nnamdi640:
Always in pain, foolishness of the highest order.Why dragging Abia to this matter.....
Afonjas and hatred are like 5 and 6. They can't comment like normal people without dragging other tribes to the matter.

I'm Proudly Igbo!

Representing God's own state! Igbo kwenu!

Nna, i bu Onye Abia state?

Their governor, (as obviously he can't be mine because I detest bad leadership) is a perpetual debtor, ask civil servants. A hater of good infrastructure ask Umuahia gate axis, ask Nndoru market, and also Aba just to name a few and then you'll understand I'm not hating. We need to hold these men accountable as little and as much as we can!

Anyways, sparogatively, I'm just a standardt guy that speaks the standardt truth from a rational point!

princemillla:



God bless u where are the core Lagos states roads.

What then happens when you see those "core" Lagos roads

This is what we are talking about you igbos you will leave your region and monitor other regions always complaining about other regions you will deliberately ignore your region.

You said Lagos is most polluted state in Nigeria. I pity you onitsha would turned to graveyard in 2040 according to environmentalist control if nothing was done to it.

loneprof:
Propaganda... These pictures aren't reflective of the true state of Lagos. Lagos has become the dirtiest and most polluted state in Nigeria.
All these roads are always dirty and traffic-ridden.

Why don't you show pictures of agberos and danfo drivers fighting on the road or keke napap with bumper guards scratching cars on the daily... Show us the drainages blocked with dirt with no LAWMA staff clearing them for months... Flooding nko?

Show us Ikotun, Iyana Ipaja, Ikeja Along, Agege, Mushin, etc. They represent 80% of the real Lagos!

martineverest:
stop overhyping Lagos....Lagos is a shanty compared to other African cities

Why not overhype your own state? Are the mods stopping you from hyping yours

Guyman02:
Ebonyi which is one of the states with the least allocation has done much better than Lagos with so much money at its disposal. Lagos is a disappoint, most countries in Africa don't get half of Lagos revenue and they have better infrastructure.
Now somebody will want us to believe that Tinubu was the best governor in Nigeria during his time forgetting that he never achieved a quarter of what Jakande did in one term in Lagos.
I am not impressed

You are there my dear. UMAHI de main DAVE.

Hambivert:


I'm Proudly Igbo!

Representing God's own state! Igbo kwenu!

Nna, i bu Onye Abia state?

Their governor, (as obviously he can't be mine because I detest bad leadership) is a perpetual debtor, ask civil servants. A hater of good infrastructure ask Umuahia gate axis, ask Nndoru market, and also Aba just to name a few and then you'll understand I'm not hating. We need to hold these men accountable as little and as much as we can!

Anyways, sparogatively, I'm just a standardt guy that talks on a rational point!

Hope you will be able to hold Buhari accountable for all these hardship we are facing?

Burruchaga71:
. Backward? Can u please tell me any state in South West apart from Lagos been the former capital that is better than any state in South East?

lol

Tell us only one state that is good or one can write home about in the east.Your leaders even confessed that SE is gradually becoming a desert.

Only Ibadan city in SW is moré developed than the entre SE that has numerous slums and IDP camps taking over Igboland.
Anambra is dead and owes the highest external debt which it cannot pay in 100 years because it sucks FG feeding bottle for survival.All the
SE states are also dead because they cannot exist without the FG's feeding bottle.

Daddysidhan:
Why do some igbos hate Lagos.

hate or jealous, Igbo wish they can have a place like Lagos in d east

Conceptsncontex:

Show us the Badagry axis Na. Show us iyana IBA. Lagos is a glorified slum.

Why should he show you? What stops you from showing us?

Hambivert:
Call it overhyped or overrated... Lagos sparogatively, is on its own category in Nigeria.

Dividends of having working governors unlike Abia state

If there are 20 slums and ghettos in Lagos as obviously there are, just Know that your state would definitely have more. Not that I'm Yoruba or whatever, to be supporting Lasgidi , I'm just a standardt guy that speaks the standardt truth from a rational point. I no evn dey Lag now, but I miss Lag already.

Who dey argue with this one....

Ajibel:
Very predictable. Pictures from 2014. Anonimi has done it again. I was expecting picture of Fashola inspecting trains which is one of your favorites

Very predictable that you don’t have pictures of the same place in 2020!

SmartPolician:


Sangotedo is a fine place.

From Abraham Adesanya down to Lakowa, new estates keep springing up every now and then.

And the road is good?
Until they expand the narrow path!

Ajibel:
Why should he show you? What stops you from showing us?

Show you so that you can wail about 2014

anonimi:


Very predictable that you don’t have pictures of the same place in 2020!

