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Throwback Video of Oshodi in 2003 Sparks Reactions — “Wait Till You See the Transformation


A viral throwback video showing Oshodi in April 2003 has got Nigerians talking online, as many compare the chaotic scenes from back then to what the area looks like today.
The clip, which is currently trending on TikTok and X, captures the old Oshodi — overcrowded buses, street trading everywhere, and heavy congestion — a sharp contrast to the modern transport interchange and cleaner environment people see now.
Many commenters are crediting the transformation to policies that started during the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was governor of Lagos at the time reforms began.
Some reactions online:
“If you didn’t see Oshodi before 2007, you won’t understand this transformation.”
“This is why Lagos will always be different.”
“Love him or hate him, this change is massive.”
Others, however, argue that multiple administrations contributed to the development of Oshodi, sparking debate about who deserves the most credit.
Watch the full video below 👇
TikTok: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSmAsbbAF/
X:

Throwback to Oshodi in April 2003 Wait for the transformation tinubu oshodi lagos

Watch full video : https://t.co/ZuMPMpKYXx#tinubu #apc #fypviraltwitter pic.twitter.com/9DZqqSU9WW

— Olajide Alphonso (@eyesoflagos1) February 17, 2026

What do you think — real transformation or political propaganda?

Something that never should have happened and remained under builder of Lagos. I wonder why a clip from 2003 and not 2007 when Yekini rounded up his building of Lagos, was used.

Or why use Broda Yekini's picture?

broda yekinni is literally chasing the guy above in dreams

Who really developed lagos?

Change is constant .. thats just life

God bless the jagaban for the framework, policies and transformation.

LORDKing001:
Who really developed lagos?

God,FG and All governors of lagos till date

Good for the people of Lagos state, but also I doubt if there are States in the southern Nigeria where u will see a major bus terminals or roads still wearing same look as it was 23yrs back, lagos is working same as other states...nobody is folding their hands

LORDKing001:
Who really developed lagos?

It is Peter Obi that really developed Lagos.

phosky:
Throwback Video of Oshodi in 2003 Sparks Reactions — “Wait Till You See the Transformation


A viral throwback video showing Oshodi in April 2003 has got Nigerians talking online, as many compare the chaotic scenes from back then to what the area looks like today.
The clip, which is currently trending on TikTok and X, captures the old Oshodi — overcrowded buses, street trading everywhere, and heavy congestion — a sharp contrast to the modern transport interchange and cleaner environment people see now.
Many commenters are crediting the transformation to policies that started during the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was governor of Lagos at the time reforms began.
Some reactions online:
“If you didn’t see Oshodi before 2007, you won’t understand this transformation.”
“This is why Lagos will always be different.”
“Love him or hate him, this change is massive.”
Others, however, argue that multiple administrations contributed to the development of Oshodi, sparking debate about who deserves the most credit.
Watch the full video below 👇
TikTok: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSmAsbbAF/
X:

Throwback to Oshodi in April 2003 Wait for the transformation tinubu oshodi lagos

Watch full video : https://t.co/ZuMPMpKYXx#tinubu #apc #fypviraltwitter pic.twitter.com/9DZqqSU9WW

— Olajide Alphonso (@eyesoflagos1) February 17, 2026

What do you think — real transformation or political propaganda?

this images bring back memories

The transformation is excellent, i give it to the governor then...

I just passed the Oshodi just now and... It still looks like 2006. Only that the buses have changed colour

Thanks to Ambode on this

Great credit must go to Babatunde Raji Fashola For this cleanup before the people trying to rewrite history grab it, snatch it and run away with a revisionist history. See how they have adjusted the date to 2003 to make it look like it was Tinubu's work. Ole!!! This picture used to be 2007 vs any other date, now they are changing it and taking someone else's work just as they took Donald Duke's photo. What a person you must be not to be proud of who you are that you have to steal what belongs to others.

It was one of the first few works that BRF used as a signature of his organization as an administrator and performance as a Governor. Despite all these, the so-called builder of Lagos wanted him out in 2011 because in the laws of power, you cannot outshine the master. Those who knew it was because this man wanted to claim some credit for Lagos while on his pursuit of the Presidency just smiled. Ko si bi ẹ ṣe fẹ ṣe, all una lies na 💯. Just pray your loyalty is not tested as BRF said. This is Fashola's work and he was committed to his work on making Lagos a mega city.

