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The christian religionists/fanatics are not here to shout "they are killing christians"...

chimex38:
Exactly..
Rubbishing our trillion-Naira-budget Military!

This is what happens when corruption meets incompetence

emmaodet:
“If you’re in a lousy business for a long time, you’re going to get a lousy result even if you buy it cheap.” - Warren Buffett

OsunOriginal from Nairaland:

"The Lekki–Epe corridor was envisioned as a model of urban expansion, a gleaming symbol of Lagos’ rise as Africa’s commercial hub. But for residents, it has become a case study in planning gone wrong, or development without foresight.

“The Epe/Lekki axis is growing daily,” wrote journalist-researcher Charles Anazodo, “with hundreds of estates and thousands of families. Yet there exists only one way in and out. The expressway is full of craters, and traffic congestion wastes man-hours. Lagos boasts the highest IGR in Nigeria, yet people suffer from absent infrastructure.”

Another resident, @xunday34, lamented the lack of alternative routes to ease pressure on the expressway: “From Ikate downwards, you can’t go anywhere without getting on the express first. And it’s just that single expressway.”

An X user, @Nwagwukasarachi, a fuel vendor, shared a vision: “I wish there could be a bridge connecting Ajah to Ikorodu, linking these estates so we don’t always come out to the expressway.”

These are not random complaints. They all point to the same diagnosis urban planners have long warned about: a corridor expanding faster than it was planned. Massive estates rise each year, more cars pour in, yet the roads remain unchanged, narrow, worn, and perpetually overburdened.

Read the full story here...

https://punchng.com/unending-nightmare-lekki-epe-expressway-where-commuting-feels-like-hell/

https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/metro/commuters-groan-as-bad-roads-cripple-movement-along-lekki-epe-corridor/"

https://www.nairaland.com/8542905/unending-nightmare-lekki-epe-expressway-where#137177502

The Lekki–Epe corridor was envisioned as a model of urban expansion, a gleaming symbol of Lagos’ rise as Africa’s commercial hub. But for residents, it has become a case study in planning gone wrong, or development without foresight.

“The Epe/Lekki axis is growing daily,” wrote journalist-researcher Charles Anazodo, “with hundreds of estates and thousands of families. Yet there exists only one way in and out. The expressway is full of craters, and traffic congestion wastes man-hours. Lagos boasts the highest IGR in Nigeria, yet people suffer from absent infrastructure.”

Another resident, @xunday34, lamented the lack of alternative routes to ease pressure on the expressway: “From Ikate downwards, you can’t go anywhere without getting on the express first. And it’s just that single expressway.”

An X user, @Nwagwukasarachi, a fuel vendor, shared a vision: “I wish there could be a bridge connecting Ajah to Ikorodu, linking these estates so we don’t always come out to the expressway.”

These are not random complaints. They all point to the same diagnosis urban planners have long warned about: a corridor expanding faster than it was planned. Massive estates rise each year, more cars pour in, yet the roads remain unchanged, narrow, worn, and perpetually overburdened.

Read the full story here...

https://punchng.com/unending-nightmare-lekki-epe-expressway-where-commuting-feels-like-hell/

https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/metro/commuters-groan-as-bad-roads-cripple-movement-along-lekki-epe-corridor/

mascot87:
The idi0ts that politicised the award don't know the implications of what they have done. The world is watching. This will damage US actions towards peace in the future

Wasn't Obama US president? Didn't he get the Nobel Peace Prize?
This is not about America, it is about individuals' contributions toward peace.

As expected, Donald Trump is upset with the Nobel Prize committee following the decision by the Oslo-based organization to award this year's Peace Prize to the Venezuelan Mario Corina Machalo. The white supremacist Trump did not only lose to a woman, he lost to a Latino woman. This must have compounded Trump's woe and his disappointment over his rejection by the committee despite campaigning rigorously for the prize.

By the way, the is not the first time Trum would campaign for Nobel Peace Prize. During his first term in office, he did the same thing but was snubbed by the Nobel Peace committee. This has kept Trump wondering why the committee keeps rejecting him and giving the same award to a black man (Barak Obama) and now a Latino woman (Maria Corina Machalo). To Trump, these guys, despite being "sub-humans" (since they are not whites), have done nothing to deserve the award. Trump continues to rant about his achievements in making peace.