I don't have, you don't too so why mislead people and make them think that place has been the same since 2014. Instead of posting pictures from years ago, don't post anything if you don't have pictures of current realities.

anonimi:


Show you so that you can wail about 2014

Not wail, but burst misinformation from people like you.

How far with Gbadamosi campaign? I think you should be more busy canvassing support for him that all these you're doing.

loneprof:
Propaganda... These pictures aren't reflective of the true state of Lagos. Lagos has become the dirtiest and most polluted state in Nigeria.
All these roads are always dirty and traffic-ridden.

Why don't you show pictures of agberos and danfo drivers fighting on the road or keke napap with bumper guards scratching cars on the daily... Show us the drainages blocked with dirt with no LAWMA staff clearing them for months... Flooding nko?

Show us Ikotun, Iyana Ipaja, Ikeja Along, Agege, Mushin, etc. They represent 80% of the real Lagos!

. Igboman......yet you are begging on your knees to be lagosian en?

loneprof:
Propaganda... These pictures aren't reflective of the true state of Lagos. Lagos has become the dirtiest and most polluted state in Nigeria.
All these roads are always dirty and traffic-ridden.

Why don't you show pictures of agberos and danfo drivers fighting on the road or keke napap with bumper guards scratching cars on the daily... Show us the drainages blocked with dirt with no LAWMA staff clearing them for months... Flooding nko?

Show us Ikotun, Iyana Ipaja, Ikeja Along, Agege, Mushin, etc. They represent 80% of the real Lagos!

Not to even mention areas around Statelite, Festac, Apapa, Tincan, and those vicinity..

Damn!

I feel for the state really, I keep pray God not to allow the Lebanon issue that occurred lately to happen in Lagos, because truly the way the state is currently, it's like danger of such looms daily!

In the last 10yrs the population of Lagos has probably trippled...

the same Lagos where individuals in Ajah and Lekki axis build roads? cause government does not care

Show us awoyaya and other parts of forsaken Ajah

winterfell007:


I'm igbo. I don't hate Lagos or its inhabitants. It's a natural home for commerce to all Nigerians, why should we hate it??

But igbos have the power and wherewithal to make a city in Igbo land a natural home to commerce, so why ain’t they?

codemaniacs:


because they are not in control of lagos.

its one of the reasons they started a civil war to try and take control of all the regions in Nigeria even though they were doing okay in their own region...

its also the behavior some humans have towards others they feel are doing better than them

exactly why we have failed to grow, always burying the truth. am Igbo and I don't really buy into ethnic politics, but truth is, I once saw a Yoruba man teaching children how to hate Igbo ppl, honestly I felt bad, because he was feeding them with lies, I thank God that I got along with the some of the children, who already mingled with both ppl, but posts like this always tries to twist history....no wonder it was removed from the school curriculum. our common problems are not u and I, but the greedy older generation that are forcing us to make the same mistakes that they made, will u allow them?

Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way!
Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way!

*JANUARY 8, 2018*
By Ochereome Nnanna

For some reasons unknown to me, Nigerians are no longer paying attention to things that matter about the way they are being ruled. They no longer pay attention to some of the things their rulers say. Otherwise, a strange item in President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Day speech should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in angry protests.

When first I listened to the President making that speech I could not believe my ears. So I had to wait until the mainstream media published the full text of the speech, and there it was in cold print: “Negotiations are also advanced for the construction of other railway lines, firstly from Kano to Maradi in Niger Republic passing through Kazaure, Daura, Katsina, Jibia to Maradi”.

Maradi is the third largest city in Niger Republic with a predominant Hausa/Fulani population. It is about an hour’s drive through a bumpy road from Jibia, the border town near Buhari’s hometown, Daura, in Katsina State. When I went to cover the 2007 presidential election in which Buhari ran on the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, in 2007 and the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I had joined a team of journalists that went to Daura to visit Buhari for an interview. We also monitored the election in Jibia, which is a border town with Niger.

I realised how easy it was for people from the two countries to cross the rickety border post manned by a man dressed virtually in rags. He only smiled when we decided to set foot on Niger Republic soil. Indeed, it may interest Nigerians to know that Daura Emirate stretches deep into Maradi and Zinder Departments in Niger Republic. During the 2015 election, there were reports of thousands of people from Niger Republic crossing the porous borders to vote in an election that was none of the business of their country. In the far North Nigerian electoral officials hardly ask questions about the eligibility of voters. That is why you see millions of under-aged voters voting, and at the end the polls are declared “free and fair”.

Once Buhari achieved his life’s ambition of matching Olusegun Obasanjo’s feat as a former military ruler who became an elected President of Nigeria, his visit to Niger Republic became the first of the 22 foreign trips he made within 11 months before he was slowed down by ill-health. He was received by the President and people of Niger like a triumphant son back from the battlefield. Niger Republic President, Mahamadou Issoufou, gave him a white horse and a golden sword. In fact, Issoufou, in 2016, emblazoned Buhari’s photograph beside his own on vehicles during political campaigns.