Let no one deceive you with any master plan. The state could not sustain this achievement 2x, under Ambode and now Sanwoolu 🤡


Managing Lagos' Environment with Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1WmK3BCkw


This was Fashola at the LSE giving his agenda on environmental issues and how he had managed it. All Una lies go break, you can fool some of the people ALL of the time, you can't fool all of the people ALL the time.
Lagos: Confronting Change in a Global Megacity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwjhZRYukKQ

Good 23yrs to develop bus stop

How many years then take build a whole dubai

It costs nothing to transform the whole country into a mini London but.......

Someone laid the legacy... Tinubu will lead Nigeria by proxy for the next 16 to 20 yrs if he stays alive.

Lagos is in a strategic position that develop on it own without needing anyone, you can place an unstable mentally ill person in Lagos as a governor and the results will be the same and maybe slightly better.

Oshodi is still dirty till now. Even terminals are worst. Forget about the editing on papers. Everywhere smelling. Go to terminal 1,2,3 for oshodi, Everywhere is very bad. No maintenance culture, motorists urinating for terminal. That's very bad.

And you are telling me not to vote for the man who prepared the blueprint.... God punish all our enemies.
People from other regions wants to do business or reside in Lagos. Yet the visioner is the bad one. But the one who didn't do much in his state is the Messiah abi?

Oshodi 2003 was the Tinubu era, the era when thuggery, agberoism, and gangsterism were born.

We can see the confusion and chaos

Now, to mask the chaos, his supporters claim he laid the blueprint for Oshodi 2026.

A terrible sign that you did not grow or change in the last 20 years.

StillDtruth:
I just passed the Oshodi just now and... It still looks like 2006. Only that the buses have changed colour

Basic123:
broda yekinni is literally chasing the guy above in dreams

Maybe this is the effect of drinking detty, shithole, smelly water

Any idea what city boy is doing with the trillions of budget annually if he can’t employ enough well paid workers to make water available to all households?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

energy37:
A terrible sign that you did not grow or change in the last 20 years.

Oshodi is still dirty till now. Even terminals are worst. Forget about the editing on papers. Everywhere smelling. Go to terminal 1,2,3 for oshodi, Everywhere is very bad. No maintenance culture, motorists urinating for terminal. That's very bad.

Why given bola tinubu credit for the work ambode did for oshodi, fashola and ambode make Lagos the way it is now, during tinubu Lagos is very thirty and bad road everywhere.

SpaceX:
Lagos is a strategic structure that develops on it own without needing anyone, you can place an unstable mentally ill people in Lagos as a governor and the results will be the same and maybe slightly better.

Okay...we agree, why your life is not strategically structured for greatness on its own without needing anyone, speaking trash...and coming here to undermine the years of some people's sweat...and selfless services because he doesn't believe in Tinubu govt...


Oni kuure

Jagaban will claim the glory. I feel for the great Fashola who did most of the work Jagaban could not do, yet being ignored.

The propaganda is up again. PLEASE LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU.

Below is what led to the current Oshodi.


The Oshodi redevelopment project we see today started around 2016 and was commissioned in 2019.

The governor responsible for the planning and execution of that specific transformation was Akinwunmi Ambode, not Tinubu.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Bola Ahmed Tinubu) was governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007. He was clueless about what to do to that very oshodi until Ambode came. Now his minions wants to give him credit for something he never dreamed and even hated the dreamer and achiever of that wonderful project that he denied him a second term ticket.

PLEASE FACT CHECK ME ON THIS

Then, dem go rub you for inside traffic and nobody go know.
If you mistake drive enter that traffic na there you go old put still those boys go still dey load mushin.

You also have Ibo people selling all kind of things on the median.

They dupe me for there in the year 2000

Magnumproperty:
And you are telling me not to vote for the man who prepared the blueprint.... God punish all our enemies

he is already in that position and failing woefully like the people slaughtered in Kwara with people getting kidnapped on a daily basis, what more evidence do you need to know he is a perpetual failure

energy37:
A terrible sign that you did not grow or change in the last 20 years.

Even a baby born 20yrs old has changed but a place like Kachia has not changed even in 40yrs. So Oshodi is not out of place literally