₦airaland Forum

thunderbabs:
Festac's glory has been stolen....

benardtotti:
Festac was sold off ,yet you want government to come and take care of it for you ? It's like asking government to come take care of 1004 even after selling it to private owners ,the reason nigeria hasn't gone far is because citizens refuse to take responsibility for things they should and would rather point fingers at the govt.

Reference:
That is how Abuja will turn out in a hundred years from now at the rate lawlessness rabes on.

Today virtually alll the green areas are being overrun, residential properties are being converted to commercial purposes and infrastructure is in decay.

Development is not about spending on projects and the provision of infrastructure alone. It is also about the power of laws and edicts to preserve them. It is about institutions being guardians of norms and standards.

This failure makes Nigeria a third world country and at the rate it goes will make Abuja a third world city in a a few decades just like Festac has gone bust.

givedemwotowoto:
You see that last photo? That was Tilumbu’s original master plan for Lagos which he designed in 1945 after the Second World War when he was just -7 years old, then he gave it to Gowon in 1979 before he left for Chicago to make money for the building phase.

When we tell you people that he built Lagos you people will be arguing. Now you have seen it.

Racoon:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JvtyFZiFu/

Justiceleague1:
Nothing like area boys agberoes tout urchins this time....
Nothing like agbadoes and auntie Helen this time..

illuminutty:
Abokis okada riders, keke and street trading have destroyed Festac town.

I don't even want to talk about the total infrastructural neglect that place has suffered.

No single road in Festac Tow presently.

It has the highest number of bad roads and potholes more than Ogun State.

Racoon:
This is one of the legacy projects of the General Yakubu Gowon era. However the beauty thereof have long been defeated due to population expansion and poor maintenance culture of the government.

Beremx:
Festac Town I was born and bred in the 80s is no longer the same today. The town has lost its credibility

thunderbabs:
Festac's glory has been stolen....

Gab1976:
Tinubu build Lagos, where are you seeing no road or FESTAC town nor be Lagos.

illuminutty:
Abokis okada riders, keke and street trading have destroyed Festac town.

I don't even want to talk about the total infrastructural neglect that place has suffered.

No single road in Festac Tow presently.

It has the highest number of bad roads and potholes more than Ogun State.

benardtotti:
Festac was sold off ,yet you want government to come and take care of it for you ? It's like asking government to come take care of 1004 even after selling it to private owners ,the reason nigeria hasn't gone far is because citizens refuse to take responsibility for things they should and would rather point fingers at the govt.

benardtotti:
But if the same government comes around tomorrow to enforce laws and permits ,same you will turn around and play victimisation card , do you know some people actually went to court ,dragged lagos state to court over environmental sanitation, same people will still come out and shout flood and lagos is dirty . Like I said a society that doesn't like to take responsibility for anything but turn and blame government can never go far.

givedemwotowoto:
You see that last photo? That was Tilumbu’s original master plan for Lagos which he designed in 1945 after the Second World War when he was just -7 years old, then he gave it to Gowon in 1979 before he left for Chicago to make money for the building phase.

When we tell you people that he built Lagos you people will be arguing. Now you have seen it.

princemol:
Because the 'great developers' of the land of the dying sun have taken over the place, it has become a shadow of its former self. They turned the place to shanty

givedemwotowoto:
You see that last photo? That was Tilumbu’s original master plan for Lagos which he designed in 1945 after the Second World War when he was just -7 years old, then he gave it to Gowon in 1979 before he left for Chicago to make money for the building phase.

When we tell you people that he built Lagos you people will be arguing. Now you have seen it.

PigTormentor:
More like the maintenance culture of the people. We always blame govt for everything.
You have to go outside of your village, travel around the world and see how ordinary people take good care of their neighborhoods, their immediate environment to see that we thr people are the real problem.
I lived here when it first opened. I still remember vividly exactly how it looked when we first moved in.

Ot has gone down mostly due to over population, people moving in families of 10 into an apartment meant for 3 3 to 4 people. Over population outs extrem pressure on sewage, water, electricity and roads. It
The same people don't want to pay for any service such as water, sewage and others, they expect govt.to just take care of everything.
That doesn't happen anywhere in the world.

smtx:
You are fundamentally mistaken in blaming the people. The deterioration of projects like FESTAC is a direct result of government failure and negligence, not citizen misconduct.The government, through the parastatal the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), is the official custodian responsible for maintenance and preserving the original structure.

Here are the key areas where the government is to blame:

Failure of Monitoring and Security: The FHA's dedicated monitoring teams, which once enforced building codes (e.g., prohibiting burglar bars, fences, and makeshift markets), have vanished. In the late 80's you dare not erect a buglary in a block of flats, or build a fence around T8, T9 or T10 duplex. With insecurity becoming a challenge every flat, duplex is fenced and well gated now.... Then you could walk through FHA field to 111 road without stress, now with fences and gates its impossible. This negligence created a vacuum.

Neglected Security and Infrastructure: The police, a government arm, failed to curb rising insecurity, forcing residents to install security gates and hire private guards. Furthermore, essential infrastructure like the Water Works reservoir stopped functioning in 1995, compelling residents to drill private boreholes.

Rampant Corruption and Land Grabbing: In the early 1990s, FHA officials engaged in mass corruption, selling off buffer zones, playgrounds, and fields like the popular FHA field to cronies and criminal elements. I remember the case of the Communion Church and the then Minister of Works Maj General Abdulkareem Adisa who wanted to demolish the church cos it was sitting on the buffer zone. This unchecked land racketeering fundamentally destroyed the original master plan (e.g., the infamously nicknamed "Cocaine Avenue".

100000% ACCURATE!!!

Poverty and Overpopulation: The government has failed to address the increasing population's need for housing, making it unfair to blame citizens for overcrowding.

Gerrard59:
Nigerians have a poor maintenance culture. It's why these big big mansions they erect around baffles me. People who cannot maintain a 1km road want to maintain vast swathes of real estate holdings.

Kalulu44:
First picture is 22 road from Agboju bus stop.
But that place including the whole of Festac is now a mess. Unrecognizable

gassbee:
We used to fetch drinking water from dat reservoir those days

Gerrard59:
Real estate in Nigeria is just vibes else areas with deteriorating infrastructure shouldn't have high prices. Well, war/insecurity too reduces the value of real estate. See those who owned big mansions across Northern Nigeria pre-Boko Haram. A friend's family relocated to Abuja from a bustling northern city (big mansion there) due to the insecurity.

Buying a property in Cape Town makes greater sense.

GloriousGbola:
i counter you - they have raised prices in lagos

there has been a steady influx of northern upper middle class to festac in particular - and they have led to an increase in prices of homes