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Yet some upended brains would want us to kill those who made this progress a reality; calling them evil and thieves. But the useless set of people don't see the problem in glossing the lips of their underperforming leaders, who daily milk their future and their unborn generations dry.
God bless lagos state.
God bless Tinubu and everybody who's contributed to the success story.
God bless all yoruba land.
God bless all yoruba indegenes.

odimbannamdi:
PHAYOL81, we await your rejoinder to this post. We also advise that you actually take a trip from Mile 2 to just Iyana-Iba even today that is a Sunday and let us know when you get back home.

Instead of addressing the "disease" itself, our leaders are fond of trying to treat "symptoms", and we all keep moving round and round. Let us not forget that this same okada (and even keke) were banned from playing major roads in February 2020, and we never saw the alternative means of transports that the government promised. Even the people that will enforce the directives are Nigerians who still make use of the same Okada if they do not want to sleep on the road.

The government should begin by first addressing the root cause of traffic gridlocks on our major roads before proposing a ban on Okada. Nobody loves to blow bike, coz of the safety hazards, but when you are hard-pressed or you seat in traffic for 4 hours, you will appreciate their importance

The post has gotten its response. You don't create a problem to solve another problem lest you bring up more problems. You only have to solve the problem you have but if you try a work-around, you end up still having the problem you fail to solve with the demerits of the alternative(s). It's a simple rule.
New York has its fair share of traffic (although not as bad as we have here) . Ask a New York City resident, and you'll see he's got a story to tell about the "terrible " (as they say) traffic in the city but on no account was the state looking in the direction of allowing motorcycle as a means. Rather, the state just approved as much as a trillion dollars this year to improve facilities that would improve the situation in the state.
Look at Tokyo. You'll be amazed how people trooped out during rush hours like a swamp of bees, walking towards the train/bus stations in a bid to get transit to their destinations. They have capacities to manufacture motorbikes in large numbers for this purpose but knowing the consequences, they have to make do with the right system. If you can't walk to the train station, call a taxi. And remember that multi-layers bridges in Japan and the one in China, the bridges came about because of traffic situations they had. To burst your bubbles, even with those bridges, they still have traffic situations to deal with on them. Point is, commercial cities can't escape traffic. It's all over the world. London even have to create "traffic tickets " to discourage people going out with personal cars in order to reduce the impact.
Let's call for the eradication of the challenges we have on our roads but let's also accept that having bikes as a mode of transport should be an abolished practice in our midst. Simple.

uuzba:
Because it is!
400,000 okadas to be banned/crushed?
That is 400,000 guys will lose their job
You think say dem go gree?
Nonsense. What are they supposed to do now?
Sit at home and be pressing phone without credit?
They will surely come back and continue to come back again and forever untill Lagos provides jobs for them.

Lagos state ain't owing them nothing. Lagos can't shoulder the loads of all Nigerians because that's exactly what you're insinuating. Or how long would Lagos continue to provide jobs for an ever increasing population If they can't find something legit to do, they can return to wherever they come from. Lagos isn't for everyone. It's not by force to live in Lagos.
Last time I checked, there are 36 other options they can explore, so don't play that 'responsibility card'.
With the lowest unemployment rate in the country, the state is trying its best and we must understand that whosever is coming in is prepared to live by the rules and regulations of the land without reservation. If you engage in silly crime and get caught, you get to face the full wrath of law and the state owe you no apology for it.

EMMY76:
Making 400,000 people jobless just like that will definitely come with consequences lagos residents should be prepared for anarchy.

For how long would we continue to find excuses for irregularities and disorderliness Must they reside in Lagos What happens to them going back to where they came from if Lagos ain't working for them Or must Lagos shoulder the irresponsibility of other states to provide jobs for their indigenes
And to think many of you guys defending these unlawful riders are always the loudest voices when pointing out disorganization in the society; yet here's a chance for a start and vroom! you came up with excuses why it shouldn't happen.

