders would lose lots of money.

Taskforce Chairman, Sulaiman said the state government had lots of issues with the market, ranging from hooliganism, lack of toilet facilities, degradation of the environment with diesel and fuel as well as traders in the market turning themselves to another government.

“We came here two weeks ago, but the officials of the market did not show up. There is serious trading going on in the streets and there are lots of shanties here. We will make sure that this time around, proper sanitation is done by the traders before this market will be re-opened and they have to submit to the chairman of Mushin Local Government,” he stated.

Chairman, Mushin Local Government, Olatunde Adepitan described the closure of the market as a welcome development and long overdue, saying this is the only way forward for the Local Government.

“The hooliganism here has gone out of control. These people have turned themselves to another government. When you interfere in their matters here, they will tribalise the issue and that is why as a government we take things easy so that it will not escalate into a tribal issue.

“There is need to sanitise this place. The people here look at themselves as the Niger Delta of Mushin Local Government.

“We will liaise with the taskforce officials to ensure that before re-opening this market, registration forms will be given to the people so that we can know who is who and those who are trading here because inside the Aguiyi Ironsi Market here, there are criminals. There are arms right in the market and there are Bakassi Boys living inside this market,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner for the Environment, Bello, said he ordered the closure of Ladipo Market after several meetings and warnings with the market leadership and traders about the deteriorating state of the market.

“The environment is seriously polluted and degraded with oil;  full and half engines, spare parts and human waste are dumped into surrounding canals while illegal structures are built along drainage paths and all the canal setbacks have been turned to shops and trading points.

“A visit to the place also shows that street traders have taken over the entire major inlets and outlets to the market, while residents have severally petitioned the Ministry of the Environment about lack of access to their homes and property. These traders have degraded all the major access roads to the market which need remediation and rehabilitation,” he said.

According to Bello, some of the conditions that might warrant re-opening of the market include: complete removal of all illegal structures and attached structures built along canal paths and that traders must be confined to the main markets.

“Under no condition must they trade or solicit for customers on the main road. They must remove all shops attachments built around the market/canals, remove all derelict and abandoned vehicles parked within the market as far as the expressway, remediate all forms of degradation on the roads and market area, sort out waste management issues with LAWMA as they cannot continue to dump into the canals, ensure total cleaning of the entire market and adjoining streets which they have degraded, among others.”

[size=14pt]THUGGERY: Lagos Police Boss Summons Ladipo Market Leader[/size]

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, has summoned leaders of Ladipo Market traders at Mushin to the police headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, over threat to life and insecurity in the market and its environs.

The leaders were summoned to appear before Manko on Friday to explain the various reports about thuggery and threat to the lives of some traders and residents.

P.M.NEWS gathered that an invitation letter was delivered at the office of the central body called Ladipo Auto Central Executive Committee, LACEC.

The invitation has to do with the total break down of law and order in the market due to thuggery.

P.M.NEWS gathered that the market has been turned into a jungle where all sorts of crimes such as thuggery and drug dealings are allegedly committed.

Armed thugs have taken over the market and customers who go to the market are robbed of their possessions, yet the leaders are not doing anything about it.

Mushin Local Government Chairman, Mr. Babatunde Adepitan, noted in the presence of protesting traders over armed thugs in the market earlier this week that he was aware that armed thugs are in the market and he was doing everything possible to clean up the place.

The invitation also followed complaints by the residents in Papa Ajao area of Mushin who claimed that there are security challenges in the area and in the market both in the day and at night.

P.M.NEWS investigation revealed that there are about 36 unions that make up LACEC, and those unions have deployed their thugs called task force that unleash terror on both customers, traders and residents.

A trader told P.M.NEWS to come to Ladipo market around 7 pm and see how the market has been taken over by miscrants.

When P.M.NEWS contacted the market president, Mr Ikechukwu Animalu, he comfirmed the police boss’ invitation and noted that there are miscreants in the market but added that market leaders are battling to get rid of them.


The market has been facing crises over leadership tussle.The tussle led to the hiring of thugs who have compromised the security of the market.

lukkie: I went to the market recently and took these pictures while waiting for the guy to source some parts. Note that this is just a small section of the market.

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