- Ending 10 wars
- etc

He hurriedly put a peace plan together for Gaza, primarily not to stop the killing and maiming, but just for him to win the Nobel Peace prize. The reason he signed the peace agreement a day before the announcement of the winner of the award. However, the Nobel Peace committee is made up of wise men and women who according to the chairman of the organization are people of courage and integrity. They saw the desperation in a man who has been fueling violence and wars by giving aids (arms and ammunition) to parties in the conflicts he is claiming to have ended. They saw the violence he unleashed on the people of his own country in California, Illinois, etc, all in the name of looking for illegal immigrants. The violence still continues accros the United State especially in states governed by the opposition party. The committee saw the bombing of boats by Trump's army in the Caribbean waters leading to the killing of many young men and woman without any convincing proof that they were trafficking drugs. Even if they were, killing people without trial is nothing but jungle justice. The same man changed the name of the country's Department of Defense to Department of War.

After doing all these, he still believes, crudely that he deserves to be given the Peace Prize. Trump still continues to rant shamelessly about ending 10 wars, blah blah blah even after Mario Corina Machado was declared winner. We haven't seen any post from Trump congratulating the winner.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnowmyCz9uQ

The two of them should come to the village square in Awka after church service on Sunday to fight it out. Urchins should show up to watch the fight

SmartPolician:
They are just unhappy that boys destroyed that Lekki tollgate. For them, before the island receives serious attention, the residents must pay through their noses because they are considered comfortable.

And people for here no dey even vote for APC; they are not the mainland folks you can buy their votes with cups of rice. APC use violence to win elections here.

Lekki/Ajah express road is peeling off and they have abandoned VGC flyover. For the promises of the Green line railway and 4th Mainland Bridge, those ones na audio!

This is not good. if it continues, Lekki axis won't be different from the old Oshodi and Mushin.

I have been watching with keen interest the abandonment of the Lekki axis by the current Lagos state government. i haven't seen any major state road project ongoing anywhere in Lekki despite the deplorable state of the major and inner roads in Lekki.

The last time Lekki received some attention from the state government was during Ambode government. Since then, nothing major has been done in this rapidly developing axis of Lagos. A regional road was promised before the election of 2023. They actually started the project but immediately after elections, work stopped. The popular Lekki-Epe Express road (from Phase 1 to Abraham Adesanya) is collapsing gradually with potholes at major junctions (Cheveron, Jakande, etc).

Flash flooding, affecting many parts of Lekki, is common knowledge.

What is the issue? Do Lekki people need to start carrying placards to get the state government's attention?

Image123:
Errm, the front page picture says the house was bought in 2011? Perhaps you want to calculate from some years before 2011 till date if you care. Plus all earnings of the names on the property. Then how you want to link it to Wike, and the place he probably "stole' from. Do you have these info, i'll shout and scream louder than you. Thanks.

If the salary of a governor is 11m per annum (everything inclusive) in 2024, how much do you think it would be in 2011? Definitely less. Let's even use the current structure and then use the usd rate in 2011 to convert to dollar, his 8 years salary, all together, is still less than 600kusd. This is assuming he didn't spend from his salary for the 8 years - which is also questionable.

Image123:
A two time governor of Rivers state and minister of the Federal Republic cannot afford a house? Feed us intelligently na, abegggg. All these gist is mere distraction.

How much was his salary as a governor? It is only looting that could give him that amount of money to purchase 3 houses in the US.

By the way, below is the breakdown of the salary of a governor as of 2024.

Monthly Basic Salary – ₦2,223,705
Leave Allowance – ₦222,370.50
Vehicle Loan – 400% of annual basic salary
End of Tenure Gratuity = ₦6,671,115.
Total Annual Salary of a governor in Nigeria is capped at 11,540,896 Naira.

Florida State law prohibits anyone who has stolen or laundered money from using it to purchase property, and international thief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS
Several statutes in the State of Florida directly prohibit his criminal conduct, and Wike is about to find out.
Several statutes in the State of Florida directly prohibit what Wike has done which is illegally concealing ownership of his Florida properties by placing them under the names of his children and wife, who is herself a public official (a Court of Appeal judge) in Nigeria.
Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS crimes, among others, fall squarely under organizing or directing trafficking in stolen property, a first-degree felony under Florida Statute § 812.019, punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Nyesom Ezenwo Wikeacquiring land in Abuja for his family, but he could never escape his $2 million mansion property trafficking crime in Florida, USA.

Konquest:
You are NOT well informed and spreading disinformation here. For your information, the official name of that Bus Stop is "2nd Pedro bus stop" but was renamed to Charly Boy and now "Badoo Bus Stop" after Olamide.

