₦airaland Forum

Alliswell248:
What do you gain from lying?

How many states have you been to?

FutureFocus:
It’s unbelievable and embarrassing because when I was growing up there was nothing like sachet pure water , we simply just fetch and drink from the tab at home , all those facilities are dead now , we used to have state water corporation and waterboard then , imagine how much money government will be making from water bills alone

Public utilities are sources of revenues to the government but I just don’t understand nowadays

They started buy making the water unreliable , water go for a whole day and we start looking for water everywhere like petrol scarcity, Fela had to 🎶 sing Government magic

Fela Song
Water dey go! Water dey Come! Government magic …..”

Everyone had to resort to drilling boreholes and wells

SocialJustice:
Mention na, I haven't travelled to all States but I know what it takes to run public water supply. Our leaders are not that effective. Ordinary light they can't provide. Water is a lot harder to provide.

porthouse7:
Lagos....but few places like surulere

Alliswell248:
I have in my compound

SocialJustice:
Where in Surulere? Bode Thomas, Denedo, Olatilewa, Palace? Where, did the water enter house or it stopped at a tap outside?

masseratti:
are you freaking kidding me?so because people are importing electrical generator and solar power, Government should not provide conducive power to the people, because someone is selling pure water which was an aberration when I waa young Government should not provide pipe borne watee again..go to Abuja and see how people are enjoying pipe borne water which they still pay for .

OlofofoCorner:
It was working in most places in Lagos in the early 80's till early 2000.....e g Surulere , Festac , old ojo road, Apapa, Ebute meta, Yaba , Lagos Island, Ikeja ......
But poor maintenance destroyed the system. Now it has stopped in majority of those places.....but still working in some places in Apapa

ElevationD:
Hopefully pipelines can be fixed in a lot of the communities that do not have pipelines. New areas have developed over the years and pipelines are not located there.

Old neighborhoods like Ilupeju, Surulere, Victoria Island, Yaba, Anthony, Eric Moore, Ajegunle, Apapa, Jibowu, etc have pipelines running through them. Hopefully new areas like Ajah, Dopemu, Magboro, Ikotun, Ajangbadi, Okokomaiko, Ilogbo, Ikola, Abaranje/Okerube, Agbara, Command, Ayobo, etc can benefit from this. It should take plenty of time to lay the water pipelines, but hopefully the resources can be found to fix the pipelines.

Thank you to Lagos state government and the Governor.

Right now, a massive 8.1km stretch of 1600mm Diameter Ductile Iron (DI) pipes is being laid within the Adiyan premises. These pipes will transport raw water into a cutting-edge 320,000m³/day water treatment plant, ensuring that every drop meets World Health Organization (WHO)… pic.twitter.com/6T9M6dWci0

— Tokunbo Wahab (@tokunbo_wahab) March 8, 2025

mrvitalis:
Oha bayelsa have depending on where you stay my family house in Yenagoa get water even though we have borehole

SocialJustice:
There's really no state with pipe borne water in Nigeria. 😂

mrvitalis:
None the states with slightly functional ones

Are bayelsa, Enugu and IMO... The rest don't have

And yet they keep abusing Enugu

SocialJustice:
There's really no state with pipe borne water in Nigeria. 😂

masseratti:
ire aakari water gave me typhoid when I attend Apata...plus nothing hilly about that area..Lagos is mostly a plain marsh , swampy land .

Antichristian2:
You didn't read my first comment but you read the second! I've been to Enugu trade fair before. I say posters in Igbo for buying water on trucks, tippers,etc. It may be better now!

Emary:
I know you mean well but unless they lay new pipes in all those areas, the water won't be suitable for drinking. They were iron pipes laid well over 40 - 50 yrs ago and they would be thoroughly rusted now, if not yet vandalized by iron workers.

ElevationD:
Apata memorial is not on a low land na. Bros talk true. Approaching from Okota roundabout entails driving a little uphill. If you approach through Chemist, na the same. If you approach through Ilasamaja na the same. However, Okota has issues because it is on the low land.

smokinloud:
I'm not kidding, I'm only talking common sense. If generators have more economic benefits than the national grid then government can consider it but that's not the case... For instance, using fossil fuels to generate electricity makes more economic sense for the government, it’s cheaper than solar, nuclear, wind, thermal, hydro and all the greenhouse nonsense and it also provide cheap energy for the manufacturers in the United States to compete with China... Energy is what drives industrialization, and any country serious about growing needs power, affordable power hence, Trump ripped up the Paris climate deal —for a reason, not because climate change is not a threat but it's a scam that's dragging the West's economy backwards. Green energy’s nice, but for the U.S. to keep its economic edge, cheap fossil fuels are the way to go. Governments don’t just do things because they’re noble; they weigh the economic side too. Lagos, if the government supplied water to every home, think about the ripple effect. You’ve got water treatment workers, plumbers, water distributors, water tanker distributors, companies selling bottled and sachet water, water chemicals treatment sellers in Ojota ( I used to be one then) etc. arguably, about 200,000 people in Lagos rely on those jobs. How are they supposed to feed their families if that dries up? Nigeria’s already short on jobs—do you really think a smart government would cut off these people’s livelihoods like that? Think it through!.

