₦airaland Forum

BigBlackPreek:
Lagos stands out as the centre of excellence

Centre of excellence in the midst of a country of extreme poverty paupers and highest number of out of school children? A state that has failed to supply ordinary water in every building?

Your standards of excellence deserve to be examined for being abysmally poor, flawed and wrong.

Lagos state: Land of the Developers!

And where is GRV when you need him .. he probably lost his voice😊

Wickedtruths:
I don't see how "go back to the South East" is an attack.

It is only Igbos who see going home as a threat and death sentence.

telling them to go back home is now a suicide mission to the flat head ibos, yet they will never respect their self and mind their business

seguno2:
Centre of excellence in the midst of a country of extreme poverty paupers and highest number of out of school children? A state that has failed to supply ordinary water in every building?

Your standards of excellence deserve to be examined for being abysmally poor, flawed and wrong.

Is this not better than celebrating Julius berger logo and fountain at roundabout amidst extreme poverty in ABIA STATE.

Or ALEX OTTI shenanigans are exempted from all these?

sslcrypt:
So that agberos will be standing on the platform and shouting owomida.

This is not ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE,okay?

Basic123:
Is this not better than celebrating Julius berger logo and fountain at roundabout amidst extreme poverty in ABIA STATE.

Or ALEX OTTI shenanigans are exempted from all these?

Of course it is better than that.

However is that how you refer to the worst people in order to make yourself the best person you can be on the basis of what God has deposited in you, through your ancestors? Why should Yoruba Ọmọlúwàbís refer to Abia state currently instead of Awolowo and Jakande plus other progressive UPN governors

Why do you want us to shortchange ourselves by having poor governance expectations of the rogues in government now?

seguno2:
Of course it is better than that.

However is that how you refer to the worst people in order to make yourself the best person you can be on the basis of what God has deposited in you, through your ancestors? Why should Yoruba Ọmọlúwàbís refer to Abia state currently instead of Awolowo and Jakande plus other progressive UPN governors

Why do you want us to shortchange ourselves by having poor governance expectations of the rogues in government now?

Awolowo and others did well and were also not free from rogue attitude of the present leaders.We are only having cognitive bias in their favor because they are dead.

They also have corruption allegations hanging up on ther neck then!

Wickedtruths:
Go to your place and elect sensible leaders. You idiots are celebrating Julius Berger signboard in your region but are talking trash about electric rail system in Lagos. This is a project you can never have in your place till the end of time.

hahaha this is wickedness but we heard bitter obi was constructing one, I guess it was on paper

Basic123:
Awolowo and others did well and were also not free from rogue attitude of the present leaders.We are only having cognitive bias in their favor because they are dead.

They also have corruption allegations hanging up on ther neck then!

Did they perform poorly like Tinubu and co have done since 1999

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.

seguno2:
Did they perform poorly like Tinubu and co have done since 1999

Abeg shift.....THEY ALSO HAVE CRITICS DURING THEIR OWN TIME WHO BELIEVED THEY DIDNT DO ANYTHING JUST LIKE YOU ARE A CRITIC TO TINUBU AND CO!

Remove your cognitive bias and you will understand

Weither you like it or nor,TINUBU and his boy are one of the best thing that has ever happened to lagos since 1999....lateef jakande might be one of the best before 1999.Each with his own criticism and enemies.

FG left LAGOS TO ROTTEN AND LOOSE RELEVANCE AFTER 1991...TINUBU AND HIS BOYS REVERSE THE TREND!.


Check TINUBU ACHIEVEMENT OUT
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1. Power: Tinubu’s government, in 2000, contracted AES to build an IPP that will generate 270MW of electricity to Lagos residents in order to exit the irrational power supply being provided by the FG. The 270MW is now part of our national grid. It is the first of it’s Kind. Tinubu electrification project covered over 100 communities. In his first term, 53 rural communities were targeted. The projects were completed in Egan, Atewolere, Ifesowapo, Aboru, Agbado Ayetoro, Akorede, Isheri Ikosi, Orile Aguntan, Rofo, Borokini, Omologbede, Araromi, Oke Agbo, Erekusu, Logberu, Okegelu and Ebute, Lekki. Others were Origanringan, Onigbolakowe, Oke odo Elemoro, Ipaja Isale odo, Agenuba, Ajelogo, Mutaku, Egansando, Ayanfe, topo and Ikola Agbenaje.