You obviously do NOT know much about Lagos State based off of what you posted above. All those you mentioned including the young man Olamide Adedeji (Badoo) have strong roots in Bariga having lived and/or contributed to it's growth hence the renaming of some streets to honor them by the Bariga LCDA Chairman. It's within the purview of any community to do so. It's NOT even a state government issue. Besides streets named in Yoruba were also affected in the renaming yet you folks keep getting annoyingly focused on tribalism as being the cause of the renaming.

There are more important things you people can do with your lives other than whipping up baseless primordial ethnic sentiments against the Yoruba folks.

Don't mind them... That bus stop is now "Baddo Bus Stop", simple. It should be enforced... commercial bus drivers/conductors, and others must comply immediately. Whoever calls that bus stop Charley Boy again should be invited for questioning.

It is not too difficult to know the origin of our many problems as a country. The gradual destruction of the country by the elites started many decades ago. The British handed over a very rich country to us. In 1973 when Naira was launched, 1 British Pounds was exchanging for 2 Nigerian Naira. At this time, 1 Naira was exchanging for around 2 American dollars. This shows how rich we were as a nation (even though we didn't know) and the potentials for growth that we had if only we knew how to turn the abundant resources into wealth for the country.

Shortly after this early good years/independence, the mindless destruction of the wealth of Nigeria by our leaders/elites started. Instead of building on what was handed over to us and investing in infrastructure and people, personal struggle for power, unbridled wealth, and greed followed. All these led to ethnic and religious divisions in the country. It is like the case of South Sudan which till today is still reeling in power struggle amongst her elites with attendant violence and the poor people bearing the brunt of the elites' rascality.

We have had a president/head of state in these early years after Nigeria independence who told his follow citizens he didn't know what to do with the ocean of money we had. Fast forward that to 2025, you would be confused what the country has become ... thanks to our leaders/elites. 1 British Pound now exchange for over N2,000.00 while 1 American dollar is now over N1,500. The country is now wallowing in debt and couldn't provide basic necessities of life for her citizens. Our elites should be ashamed of themselves. Instead, they clad in flowing native attires every weekend attending parties, dancing, and enjoying the proceeds of the destruction of the country. Poor Nigerians, professionals, and graduates from our higher institutions now have no other option than to "Japa" to other countries that could offer them some semblance of good life.

Still, no lesson has been learned and there hasn't been a change of course. The elites still continue to feed on the little we have left - the little that makes us look like a country. Ex-governors amended the laws in their states to include bogus life remuneration for themselves so that enjoyment continues even after living office. Politicians live like kings in their domains. For the elites on the side of those in power, it is eldorado. That is why the rate of defection after election is usually high. Tell me who is left in the PDP. Even those elected in the LP have all moved to the APC except a few. All want to live large at the expense of the country.

treesun:
https://reubenabati.com.ng/featur/weak-naira-is-good-many-people-can-t-travel-again-tinubu-s-aide/

Wahala... There are two possibilities here.

- He knows the truth, but he is trying to make an excuse for the failure if his master
OR
- He doesn't know anything about the issue at hand in which case it is a disaster having someone like this as an aid to a president that needs help

What happened in Ibadan and two other places (Abuja and Anambra) was a national tragedy. According to reports, more than 67 people (men, women and children) lost their lives in these avoidable tragedies. Our thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives while we pray for a speedy recovery for those who sustained injuries in the stampedes.

As expected, the security agents have swung into action and suspects have been arrested especially in the case of Ibadan where most of the victims were children. Ex-Queen Naomi and Hamzat Oriyomi of Agidigbo FM were among those arrested and now remanded in prison. According to the honorable justice, the suspects should be kept in prison while further directives are being awaited from the security agents.

As human beings, it is natural to be enraged by what happened and then ask for the head of the organizers. While what happened is painful, can we prevent this kind of tragedy from happening again by punishing organizers of charity events? Would sentencing the ex-queen and Oriyomi to prison terms or even death stop stampede of this nature? My thought process says NO.

First, we need to take emotion out of this and face the issue - what happened, how it happened, and what caused it. This is what the proceedings at the court would bring out. The other questions then would be;

- Is it a crime to organize a charity event?
- Did the organizers physically do anything that could have caused the stampede and then the loss of lives? E.g. shooting a gun, pushing or beating attendees, etc
- Can the organizers of the event be held accountable for the behavior of the attendees? E.g. attendees jumping queue and pushing other attendees, etc

I doubt if any case can be proven against the organizers especially as it concerns murder. I am not a lawyer... so I may be wrong.

