Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! - Travel (2)

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Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by hslbroker2(m): 6:58pm On May 08

IBB007:
Lol…I’ve always believed that Lagos is overrated…Abuja fine pass Lagos in everything…that’s the only reason I respect el Rufai till today…he really sanitised that place

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Bluntemperor: 7:02pm On May 08

aariwa:
Overrated slum where Nigeria concentrated pumping into oil boom era revenues under from Gowon to Babangida because they lived there in dodan barracks instead of spreading it out to the rest of the country

But now that your Gowon and Babangida govt have taken you to Abuja,
Why don't you follow there and leave this Lagos -Sky - Slum alone ?
It seems you just learn about that language ' Slum'
Some of you Can Hate Lagos,
But leave it for those who are enjoying it and try to Create your Golden State!

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Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by aariwa(m): 7:07pm On May 08

Bluntemperor:
But now that your Gowon and Babangida govt have taken you to Abuja,
Why don't you follow there and leave this Lagos -Sky - Slum alone ?
It seems you just learn about that language ' Slum'
Some of you Can Hate Lagos,
But leave it for those who are enjoying it and try to Create your Golden State!

Yea don’t have anything against Lagos and the original isale Eko families that own Lagos. Abuja is more developed today than Lagos and cleaner. Travel for yourself and see

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by damoobaba: 7:11pm On May 08

crazygod:
You call this development? Go to Singapore. You will see development. They even got their independence after we did. They don't even have crude oil.
We just love to applaud mediocrity in this country.

Why didn't you compare it to your village, let's see which one is better.

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Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by alobright17(m): 7:15pm On May 08

BrightAhiah99:
Sincerely speaking, Nigeria ought to have surpass this level of development if not for evil minded, selfish power drunken politician's

Exactly

Imagine Obi ruling Anambra for 8yrs and his best achievement is him saying he saved money in the bank . No infrastructure of legacy in his own state .

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Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Omoawoke(m): 7:19pm On May 08

Enough of this deceiving ourselves

This isn’t anything compared to what’s happening in other parts of the world

Like very far behind

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Ofodirinwa: 7:28pm On May 08

BrightAhiah99:
Sincerely speaking, Nigeria ought to have surpass this level of development if not for evil minded, selfish power drunken politician's

even when it surpasses it, you will still say this exact same thing

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by anonimi: 7:28pm On May 08

Sunshine34:
It's actually beautiful from the sky

Is this not the case for other places?

Ground level is the koko, where you can see dilapidated buildings, destroyed roads and buildings without pipe borne water.

InvertedHammer:
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It is by far better than Enugu.

500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.

But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.

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fergie001:

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

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Sirleo05: 7:30pm On May 08

Lagos is over hyped , smelling and dirty. the government should do something about the environs.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Weknowbetter: 7:36pm On May 08

Lagos buildings from the 70's. Is that a thing to celebrate? Nothing going since, due to poor leaders since 2000's

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by yemmight(m): 7:45pm On May 08

Sunshine34:
It's actually beautiful from the sky

Not only from the sky if you know this place. We are here.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by yemmight(m): 7:45pm On May 08

Sirleo05:
Lagos is over hyped , smelling and dirty. the government should do something about the environs.

Where is your place jare let us discuss it,

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Reference(m): 7:48pm On May 08

Don't complain. This is what you get from decades of decline. Decades of a poorly run economy. You just cannot square the circle of 60 percent poverty with shiny new cities. It doesn't add up.

If you try, the gap between the haves and the have-nots will simply tear the country apart.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by mrkings84(m): 8:01pm On May 08

Ijaya123:
Yorubaland is always the reference point in Nigeria.

Yes o, and that's for both good and bad

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by ThunderFireAgba: 8:02pm On May 08

NaijaGoBetter2:
Get a property there first before you come here to tell us what you don’t know. How do you know there’s no central water and waste system those places you mentioned?

You are just like people who can afford the price of iPhone and go out to say nothing iPhone de do wey tecno no fit do…

The level of misinformation on social media is alarming, and the level of illiteracy amongst the youths is disturbing. Ask him how he got the information he can't explain All he care is being first to Comment, get Likes and engagement.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by jamesversion: 8:09pm On May 08

Checkout Nairobi, Kenya or Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Mirasteel: 8:15pm On May 08

Koollll

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Irunmole(m): 8:30pm On May 08

Lagos is one big, overhyped, crazy, dirty slum of a place you can never pay me enough to live in. Thank God that I left the soulless, dirty place many years ago. Born, bred, and raised on Lagos Island, which is now a haven and den of filth for miscreants and vagabonds.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Bluntemperor: 8:43pm On May 08

aariwa:
Yea don’t have anything against Lagos and the original isale Eko families that own Lagos. Abuja is more developed today than Lagos and cleaner. Travel for yourself and see