2. Decentralization: In order to bring governance closer to the people of Lagos state, Asiwaju created extra 36 LCDAs which led to the disagreement between Lagos and the OBJ led FG. They are still working till date. Nigeria needs someone who believes in this!
First of it’s kind

3. Economy: With an IGR of just over 600million naira when he took over, different initiatives which included the reorganization of the LIRS led to an unprecedented IGR of over 7billion monthly after 8 years, the sustainability of which has brought same to 57bn in 2022.

4. Health: Decentralization of the Health Management Board led to the creation of LASAMBUS, an ambulance management scheme, Hospital Services Commission and Lagos State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency. In addition, policies such as “Roll Back Malaria”, “Jigi Bola, Free Health Policy for children below 16 year and adults above 65 years are verifiable ones that stood him out then. The First of its Kind.

5. Infrastructure: Roads, Railway Roadmaps, Port Roadmaps, Housing Roadmaps. Hospital Roadmaps.
6. Investment: Lekki Free Trade Zone opened Lagos to investors and now several top companies/bodies have their headquarters there including the biggest consulate office of the USA. Lekki infrastructure company, Eko Atlantic.

7. Housing: Decentralization of the ministry of works and housing gave birth to the conversion of the housing department to a full fledge ministry which was charged with providing 500 units of houses yearly. This single move led to making the Lekki corridor the fastest growing real estate investment haven in Nigeria. Housing sector was opened to the private investors and Lagos became the highest destination for real estate investors in Nigeria.

8. EDUCATION: Payment of WAEC fee for students from all walks of life so far you live in Lagos. Several schools were built. The One-Day governor program started with the spelling bee competition.
First of its kind

9. SECURITY: The closest thing to state policing started in Nigeria under Tinubu, with RRS in 1999. The prisons reformation in order to curb activities of criminals, led to conversion of Ita Oko Prisoners Camp to a Youth Skill Acquisition Centre. Infact RRS is now the most performing police force in Nigeria. To make things work, he created the Lagos security trust fund where private sector come together to invest in Lagos security in conjunction with the government


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQz9jyOOk1M&t=1s

10. ENVIRONMENT: LAWMA, LASEPA, LWC, PUMAU, LASECA. All formulated by
Tinubu to tackle the issue of environmental decay in Lagos.

11. EMPOWERMENT SCHEMES: The creation of several agencies led to several openings in the government which led to jobs in LASTMA, LAGBUS, LASEWA etc. First of its kind.

12. PPP Initiatives:
-Lekki Free Trade Zone PPP - Tinubu
-Eko Atlantic - PPP Tinubu
-Lagos state security trust fund - Tinubu
-Lekki infrastructure company - Tinubu
-Enron power project PPP - Tinubu
-LSPDC PPP - Tinubu
-Privatisation of Healthcare delivery ( Labs and diagnostic centers) - Tinubu
-Lagos BRT scheme PPP - Tinubu
-Lekki concession company PPP - Tinubu

Tinubu Received many awards: They include
-The ‘Best Governor of for 2001 by the Nigerian/Belgian Chamber of Commerce
-Winner of 2002 Best Practices Prize in improving the living environment (by the Federal Ministry of Works and UN habitat Group), 2000
-Best computerized Government in Nigeria (by the Computer Association of Nigeria),
-2003 Green Crystal Award for Enhancing the Value of the Environment (by Clean-Up Nigeria (CUN),
-2002 Healthcare Award as the best provider of best health services in Nigeria, Presidential Merit Award for technological Development by the Nigerian Society of Engineers,
-2001 National Literacy award for outstanding contribution to mas literacy,
-Co-winner of 2002 Outstanding Alumnus award of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC),
-2001 Distinguished Alumnus Award by Chicago State University, Distinguished Service Award for Exemplary Leadership by the Lagos State Economic Summit Group,
-Certificate of Commendation by the national Conference of Black mayors,
-Silver Jubilee Anniversary Award as Labour Friendly Governor by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural gas Workers (NUPENG),
-Award of Recognition by Nigerian Berge Limited for the initiation of the Independent Power project (IPP).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/tinubu-most-progressive-gov-of-99-era-nnamani/%3famp

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Namaster:
Lagos is the ONLY state that works in this useless country.

Great state.

Because that's where the whole country resides

PHAYOL81:
The faster the GREEN LINE connecting LFTZ, IBEJU and the PURPLE LINE connecting RCCG CAMP got underway, the better it's poised to be for residents living in those corridors and experiencing the hell of traffic explosion on their respective roads.
I honestly don't understand why the state can't or don't undertake other lines through PPP for faster delivery and quicker solution to our roads congestion. At least, we've seen how fair the BLUE LINE is faring.

GOD BLESS LAGOS STATE

those two lanes will come up by year two thousand and fifty