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obynzo:
Can you not just make a comment without throwing shades. If they start insulting you, then you will shout they are tribalistic whereas you bringing this shades is hundred times worse than them.

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Sharap

Inspection iro..

they should show me video of him pointing at something joor. What is inspection without pointing

shigishege:
Eko fine like London!!

Are you talking about where Londoners have been using the Underground metro since 1863 when they were around 3 million people?
Why are you so confused with low expectations of those who beg (campaign) to be given the opportunity to serve you

LeoDeKing:
Second term or not, governance continues till 29 May 2023. That is the spirit and God bless Sanwo-Olu, God bless Lagos state.

I understand the only governance ongoing in some 5 cursed god forsaken villages is the smell of Tinubu's farts and the number of times he farts per day.

If you are not confused with ThiefNuibu’s farts, should you not ask why your idol has taken forever to do something that Jonathan did in five years with the Abuja-Kaduna railways?
Can you please redeem yourself from your ThiefNuibu’s fart induced confusion? Is that possible

citygarden:
Good, a very Laudable project from vision leader. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed tinubu

The failure who could not build it during his eight years in office? Or you have another JagaBandit in mind?

Topzee109:
Some people will hate on this

Yes, because it will reduce their selling of Gala and La Casera in Lagos holdups.

anonimi:
Are you talking about where Londoners have been using the Underground metro since 1863 when they were only 3 million people?
Why are you so confused with low expectations of those who beg (campaign) to be given the opportunity to serve you

which one your state governor do, if as Lagos is running kiti kiti running kata kata to compete with other countries is how other states are striving to do the same,I bet you Nigeria would have been great in terms of infastructure....


Do you know that Lagos currently have 3 better stadiums that can host great football events while other state governor are building sport complex that even OAU sport complex is far better than.

Wait till Lagos State complete her power project and that's capable of powering the whole state for 24hrs non stop and una go see say lasgidi na the next big thing..

Drop hatred Lagos is in another league entirely..

All thanks to a visionary leader like BAT.

anonimi:
Are you talking about where Londoners have been using the Underground metro since 1863 when they were around 3 million people?
Why are you so confused with low expectations of those who beg (campaign) to be given the opportunity to serve you

what's this one saying?? If you yamirin don't stop this hate, one day hypertension go finish you people

Enugu needs to have this metro rail too.

naptu2:
Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

Today, We are on a tour of the BLUE LINE Rail Project of the Governor @jidesanwoolu Administration, We arrived the National Theatre Station … You know we are already using Cowry Cards on our BRT, Waterways, FLM Buses, so it will work for the trains too. 👌🏿👌🏿#LagosRail 🚊🚆🚂 pic.twitter.com/UCmNwnqzuh

— Jubril A. Gawat (@Mr_JAGs) April 24, 2022

Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

Today, We are on a tour of the BLUE LINE Rail Project of the Governor @jidesanwoolu Administration, We will move from there to the Iganmu Station, Alaba Station and all other Stations on the Blue Line Rail and back to Marina. #LagosRail 🚊🚆🚂@gboyegaakosile @gbenga_omo pic.twitter.com/08m5y5a6PL

— Jubril A. Gawat (@Mr_JAGs) April 24, 2022

If Lagosians are smart as they claim to be, should they not have been riding the light rail since June 2013 as promised by Fashola in January 2013? Are Lagosians really smart, or they are just as dumb as the 200 million Nigerians who enjoy suffering and smiling simultaneously?

naptu2:
Lagos light rail’ll be ready in June – Fashola

January 9, 2013

L-R: Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Joke Orelope-Adefulire; Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, Mr. Dayo Mobereola; Governor Babatunde Fashola; and Managing Director, China Civil Engeneering Construction Corporation, Mr. Shi Hong Bing, during an inspection of the light rail project in Lagos ... on Tuesday


The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday said the first phase of the state Blue Light Rail project would be completed by June this year(2013).

He expressed confidence that Lagosians would start enjoying the services of the lrail project immediately.

The first phase would run from Marina and terminated at Okokomaiko area in Ojo Local Government.

Fashola spoke during an inspection of ongoing projects in the state which took him and his cabinet members to Orile-Iganmu, Alimosho and Ejigbo areas among others to assess the level of works being done by contractors.

