A guy realised that there were no car spotters on the Mainland, so he decided to become the first car spotter there. In his case he was spotting regular cars.
OlujobaSamuel: What is Nigerian English in Car Spotting, just a simple Google or online check will tell you it's not a Nigerian Invention, and even if it is, words are formed by people not from heaven, so Nigerians can form the word. Selfie just entered dictionary few years back
Don't take him seriously, the guy is just trolling.
Personally, I'm against this as I see it as joblessness but the Deputy Gov can't design and pass a law over the radio. The closest crime that can be accused of is trying to disturb public peace which is highly debatable. It's either a law is passed by the Lagos state house of assembly which will criminalize it on state roads (won't even affect FG roads), amend existing laws. As it is, there's no law that stops citizens recording in public.
Those people violate multiple existing laws and that often makes me smile when I see their videos. I knew that a day would come when the LASG would begin applying the laws. The fines are up to ₦50,000.
Hint: check the Lagos State Environmental Protection and Management Law (2017) and the Lagos State Road Traffic Law (2018) and then look at the things that are near where the car spotters are standing.
Also remember that the commissioner is a lawyer and he knows exactly what he's talking about.
This guy started it and very many people have copied him. I believe he is the person that Pastor Adefarasin pulled a stun gun on. You'll see many of them at the Alexander Avenue and Admiralty Way Roundabouts. This is a rather tame video, he is usually more aggressive. He could follow the car round the roundabout while shouting the person's name and his numerous slogans. He would cross the road, walk in front of traffic, etc.
I get the feeling that they were talking about two separate things.
Once upon a time, years ago, Lagos State governorship candidates often appeared on Jimmy Disu's show (when it was on Classic FM) and I often created posts and threads about it.
I haven't really listened to the show since it moved from Classic FM to Nigeria Info FM.
Anyway, Dr Obafemi Hamzat was on the show a few days ago. He is the current Lagos State deputy governor and governorship candidate of the APC.
Jimmy Disu said that he hopes that Dr Hamzat will use his influence to stop the nonsense that happens at the Roundabout near Dr Hamzat's house in Lekki where people stop luxury cars.
The deputy governor's official residence is on Gerard Road and it's just down the road from the Alexander Avenue Roundabout. Both of these places are in Ikoyi.
Dr Hamzat said that it's criminal and action is being taken already.
I feel that Jimi Disu was referring to the car spotters, but Dr Hamzat (misled by the mention of Lekki and the fact that he didn't allow Jimi Disu to finish) was referring to the beggars in Lekki that sometimes turn violent when you don't give them money.
The Admiralty Way Roundabout is in the middle of some of the most expensive neighbourhoods in Lagos. It is at the end of the Lekki-Ikoyi Roundabout, which means that Lekki Phase 1 is across the creek from the roundabout. Banana Island is also not far away and the entrance to Park View Estate is just down the road.
People also use the roundabout to get to other districts like Victoria Garden City, Victoria Island and other parts of Ikoyi.
Because of this it is very easy to see luxury vehicles and celebrities at the roundabout.
Car spotters have made a habit of congregating at the roundabout and making videos of the luxury cars and celebrities that pass by. They post these videos on social media and make money from the views that they get. Some celebrities also give the spotters money and some people pay the spotters to record them specifically.
In 2025 Pastor Paul Adefarasin pointed a stun gun at one of the car spotters.
Some people have complained that the activities of these car spotters are a violation of privacy, while some motorists have stopped and told the car spotters to get a proper job.
A car spotter was once slapped by bodyguards when he got too close to a luxury car in a motorcade.
You can do your car spotting without constituting a nuisance or obstructing the road in any way. You are welcome to visit car lots and engage in your car-spotting activities there. However, staying on the road for this purpose will not be allowed in any way.
Aside from being a nuisance, it is also a breach of privacy and will not be tolerated by the State Government.
