₦airaland Forum

How many times we wan talk this matter?

Racoon:
"Beautiful of Life in Festac Town During It Early Stage... "

now WATER LOGGED TOWN with algae all over street, and they still see their selves as RICH PEEPZ

CodeTemplarr:
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It became the eyesore it is today becase of people like Wike and those arrogant, law-disregarding retired and serving officers.

Point of corrections, those retired Generals and service are Men, were allocated those places as part of there retirement package, also that place is a federal Govt property, and was built as part of games village for Festival of Arts and culture

Racoon:
People have migrated to the US, UK and other developed countries of the world and yet they are not hellish. So swerve!

Don't they have controls in those countries you mentioned and aren't they deporting people now? Swerve guy

thisisit:
There were no AGBEROS in Lagos in those good old days!
Lagos is now infested with touts, thugs and agberos

There were Agbero then, they were restricted to the Motor Parks and not on every Road as you have it now.

When Festac was hosted in '77, I was saw Agberos at Jankara Motor Park, Idumota Motor Park and Iddo Motor Park.

The interesting thing is the Yorubas were the Agberos at Jankara and Idumota Park while the one at Iddo Motor Park were Igbo people.

If in doubt you can ask the elderly people on Nairaland.

Racoon:
People have migrated to the US, UK and other developed countries of the world and yet they are not hellish. So swerve!

1. You answered the bigot well

2. However UK and USA have nice cities because they pay the kind of tax that if any Nigerian LGA, state or even federal institute in this country, there be rumble

For.example many cities in the UK , residents ( except students and minors for obvious reasons) pay council taxes from 180-200 pounds a month,or 340000-410000 naira monthly. That way they can pay for the upkeep of such places.

Now imagine festac residents being asked to pay that amount of money. Or any Nigerian city or any part of Lagos.?

Even under the regime of your beloved GEJ Dem no go gree. Poverty will be the refrain

muyico:
Nigerians lack maintenance

No ,Nigerians cannot afford to pay for good maintenance and upkeep of houses and streets


Like now, do you pay your city taxes in the range of 300000-400000 monthly so that your city can afford road maintenance, street light maintenance, water supply maintenance even developing a good transport and other city infrastructure?

You go tell me that Nigerians are on minimum wage. So we get what we pay for.

Nothing wey dey look nice, somebody dey pay for am.

MEGAWATCH:
Nigerians can clearly see from the pictures the difference between when Gowon built it and when Tinubu came with his abgeros to rebuild the place.


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We were talking about festac being messed up as early as 1991.

Plus Lagos was an awful slumyard as early as the 1960s. Shey we go blame Gowon for not making Lagos more beautiful then.( For the record,tinubu did not do anything better)

The problem is paying for good maintenance services. If you don't pay for good maintenance, things will get messed up.

If a government tells Nigerians to pay city tax of even 10000 monthly, person go say poverty.

Also festac houses were allocated. That meant giving housing to people who could not afford to keep them up. See the wahala.? Free housing does not mean that the person getting it has the kudi to keep it up

MarkNsukkaBread:
Are you going to give them the money with which to do it?

They have it already but love stealing too much. Inatead they will ask fod new cash.

am the man hitting that drum

When Nigeria imported Idols from other Nations and started on a downward spiral.

PepeXKermit:
Some of una go dey talk like say na una papa get this lagos. Una fit no dey even live therr talkless of owning property there..

I am a Lagosian, my family owns a house in Lagos, even though I am not in Nigeria. What I wrote is totally correct cos y'all focus too much on Lagos and you all forget that your state government is receiving billions in allocations every year.

Maybe if we all held our governors accountable, Naija would be a better place instead of complaining bitterly about another person's state? 🤷🏽‍♂️

Ushame:
1977 Lagos was still FCT at that time... so the development was monopolised

It is no longer the FCT, so focus on your home state or Abuja. We're making those other state governors loot in peace while we all focus on Lagos, you self reason am... Other states are just collecting and pocketing, meanwhile na Lagos dey carry load pass.

Let's be fair na!

The environment will always adjust to the state of mind of the people living in it.

If you look through this lens, you can easily tell the collective state of mind of the people in any area you visit.