The governor, who inaugurated the trackwork of the blue light rail at Alaba Suru, Coker-Agunda Local Council Development Area, said the level of work on the road and those of the National Theatre and Alaba-Mile 2 rail stations, would ensure early completion

He said, “In order to finish the project, the contractor did not go on vacation during the festive period. This will ensure that the project is delivered on time for the use of Lagosians.

“The first section of this rail, which started from National Theatre, Orile-Iganmu to Mile 2 Bus Stop, would be fully completed with the tracks laid.

“Construction work will continue on the project from Orile-Iganmu to Marina, the expansion work on the road from Mile 2 to Okokomaiko will also be intensified.

“This is what we do with the loan collected by the government. We don’t use our loan to pay salaries and other recurrent expenditure, what we do with our loan is to provide capital projects that would serve the residents.

“When the project is completed, the state would be at par with other major cities of the world.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-light-railll-be-ready-in-june-fashola/

anonimi:
If Lagosians are smart as they claim to be, should they not have been riding the light rail since June 2013 as promised by Fashola in January 2013? Are Lagosians really smart, or they are just as dumb as the 200 million Nigerians who enjoy suffering and smiling simultaneously?

How would that have been possible when funding of the project was blocked by the Federal Government? Can you tell us what happened to the loan guarantee (I'll give you a hint, the same problem that happened during the Shagari era). Stop the spin.

Funding Hampers Lagos-Badagry Expressway —Fashola

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 2:31 pm

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says completing the Lagos-Badagry Expressway is tied to funding, which the state government is currently grappling with.



The governor also disclosed plans to build 1008 flats estate this year in Ijora area of the state as part of plans to enable many people own their homes.

Fashola spoke during a tour of projects across Lagos, southwest Nigeria on Tuesday, saying that funding is one of the determinants of the project.

He explained thatbit is one of the reasons why he went to the House of Representatives to appeal for the approval of a second tranche of 200 million dollars loan out of the 600 million dollars World Bank loan which the government intends to use part of to finance the project.

He said he could not give a date of completion as it is tied to so many things, including challenges that were observable and “those that are not very observable but surface on the field and have to be solved.”

He said that contrary to insinuations in certain quarters that works on the road had stopped, a lot of work is actually going on, adding that what “is going on now is a soil replacement process as shown by the observed heaps of sand because the soil in the area has become unsuitable having been used as a refuse dump over the years.

“There is also a pipe network just as there is a need to take care of a gas pipeline and the relocation of all the electricity cables. The construction workers cannot just go in and remove PHCN cable without getting the PHCN involved.

“We are at the stage where we are relocating facilities. That is why to the uninformed, it would appear as if we have stopped work. We have not stopped work, relocation of those facilities is going on,” he stated.

Fashola also said the issue of relocation of affected residents was also on going as compensation was being given to people who have had to give up their properties so that the work could be done.

“So, be very sure that casting and preparation of all the concrete is going on behind the scene. By the time we finish the relocation and the contractor moves to positioning the things, it would be quicker than you think and you would think it happened overnight,” he stated.

On the Okota Road expansion, Fashola stated that the community had outgrown the road and that there was a need to expand it, saying this explained the need to increase infrastructure investment.

He said that the population had grown many times past where the government did not build infrastructure to support the road, stressing that as government moved to address that deficit the population has not stopped growing.

“So, we are trying to expand Okota Road and some of the properties needed to give way. Everybody wants a good road but no one wants it to pass through his house. So, some of the tenements took us to court and I think we have settled out of court now and we have to pay compensation,” he said.

On the Light Rail Project, Fashola said the first phase of the project would be ready in June, while work on the rail would continue to Okokomaiko even as the expansion of the Lagos-Badagry expressway continues.

“You know we have the two projects linked together, the road expansion and the Light Rail simultaneously.”

And now we are trying to see how we can take the rail from the National Theatre to Marina. Hopefully, when that is done, we can heave a sigh of relief. Though there is still work to be done, so far so good.

“This is what we do with the money which we borrow; we do not borrow money to pay salaries, we don’t borrow money to run our overhead. We are investing it in infrastructure. This is the type of transportation that I dream for this country; this is the type of transportation that I dream for this state and not mass transportation by motorcycles,” he stated.