Ola of Lagos showing Lagos car spotters how to spot cars in the right way at Ikoyi roundabout and in Lagos generally cos of the narrative going on online about Lagos state government wanting to scrape them off the street 😭😂💔 pic.twitter.com/0X7mv0nlAl
Dear supporters, members and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun,
I commend you all for your steadfastness, commitment, sacrifice, and tireless efforts throughout the just-concluded governorship election. Your unwavering support for my candidacy and your belief in the prosperity agenda we presented to the people of Osun are experiences I will forever cherish.
Although, we had hoped for a different outcome in the election, in the meantime, we respect the position of the electoral umpire and I totally support the decision of our party in its ongoing review of the outcome of the election.
Consequently, I appreciate the many people who believed in and supported the alternative vision we articulated. I am deeply grateful to every voter who placed their trust in our vision, to the volunteers who gave their time and energy, and to you committed party members and leaders across the state who turned out to energize our campaign.
However, the campaign has come to an end and the election is over, but the values and causes we championed are alive. We would continue to work for effective, inclusive and rapid development of our dear Osun. I urge all of you who stood by our party and campaign to keep working for our community, to stay engaged, to continue to organize and to remain vigilant for the collective good of our state.
As events unfold, I urge all of you to remain calm and peaceful as you go about your daily activities in the post-election period. At the same time, I wish to alert the State Government and security agents to the growing trend of hostility and violence against our members and supporters. The violence attacks on our members witnessed in the build-up to the election has taken another dimension in the last 24 hours. Consequently, I urge the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies to intervene and arrest this ugly trend without delay.
Once again, I thank every voter, supporter, party member and leader for your unwavering commitment, sacrifice, and support. I remain proud of the campaign we ran and grateful for the confidence you reposed in me.
God bless you all. God bless Osun State. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Ishilove: So what does the government intend to do because lives are at stake. People are developing all manner of strange sicknesses because of the poor quality control in this country.
This was one of the reasons that NAFDAC banned the importation, sale and use of Sniper (and other such products) in small packs in Nigeria, because they were used to kill pests in food, they were used as preservatives and also because people used them to commit suicide.
Ishilove: So what does the government intend to do because lives are at stake. People are developing all manner of strange sicknesses because of the poor quality control in this country.
The issue is that it's not really government, it's us as Nigerians.
Remember how Dora Akunyili fought the production of fake drugs? Yet people still make fake drugs. Similarly, government has run pubkicity campaigns, they've gone to markets to test and seize goods, but Nigerians still keep doing these things because they believe it will bring money.
Ishilove: This is just exhausting. Where are we going to in this world?? So our government cannot educate farmers on the kind of pesticides to use on their crops?
The African Service of the BBC World Service Radio had a programme in which listeners could send in any question and the BBC would find an expert to answer it.
Someone sent in an interesting health question in the mid-1990s. He said that his relative was ill and was taken to a traditional healer. The traditional healer gave the relative goat's blood to drink and the relative became better. So this person wanted to know how this was possible.
The BBC got a medical doctor to answer the question and the doctor said that it's possible that the relative was anemic and that's why drinking goat's blood made him better, although that's not a remedy that he would recommend (the doctor sounded disgusted when he said that it was not a remedy that he would recommend).
That question and answer made me think about remedies, packaging and presentation. I had 3 ideas, but I can only remember 2 of them right now.
You see, traditional African societies developed ways of solving problems, but quite often these methods were often unpleasant. People that were afflicted with problems were often made to use the solutions through coercion. They were often frightened and given no other choice but to use the solution despite the fact that it was unpleasant.
American society also developed solutions that worked, but due to competition, customer satisfaction is usually very important. Therefore, the product is constantly being refined to make it more pleasant and attractive to the consumer. Instead of drinking goat's blood, the active ingredients are isolated, refined and presented in a way that is pleasant to the consumer (in terms of sight, taste, etc).
This made me think of a lot of things. I can't remember all of them, but for example, why do consumers have to pick beans? Why is beans sold with stalks, stones, corn and even weevils in it? What the consumer wants is beans, not the aforementioned items, so why can't he buy pre-processed beans that has no stalks, stones, corn and weevils in it?