I think the bitter lesson we all should learn from this is the need for orderliness. Driving on the road, buying fuel at filling station, queuing to collect palliatives, etc should not always be seen as a competition. We should always think about the other people and the need for a society that is orderly even if it means the palliative not getting to you or the fuel finishing before you get to the pump. This, I think, is the only thing that can stop this kind of tragedy from happening.

BigDawsNet:
The SUV is not just a bluetprove SUV only
It has lots of high tech security features that even if shot a missiles on it won’t penetrates..

Abi you want you president to be using? Highlander 2013 model?

Who cares if he uses Peugeot 504? His primary assignment is to govern the country well and make the country work for all. Does he need luxury to make that happen? The answer is NO. Below is the picture of a prime minister of Netherland parking his bicycle which he rode to the office daily.

Africans, and their supposed leaders have no idea what governing a country is all about. We should be recolonized.

zero8zero:
https://thenationonlineng.net/first-lady-gives-out-22800-bags-of-rice-to-norths-christians/

Stop this nonsense. Make the country work and empower the people so they can afford to buy rice themselves. In a country where leaders are leaders, there would be food banks across the country where whoever in need of support can go and get the food they need. This should be part of the fabric of a country, not something a politician does at his whims and caprices.

Asking for food banks is like demanding for luxury in a country where leaders have abandoned public schools and hospitals, though.

BigDawsNet:
The outgoing president's car may have aged or sustained wear from years of use, so it may no longer meet the strict standards for presidential transportation.

I know you might say Shebi it’s just 4 years

But don’t forget for the Elite to use an SUV for 4 years… it’s alrdy old


Even some rich folks in naija or average people will consider upgrading dia car after 3years

Which use? Where dem dey drive the car go?
Even we that drive our cars to everywhere we go in the country, we use new cars for at least 10 years.

Nigeria is a poor country, and it should reflect in the way our leaders use and manager our resources. You can't say Nigeria is poor and at the same time the leaders are living like kings. Even the countries we borrow money from, their leaders don't live this way.

Let even assume the car is old and needs to be changed, why go for a more expensive car?

Mcreloaded:
What happened to the bullet proof vehicle the last president used.
Just asking for a friend

Too small for the almighty Jagaban... just imagine the one and only Jagaban of Bogu in that small rickety car - No No No. The least he can use is the armored escalade

Now remaining the governors to order their own

givedemwotowoto:
This one is advising someone who unleashed hardship on Nigerians confidently with his full support

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is in Lagos for Christmas/New Year holidays. He arrived in Lagos on Thursday and everybody in the metropolis felt his presence as free vehicular movements were disrupted and Lagosians spent hours in traffic gridlock across the city caused by president's movement from the airport to his residence in Ikoyi.

As if that was not enough, Mr president decided on Friday to go to Ikeja Central Mosque for Jumat prayer. By the way, I am a Muslim, so there is no religious sentiment in my position. Just like Thursday, Lagosians again had to bear the brunt of the president's decision to travel from Ikoyi to Ikeja for Jumat prayer. Many were in traffic for almost 10 hours yesterday. I am not sure this is good enough.

I expect the president and his advisers to know that Lagos is not like Abuja. We don't have many good and wide roads in Lagos. Any disruption of traffic on 3rd mainland bridge would certainly be felt across Lagos especially when there is no warning and traffic advisory.

While we love the president and want him to celebrate Christmas and New Year with us in Lagos , I don't think he should be driving around town everyday given what a presidential movement entails (convoy, security, etc).

004gist:
There is different between illiterate migrants and the word migrants.
Listen to her videos. She said migration to the United Kingdom has been too high and it will be reduced.
Migration policies.... Means people coming to the United Kingdom to school or work has to be reduced.

If it has to be reduced... Then policies will be made for them not to reach or get indefinite leave to remain. Already it has been 10 years for everyone or 7 years for skill workers n 5 years for carers. Dhe is pushing for all this to be reviewed

Please remember that she came via this means. I don't know why our people like to do over sabi.. Just look at the Indians, Pakistani having strong root in the system

I know because she is yoruba u will twist every word to support her. Just as the other yoruba guy was telling the UK government that we don't come to read but to japa.

