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I must give kudos to Jide sanwo-olu. Infrastructures are good but without security of lives and properties, all these becomes useless.

Let's bring PO on-board for a better and unified Nigeria!

Oga Gomimor of Ilu Eko.
Ko Choke mi o.

The streets of Lagos are decorated with heaps of refuse.
There is one heap of refuse near Little Road in Yaba that is over three years old and now like a bush.

The filthy environment of every state is the evidence of an incompetent government from the local government to the Office of the President.

The environment of the JK Randle Centre is filthy and stinks.

Let Lagos extend this development to rural area,abi Shey na island be only Lagos,apart from the iganmu to badagry 10 lane road no other thing

BigSarah:
Looking good

Vote Atiku say no to rookies and drug barons

You should be supporting obi.
I'm not voting any president, if I will it would be obi and I'm PDP member I'm voting Jandor23.

They dragged all the Projects and made sure they complete just in time before the next election to sway voter sentiments.

It would be refreshing to see a new party rule over Lagos but we would never find out would we? With Tinubu and his boys’ playbook.

Ameoba300:
I must give kudos to Jide sanwo-olu. Infrastructures are good but without security of lives and properties, all these becomes useless.

Let's bring PO on-board for a better and unified Nigeria!

Is Anambra where Peter Obi comes from secure?
Peter Obi that can't even campaign in Anambra.
Abeg go and sleep.

Allisgud:
Let Lagos extend this development to rural area,abi Shey na island be only Lagos,apart from the iganmu to badagry 10 lane road no other thing

I don't think it's the job of the government. It's investors that should open those place up to bigger investment.


Those place are majorly residential area tho.
At least what we need is more train so movement will be easier and that's what we've gotten.

[quote author=naptu2 2[/quote]This is conflicting information you are putting out. Balablublu Blu Bulaba built Lagos and everything in it...why will you say JK Randle did all those things?

when will Ogun state governor commission a project?

[quote author=naptu2 post=119314083][/quote]K. Randle x3


Dr John Kehinde "JK" Randle


Dr John Kehinde "JK" Randle was born in Sierra Leone in 1855. His father, Thomas Randle, was a liberated slave from Oyo, who had settled in Freetown. He later moved to Lagos. John Randle attended the CMS Grammar School in Freetown, Sierra Leone, before working as a dispenser in the colonial hospital. He saved enough money that enabled him to attend the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1884 and 1888, graduating with a gold medal in materia medica. Randle and his fellow-student Obadiah Johnson obtained positions in 1889 as Assistant Colonial Surgeons in the Lagos Colonial Hospital. At the same time, Randle practiced privately, treating most of the European traders of Lagos, particularly the Germans.


In November 1890 Randle married Victoria Matilda Davies, the daughter of the famous and wealthy Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies and Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria's god-daughter. Queen Victoria had given Matilda Davies the name Victoria at her christening, had bestowed an allowance of £40 for life and had given her a solid gold christening set. The queen donated the material for Matilda's wedding gown.


Randle resigned from the Colonial Service in 1892. He was angry that as an African he was given about half the salary of a European with the same training, and that he was being required to serve as a doctor in locations far from Lagos. Gilbert Thomas Carter, Governor of Lagos in 1891–97, said of his resignation, "My past experience of native doctors ... does not encourage me to place much faith in their aptitude for this profession..." Randle withdrew his resignation, but asked for an increase in salary to £500 per year. Randle was dismissed from the service in September 1893 for his persistent refusal to make tours of duty to the British military outpost at Ijebu Ode. He devoted himself to private medical practice, in which he was highly successful. He served patients from all levels of society, providing free treatment to the poor. Randle was successful in treating yellow fever and guinea worm infestation.


Dr Randle grew wealthy, acquired a lot of land in Lagos and had a significant shareholding in the Bank of British West Africa (now First Bank Nigeria). He was one of the famous "Victorian Gentlemen" of Lagos (in the late 1800s and early 1900s). He even went as far as ordering his food from England!