CodeTemplarr:
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It became the eyesore it is today becase of people like Wike and those arrogant, law-disregarding retired and serving officers.

MEGAWATCH:
Nigerians can clearly see from the pictures the difference between when Gowon built it and when Tinubu came with his abgeros to rebuild the place.


😂😂😂😂😂

Festac is under FG control and it's the influx of the usual suspects through their domination of federal civil service that destroyed Festac.

If Festac was under the Lagos state government it would have been well managed

Racoon:
People have migrated to the US, UK and other developed countries of the world and yet they are not hellish. So swerve!

Actually most US and UK cities have deteriorated, NY, London and Paris are prime examples, they are quickly decaying and also becoming hyper gentrified

Kaczynski:
all thanks to the portugese ,if not lagos would be in shambles today

like the Portuguese developed or built it, in right senses did the Portuguese build festac town? at the least learn to be reasonable at time.

PepeXKermit:
Some of una go dey talk like say na una papa get this lagos. Una fit no dey even live therr talkless of owning property there..

you right here but it doesn't take away the fact that Lagos has its own indigenous people like the Àwórì's, Ègùn people, both spreading towards the boarder and the Ìjèbú's. All this were the indigenous settlers pre-colonial, colonial era before the iragbiji tax lord and the likes came in to recolonize Lagos.

Agberos are not the one that made Festac of what is it but mass migration from people from the SE that a whole village can be living in a flat.

thisisit:
There were no AGBEROS in Lagos in those good old days!
Lagos is now infested with touts, thugs and agberos

CodeTemplarr:
...Funny thing is that each od 36 state governors can build a better than FESTAC styled estate today. It takes a well laid out plan, strict adherence and some encouragement. Roads, power, water, security are easy.

Alhaji Lateef Jakande is THE ONLY Governor that replicated this type of housing scheme. Then some E-diot will come online to say Tinubu or Fashola was Lagos State's best Governor 😒

More like all of them

Treasure17:
Half of the people here are no more. Life is transient.

Racoon:
It is surprising how this well laid out town became the nauseating eyesore it is today. Go to 21 road till 1st Avenue. So, is it population expansion pressure or failure of the usual institutional maintainance culture as is the practice?

This place is a FHA. Hence before an additional structure is added or distortion done therein within the property can't happen without govt permission.

Lived there for a few years. I think there is conflict between FHA and Lagos state. FHA is only interested in selling lands rather than maintaining the town.

PepeXKermit:
Some of una go dey talk like say na una papa get this lagos. Una fit no dey even live therr talkless of owning property there..

Very use.less set of people. Bastardss that is squatting in the swapping slum of makoko will come out and be shouting 'our Lagos'

Kaczynski:
all thanks to the portugese ,if not lagos would be in shambles today

Dint be tribalistic

This is a picture of a street in Lagos, taken in 1965. When I hear 'Tinubu built Lagos', I just shake my head...

Racoon:
"Beautiful of Life in Festac Town During It Early Stage... "

sad tale of the once beautiful and serene Lagos before okoro economic migrants happened to her……wish we could just go back to default setting

The black man has proved times without numbers that he cannot maintain infrastructure

Racoon:
People have migrated to the US, UK and other developed countries of the world and yet they are not hellish. So swerve!

Really? You mean the London of today is the same London of 2010? They let in too many immigrants from the middle east and that has the city forever. You go to London today and you will think you are in Saudi Arabia.

how can oldie days clean more than now less dirt compared to now, means people are more normal before than now peole

CodeTemplarr:
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It became the eyesore it is today becase of people like Wike and those arrogant, law-disregarding retired and serving officers.

No. It became an eyesore when the civil servants who had these properties sold them all to ibo boys like you doing yahoo and drug peddling.

That reservoir still stands as today for 22road.....

the design and planning of festac town is suppose to be the blueprint of how every neigborhood in lagos and nigeria should be if we had no currupt people stealig the oil money in thr 60s till today

but as e don be jaga jaga country where noting works....

CodeTemplarr:
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It became the eyesore it is today becase of people like Wike and those arrogant, law-disregarding retired and serving officers.

Why do you love saying the opposite of the Truth?

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