Lastly people with unity of purpose build nations not people with hatred for each other. Last elections came and u guys chose a a criminal because of tribe n religion after supporting Buhari for 8 goid years...

After tinubu won.. I packed my stuff n left the country for good. I was speaking with a Zimbabwen the other day he said tinubu will win next election.. I should mark his word.

Why not focus on fixing your country by confronting your leaders instead of putting all your hopes on another country's immigration policy. UK can even decide to ban Nigerians from entering their country... It is their country, not yours. UAE did this to us recently, what happened?

BondRiv:
The problem is that you don't understand what it means to exploit something for political gain, especially in this context. Obviously, if she was exploiting Nigeria for political gain (which she currently is), she wouldn't depend on support from Nigerians. She is pandering to white demographics. Trying to appear less threatening and appealing to them. Something whites would love to hear and be comfortable with, including the supremacists.

Did she lie about Nigeria?

BondRiv:
You are slow. So why then do you think she brought Nigeria up for an election she was running in Britain? Do you understand what it means to exploit something for political gain, or are you busy being slow? Na wa.

Exploit what? What is it about Nigeria to exploit in UK elections? Is it the population of Nigerians in the UK or the reputation of Nigeria?
How significant is the population of Nigerians in the UK to influence the election there?
An average Nigerian in the UK or elsewhere is also not proud of Nigeria except some insane trolls who probably because of political patronage want the rest of us to say Nigeria is working even when it is obvious to the blind that the country is going down. Badenoch said Nigeria is broken. Is this not true? This should have been taken as a wakeup call by Nigerian leaders instead of trying to gaslight everybody about Badenoch's comment.

BondRiv:
Is India perfect? Stop dancing around the issue. I don't know how some of you reason. There are a lot of negative things Sunak could have said about India for political gain, if he was that desperate.

You don't know what you're saying. Because India is not perfect, we should not talk about the problems confronting our country? We should not tell ourselves the truth? Badenoch should say everything is fine with Nigeria? I wonder if some of you really want anything good for this country. Just tell me one thing Nigeria is getting right... Something we can talk about in glowing terms.

VaginaAcademic:
Rishi sunak didn't behave like this to the Indian community

India is not like Nigeria and the politicians/elites there are not like ours. People from all over, including Nigeria, go to India for medical care, etc. If they are not excelling in these areas, nobody would go there. Now, tell me one thing that anybody wants to come to Nigeria for except those who come here to explore and exploit our natural resources?

By the way, it is not about Nigerian community in the UK or elsewhere, it about the country and her leaders. Her grouse is about how Nigeria has been brought on his knees by the so-called leaders - the Gandujes, Tinubus, Shettimas, Atikus, OBJs, Babangidas, etc

Topman7:
Typical dirty betrayer and traitor.

She collected money and support from the UK Nigerian community to achieve her position, promising them heaven and earth.

Now it has turned to “It’s not my job to be Nigeria’s PR”.

Disgusting person.

What PR job do you expect her to do for Nigeria? To say Nigeria is a corruption free country and that Nigerian leaders/elites are doing fantastically well?

Are you a Nigerian?

These are the names that come to mind at the moment. You can add to the list...

- Dele Farotimi (for writing a book on the corruption in the Nigeria Judiciary)
- Kemi Badenoch (for talking about the corruption in Nigeria)

Nigerian leaders/elites (the beneficiaries of the warped system) don't want anybody to talk about corruption... The main issue that is killing the country

004gist:
Yes she can tackle the Nigerian government to sit up.

But telling the UK people that they must tighten their border n reduce migrant in their country is not fair. Please listen to her speech on how she attacks migrant

Do u know what it means to reduce migrant..? It means they should make policies that will drive migrants in drove out of UK

She was talking about illegal immigrants. She is not opposed to legal immigrants, and she can't be since the immigration is approved by the authorities. She loves her country (UK) and the reason she is passionate about an immigration policy that brings value, not only to the immigrants, but also to the UK.

Trump is saying this same thing in the US. He has promised mass deportation but only of illegal immigrants and tightening their borders to prevent illegal immigration.

African leaders should fix their countries instead of looting and laundering money that could have been used to develop the countries and created opportunities for their people. Who says Nigeria can't be better than the UK in all areas? Human beings built those countries, not angels. So, what's it that makes us think immigrating to the UK, US, Canada, etc is the only way out of our situation? How many Emiratis would want to run to the UK, US, or Canada? How many Swedes would want to immigrate even legally to the UK?