Obi1kenobi:
Do you live and work in Lagos? I commute along the Mile 2-Badagry and Apapa axis everyday. I don't know one single person who lives or works anywhere around those routes who would want okada banned. None. Such is the menace of tankers and trailers along those axis, I don't bother driving to work most days and okada makes things far more convenient for me and so many people who ply those routes. When you have such a high level of dysfunction due to inadequate infrastructure, horrible urban planning, the adverse environmental impact of port operations, and an overpopulated country who breed like rats, what other alternative are you leaving people? Does this look like Zurich or Brussels? Please take a good look around you and come back to reality. There are many areas of Lagos that would be absolutely unlivable if you ban okada.

Still another excuse. You don't create a problem to solve another problem. It leads to chaos, which is what we're facing now with the many challenges the okada brought because we wanted to kill off stress of not walking to the bus stations. We thought we're smarter than the organized and advanced countries who don't allow them.
If trucks and container-trucks are causing gridlock, we have to shout the discomfort to the government until our voices are heard; not doing the wrong thing to beat the fault because eventually, you ended up creating loads of other issues. For every merit you can name to support the riders, I promise to give you at least two demerits why the menace must stop. Its time, Nigerians learnt to live the organized life we want by being ready to be only organized and right.
And lest I forget, I live and work in Lagos, and I know all the challenges. But if you've ever been abroad and see how many Nigerians comport/comply to/with regulations, you get amazed and wondered why we can't replicate same at home. Even without government intervention, there are things that if we start doing/correcting ourselves, the good changes would be enormous in our society.

RuudVanNisteroy:
You're a clown! Oil was discovered in 1956 in Bayelsa and most of the proceeds was used to fund the development of federal projects in Lagos.

Still on nonsense. How many of those pictures shown were built in 1950s When was the Molue introduced Or was the transit bus you showed at the Iddo train station around in the 60s When was the Iddo train station itself built When was the rail tracks in Lagos laid When was the Carter Bridge you showed itself built Were they built by the FG Did the sources of revenue that built all these facilities stopped existing If yes, how
Check what the Ikeja which was never built by FG was like. Surulere, like Yaba, was a beautiful darlings back in those days and was and still is better than the Festac FG built: they were built by proceeds Lagos governors could generate from levies and revenues from various sectors in the state.
That FG supported in building Third mainland bridge, reconstructed Carter Bridge and build National theatre, national stadium, the general mosque, etc doesn't change the fact that majority of the bridges, iconic centers, schools, hospitals, housing estates, marketplaces, cinemas, libraries, museums etc of the time were built by Lagos state. Even, the hinterlands were at first not part of Lagos but the western region. So what's your point
Or by your finite knowledge, you believe the FG developed the IKOYI, the VICTORIA ISLAND, and the LAGOS ISLAND Or ain't many of the iconic things in these places either built during colonial era or even after we got into the fourth republic.

RuudVanNisteroy:
How did Nigeria kill the progress of Lagos when it benefitted from Niger Delta oil used to fund numerous federal projects .

Unless you've lost your brains somewhere or just trying to be mischievous, you'd have realized that majority of pics predates oil discovery (if you do your research well and study the construction of each) and that all through the late 70s (right from 1975 even) to the time the FTC left Lagos at the tale end of 1991 (the oil era), Abuja was the focus with our common wealth (including revenue generated from Lagos) being used to build a new capital. The only break they had was in 1984 when Buhari decided not to lavish more money in the direction because the economy had tanked since the 1982.
So if your brains are serving you right, the question you should ask yourself is how possible it could be that because Nigeria suddenly discovered oil, the sources of revenue that had been building the Lagos city prior suddenly disappeared Has any of the ports, the cbd, the general marketplaces ( 'cause the Balogun, Idumota, Oyingbo etc also predates independence and was so popular that many of them are referenced in our adages) and the levies stopped existing prior, during or after the discovery of oil Or what logic were you trying to insinuate

ExpertEDITOR:

Na to deny your heritage now ba? It is not new, Nigerian Jews hates themselves

Don't mind that little kid. He'll just create a useless thread to promote nonsense and attack Lagos, Tinubu and/or the west without any deep knowledge of the context. All he does is drag you around for a mud fight exactly like the funkiest pigs they are. Less sense much talks.
Funny enough, such cheapo still has the gut to question others level of IQ. Wonders of the twenty first century!

Commendable as it's for the safety of the commuters. God bless Lagos state

RuudVanNisteroy:
Lagos was a port city, a former federal Capital, a commercial hub.

