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Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by Calitoscassius(m): 3:35pm On Sep 04, 2023
Wealthoptulent:
Lolz..
Nigerians are going to be practicing Europe/UK styles now.. cars for weekend only, we jump bus & Train with our Pass card.. LOW EMMISION ZONES cheesy . ... dem say we suppose live longer now .
Lagos has Cowries jus like Oyster card in London... make every state begin develop names for cards


not only tunes bros.. even National rail that falls in the zone you going within London upto Watford [zone 9]...
Yes, but in my area we do not use oyster or any kinda travel card,I moved outta London 20 years ago..
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by IbeOkehie: 4:43pm On Sep 04, 2023
One of the largest producers and exporters of crude oil & natural gas in the world can't produce it's own fuel shocked This country is so poor that it the price of petrol has caused traffic to disappear from the roads!!!! Poverty is a curse and Nigeria is the Poverty Capital of the World!!!!

Where's the Anti-Jakpa Crew? Please come and spin this one, tell us how businesses are relentlessly expanding and living in Nigeria is better than living in UK.....yeye ode!!!!

High price of petrol will favor me and my family grin

Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by MrsTwrite(f): 5:12pm On Sep 04, 2023
AutoConsultng:
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Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by Fujiyama: 6:54pm On Sep 04, 2023
optionalY09:
BBC just shut up, we don’t need you to instigate anyone to violence.

Where are people actually going

The world is changing people don’t need to travel to make money. BBC should work with government to serve homes with broadband internet for free that’s what we need and not too many people running the street
^^^

grin

You ordered them to shut up...and you also ordered them to provide you with free internet. How?
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by Fujiyama: 7:04pm On Sep 04, 2023
grandstar:
Removing it in phases won't work.

Even the subsidy isn't gone. With the Naira depreciation, some subsidy is back. That is the same outcome if you remove the subsidy in phases.

For the subsidy should really end, a deregulation of the price is what's needed. That means prices should be set by market forces and government no longer has a hand in setting the price of petrol.
^^^
undecided

In other words we now have the best possible results, right? Our current situation is the best out of a range of options, right?
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by Fujiyama:
Babysho:
This could be profitable only if Lagos government was a good govt. This is free advert for the BRTs, the ferries and the trains because people that never used them would try them now. If they have good experiences, it’s something they would opt for and drop their cars.

But as a user, I can tell you the wait time for the BRTs is nothing to write home about. They’re always sluggish and allowing rogues cut in line. And I we still can’t top up the cards from our phones. 2/10 rating.
^^^
Their agents are here but they will never ever take your customer feedback and act on it. Their job here is to waste everyone else's time with endless 'hyping' of their masters - calling black white and expecting us all to concur.

I renewed my vehicle certificate of roadworthiness today and collected my documents after inspection of the vehicle. The rot in lagos vehicle inspection service (VIS) is something else:

The VIS only collects cash - as if it is a bank. No other mode of payment accepted. undecided

The VIS does not have its schedule of charges and fees boldly pasted anywhere for the public to see - you have to ask how much a service costs and you are given an amount by word of mouth...as if we are buying tomatoes in the market. undecided

The VIS never, ever issues any official receipts for payments made. There is no record whatsoever. And this is a government agency? undecided

And so on. This nonsense has been on for years. It isn't likely to end anytime soon - because the governor prefers to travel to London to watch football, instead of you know, actually governing. undecided

I went to Alausa to challenge them on this. Nothing came out of it - because the rot is from the very top. Instead of cleaning up their garbage, they keep looking for new ways to cheat and defraud the public. Their latest scam now is that the (PoC) Proof of Ownership Certificate (which used to be a one time issue) is now renewable annually - at additional cost. Absolutely no value has been added to motorists/car owners with this migration to an annually renewable PoC...it is just another means of fleecing people.

We voted them in and we will keep paying the price. Every damn day.
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by Jessez: 9:59pm On Sep 04, 2023
helinues:
No offense but to drive on Lagos roads, you must be a mad man
you are right sir lols
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by Jessez: 10:00pm On Sep 04, 2023
MrsTwrite:
For one to reside in Lagos, he or she must be an agbero. Lagos is not for the weak at all.
So u mean I'm agbero me that reside in lagos
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by VeeVeeMyLuv(f): 10:23pm On Sep 04, 2023
Fujiyama:
^^^

grin

You ordered them to shut up...and you also ordered them to provide you with free internet. How?
His kind in the olden days are usually executed for intentionally being illogical and misyarning during very important council meeting.

They are executed by immediately bundling them up into the guillotine or pushed from the top of a high mountain.
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by Babysho(m): 7:51am On Sep 05, 2023
Fujiyama:
^^^
Their agents are here but they will never ever take your customer feedback and act on it. Their job here is to waste everyone else's time with endless 'hyping' of their masters - calling black white and expecting us all to concur.

I renewed my vehicle certificate of roadworthiness today and collected my documents after inspection of the vehicle. The rot in lagos vehicle inspection service (VIS) is something else:

The VIS only collects cash - as if it is a bank. No other mode of payment accepted. undecided

The VIS does not have its schedule of charges and fees boldly pasted anywhere for the public to see - you have to ask how much a service costs and you are given an amount by word of mouth...as if we are buying tomatoes in the market. undecided

The VIS never, ever issues any official receipts for payments made. There is no record whatsoever. And this is a government agency? undecided

And so on. This nonsense has been on for years. It isn't likely to end anytime soon - because the governor prefers to travel to London to watch football, instead of you know, actually governing. undecided

I went to Alausa to challenge them on this. Nothing came out of it - because the rot is from the very top. Instead of cleaning up their garbage, they keep looking for new ways to cheat and defraud the public. Their latest scam now is that the (PoC) Proof of Ownership Certificate (which used to be a one time issue) is now renewable annually - at additional cost. Absolutely no value has been added to motorists/car owners with this change to an annually renewable PoC...it is just another means of fleecing people.

We voted them in and we will keep paying the price. Every damn day.
“The VIS only collects cash - as if it is a bank.” This got me laughing hysterically.

I’m sorry you went through that avoidable ordeal. Lagos still has in it’s systems, symptoms of the headquarters of colonialism where on the surface of it, it looks like it’s working but a closer look at the skeletal system, you’ll find rot and wickedness. Best described by a writer as a modern city with archaic systems…..and it doesn’t have to be so.

The chain reaction of the expensive governments that don’t invest in the people is too aggressive. People begin to act wiser than God created them to.
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by albert2512: 8:54am On Sep 05, 2023
Godszilla:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66652771.amp
Now I understand why some lazy journalists get international insults. I hope the journalist knows about Eko reconstruction which recently got completed.
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by AutoConsultng: 11:59am On Sep 05, 2023
MrsTwrite:
Do need help with that?
Yep
Re: Lagos Traffic Jams Disappear But This Isn't Good News For Nigeria - BBC by MrsTwrite(f): 11:41pm On Sep 05, 2023
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