Killer beans
Since the 1990s there have been regular rounds of rumours about killer beans in Nigeria in general and Lagos in particular. I remember what happened sometime between 1996 and 1998. Rumours spread that there was killer beans in Lagos, but the state government said that it had investigated the claim and there was no truth to it. Still the rumours persisted.
The Lagos State Governor, Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa, who was out on official duty, stopped to buy akara from a roadside seller and he ate it in public. That was to show that it was safe to eat beans in Lagos.
Still we've continued to have these regular rumours about killer beans.
Politics
A political dimension was added to these rumours in the 2010s. Viral messages were often circulated before any election. The messages claimed that northerners had poisoned foodstuff that was bound for the south and that southerners should not eat any food from the north. Obviously the people that spread these messages were lunatics.
The real story revealed
As often happens with governments in Nigeria, the Goodluck Jonathan administration was trying to diversify Nigeria's economy by encouraging the export of agricultural products. The government did its best, but some people unwittingly caused problems.
There was a report that a consignment of Nigerian beans was rejected in Europe. This was sometime around 2013 or 2014. Why was it rejected? It was discovered that the beans contained a high number of weevils, so quarantine officials blocked it at the ports (in Europe) and the beans was returned to Nigeria.
Many people forgot about that report, but I remembered it and that's why I understood what happened next.
Around a year or two later there was another report that Nigerian beans was rejected in Europe. The reason was different this time. It was rejected because authorities discovered that there was a high level of a chemical called dichlorvos in the beans. What's the source of the chemical?
Remember that the previous consignment was rejected because it had a high number of weevils? Well, dichlorvos is found in the pesticide called Sniper. It appeared to me that the sellers added Sniper to the beans in order to kill the weevils!
Dried Nigerian beans was banned in the European Union in 2015 because, since 2013, they had discovered many shipments of beans with high levels of dichlorvos in them.
Government officials complained that the exporters did not go through them before exporting the beans. They said that the problem would have been avoided if the exporters had gone through them. The then director general of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) made a statement that annoyed me. He said that exporters should consult SON before exporting their goods. He said that SON had the ability to test the goods and ensure that they conformed to all necessary standards. His statement annoyed me because I wondered if he did not think that the lives of Nigerians in Nigeria were important. Did he plan to only test beans that was to be exported??
Anyway, after the beans was rejected, Nigerian journalists conducted investigations and discovered that many beans sellers spray toxic pesticides like Sniper and Baygon on their products in order to kill weevils. They wrote about the health problems associated with such practices (including the danger of cancer). NAFDAC also went into the market to test beans and confiscate those that had high levels of banned chemicals.
I remember that someone said that there's nothing wrong with adding these chemicals to beans and that it was also done in Europe. The person said that the problem was in the levels/amount of the chemicals that was added to the beans.
Solution
However, I do not agree with something that the guy wrote in his thread. The guy wrote that you should only buy beans that has weevils in it, because that is evidence that the beans is safe to eat.
The fact that a portion of beans has no weevils in it does not mean that it is not safe to eat. There are safe ways of removing weevils from beans. A student at the University of Ibadan conducted research and discovered that lemongrass can be used to safely remove weevils from beans without harming humans. The lemongrass not only kills the weevils, it also kills their eggs, but it is safe for human consumption. That is the only thread that I was able to find out of the four threads that I was searching for.
Donbabaj: It is the NFF that should step down immediately not the current handlers.
Up till today nobody is talking about or investigating Ashleigh Plumptre's accusation for not featuring for Super Falcons. Everyone has moved on!
Nigeria is a complete joke
The Ashleigh Plumptre accusation was fake. That's not her Facebook account. She has complained many times about people that set up fake Facebook accounts in her name in order to get money from Facebook.
Ashleigh was injured and she did not recover in time, that's why she was not at the Nations Cup.
There are people that have created fake Facebook accounts of Super Falcons players in order to make money. They post fake and controversial things that would get views in order to make money from Facebook.
I can't understand why some journalists do not verify whether these accounts are genuine, but they publish these false stories and the players often have to publicly denounce the accounts.
It has happened to Oshoala, Alozie and Plumptre.