I went into all this to let you know that the planned new Nigerian railway network from Kano through Daura and Jibia to Maradi in Niger Republic is a selfish project that has nothing to do with other Nigerians like you and me. Even though a president’s oath of office indicates: “….that I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conducts or my official decisions…”, Nigerian presidents and governors brazenly disregard their oaths of office and oaths of allegiance and divert the state’s or nation’s resources to their pockets, and after that, to massively develop the infrastructures of their hometowns no matter how remote such places are.

For me, if Buhari had merely sought to connect his hometown, Daura, and even Jibia to the new national railway network, I would not have minded it too much, though it violates the principle of economic viability and bankability, which the largely borrowed funds will emphasise in order that we repay the debts in good time. The same logic that led the British colonialists to pass the Eastern rail line through Eha Amufu in today’s Enugu State and terminate it at Nguru in today’s Yobe State and pass the Western line through Kaura Namoda in today’s Zamfara State can also be adduced to extend the new rail network through Daura to Jibia, even if a president did not hail from there.

The offensive aspect is extending the railway 55 kilometres into a foreign land just because the President considers the region as part of his hometown.

When the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, was called upon by critics of this unviable extension of our railway to defend it, his response was vacuous and of very little use as a justification. By the way, the proposed new rail addition from Kano through Kazaure, Daura and Jibia to Maradi covers a whopping distance of 806 kilometres, which is more than the distance from Lagos to Abuja (779km) and Lagos to Calabar (770km). It is important for Nigerians to know the scale of the rail line and the amount of borrowed and oil money we are going to dump on this aspect of the project just to gratify the personal whims of the President.

Hear the Minister: “We realised that we had competitors for our landlocked neighbours, competitors like Ghana, Togo and even Benin Republic. Our landlocked neighbours are importing through these countries because we don’t have rail lines that go to them. So, to address the situation Mr President approved a rail line that will go to Maradi in Niger. But that rail line which will come from Kano to Maradi in Niger must pass through some cities. So the rail line passes through Kazaure, and then Daura before proceeding to Jibia and then Maradi”.

The questions the President and the Minister should answer are: Did “our competitors” like Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic build rail lines into Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali and thus stole the “competition” from Nigeria? The answer, obviously, is no. Secondly, why don’t we also extend the favour to Chad and Burkina Faso if indeed we need their patronage? Thirdly, what “competition” is Amaechi referring to? How much do Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic make from imports that our landlocked neighbours route through their countries that makes it enviable which Nigeria should scramble to snatch?

It would be a different ball game if Nigeria and Niger Republic signed a memorandum of understanding to share the cost of the rail line, each country taking the financial responsibility to build the lines that run through their respective territorial jurisdictions.

One thing Nigerians must never forget is that we are borrowing heavily from China, Europe and the Breton-Wood institutions to build our standard gauge railway network. Repayment for the loans which outlay is not available to me at this moment will span decades. Most of us will be gone from the surface of the earth while the repayment will devolve to our children and possibly their children.

This is why we must never keep silent when the ruling party and leaders so brazenly violate the nation’s interests and abuse their offices by throwing projects from these loans into unviable remote hamlets, including hamlets in a foreign country that happens to be a part of their hometown.

I am very sure that our National Assembly, especially the very responsive Senate, will thoroughly examine this railway plan and its funding and protect the interests of all Nigerians, including those of their future generations. Sanitising the implementation of this railway plan will be a prime opportunity to prove that this country belongs to all of us. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to take what belongs to all of us for himself and his kinsmen alone.

We are in a democracy, not a military autocracy. Even if we must accommodate Daura and Jibia to make Buhari happy, the rail line must NEVER be extended an inch into a foreign soil.

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Ajibel:
Not wail, but burst misinformation from people like you.

How far with Gbadamosi campaign? I think you should be more busy canvassing support for him that all these you're doing.

Burst misinformation with your own lies and propaganda as usual with the Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC leaders looters and followers?
Where did you pull Gbadamosi from? Some part of your body where the sun never reaches?


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Calabar1stSon:
Every states in Nigeria has just that one beautiful area you could always boast of!

Everytime WE make it seem like Nigeria is developed, they(politicians) feel like they've done too much - And in reality we indirectly encourage them to loot even more!

i tire bros

Ajibel:
I don't have, you don't too so why mislead people and make them think that place has been the same since 2014. Instead of posting pictures from years ago, don't post anything if you don't have pictures of current realities.

There is no change since 2014 in the place. If you know that it has changed, post the new pictures or stop wailing already.

