₦airaland Forum

WizardOfNG:
Indeed. The move is long overdue. If you don't force the hand of Nigerians, who are naturally very stubborn and unruly, progress will never be made.

I had a driver who used to toss everything out of the car. Food waste, satchet water bags, PET bottles etc.

I warned him several times about the need to find a bin for his waste because that is best for environmental sanitation that is the duty of everyone.

Even if we are near my business premises or residence, with bins he can use, he'd still toss stuff on the road.

He would joke that he needed to give road sweepers and cleaners work to do. In the end I sacked him. Last year. Still calls and text till today pleading for re-employment.

the move is long overdue but the same you said

WizardOfNG:
Please, kindly refrain from spreading misinformation. Lagos has expressly and publicly clarified that satchet water and PET bottles are excluded from the ban.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/lagos-clarifies-plastic-ban-water-sachets-pet-bottles-exempted-as-july-1-enforcement-nears/

which are you celebrating that is long overdue?

10billionDollar:
This will further skyrocket the cost of living in rural and urban areas.
For instance since there's a ban on sachet water, low income earners will be forced to pay more to buy bigger plastic bottle water

I want the cost to things to be high and the environment clean and safe than the way it's in India where the cost of things are cheap, but environment dirty.

I want bags, no matter how small it is, to cost 2k and above so that we'll be forced to reuse and not dispose them easily like sachet water.

Poor people that love having too many children will begin to rethink their lives and know that 4 children is enough.

People will walk around with their expensive refillable bottle water and won't dispose it easy. Indirectly, it'll benefit the environment and our health.

Have you ever walked on the street and see money littered around and no one is picking them like in Venezuela? No.

Then, why do Nigeria litter dirt everywhere and always throwing things out of the windows of their vehicles?

Those bags should to be durable and expensive to the point big men can't dispose theirs let alone poor men.

I pray Lagos pulls through this, but I know they won't — it's initial gragra based on Nigerian standard.

Talking about low income earners, go and check how many children or side chicks most of them have and you'll know they don't pity themselves in the first place. Some of them are even training women in school.

Plastic cutlery hmmm just thinking.

Those that pack food in those approved plastics so what do we attach for them to use to eat.

Pure water nylon should be included ,also take away foam

What Lagos needs to ban are the wooden kiosks and parasol umbrellas that have flooded all the roadsides and market areas in Lagos! Those things are an eyesore… makes everywhere looks dirty and ugly!

anonimi:
How do you focus on peripherals when you have not dealt with the basics?

What did ebilokan and his placeholder successors do with the 80 times increase in budget, due to IGR squeezed out of the masses, for 26 years if we still have to drink shitty water from boreholes in compounds with sewage septic soak away tanks?

Why have they all failed to employ engineers, technicians, accountants, clerks, layers, secretaries, billing agents etc for the past 26 years to make pipe borne water available to all Lagosians?

To make free drinking water for you ? Government will become drinking water producers ? You want those private businesses owner out and government to venture on water selling for consumption ? Ok ooo!!!!! Entitlement mentality made many Nigerians unreasonably .

adekolaelect:
To make free drinking water for you ? Government will become drinking water producers ? You want those private businesses owner out and government to venture on water selling for consumption ? Ok ooo!!!!! Entitlement mentality made many Nigerians unreasonably .

If you are not seeing balablu, then please point out where you saw FREE drinking water in the comment you replied to.

While you are at it, kindly explain what ebilokan is doing apart from stealing money, if his 26 years master plan has failed to deliver water to Lagosians.

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 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.

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.

[quote author=anonimi post=135965377]If you are not seeing balablu, then please point out where you saw FREE drinking water in the comment you replied to.

While you are at it, kindly explain what ebilokan is doing apart from stealing money, if his 26 years master plan has failed to deliver water to Lagosians. I am not a political jobber like you. I don't say Tinubu is a performer . I am highlighting some point you many Nigerians want from government which may not be possible. They cancelled disposable plastic usage but you are blaming them and mentioning provision of water for lagosians to drink or for household? But whatever your answer is yet your responses did not related with the topic of why pet one use disposable plastics was banned in Lagos.