He noted that China opened what is, perhaps, the fastest high speed rail in the world that covered about 300 kilometres per hour, stressing that, “why can’t that happen here? It is really no rocket science, if we can’t invent it, we can buy it and that is what we are doing. We are buying facilities to have it installed here.” The governor urged residents of Iganmu not dump refuse along the road, saying that there was need to keep the surroundings of the project clear of refuse, adding that “you should take ownership of the project”

Projects inspected by the governor during the tour are the Iganmu, Alaba and Mile 2 Light Rail Stations, on-going projects at the Lagos State University (LASU), Maternal and Child Care Centre, FESTAC, Okota-Ago Palace Road, Ejigbo-Ajao Link Bridge, network of roads around Jimoh Ajao Street, Igando HOMS and Resettlement Relief Camp, Igando, on-going projects at Alimosho General Hospital (School of Nursing and Hostel among others) and Samuel Jinadu Street at Markaz area of Orile Agege, among others.

—Kazeem Ugbodaga

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/01/09/funding-hampers-lagos-badagry-expressway-fashola/

Topmaike007:
which one your state governor do, if as Lagos is running kiti kiti running kata kata to compete with other countries is how other states are striving to do the same,I bet you Nigeria would have been great in terms of infastructure....

Do you know that Lagos currently have 3 better stadiums that can host great football events while other state governor are building sport complex that even OAU sport complex is far better than.

Wait till Lagos State complete her power project and that's capable of powering the whole state for 24hrs non stop and una go see say lasgidi na the next big thing..

Drop hatred Lagos is in another league entirely..

All thanks to a visionary leader like BAT.

Complete power project, after how many decades since ThiefNuibu used the Enron barge propaganda to steal money from Lagosians?

Topmaike007:
which one your state governor do, if as Lagos is running kiti kiti running kata kata to compete with other countries is how other states are striving to do the same,I bet you Nigeria would have been great in terms of infastructure....

Do you know that Lagos currently have 3 better stadiums that can host great football events while other state governor are building sport complex that even OAU sport complex is far better than.

Wait till Lagos State complete her power project and that's capable of powering the whole state for 24hrs non stop and una go see say lasgidi na the next big thing..

Drop hatred Lagos is in another league entirely..

All thanks to a visionary leader like BAT.

Another league of worst global cities? Or what other league is that?

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.

Last year, Nigeria overtook India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, thereby becoming the world capital of poverty, according to the Brookings Institute. This year, the number has risen to 91.6 million from 87 million in June 2018. Every minute, six Nigerians enter the group of extremely poor people, according to the World Poverty Clock.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

naptu2:
How would that have been possible when funding of the project was blocked by the Federal Government? Can you tell us what happened to the loan guarantee (I'll give you a hint, the same problem that happened during the Shagari era). Stop the spin.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/01/09/funding-hampers-lagos-badagry-expressway-fashola/

Oga Naptu2, below is an extract from the PM News you posted sir. Thanks for your understanding sir.

On the Light Rail Project, Fashola said the first phase of the project would be ready in June, while work on the rail would continue to Okokomaiko even as the expansion of the Lagos-Badagry expressway continues.

Okay! Relocation sales biko

anonimi:
Another league of worst global cities? Or what other league is that?

Oga oni crayon.
Crayon don finish?

Eko 4 show

anonimi:
Oga Naptu2, below is an extract from the PM News you posted sir. Thanks for your understanding sir.

Good God Almighty! The whole thing is right there in front of you and you can't read it?


The completion date was June 2013, but that was dependent on receiving the funds as it was due. The Lagos State Government took a loan from the African Development Bank to complete the project. It required a guarantee from the Federal Government before it could access the loan. The Federal Government guaranteed the first tranche in 2010 and work began. However, the Federal Government refused to guarantee the second tranche and therefore there was no money. Fashola had to go to Abuja to meet the minister of finance (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) and when he didn't get a favourable response, he went to the National Assembly to complain. The loan still wasn't guaranteed until a year later, when inflation and fall in the value of the naira had hit the project. This is in that same article that I posted. Read it

He explained thatbit is one of the reasons why he went to the House of Representatives to appeal for the approval of a second tranche of 200 million dollars loan out of the 600 million dollars World Bank loan which the government intends to use part of to finance the project.