He was one of the leaders of the idea that an African Church needed to be created. A lot of Nigerian priests had received advanced formal education in the late 1800s, but this did not translate into senior positions for them. Some African priests had complained, but they were suspended on basically, racist grounds. In 1890 Randle was a member of a committee that invited the pan-Africanist educator, journalist and politician Edward Wilmot Blyden (a Liberian) to Lagos to support them in their dispute over the Niger Mission. On 2 January 1891, at a meeting attended by Governor Cornelius Alfred Moloney, Blyden proposed an independent African Church with Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther as its head. (An African Church was eventually established in 1901 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Church).


Although Herbert Macaulay's Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) was the first political party in Nigeria, many political associations had existed long before the NNDP was created in 1922. These associations were created to promote certain causes and fight for certain rights, rather than to contest elections. Dr JK Randle became active in politics and the governor of the Colony of Lagos, Sir William MacGregor, made him a provisional member of the Legislative Council in 1899. Dr JK Randle, along with other notable and legendary Lagosians like Dr Orisadipe Obasa, Sir Kitoye Ajasa, Sir Adeyemo Alakija and Dr Richard Akinwande Savage formed The People's Union, a political association, in 1908.

In my personal opinion, the main problem that the People's Union had was that it was not radical enough for Lagosians. It actually fought against some of the policies of the Colonial Government, but it did not go as far as Lagosians would have liked.

For example, the People's Union fought against the water rate that was proposed by the Colonial Government. The government had planned to tax Lagosians and to use the revenue to build the Iju Waterworks. Many Lagosians, especially traditional Lagosians, felt that the new waterworks would be primarily used by the Europeans and therefore the Europeans should pay for it. The traditional Lagosians were satisfied with the water that they bought from Da Rocha and with the many wells that were dug across the city. When the government insisted on imposing the water rate, the traditional Lagosians, led by the Oba of Lagos, Eshugbayi Eleko, staged a mass protest that led to a riot.

In contrast, although the educated elite, led by the People's Union, opposed the water rate, their reason for opposing it was that there should be no taxation without representation (this was similar to the demand of the American independence agitators). They demanded that the government should conduct elections, so that Lagosians would have a say in how their tax money was being used, only then would they accept the water rate (traditional Lagosians were not ready to accept the water rate for any reason). The educated elite, led by the People's Union, later capitulated when they were threatened by the government (Lord Lugard brought back the idea of the water rate and threatened the members of the People's Union with charges of sedition and threats of agitation).

The members of the People's Union also fought against the proposal by Lord Lugard to convert all land in Nigeria to government property. They toured Yorubaland and even went to London to campaign against the proposal. The government subsequently dropped the idea.

The People's Union waned during World War 1 and Dr Randle and Dr Obasa formed the Reform Club after the war. The Reform Club took an interest in politics and education and seemed to be a continuation of the People's Union.

Herbert Macaulay formed the Nigerian National Democratic Party in 1922 and Governor Sir Hugh Clifford instituted elections in Lagos in 1923 and in response to these activities, the People's Union was revived. However, as I said earlier, it was not radical enough for Lagosians. Herbert Macaulay and his NNDP vigorously challenged the policies of the Colonial Government, while the People's Union advocated for gradual change. The people of Lagos loved Macaulay very much.


The pool and garden

However, our main concern in this piece is the major contributions and donations that Dr JK Randle made to Lagos.

Dr Randle lived in the Marina area of Lagos (you might remember that I told you that Europeans and wealthy Lagosians lived on the Marina before the Onikoyi gave the Europeans land on which they built a European settlement in Ikoyi). He could see as Lagosians were being ferried from the Island to the Mainland and vice versa in boats (which were the main means of transport at the time). Every so often there would be a mishap and a boat would capsize and people would die. Dr Randle felt that the situation could be improved if Lagosians were taught how to swim. He wrote several letters to the Colonial Government, urging them to build a public swimming where Lagosians would be taught how to swim, but his letters were ignored.


Dr Randle then decided to do the task himself. He built a public swimming pool in the Onikan area of Lagos and handed it over to the Lagos Town Council to run. He went as far as donating money for the maintenance of the pool. That pool is the famous Onikan Swimming Pool.


Dr Randle also felt that ordinary Lagosians should have a park where they can relax in the evenings. The park and beach at the Marina was mainly used by Europeans and he wanted somewhere that indigenous Lagosians could relax. He therefore built the famous Randle Love Garden near the pool and handed it over to the council to run.