Ashleigh Plumptre has previously stated that she is not on Facebook and that the account is fake.
The reason why Ashleigh is not going to WAFCON is because she is injured. She was hoping that she would recover on time, but it didn't happen. That's why she wrote that the mind is willing but the body says no.
Ashleigh Plumptre @ashplumptre is not on Facebook.
Fake accounts are using her name to promise people money and scam innocent fans. Please stay alert and help report them. pic.twitter.com/xMjvlpaOGa
— Dr. Victor Ademola (@AdemolaVictorTv) June 23, 2026
Some people are campaigning for Michael Emenalo to become the new head of the NFF.
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Meanwhile there are unconfirmed reports that the National Sports Commission has intervened, cancelled the upcoming NFF elections and is set to appoint a normalisation committee. Some people say that CAF and FIFA are supporting the idea in exchange for Nigeria's support for Gianni Infantino.
NSC cancels NFF election, set to name ‘normalisation committee’
By : Gowon Akpodonor Date: 17 August 2026
The National Sports Commission (NSC) has cancelled the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) electoral congress, which was scheduled to hold on September 27 in Lafia, Nasarawa State, to pave the way for a thorough reorganisation of the federation.
This move has severely jolted the Ibrahim Gusau-led executive committee, which was bidding for a second term in office, having taken the mantle four years ago.
In the interim, the NSC is set to name a “normalisation committee” to run the nation’s football affairs for three months.
The NSC arrived at this step last Thursday when the Super Falcons were eliminated from the African playoff for the 2027 World Cup by the Banyana Banyana of South Africa, in Morocco.
The Super Falcons have appeared at every edition of the FIFA World Cup since the tournament began in China in 1991.
The NSC was said to have got the permission of the World Football governing body (FIFA) after it assured the embattled President Gianni Infantino of Nigeria’s support in his re-election bid.
The NSC is said to have also reached out to the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe.
With Gusau off the line, the NSC’s initial move to allegedly bring in the former President of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick, was said to have hit the rocks following his rejection by some top officials in the Presidency.
The Guardian, however, learnt yesterday that the Presidency has given the NSC the approval to announce the normalisation committee within 48 hours. It was not clear, yesterday, who the NSC finally picked to head the committee.
“Some other names came up after some top officials in the Presidency turned down NSC’s suggestion of making Amaju Pinnick the head of the Normalisation Committee,” a source told The Guardian yesterday. “For now, I don’t really know who will head the Committee, but one thing I know is that Amaju is no longer in the picture.
After Pinnick was rejected, “Some top officials in the Presidency also complained about NSC’s earlier decision to retain Dr Mohammed Sanusi as the secretary in the committee. The key person in the Presidency travelled out, and he is expected back in Abuja on Monday or Tuesday after which the composition of the committee would be made public, at the latest, on Tuesday.”
The normalisation committee, which will be in charge of the nation’s football for three months, is expected to prepare the ground for a new NFF election, including taking care of the grey areas many stakeholders had complained about.
When The Guardian contacted a top official of the NSC yesterday, he declined comment, saying that it was a sensitive matter. “We are working, and Nigerians will hear from us very soon,” he said.
The Gusau-led administration alone has recorded seven clear failures since taking office, with the most painful being Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The failure came despite Nigeria having a large pool of established players and an expanded African allocation for the 2026 World Cup.
The situation has raised fresh questions about the effectiveness of the country’s football development structure and the management of resources available to the NFF.
Nigeria has received substantial financial support from different sources over the years, including the Federal Government, which has provided funding and interventions for national teams and football programmes, while FIFA’s Forward Programme has also channelled development resources into the country.
NFF Asks Super Falcons Handlers To Step Down Immediately
The NFF 🇳🇬 @thenff
🚨 Notice
The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has asked members of the technical crew of the @NGSuper_Falcons to step down with immediate effect.
Travel › Re: LASG Warns Car Spotters About Privacy And Road Safety. by naptu2(op): 6:10pm On Aug 18
Don't take him seriously, the guy is just trolling.