DonMekino:

exactly why we have failed to grow, always burying the truth. am Igbo and I don't really buy into ethnic politics, but truth is, I once saw a Yoruba man teaching children how to hate Igbo ppl, honestly I felt bad, because he was feeding them with lies, I thank God that I got along with the some of the children, who already mingled with both ppl, but posts like this always tries to twist history....no wonder it was removed from the school curriculum. our common problems are not u and I, but the greedy older generation that are forcing us to make the same mistakes that they made, will u allow them?

what truth is been buried

Yorubas are meant to be pro-yoruba, Igbos are meant to be pro-igbos e.t.c without interfering in each others politics, developments, education e.t.c..

igbos will have wiped out most of the yoruba nation during the civil war if their attack was successful and had gone beyond Ore..

so protecting ethnic interests especially within that ethnic group's region became very important after the civil war... the problem is most Yorubas don't even know that the rest of Nigeria does not mean well for the yorubas and yoruba nation.

The mods that push these kind of things to the Frontpage need serious help. Continue celebrating absolute mediocrity.

There is population explosion everywhere. A government with common sense would be creating new communities, opening up completely new roads to remove bottle necks on the others even if those infrastructure would be tolled.

Those are what we call Infrastructural revolution.

The same silly pictures you posted, there's potholes on that same ozumba road by the law school traffic light and failed sections after Radisson Blu.

Even inside VI, Ahmadu Bello way from Bonny Camp to Federal Palace is littered with bad sections. Don't let me even list the inner roads that are not motorable. That's inside VI o. Isolo/Ejigbo axis where millions live have to use a single dilapidated road constructed in 1970 as an exit.

From a Town planning perspective imagine you have a major event or accident (tanker rolling over or sinkhole in the middle of the road)on the Lekki Epe Expressway. How would hundreds of thousands living towards Ajah access the Island or Mainland when there is just a single road leading to these areas? Fixing such is what you call infrastructure development.

You stupid lots just come to talk rubbish online. You guys should read a book, check Google maps on how other cities are planned at least those are cheaper alternatives to traveling more from your localities to see what things are in other saner climes before opening your mouths.

90% of Lagos inner roads/street roads are not motoroable. Fixing 50% would be termed infrastructural development not paving a road .

Don't let me bitch slap you this early Sunday Morning.

Wailing in junction with hating as been prescribe to you as it was prescribe to your father b4 you. It is also preordained to your unborn generation. Wail to death over Lagos while Abia Ebonyi Imo n Enugu deteriorate into the shithole they presently are.

loneprof:
Propaganda... These pictures aren't reflective of the true state of Lagos. Lagos has become the dirtiest and most polluted state in Nigeria.
All these roads are always dirty and traffic-ridden.

Why don't you show pictures of agberos and danfo drivers fighting on the road or keke napap with bumper guards scratching cars on the daily... Show us the drainages blocked with dirt with no LAWMA staff clearing them for months... Flooding nko?

Show us Ikotun, Iyana Ipaja, Ikeja Along, Agege, Mushin, etc. They represent 80% of the real Lagos!

Rosskii:




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Baba, why are the roads empty... Were these pictures snapped during the lockdown?

As much as Ambode did well pertaining infrastructure, for every one road being constructed, there are over 10 left to rot. We just hope Sanwo-Olu will stop pointing and start working.

I'll particularly love to see a completed Pen-Cinena road in Sanwo-Olu's first tenure. He should also try fixing it all the way from Oke-Koto up the bridge and adjourning roads.
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Kudos

anonimi:


Why did the IGR grow from a few millions in 1999 to multi billions now?
Is it “because its population has grown faster than any city in the world save for Mumbai.”

Absolutely. Lagos is the only cosmopolitan city in Nigeria where talent can thrive beyond gender and tribe. It is a magnet for success oriented people. Business activities naturally grow the tax base. No magic to it. No other0 part of Nigeria has these characteristics

loneprof:
Propaganda... These pictures aren't reflective of the true state of Lagos. Lagos has become the dirtiest and most polluted state in Nigeria.
All these roads are always dirty and traffic-ridden.

Why don't you show pictures of agberos and danfo drivers fighting on the road or keke napap with bumper guards scratching cars on the daily... Show us the drainages blocked with dirt with no LAWMA staff clearing them for months... Flooding nko?

Show us Ikotun, Iyana Ipaja, Ikeja Along, Agege, Mushin, etc. They represent 80% of the real Lagos!

Imagine a picture of Lagos roads without yellow danfos showing. That's definitely not our Lagos... I see no reason to be shy of danfos though, it's a Lagos trademark and we should be proud of it, just like some countries are proud of their tricycles and motorcycles even in their capital and others flaunt their trains