₦airaland Forum

iwaeda:
Lekki residents and road users eku orire traffic and holdups, that Apapa will be child's play

ElSudani:
The light rail projects are ongoing. I would rather have a slow but ongoing successes than the continuous retrogression going on in your state.

anonimi:
You must be a winch to know that I am not a Lagosian because I expose Thiefnuibu and his minions roguish nyansh.

iwaeda:
Lekki residents and road users eku orire traffic and holdups, that Apapa will be child's play

Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

ojuoluwani:
October 20, 2014

LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, gave a breakdown of how his administration expended the N160 billion World Bank loan it acquired, saying the state maintained a healthy debt profile.

Fashoa, who spoke during his commemoration of 2,700 days in office and achievements in the last 100 days, in Alausa, Ikeja, said long overdue refund would go a long way in reducing the debt profile of the State, which he said the Federal Government recently published to mislead the public.

He said, “Recently, our political adversaries issued statements that we have borrowed N160 billion. What they have not told you is what we are doing with the money.”

Enumerating his government’s activities within the period under consideration he said; “In the last 100 days, we have commenced work on providing street lighting on the Muritala Muhammed Way in Yaba.

This is 10 kilometres of public lighting which will be completed by the end of this month. On Eko Bridge, Carter Bridge, Ikorodu Road, Lekki-Epe Expressway and every street and highway where there is street lighting in Lagos, it is the Lagos State Government that supplied the poles, the bulbs, the diesel and the maintenance.

“The only major highway we are not managing for street lights is the 3rd Mainland Bridge.

Fire engines, to secure lives, rail transport from Okokomaiko to Marina, with four stations of eight kilometres completed, and work heading to Marina, with piles appearing near the Eko Bridge every day are the places your Government is spending money. The expansion of the Lagos Badagry Expressway to a 10-lane highway is another place where your Government is spending money.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/lagos-spent-n160-bn-world-bank-loan-fashola/

iwaeda:
How are you sure, I don't have a stake. I have lands and houses along that route

ElSudani:
Of course, lying comes naturally to you. If you are a Lagosian you will understand the magnitude of all the projects being undertaken by the LSG almost simultaneously.

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.

OnknownSoldier:
Buhari is just like Mose taking Nigeria through the wilderness but it is sad that majority of Nigerians can't differentiate between his failures and the handwritings of the enemies of Nigeria.

God bless President Buhari for setting the right foundation for a prosperous Nigeria.

anonimi:
More simultaneously than Jakande did in four years with relative peanuts revenue?
Are you okay with what you are saying? Or you need to see a doctor urgently? Maybe a priest for deliverance from sufferhead Stockholm syndrome? What do you need

MITCHELL96:
Nice, but other riverine states should also do it too, it can't be only Lagos na.

There's Calabar, Akwaibom and Portharcourt.

Salewa97:
Should we now credit it to Obi Pandora, that lying man?

Tinubu brought the investors, everybody knows this including Obi Pandora. So if we credit it to him, we are in line.

Realtalk20:
Lovely . Good one for the southwesterners, the government should do the same for southsouth and southeast. Because no matter how we try I have seen we are not one nation. It is Southwest Vs southsouth and southeast, southsouth Vs southwest and southeast, southeast Vs southwest and southsouth, North Vs south .

The Southwest will use this and taunt other regions forgetting it wasn't built with Yoruba only money but federal money with resources from other regions even IGR is base don all tax and payments made not just by Yoruba but 80% foreigners in Lagos.

So why do we always resort to tribalsim and hate.

MITCHELL96:
Nice, but other riverine states should also do it too, it can't be only Lagos na.

There's Calabar, Akwaibom and Portharcourt.

mustbewell:
Give Akwaibon state the license to do that too and reduce gridlock in apapa

ElSudani:
How much do you think it cost to build a light rail system linking every part of Lagos, and also given the terrain?
Jakande did a lot, but a light rail system is very capital intensive. I think Jakande aslo wanted to start it but the military canceled after the civilians toppled. The excuse then was that it was too capital intensive.
You just don't criticize just for the sake of it. Use your brain, God gave it to you for a reason.

SB2020:
Interesting facts about Addis Ababa and Lagos light rail projects.

Addis Ababa / Lagos
Cost == $475Million / $1.2Billion
Length == 34km / 27km
Time to Complete == 4years / 7years (projected)
Year Awarded == 2011 / 2008 (Construction began 2010)
Contractor == China Railway Eng. Corp (CREC) /Chinese Civil Eng. Constr. Coy (CCECC)
Population == 5Million / 20Million
GDP == $50Billion (Ethiopia) / $100Billion (Est.) (Nigeria - $535B)


Ethiopia has managed to deliver Sub-Saharan Africa’s first modern light rail project which opened in the capital Addis Ababa on Sunday, and in the process, beat Lagos whose own rail project remains four years behind schedule.