I ve been to most parts of Nigeria, including your Abuja,but I cannot see any Coastal Beautiful Aesthetics Waves of the Sea ⛵ or Ocean 🌊 waves,
• That Foreigners- from USA, European Countries and UK,are swarming Lagos on Monthly and Weekly Basis and Now The Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway Road 🛣️ Projects is Steadily Moving like a Rover Jeep - crushing the Enemies Imagination!
• Just leave Lagos for us, and go to your Golden State,
That Is The Game Changer - The Changing Face of Lagos- that Everyone - Politicians and their Footsoldiers,
The Executives,
The Legislatures,
The Ministers,etc Love to Stay in Peaceful -Coexistence .
Ko si eyi to kan EKO,
Owo Eko,EKO Longbe ( Lagos No Send you,Lagos Money Na For Lagos Development)
Know this, Know Peace!

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by achorladey: 9:02pm On May 08

erad:
The only problems Nigeria has are overpopulation and an absolute lack of discipline.

That lack of discipline ehn

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by masui(m): 9:03pm On May 08

aariwa:
Overrated slum where Nigeria concentrated pumping into oil boom era revenues under from Gowon to Babangida because they lived there in dodan barracks instead of spreading it out to the rest of the country

Tell them oooo

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Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Adakintroy: 9:06pm On May 08

Since when ikoyi and lekki be Africa or Nigeria. Those wealthy so called affluent location be it lagos abuja constitute less than 7 percent of the total wealth to poverty demography. Why use it then to represent the entire landscape. You cheating my friend. What of itire or ipaja, or mafoluku. Or other places like maroko, ajemgule.

Una wan sell Africa , sell the truth. Which is the entirety of it. Morever those so.called luxury lagos destinations. are but the norm in civilize west.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by KingOfAmebo(m): 9:20pm On May 08

Gbadugbakun:
Lagos is just an overpriced and over rated slum. Imagine praying over $5m for a property at Ikoyi or Eko Atlantic City, on less than a thousand square kilometers, no central water or waste system, you have to arrange yours, you must provide your own security, electricity and other basic amenities. Yet properties are more expensive than far more developed cities in the US.

Your comment shows that poverty is your main problem...the richest man in Africa lives in the over rated slum with other billionaires and they are very comfortable with it... grin

Instead of you to hustle hard to be able to afford the properties you are here hating...dey play grin

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by cucumbar: 9:44pm On May 08

HighQue007:
Eko Oni Baje!
Lagos no go spoil !

eko to ti baje.

Smelly flooded Lagos.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by cucumbar: 9:47pm On May 08

Bluntemperor:
I ve been to most parts of Nigeria, including your Abuja,but I cannot see any Coastal Beautiful Aesthetics Waves of the Sea ⛵ or Ocean 🌊 waves,
• That Foreigners- from USA, European Countries and UK,are swarming Lagos on Monthly and Weekly Basis and Now The Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway Road 🛣️ Projects is Steadily Moving like a Rover Jeep - crushing the Enemies Imagination!
• Just leave Lagos for us, and go to your Golden State,
That Is The Game Changer - The Changing Face of Lagos- that Everyone - Politicians and their Footsoldiers,
The Executives,
The Legislatures,
The Ministers,etc Love to Stay in Peaceful -Coexistence .
Ko si eyi to kan EKO,
Owo Eko,EKO Longbe ( Lagos No Send you,Lagos Money Na For Lagos Development)
Know this, Know Peace!

You obviously don’t know any better.

Continue living in delusion.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Mrexcell(m): 10:08pm On May 08

These are the real lagos not the ikotun area I visited in 2017 with very terrible roads and dirts littered everywhere after that visit i concluded in my mind that the real developed parts of lagos i used to see on tv is probably less than 40% of the entire lagos state.

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by soccerlite: 10:11pm On May 08

erad:
The only problems Nigeria has are overpopulation and an absolute lack of discipline.

Overpopulation you say

What a ridiculous comment

Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by erumena(m): 10:34pm On May 08

Gbadugbakun:
Lagos is just an overpriced and over rated slum. Imagine praying over $5m for a property at Ikoyi or Eko Atlantic City, on less than a thousand square kilometers, no central water or waste system, you have to arrange yours, you must provide your own security, electricity and other basic amenities. Yet properties are more expensive than far more developed cities in the US.

People like you demarket the country and you want respect out side the shores. Keep it up.

Asians have been trying to scam me since I got here but no one regards them as scammers because they keep mute about it and there’s no statistics to quote.

But you just love to speak ill of your country and when the rest of the world act on your views you complain.

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