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Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by tctrills: 7:54am On Aug 07, 2025
raskymonojendor:
Tell us you are not from Lagos without telling us you are not from Lagos.

Lagos before and After Tinubu.
It is funny you had to show the project done by the 3rd or 4th governor after your lord and king. I was hoping you would post pictures of Tinubu projects.
It's only Tinubu boys that present other governors achievements as Tinubu projects.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Ttalk: 8:03am On Aug 07, 2025
InvertedHammer:
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If Lagos was this developed and neat in 1963, which part exactly did Tinubu build outside of the verifiable works of Fashola and Ambode?

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I think what you should ask is which part did the developers develop with 2X2 shops
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Mccullum: 8:05am On Aug 07, 2025
The Obi propagandists has shifted their strategy from direct medias assault on Tinubu to a diplomatic method.

Any ways they coloured it. Jagaban's loyalists will contain them. It's all about political strategy and for national interest.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by mickyeddi: 8:34am On Aug 07, 2025
Sometimes I wonder why we even gained independence when life under colonial rule was way better.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Kdon2: 8:46am On Aug 07, 2025
Racoon:
Go to that area today and see the kind of anti social elements( thugs, alayes, owomida boys etc ) that have long made a mess of it. Even the unknown soldier cenotaph is a place they smoke hemp and other substances
This what ndi developer said they develop. Awon opuro
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Josephkabila12: 9:27am On Aug 07, 2025
Racoon:
Go to that area today and see the kind of anti social elements( thugs, alayes, owomida boys etc ) that have long made a mess of it. Even the unknown soldier cenotaph is a place they smoke hemp and other substances
you'll see touts, beggars, thieves, criminals at iweka junction onitsha, anambra state
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Mbanda(m): 9:40am On Aug 07, 2025
raskymonojendor:
Western region was doing great and moving at a fast pace before the coup of January 1966 scattered everything..

Western region had a TV station and was offering free education and healthcare before many developed countries.
Was it yorubas that achieved such?
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by TRUTHaDDICTED(m): 10:01am On Aug 07, 2025
raskymonojendor:
Tinubu's Lagos below..

Show us Peter Obi's Anambra.
Was Lagos developed by Tinubu people or Peter Obi people, and how's it Tinubu's Lagos?
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by lightwind(m): 10:02am On Aug 07, 2025
casualobserver:
I lived in Lagos before the mass influx of Ibos. Trust me you don’t want me to answer that question.

Look for old pictures of areas where Ibos are concentrated today.
So other Nigerian tribes don't live in Lagos State, it is now only the Igbos vs the Yorubas that lives in Lagos ?
Shame on you people
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by casualobserver: 10:07am On Aug 07, 2025
lightwind:
So other Nigerian tribes don't live in Lagos State, it is now only the Igbos vs the Yorubas that lives in Lagos ?
Shame on you people
are you not the ones who say Ibos outnumber or equal the yorubas in Lagos? if so then the only people who matter are ibos and yorubas. And i said go to where the ibos are concentrated and look for old pictures of those areas when ibos were not many in Lagos. Surulere, ikeja, Amuwo, festac Lekki tell me what difference you see.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by lightwind(m): 10:13am On Aug 07, 2025
casualobserver:
are you not the ones who say Ibos outnumber or equal the yorubas in Lagos? if so then the only people who matter are ibos and yorubas. And i said go to where the ibos are concentrated and look for old pictures of those areas when ibos were not many in Lagos. Surulere, ikeja, Amuwo, festac Lekki tell me what difference you see.
My dear let the Igbos BREATH!!
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by casualobserver: 10:17am On Aug 07, 2025
lightwind:
My dear let the Igbos BREATH!!
na dey i dey my lane, na you come jump on my mention.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Reflect7: 10:29am On Aug 07, 2025
Ezmans:
It was covered then but you know our country lacks maintenance culture
It’s a pure lie.

It was never covered.

It has always been open gutters in Aba. And no sidewalks.

In the whole Nigeria, it was only on a few streets in Lagos island the British built covered drains and sidewalks.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Reflect7: 10:40am On Aug 07, 2025
9japride:
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You that loved yourself, what have you done with the power given to you? How has it reflected in the growth of the country?
Other countries that are developed, are they not humans like you?
Why are we not as developed as South Africa and other northern African countries? Do they have 2 heads?
The truth is bitter.
You are not as developed as South Africa because the white colonialists regarded South Africa as their home, and settled their people there in large numbers. So they did not steal and loot all the resources of the country, but instead began to build infrastructure, universities, power plants, Industries, from the 1880s.

Such that by the 1950s, South Africa was well developed.

In Nigeria, it was the complete opposite.

The British built a big fat Zero in Nigeria. All they did was loot.

That’s why in 1960 Nigeria was a bush. Zero infrastructure, zero industries, zero power plants, zero universities.

Meanwhile South Africa’s first universities were established in the 1880s.

That is why Nigeria and the rest of Africa are playing catch-up to South Africa - Unlike them, We only began to develop in the 1960s after independence.

Look: Independence brought you out of the bush, so thank your lucky stars ✨ for it.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Jabia(m): 1:16pm On Aug 07, 2025
raskymonojendor:
Tell us you are not from Lagos without telling us you are not from Lagos.

Lagos before and After Tinubu.
Sigh...

The image above is exactly how Tinubu left Oshodi. Fashola sanitized the area and left lovely gardens (appreciated by miscreants, the general public and traders alike) and Ambode built the structure in the second image.