Lagos as the former capital had the headquarters of all federal ministries in the country. And also housed the headquarters of banks,oil multinational,insurance,pharmaceutical, and construction companies.

One thing majority of lagosians would agree on is the fact Tinubu institutionalized corruption with his 10% commission on taxes through Alpha Beta, which he has been enjoying since 2003 according to former Managing Director,Dapo Apara, in an affidavit before Lagos State High Court and empowering agberos that run the streets of the city.

Most pics there predates independence. Nigeria kills the progress of Lagos, point blank. The Barclays and some British companies even left around the late 70s and early 80s because of the construct of Nigerian government and policies.

Racoon:
Why removing them since most of the security concerns in these feeder roads are mainly being shouldered by the estate residents as is far as security of most parts of Lagos is concerned.

Read again, the focus ain't on gated estates but ordinary residential areas within which are government (better put, public) roads. If all areas lock up the access roads going through them away from the public, how will those in the practice access places other than their residence Estates have rights to gate their areas as they build the infrastructure within them themselves but not streets built by government. Understand the context of argument before jumping into the discuss.

Good.

GodHatesBigots:
What black Africans fail to understand is that Britain does not give a rats ass about blacks and especially black Africans including Nigerians. After all they are the root cause of all the mayhem in Nigeria .

What Britain wants is favourable trade that will grow their dwindling and falling economy post brexit . If it costs thousands of black lives to achieve , tbhey care not one iota.

As always, keeping black Africa down through useless leaders while they continue to milk resources.

Neo-colonialism is alive and well - black Africans have not learnt their lessons, that’s why their countries are shit holes .

Not surprised. Some people would always find a way to fault a good thing. They rather long to see chaos and despair but God would always be merciful and a big support for the ones hoping and wishing for good things and developments.
If this were to be said of Ghana or SA, I bet you and your ilks would be singing another song RN. Hope you're aware TWITTER which just station its African headquarter in Ghana is there entirely for the expansion of their business, profits and outreach. Anything other things done for the host nation is only a way to strengthen and solidify the above interest. So simmer down and hope Boris Johnson heed this advice because the effects would surely take a bit of a chunk away from our unemployment rate as well as aid productivity and manufacturing and accelerate progress.
The New York, the London, the Dubai, the Paris etc developed by attracting foreign investments.

Not sure about the numbers, but we're aware about the numerous blocks of classes built across the state: in almost all the LG/LCDA.
May God continue to bless Lagos state
May God bless all Yoruba land in general
May God bless all Yoruba indigenes
Ile oodua a gbewa o

Nice development, LASG. Lagos needs boats much bigger that can successfully transport as much as 150 commuters at a go, especially now that more people are trusting the system and using the waterways more.
I honestly hope as well that the management is also thinking in this direction against the deployment of the next fleets that would be aimed at servicing the proposed routes oncoming (for which the numerous jetties under construction are being built). After all, LASWA had confirmed the dredging of many of these new routes in a bid to allow smooth transit of big ships.
The state has to put in more effort by a means of encouragement and promotion of awareness towards attracting more commuters to the usage of this waterways system if we truly aspire to decongest our roads and more importantly, create another credible source of igr for more sustainable economy.
May God continue to bless Lagos state
For a greater Lagos state
Eko Oni Baje O... Aa tumbo maa dara si ni

Don't be surprised that by tomorrow, some Godforsaken dimwits with dark useless brains would pop out from the rot to proclaim that they're yet to see what Sanwo Olu has done.
Anyway, our focus is our development, not their wail. May God continue to bless Lagos state
For a greater Lagos
Eko oni baje o.

This is the other governor after Fashola that's taking every sector in the state very seriously. May God continue to strenghten him towards taking Lagos state to the height that even the worst pessimists/saddists would admit its imperial and commercial greatness.
May God continue to bless Lagos state
For a greater Lagos
Eko oni baje o

Tonymegabush1:
I come in peace.....



It will be a nice thing for city to march to the finals but I don't see them winning the trophy

That's no news! It's been sealed since the end of the quarter finals affairs.