Dr Randle also made huge donations to several communities across West Africa. In 1920 he was appointed one of the vice-patrons of the Sierra Leonean Friendly Society of Lagos. He built a chapel and two schools in his birth town of Regent, and contributed funds to erect a science building at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone and to support science teaching there. He donated his medical and scientific books and journals to Fourah Bay College, and donated money for a professorship and medical scholarships.


Dr John Kehinde "JK" Randle passed away on February 27th, 1928 at the age of 73. He was buried at the rear of the Ikoyi Cemetery, but in 1940 his remains were moved to the front of the cemetery as a gesture to acknowledge his achievements. JK Randle Road, Onikan (between Tafawa Balewa Square and State House Marina) is named after him.

Where are the housing projects to support millions living in the Makoko ghetto?

Very nice project but there must be a balance between vanity projects and social welfare.

Allisgud:
Let Lagos extend this development to rural area,abi Shey na island be only Lagos,apart from the iganmu to badagry 10 lane road no other thing

There's actually little or nothing in Lagos Island in terms of state infrastructures, they are all on the mainland including the seat of government, institutions, industries, Universities, colleges, hospitals, health centers, bridges, flyovers, parks, the list goes on.

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God bless me
God bless Yorubaland
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria
God bless the earth and it's inhabitants

plaindealer:
There's actually little or nothing in Lagos Island in terms of state infrastructures, they are all on the mainland including the seat of government, institutions, industries, Universities, colleges, hospitals, health centers, bridges, flyovers, parks, the list goes on.

if I show u those trenches picture u will show me where we have the same in highland,we need a govnor who will be on the neck of local govt chairman to perform this is how development will become a competition

we need a govnor who will be on the neck of local govt chairman to perform this is how development will become a competition

This is why Lagos is always leading, they are blessed with good leaders and they don't play with their state.

Btw, if you don't understand or speak Yoruba, go and learn for your own good, Yoruba is the future of Nigeria from culture, to arts and entertainment, economics and so on.

Allisgud:
if I show u those trenches picture u will show me where we have the same in highland,we need a govnor who will be on the neck of local govt chairman to perform this is how development will become a competition

A mainland LG chairman built this ...

They are all trying their best..

Lol,Okoros from alaigbo are avoiding this thread like it's a kinda plague !

Apparently,another source of headaches for the primitive proponents of "Lagos is no man's land' ! Just like someone rightly said earlier on here,Yoruba are not in competition with any tribe,especially that insecure,primitive tribe from across the Niger ! We are the Omo Alades (Yoruba),Omo Odu - to - da - iwa,the great Omoluabis and we know our history right from Ile Ife to Oyo Ile and to the entire world ! We are the SHINNING GLORY of the entire black race - Ogo gbogbo Iran adulawo !

God bless the entire Yoruba land and all the Omoluabis !

Sundaycomputer:
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I can't find Tinubu's name in this story. Should i believe he is from Iragbiji, Osun State?

3 generations of excellence, see the consistency...

May we leave a good legacy for our children.

Wen dem dey leech on d inhabitants of Lagos how dem no go erect dat kind structure. D annual tax 4m Lagos is enough 2 build a FIFA standard, world class stadia even wit all d embellishments wey dey go on.

Lagos Lagos country inside country

Venerable612:
They dragged all the Projects and made sure they complete just in time before the next election to sway voter sentiments.

It would be refreshing to see a new party rule over Lagos but we would never find out would we? With Tinubu and his boys’ playbook.

Just like Edo did abi?

Edo no be Lagos indeed.

Who will Nigerians blame if they fall for this propaganda blizzard AGAIN?

kingamaa:
No controversy

Lagos na baba

Three gbosa for the oga at the top

Oga na master

very impressive, now that is the quintessential Lagos and yoruba culture that endear them to all..........not the one that looks for IPOB to abuse! meanwhile is that Onikan, our stumping grounds during exeats from the hostels of Kings college! That whole area from moloney to Tinubu square should be declared a historical area.........that axis is packed with history from holy cross,Christ cathedral, old supreme court, national parliament building,old remeberance arcade,independence building,campus square to my primary school Saint Mary private school..........memories of good times!

His Book The Godfather Never Sleeps is a classic Non-fiction work that greatly inspired me in my teenage days.