₦airaland Forum

UpaIweka:
The lengths of 12 out of 14 roads commissioned in Aba are:

1. Umuode Road: 1.5 km
2. Bakassi Road: 0.6km
3. Isu Ihiteukwa Street: 0.3 km
4. Asa Triangle Road: 0.5km
5. Enyimba Junction – Ariaria Gate: 0.3 km
6. Market Road: 0.744 km
7. Tenant Road: 0.740 km
8. Cameroun Road: 0.711 km
9. Ehi Road: 0.5 km
10. Clifford Road: 0.836 km
11. School Road: 0.729 km
12. Afikpo Road: 0.480 km

Total is 7.94km not up to 10km

Thank you Dr Alex Chioma Otti OFR
@alexottiofr


https://x.com/Onsogbu/status/1932717685751562317

Laugh wan tear my belle. Imagining comming 0.4 KM of road, that is 400 metre same as lengh of football field olympic athlete run under seconds 😂. Now imagine how in a twinkle of an eye a car will zoom over that yet we have sycophants celebrate this rubbish as an accomplishment in 2025.

Same supoporter will be the one insulting Dapo Abiodun that commission a 5.5 KM Awokoya road and Igbebaba lane this same week without a single photo n noise on Nairaland.

https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/metro/gov-abiodun-commissions-two-roads-in-ogun/

Ipob claim one making noise is a working governor while that doing the lords biddsing silebtly without noise is a failure. Note that same Dapo Abiodun recently completed another over 20KM road in Sagamu without noise on NL.


Dapo Abiodun need to fire his commissioner of information n put in place a social media team numbering over 100 to sell his work because I do not understand how an Alex Otti that will never achieve over 1/20th of what he already accomplished make so much noise online with little or nothing to show. I will not be doing his PR for him. I am available if he is willing to pay to get the job done.

malali:
Babatunde Fashola's recent comments at Elizade University about Nigerian youth migration remind me of a wealthy man telling a hungry person, "Why are you hungry? Look at me, I stayed here and I'm well-fed!" Sir, with all due respect, you're comparing apples with oranges, and these oranges have long since gone sour.

Let's set the record straight. When Fashola asks why the Alakijas and Afobis didn't run away, he conveniently forgets that they lived in a Nigeria where one dollar exchanged for two naira – not the current rate that would make our ancestors weep. This was a Nigeria so prosperous that Ghanaians left their country to come here. Yes, you read that right, young people. There was a time when Nigeria was the "abroad" that others ran to!

The Nigeria of the 60s, 70s, and early 80s that nurtured these successful individuals was a country where a fresh graduate could buy a car with their first salary. Today, many graduates can barely afford a decent phone with their first-year earnings. How do you compare eras when the playing field has shifted so dramatically?

Migration isn't about lack of patriotism or leadership failure on the youth's part – it's about survival, a basic instinct as old as life itself. When wildebeest cross crocodile-infested rivers during the Serengeti migration, they're not being unpatriotic to their original grazing lands; they're simply following their survival instinct. From the ancient Indo-European migrations to the Bantu spread across Africa, humans have always moved towards better opportunities. It's in our DNA.

Let's be honest – we all have just one life to live. Whether you're a billionaire or a street hawker, nobody is getting more than 100 years on this earth (and that's being optimistic). So when young Nigerians choose to "japa," they're not running away from leadership; they're running towards the best possible use of their limited time on earth.

The solution isn't in guilt-tripping young people with examples of successful individuals who stayed back during Nigeria's golden era. The answer lies in addressing why people are leaving in the first place. When government policies feel like existential threats – from naira devaluation to inflation that turns three square meals into a luxury – people will naturally seek safer shores.

To our respected former minister, instead of asking why young people are leaving, perhaps the better question is: Why should they stay? When basic amenities have become luxuries, when university graduates drive Uber to survive, when the minimum wage can barely buy a bag of rice – what exactly are we asking them to stick around for?

If we truly want to stop the "japa" wave, the solution is simple but not easy: Make Nigeria livable again. No amount of motivational speaking or patriotic guilt-tripping can compete with the basic human desire for a decent life.

Fashola, as an elder statesman who has served at the highest levels of government, should be brave enough to speak these uncomfortable truths. History remembers those who spoke truth to power, not those who justified power to truth.

The next time our leaders want to address the youth exodus, let them first answer this simple question: If you were young today, with your current knowledge but without your current wealth and connections, would you choose to stay?

Until we can honestly answer "yes" to that question, the airports will remain busy, and the "japa" trend will continue. It's not rocket science – it's survival science.

OBUKOMENA:
Gha.... what??

Philipponzaghi:
Nonsense post.

Titus Sardine price is just a reflection of global trends, not solely Tinubu's doing. Let’s focus on the bigger picture and support our leaders instead of spreading negativity.

Didijiji:
Why Tinubu no hold governors in 2012?

E reach now una Dey say governors

Salewa97:
Na so dem dey talk!

Tinubu na man wey get vision. No be everybody go fit see the bigger picture.

Make we no forget say progress no dey come from mere noise but strategic leadership.

Jagabanbattle:
Igbo people made it tough for themselves.

You can’t keep insulting other tribes who are superior to you.

If other tribes measure the treatment Igbo people get base on what they dished out, you guys will be hiding in your villages by now.

Jagabanbattle:
Igbo people made it tough for themselves.

You can’t keep insulting other tribes who are superior to you.

If other tribes measure the treatment Igbo people get base on what they dished out, you guys will be hiding in your villages by now.

Racoon:
God will surely punish him and his collaborators for all the hardship they have inflicted upon this nation.

illicit:
Emmanuel and ISIS

What an oxymoron

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