Rosskiiku:
No they are not. Council houses are really terrible. I've been in them. Very tiny and cramped with many criminals around in the deprived surroundings.

Millions and millions of Nigerian houses are WAY better than your council flats.



That ancient, archaic style architecture is NOT APPEALING to most people on earth today, INCLUDING NIGERIANS.

Mr Colonised dunce, leave your Victorian, Edwardian architecture of 300 years ago and join the modern world!

Boring British goat.

THIS is what WE like,

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https://images.nigeriapropertycentre.com/properties/images/922583/0607de78edd787-5bedroom-ambassadorial-mansion-guest-chaletbqpoollush-green-areas-for-sale-gwarinpa-abuja.jpeg

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The person you're quoting is crying within as the pics kept popping up on his/her screen. Why always Lagos
I doubt if he'd ever been outside because a London residents should know the buildings they have there are left the way they are because its their heritage and identity. The modern building they build nowadays are structured in line with today's architectural developments.
Just keep watching their pained asses while we continue to develop what we have. We'll surely get there if we don't stop doing our possible best. At least, Eko Atlantic City is a great example. Eko Oni Baje o
May God continue to bless Lagos state
For a greater Lagos state
May God bless all Yoruba land in general. Ile oodua a gbewa o

Same useless stunt. After the fake reports of Tinubu's deportation from France and his son's kidnaps, and all the fake interviews and confessions during #endsars saga, I can't believe someone would go ahead to pull such stale stunt again.
The "Lagos is an overhyped village" fake they attributed to same Amaechi has gotten into their head that they believed everything works around their says and control.
Since the nonsense fake audio, did ratings of Lagos dropped in reputable stats? Ain't the FDI improving Ain't more local industries establishing more in it
I marveled at how some clowns were talking down Lagos and Dangote because BUA planned to venture a firm in Akwa Ibom. If only they know that the same BUA is currently building one of the biggest detergent factory in Lekki ftz to challenge the reigning detergents businesses of foreign investors
Perhaps, it's better to just go on watching and enjoying your hilarious pathetic shows.
Let's see how this fake propaganda wins you the election come 2023.

Every single individual has spoken right. Restructuring is good and it will benefit some certain regions; and oh yes! Some regions would be badly affected too. But then, the misrepresentation that a certain economy would crumble is a evil wish that would never come to pass, by God's grace.
Of course, there may be a temporal slight decline due to slight changes in population but as a popular commercial entity with some considerable oil and gas in the region, the state should quickly rebound right back into reckoning especially being an important passage to the West African trade connections and stops. We just need to be very robust in our commercial/market structures, creation of more manufacturing units/FTZ, exportation and importation policies, strict border controls, partnerships and friendliness to the nations that matter, creating a more business-friendly environment and promoting creativity through socioeconomic indulgence. Eko lo lafe, Eko lo lako. We should build our creativity around our heritage, persons, sophistication and orientation and we should have a bigger entertainment industry than we have now.
Chill, guys. Lagos ain't crumbling whatever happens to Nigeria. Rather it would continue to progress.

Good one LASG. Keep it up governor Sanwo Olu. May God continue to bless Lagos state.
May God continue to bless all Yoruba lands
#EkoOniBajeo

KhalaKuta:
This man can't be my president,not in this life,Take a look at Lagos for example,what have Lagos achieved for how many years,if this man knows what he is doing Lagos will be competing with New York,with the large revenues generated yearly,instead it's used to fund his bourdillion castle,if this man is given opportunity of becoming a president,Bourdillion will change to Zourdillion, I swear.



El matador.

How rich is Lagos that you want to compare it with New York Cuomo is spending more than a trillion dollars ($1tr) on transportation overhaul alone this year while the entire worth of Lagos you want to be like New York is even lesser than two hundred billion dollars. What miracle do you want Lagos state to conjure to transform into a spectacle like New York all of a sudden Even the Dubai, Abu Dhabi etc that's emerged thenceforth enjoyed undivided concentration of national treasures and/or attention from their respective nations in conjunction with having little population to use whatever infrastructure they were building overtime hence their sublime growth and development.
You guys just shout about of having traveled around but talk like you've never stepped into the places you've always boasted about. Last time, one hilariously proclaimed he'd traveled to every beautiful cities in the world as if his private jets is licensed to fly about without landing permits. Yet, he spoke nonsense about things he'd have known. Moments he ranted about having visited everywhere in Europe and America, I gave up on him: he was merely a foolish joke.