None of this was Tinubu - his main contribution to Lagos was growing the income base and entrenching a culture of competence from subsequent governors.

None of Tinubus infrastructure (roads especially) is left intact today. They were typically very poorly done. I'll stand corrected if you have proof to the contrary.

Also, can you confidently share pictures of the area under that Oshodi interchange/overpass? You share the nice picture of the parks looking new but they are currently dilipadated and surrounded by filth!
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by 9japride(m): 1:17pm On Aug 07, 2025
Reflect7:
You are not as developed as South Africa because the white colonialists regarded South Africa as their home, and settled their people there in large numbers. So they did not steal and loot all the resources of the country, but instead began to build infrastructure, universities, power plants, Industries, from the 1880s.

Such that by the 1950s, South Africa was well developed.

In Nigeria, it was the complete opposite.

The British built a big fat Zero in Nigeria. All they did was loot.

That’s why in 1960 Nigeria was a bush. Zero infrastructure, zero industries, zero power plants, zero universities.

Meanwhile South Africa’s first universities were established in the 1880s.

That is why Nigeria and the rest of Africa are playing catch-up to South Africa - Unlike them, We only began to develop in the 1960s after independence.

Look: Independence brought you out of the bush, so thank your lucky stars ✨ for it.
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Though, they might have looted. But I believe Nigeria start oil exploration late. Normally, if the British had used the proceeds from oil/gas Nigeria will be highly developed.
Since they left everything for us, nothing to show off.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by hilaryCU(m): 1:55pm On Aug 07, 2025
Softmirror:
Infact if not for the Buhari's Coup of the early 80s that derailed the progressive development of Lagos. Lagos for don go far, far, far ahead. All this Light rails of today were already initiated for during the days of Jakande.

And regarding the TV station,

Nigeria's First Television Broadcast
Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) launched on October 31, 1959, making it the first television station in Nigeria and the first in Africa.
The station was created by the Western regional government, under Chief Obafemi Awolowo, to serve as a tool for education, information, and cultural promotion.

France launched their's 3 years earlier in Algeria not even France.
And where is the tv station today? Rushing to bring something you can't improve or make maximum use of is not in the best interest of anybody. Africa started playing Nations cup, can you compare it with European Championship. Let us stop gloating over trivial things that doesn't uplift up adequately as a peo people.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by Bahamas95(m): 10:45pm On Aug 07, 2025
Our Independence came too early, the British should have remained till today because the so-called leaders are useless.


Nothing is working in the country anymore, what they're concerned about is to embezzle public funds.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by SamuraiXXX: 1:16am On Aug 12, 2025
Change is the only constant thing in this life
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by AlphaTaikun: 5:50pm On Nov 04, 2025
[quote author=Raco.on post=136354774]Yeah. The Wild, Wild West era was a period of peace and tranquility for a sophisticated region that ended up giving a nation a despicable criminally inclined man like Tinubu.[/quote]
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by sreamsense: 6:01pm On Nov 04, 2025
Racoon:
Go to that area today and see the kind of anti social elements( thugs, alayes, owomida boys etc ) that have long made a mess of it. Even the unknown soldier cenotaph is a place they smoke hemp and other substances
You can see very orderly environment when ipob/ESN leader was not yet born to order burning of BRT in Lagos. This was the time not far from when population census of Lagos done never included igbo then because effect of Samuel Ajayi crowther that brought civilization to them and wrote their first book was still in force. Imagine how beautiful Lagos was then when there was no single baby factory and illegal drug businesses yet. Good time, indeed!
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by ambale(m): 6:07pm On Nov 04, 2025
raskymonojendor:
Tell us you are not from Lagos without telling us you are not from Lagos.

Lagos before and After Tinubu.
That before was the typical Lagos between 1999 - 2007 and the second one began around 2009/2010

So na who be the governors wey turn Lagos around??
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by 7lives: 7:48pm On Nov 04, 2025
esnbrutality:
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You are asking a known propaganda ninja about defending their propaganda posts?

Abeg, see IKEJA before TINUBU changed the landscape, according to RONU-bandits. grin
Probably somewhere in your village, Ikeja was already developed since the late 60s.
There were even industrial estates in Ikeja created by late chief Obafemi Awolowo.
Go and collect your 5 plots of red mud and stop polluting our space jor.
Rada rada.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by 7lives: 7:53pm On Nov 04, 2025
Mbanda:
Was it yorubas that achieved such?
Google is your friend.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by 7lives: 8:00pm On Nov 04, 2025
hilaryCU:
And where is the tv station today? Rushing to bring something you can't improve or make maximum use of is not in the best interest of anybody. Africa started playing Nations cup, can you compare it with European Championship. Let us stop gloating over trivial things that doesn't uplift up adequately as a peo people.
Says who?
Those who dismantle regionalism didn't end well, their children, their kiths and kins still won't end well.
Ko je bi o se je.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by hilaryCU(m): 12:39am On Nov 07, 2025
It was the threat of the succession of Biafra that led to the collapse of regional government.
7lives:
Says who?
Those who dismantle regionalism didn't end well, their children, their kiths and kins still won't end well.
Ko je bi o se je.
Re: The Popular Idumota Junction During The Colonial Lagos Era( Photo) by hilaryCU(m): 5:42pm On Nov 24, 2025
We could have done better with regions, I believe on hindsight. But, states were created to destabilise the agitation of Biafra then.
7lives:
Says who?
Those who dismantle regionalism didn't end well, their children, their kiths and kins still won't end well.
Ko je bi o se je.
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