Ethiopia’s rail project was delivered on time, despite its being longer than the Lagos – Badagry rail line currently under construction.

Addis Ababa’s two line 34-kilometre system was built by the China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC) and cost $475m, 85 percent of which has been covered by China’s Exim bank. The Lagos Light Rail Project or Blue on Badagry Expressway, was to have 13 stations from Okokomaiko to Marina via Iddo for a total of 27 kilometres.

The contract was awarded to the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) at the cost of $1.2 billion in 2008, and was to be delivered in 2011. Survey work took one year between August 2009 and August 2010 while construction began July 2010.

The work is being implemented using the public and private partnership (PPP) model, whereby the state builds the infrastructure and the private sector provides the rolling stock and management. However, the project has not worked out according to the plan.
The 2011 deadline was missed, even though the State government got a loan to fund the project.

Source
http://businessdayonline.com/2015/09/addis-ababa-beats-lagos-to-light-rail-as-construction-delays-mount/

Eniitankorede:
Other states are not lucky to have a leader like Tinubu. The only time you will benefit is if you elect him as president. He will take development all round NIGERIA.

Realtalk20:
Lovely . Good one for the southwesterners, the government should do the same for southsouth and southeast. Because no matter how we try I have seen we are not one nation. It is Southwest Vs southsouth and southeast, southsouth Vs southwest and southeast, southeast Vs southwest and southsouth, North Vs south .

The Southwest will use this and taunt other regions forgetting it wasn't built with Yoruba only money but federal money with resources from other regions even IGR is base don all tax and payments made not just by Yoruba but 80% foreigners in Lagos.

So why do we always resort to tribalsim and hate.

Ttalk:
I thought you are a sane person.

Your reasoning is clouded with bigotry and it's killing you.

What type of shareholder do we call tax payers. Nigerians residing all over the world are all owners of investment in those countries because they pay tax.

Your mumu na follow come

Ttalk:
I thought you are a sane person.

Your reasoning is clouded with bigotry and it's killing you.

What type of shareholder do we call tax payers. Nigerians residing all over the world are all owners of investment in those countries because they pay tax.

Your mumu na follow come

Armstrong34:
.....Minister of cassava Garri and Ewa don see wetin him go use do Campaign for 2023 Election



Mention me and watch thunder striking your destiny

judithjam:
Bad news for Obidient,they hope its in anambra

Realtalk20:
It wasn't just state funds mister man... FG funds went into this project too.

And even the state funds are they generated by indigenes alone ?

Please spare me such narrow minded thoughts

realestate99:
Seems you are high on adulterated Mpuru Mmiri, Do you think this place resemble your damned village where you have a say? Yorubas owes you nothing. Imagine a nobody claiming Southwest lacks manners, it is high time MTN cut their free 10mb to 3.5 mb, your likes are now violating the magnanimous gesture from MTN

realestate99:
Lamentations of a pained Igbo.

Faiththatworks:
I always start by showing my bias,i will vote for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
This is one of the reasons why I will vote for him,if there's anyone in Nigeria who will square up to the cabal and break the Monopoly of some parasites in Nigeria,I'm sure it's Asiwaju.
He single handedly broke the Monopoly of the creation of local government way back in 2004,he single handedly tried to break the Monopoly of power generation with the ENRON IPP,even though he failed,but he gave Lagos its own sea port before leaving office.
I'm very sure if Asiwaju could do all these way back in 2007,I dare to imagine what else he will do in 2023.
Asiwaju approaches government as a business,he believes government should be run as a business, that's why he could Invest in the Telecom sector when it was still a start-up Industry in Nigeria,infact it's on record he was the 1st state governor to approach the stock exchange to seek for bonds to facilitate the rapid development of infrastructure in Lagos state way back in 2005.
Asiwaju is a financial juggernaut,that way back in 2004 when motor vehicle licence plates was a monopoly of the federal roads safety corps,he took on the agency and today Lagos State is able to mint its own motor vehicle licence plates.
That's why I campaign passionately for Asiwaju,Nigeria needs a big thinker,a big dreamer,a man who sees beyond this crazy primodal needs of food,shelter, clothing that our myopic leaders are obsessed about.
We haven't even started our campaign...
Oya Obiritualists and Atikulators tell us what your principal will do......
God bless Asiwaju
God bless Alh Shettima
God bless Nigeria

judithjam:
Bad news for Obidient,they hope its in anambra

Richy986:
Most of them are ignorant and loud about it.

Echoban:
Oga , FG contribution was 5%,

Last gave 25% with concenssion for 45 years before Lagos will take full control of it all.