Lagos always moving forward unstoppably.
May God bless and strenghten Sanwo Olu to take Lagos state to greater heights
May God bless Lagos state
May God bless all yoruba land
May God bless all of us who are proud yoruba indigenes

Another Omoluabi doing us proud. Ride on, Mr Sanya, the sky is your start of heights.
May God continue to bless the Yoruba land
May God continue to bless all Yoruba indigenes
God bless all South Western States of Nigeria
God bless Nigeria

Lagos moving forward towards greatness and smartness.
Eko Oni Baje O
For A Greater Lagos
God bless Lagos state and all Yoruba land

Good one. Keep soaring high, Flutterwaves
God bless all Yoruba land

post=101166382:
Na wa o.
What happens to God bless all states in Nigeria.
AND,
God bless Nigeria?!

This tribalism get as e be o.

Anyways,
GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

Yeah! God bless Nigeria. But sometimes, I get so sunk in the hope of seeing a developed Yoruba nation that I kinda forget we're in another nation yet. But then, the prosperity of Yoruba land is also the prosperity of Nigeria because whatever the conditions of any state, the Nigerian state becomes affected by it.

AmazingELixir:


Badt guy....so your prayers does not extend to the other parts of the country....don't tell me you're amongst those sessionist groups clamouring for Oduduwa republic oo.

Lol Honestly, I'm neither here nor there on the disintegration of the nation in particular. If it breaks, good; if we can find a way to prosper together, all good too.
But to be frank, no region has it all. The survival battle would create a parasitic relationship among emerging nations and I think the Yoruba would have to be on top of their game to be among the beneficiaries.

Hmmmmm!!!!! I hope this is true though. The wish for a very blossoming South Western States of Nigeria economy and standards of living can only get me praying that this not only come to pass but also becomes the beginning of improvement in development in Ogun state and in Yoruba land in general.
God bless all South Western States of Nigeria
God bless all Yoruba land

GboyegaD:
Featac is not unfer AJIF. Lagos state government had always neglected Festac so it isn't new.

I don't think it is fair to talk about the blue line as it is a shame to all governors from Fashola's 1st tenure. The road is less than 100km and it has been ongoing for 12 years. Does it mean we couldn't have done it 10km per year in the last 12years?

I understand your argument and I just confirmed from Wikipedia now that Festac shares LG with Mile 2 and Trade Fair under Amuwo Odofin. Mile 2 itself is having a jetty under construction. Again, I don't have much knowledge on activities the state's having in Festac but that doesn't mean there aren't projects ongoing in Amuwo Odofin.

Desperate post

When two annoying menace go up against each other. That means, soonest the solution to their eradication would manifest. Let them set themselves up for extinction on our roads themselves.

GboyegaD:
Ojo is a separate LGA let alone LCDA. AJIF same as Ojo. He isn't the first to neglect the area and wouldn't be the last. At least, if he wouldn't do anything, can he please see to the security situation right outside of Festac?

But Festac is right under AJIF LCDA Or is there something I'm missing
Despite though, I think Festac should directly have a project ongoing in the environment from the state governor. The one link-bridge I know is Fashola's project (in connection with the blue line rail) and it's yet to be finished.
Below is the picture of the construction.

stasius:
Why won't Lagos be above all states when it was made the commercial center and Headquarter of every business in Nigeria??

What do you expect?

Who made Lagos the commercial center Wasn't Lagos a commercial center long before Nigeria got its independence Even history of Lagos showed that the first Europeans to discover the Island, the Portuguese, traded with the people they met on ground before moving on
So, don't make it look like FG played a favourable card for Lagos commercialization when the north that had ruled most of the time had Kano and kaduna to lift.

Weathered:
there's nothing special about Lagos other than dumb federal government monopoly to the Atlantic sea and import.

That's the Yoruba gain from the civil war. Nearly all oil companies in the south-south have their headquarters in Lagos.

The ports in warri, port Harcourt, Calabar that are situated on the edge of the Atlantic should be opened as well as Lagos.