He said he could not give a date of completion as it is tied to so many things, including challenges that were observable and “those that are not very observable but surface on the field and have to be solved.”

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The only reason why they can complete it now is because Governor Sanwo-Olu got a funding assistance from the Central Bank.

This should be easy to understand (in fact, I am convinced that you know this, but you are just pretending).

shigishege:
Eko fine like London!!

I never go London



But this na my mecca

anonimi:
Complete power project, after how many decades since ThiefNuibu used the Enron barge propaganda to steal money from Lagosians?

go read about that project and make your research why it has not materialise

LeoDeKing:
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Sharap

Mumu

LeoDeKing:
Second term or not, governance continues till 29 May 2023. That is the spirit and God bless Sanwo-Olu, God bless Lagos state.

I understand the only governance ongoing in some 5 cursed god forsaken villages is the smell of Tinubu's farts and the number of times he farts per day.

he is building it for 5 curse village because nah from them dey give lagos the revenue they are generate.. crawl back to ogun and continue ur skull mining , lagos belonged to 5 cursed state of the East

Sheuns:
Ambode should have completed this a long time ago. Anyways it’s better late than never, at least people fit leave cars for house some days.

Asin ehn

Am glad Tinubu showed him the way out
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How will someone abandon such critical project

naptu2:
Good God Almighty! The whole thing is right there in front of you and you can't read it?

The completion date was June 2013, but that was dependent on receiving the funds as it was due. The Lagos State Government took a loan from the African Development Bank to complete the project. It required a guarantee from the Federal Government before it could access the loan. The Federal Government guaranteed the first tranche in 2010 and work began. However, the Federal Government refused to guarantee the second tranche and therefore there was no money. Fashola had to go to Abuja to meet the minister of finance (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) and when he didn't get a favourable response, he went to the National Assembly to complain. The loan still wasn't guaranteed until a year later, when inflation and fall in the value of the naira had hit the project. This is in that same article that I posted. Read it

The only reason why they can complete it now is because Governor Sanwo-Olu got a funding assistance from the Central Bank.

This should be easy to understand (in fact, I am convinced that you know this, but you are just pretending).

Many thanks sir for your feedback.
I have read everything again but his talk about funding constraints was about the Badagry road, which is still undone. He was clear with the June date of the first phase of the light rail.
Thanks for your understanding sir.

Sheuns:
Ambode should have completed this a long time ago. Anyways it’s better late than never, at least people fit leave cars for house some days.

A serious government will make the use of vehicles super expensive, while providing comfortable mass transit options to reduce traffic jams.
Government is not just the governor/executive, but also the lawmakers/legislative arm.

Cognitivereason:
Asin ehn

Am glad Tinubu showed him the way out
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How will someone abandon such critical project

Maybe he was inspired by the cancellation of Jakande’s metro rail by military dictator Buhari in the 1980s.
How wonderful moving around Lagos would have been if Buhari did not do his 1983 coup, and Jakande completed the metro while continuing free education, healthcare, low cost houses etc? Something that ThiefNuibu and his puppets have failed to achieve in 23 years plus, even though they have been raking in money like kilode from the people’s pockets.

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

anonimi:
Many thanks sir for your feedback.
I have read everything again but his talk about funding constraints was about the Badagry road, which is still undone. He was clear with the June date of the first phase of the light rail.
Thanks for your understanding sir.

If the loan was for both the road and the rail and the project was being delayed because the loan was not approved, isn't it common sense that both projects were affected?

2) What he said would be ready was the first phase, that is Mile 2 to Orile and that was finished exactly when he said it would be ready.

3) The rail runs through the median of that road, how would the rail be complete if the road is not complete?

On the Light Rail Project, Fashola said the first phase of the project would be ready in June, while work on the rail would continue to Okokomaiko even as the expansion of the Lagos-Badagry expressway continues.

The barricade shouting welcome will spoil easily within a short while. Why not use the normal one with steel. Most big companies in the world use it and it last longer.

Moreso, inside the train is too tight for passage for safety concern or people's pass.