akigbemaru:
There were in early 80s and 90s in Lagos. I just left Lekki yesterday and flew back to USA. I would rate Lekki 2 out of 10. No water and everywhere smells!

masseratti:
Oh jeez ...wow .when youbhave not left the shores of Nigeria,you won't know the value of pipe borne water,when you have not left Nigeria..you wont know that some people have never seen generator in their life..its because you been deprived of this basic amenities that's why you are saying what you are saying..

Am not going to dwell on your conspiracy theory and maga hogwash about green energy,etc .

Saying fossil fuel is the cheapest form of energy is extremely laughable so let me stop there .

No economic sense in not having a water treatment plant for a metropolis..look at American movies..every town always av a watwr towers,thats the first thing they makw aure its there before thinking of building any other thing.

smokinloud:
You have to assume that I've not left Nigeria.. You're just making claims without concrete points. If Nigeria government provide water for every household today 100s of thousands of job will be lost. Nigeria is a third world country, there's no job for the populace and you want us to follow the models of developed countries?.

masseratti:
its not compulsory for you to do water business...you will hardly find generator mechanic in Ghana..it's an abnormal.. people doing watee business is not normal my brother ..they will venture into other business..not a social amenities business like good drinking water for all .

smokinloud:
The notion that “it’s not compulsory to do water business” misses the mark. people run water businesses even in developed countries, and it’s perfectly normal. I just searched Google and found a U.S. EPA report showing that some American communities, even in urban areas, rely on decentralized water systems. Private individuals handle their own borehole drilling, water treatment, and distribution. The EPA also notes that over 13 million (in 2022) and 45 million (in 2025) U.S. households depend on personal water sources, like wells they’ve built and maintain themselves. This isn’t some backward anomaly; it’s a standard practice, even in a wealthy nation. Water businesses aren’t odd, they’re a global norm.
Your thinking leans socialist, but a capitalist mindset puts economic impact first, not noble intentions. If noble goals trumped economics, the U.S, with all its wealth, would have universal healthcare like the UK or a railway system linking every state like China. It doesn’t. Childcare, internet access, affordable public transport, free education to university level? Basic amenities, sure, but the U.S. government leaves them to the private sector. That’s no accident, it’s why the U.S. stands as the greatest nation in history. It thrives and can cut-off any country without because its citizens don’t depend on the government for everything. Socialism sounds nice, but it doesn’t work. Capitalism, with all its edges, delivers.

Modified: The reason why you find few generator mechanics in Ghana is because Ghana is a developing country. Developed countries like the US have generator mechanics who work on industrial generators e.g the mining sector, trucks that transport frozen foods big agricultural companies etc.

ElevationD:
Hopefully pipelines can be fixed in a lot of the communities that do not have pipelines. New areas have developed over the years and pipelines are not located there.

Old neighborhoods like Ilupeju, Surulere, Victoria Island, Yaba, Anthony, Eric Moore, Ajegunle, Apapa, Jibowu, etc have pipelines running through them. Hopefully new areas like Ajah, Dopemu, Magboro, Ikotun, Ajangbadi, Okokomaiko, Ilogbo, Ikola, Abaranje/Okerube, Agbara, Command, Ayobo, etc can benefit from this. It should take plenty of time to lay the water pipelines, but hopefully the resources can be found to fix the pipelines.

Thank you to Lagos state government and the Governor.

masseratti:
oga please stop posturing nonsense online please it's making you look some how..heck people are into private business of electricity generation, private education,schools,have you heard of private roads toll gates?pipe borne water is a social amenity..you crying that Government should not build a water treatment dam in Lagos is hilarious because of people doing water business...there will always be market for them but in ideal situation..there is not even a need for them in a state like lagos with watee everywhere..all the government need to do is to lay pipes to all households .it's not rocket science...the America you quoted.is as large as west Africa..with vast plains ,rugged terrains wilderness etc .alot of households are far away from the metros..hence why they have yi fend water for themselves..you wont see that in Europe cities ...nor in American cities..but surburbs , settlements..lagos is a city and its suppose to have a good functional watwr system .that has nothing to do with being a capitalist or socialist..thats nomenclatures is non of my business...water is a government social amenities responsibility like road ,health care, education, security, electricity....all this still have people on the private sector offering services for them if you dont want government own