This will reduce Lagos revenue and population.

Do you realize the Apapa port and the Lagos international airport predate Nigeria independence at all Does that make them federal government built facilities Yet, the FG are the one accruing revenue coming from this infrastructure.

computer0810:
What year was d pics taken.....only a blind person will deny d massive road rehabilitations going on in lagos presently though d work seems slow, did u consider the over population too

Let them keep deceiving themselves with Lagos has no good roads mantra. Since it doesn't change the fact on grounds which is what we show investors to get their confidence, they can continue burying their heads in sands like a certain ostrich for all I care; especially while their region they want to sell remains in rot. It's better investors get surprised of how far we've gone when we invite them in than be disappointed; so let them continue in their blind hate while we continue shoring up our infrastructural deficits.
May God continue to bless Lagos State
For a greater Lagos state
Eko Oni Baje o

Weathered:
the ports in the Niger Delta were working and have direct access abroad.

Before independence Lagos was administered separately as a colony. It was the federal government that killed the ports in warri, port Harcourt, Calabar and made oil multinational companies have their headquarters in Lagos.

If the ports in other Atlantic bound regions are functioning, we would have considerable less population in Lagos, less less commercial activities.

You ever wonder why cars and other inpoet items are cheaper in other tiny African countries, it's because they have various portd of entry where Nigeria just has one.

Same baseless assumptions. True, Lagos was a separate colony pre-independent but was merged together with the southern protectorate by the same colonial masters that initially separated it and that's because they realized the increasingly wealthy Lagos had enough to finance not just its growth but also that of the others around it. Even the entire amalgamation of all the regions happened in 1914; long before independence. How then did the FG joined Lagos to the other part either wittingly or not to disservice other ports according to your assumption
And of course, on no occasion was any other seaport performance half as good as that of Lagos. And on no occasion was any part of Nigeria as commercially viable as Lagos state. Infact, major companies had been siting their headquarters in Lagos pre-independence even though the military brouhaha chased them away. Now, the FDI is improving again, thanks to the resilient nature of the management.
Perhaps, somebody's feeding you the wrong history.

nograv:
All of the above and you couldnt answer the simple of question of why Lagos may not stagnate again?

Mountain out of a mole hill? Thousands died due to the needless criminality of that period. I lost an Uncle to armed robbers who invaded his home during that era. I lost an Aunt to a car accident caused by poor roads back then. So the economic crisis of that era certainly wasnt a mole hill.

Also if London and New York can stagnate, why cant Lagos?

You even noted Lagos currently isnt self sufficient as it is merely "positioning itself for self sufficiency."

You have exhausted my patience. The younger gentlemen earlier showed more intelligence and understanding than yourself.

You poked at how well travelled I am. I am a software engineer and a financier. I come from a well to do mercantalist family although I am not a patch on my Grandfather & Father who achieved more than I possibly will. In terms of major cities, almost every one. From the Europe, Middle East, North America and Asia. The only region I have not travelled is Latin America and India.

Never got round to the former and because of how the latter treats our people I have no interest in the latter..

You realise my family live in Ikoyi and Lekki. Banana Island, along with property off Bourdillon and Phase 1. Private companies providing limited power generation and bore holes providing water alongside untreated sewage pouring into the Lagoon cannot be compared to centralised ultilities in cities like London. Also do less fortunate Lagosians in parts of the mainland have access to 24/7 electricity or clean tap water as their poor equivalents do in London? No.. So please stop with your nonsense.

What cities have you seen outside of Nigeria? Probably just Eko and yet you talk.. Have good day. All future posts will be ignored..

Oga, you have a closedown mind rigid on nonsense. Read back at what I wrote and realized I answered your question about non happening stagnation you want for Lagos. I gave examples of two moments the state had trouble before and why one affected disasterously while the other didn't stop it moving forward.
For the record, London, New York didn't stagnate anytime even though there were times the two had their patches but till today, they retained their economic importance despite many new world cities emerging with diverse uniqueness.
And Mr Borehole, I gave you certain samples of places with centralized sewage systems and water treatment facilities, yet you still yapped around about borehole. Better don't let the hate on Lagos give you severe BP. Bye