misterh: But sir/ma'am, this has nothing to do with LASG. In what way are the poor going to suffer because of this? This tradition is the Yoruba tradition and the partakers have no ish with it. Have you got a problem with the megacity project?

Wise_old_man:


Tradition is tradition, if all shops in eko atlantic must be closed in that case, it should. Do u know weekend in UAE is friday and saturday...and in saudi its thursday and friday. Thats their tradition, we Africans should learn to respect ours.

If an Iyalode dies in a Yoruba land (like Lagos) all markets under her is shut in memoriam

misterh: The way some people comment here amuses me. It is a tradition that when the Iyaloja dies, the markets are closed in her honour. But some people here will try to alter the history this time because this Iyaloja is the mother of the opposition leader, Tinubu. Closing the market has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Bola Tinubu.
To peeps criticising this tradition, what right have you to condemn it? Are the marketmen/women complaining? We need to start respecting people's culture. This culture has been since time immemorial and there have been no problems. But our quest to be 'civilise' makes us see our culture and tradition as bad. RIP to the late Iyaloja.

Katangora: elderly man,if you ain't satisfy with the pre historic practice,tie a rope around your neck,or better still drink rat poison,that one is cheaper.. Cos the market peeps don't have an ish with honoring there leader.. If lagos is'nt condusive for you,move elsewhere

omonnakoda:
Good question ,what is normal about circumcision

Katangora: It a normal tradition among the market union, when the market leader of a particular market dies,market is closed for at least 2 days as a mark of honour.. Now the market leader of d whole Nigeria has gone to meet her maker,all markets in the federation ll be closed as a mark of honour,that she is 97 does not change a thing..

OAM4J:

Whenever a king or an Iyaloja dies in any Yoruba town, the markets under them are closed for a day or more in their honour. This has been a practice from time memorial.

hardknockbroda: Whenever a market leader dies, all d markets under him/her are locked to honour the leader this is not a new thing in our history so I don't knw why some pple are just whining (I guess its cos shez Tinubu's mum) ... Infact,when a shop owner dies in d market in my area d whole market is shut for a day.

Acidosis: I'm quiet sure the governor didn't ban these stuffs because of security reasons.

He banned these things because he wants Edo to look good.. These keke napeps are so ugly especially when they queue up in tens and hundreds on the street.. and they often cause confusing on the roads making the whole place look like the pit of hell...

We cannot keep dreaming of development, better infrastructures WHEN we cannot do away with 19th century equipments!

This minute you want to be like Dubai..

The next minute you complain when the govt ban ancient materials.

Gosh!! can't believe people still crave for "okada" of all things in this jet age!

The people manufacturing these stuffs called keke napep, will never use it..

BTW, I heard the price of one keke napep is high (about N350K)..

Why would anyone spend such amount on that stuffs in the first place when you could easily get a fairly used car for taxi, rent a shop/office space, invest, do business etc...
Nigerians and quick money!

They just love the quick - quick method.
Whats wrong if people learn trade, other professional and vocational hand works.. AND leave transport business for those that can afford a beffitting taxi (government specification)

How long shall we stay under intense sun and rain on the roads even when we have the money to pay?!

Innoson can easily manufactured nice air conditioned yet cheap suvs for taxi drivers... Its not a bad idea.

take dat: All these politicians should hide their heads in shame. How many people from poor African countries come to Nigeria to have parties? And They also took their excessive irresponsible behavior of politicizing every gathering to a foreign country. the senator jettisoned the usual formalities and decorums of a wedding to attack another guest.

Members of the ruling party and the opposition are no good. The father of the groom is one of the subsidy thieves, a known proxy of Diezani whose company was awarded 4 oil blocks in Delta state worth billions of dollars in which it neither tendered nor bidded. Delta state oil producing communities recently protested and petitioned the National Assembly over the contentious deal, but the saintly Senator Adeyemi had nothing to say about it. The father of the bride, a permanent secretary in a federal ministry took the wedding of her daughter to Dubai, Senator Adeyemi didn't also see anything wrong in that! Hypocrites everywhere, God let us know better!

Emmalexico:
Am from anambra and can proudly tell u dat d crime rate is high using okadas. Robbers use okada for easy escape afta robbing. I tink oshiomole did d right tin. Let d truth be said despite it affects a lot of people.. But d governor shud provide other employment oppurtunities for d affected victims..

okosodo: All the boko haram from the north have found benin a safe heaven. They ride bike everywhere in benin with an intention of acting on what mohammed (swt) told them in the qu‘ran. Oshiomhole is dislodging them, not embracing them like kwanskwaso is doing in kano. Oshobaba, i support you

Demdem: ooo i see. U are dumb ooo. See how Ekoile dey smash u all? Cover ur face in shame.

Demdem:

Only a person can spot one

ballabriggs:

It is a party that places failure above success. It may have success stories, however, when you have 90% failure rate, what do you call that?

The PDP is a failure led by a drunken sailor fisherman and failure will strive to drag everyone to its level. They call it "party discipline", we know what it is. It is jealousy.

ballabriggs:

In every institution you have the good and the bad. In PDP's case the bad outweigh the good and make them so irrelevant. It is an organisation that places criminals above the decent as you can see from Madam Rhino's speech in Pitakwa over the weekend.

If Amaechi had turned against the people and dedicated his mouth to Jona's nuts ala Oronto and Tony Uranta, he will never have had any problem.

Dagoma: Far better than Johnathan's so-called New Universities.

ballabriggs:

1 in every local government is still an insignificant percentage of public schools in Rivers. Do you know how many public schools are in Rivers State?

However, he is still making progress. What Jona, Alams and Odili could not do with over N6 trillion, he has done with less than that amount.

Yet, they want to make Oronto and one eyed Tony Uranta Governor and Deputy.

Policewoman: Sertraco is highly incompetent. Check out the rubbish they are even doing on the rivers-BAYELSA axis of the east west road. Methinks the contract should be revoked and rewarded to a more competent construction firm like Julius Berger.

Okija_juju:

ALL!!

Again I repeat ALL SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE (Not just Port-Harcourt) HAVE THE SAME BUILDING DESIGN AND QUALITY AND DEPENDING ON AVAILABLE SPACE SAME ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPING..

Last time I heard, there is one of such school in every Local government area in Rivers State.. I think the school project is still in the second phase.. With each new phase, a new school in a new Community is picked and rebuilt from scratch using the exact same plan except for the 'Special schools'..

If a community doesnt have one, then most times its because the chiefs and villagers make outrageous demands to the contractors for compensation and recruitment of indegenes such as a friend experienced in Ogoni when he went to start work on one of the schools there.

ewet:
You are so blinded by hate tht it is beginning to affect your reasoning.

Compare the pupil to school ratio in Lagos state to tht of any state in the country. Lagos state has more govt shools than any state in the country and also a larger population of students to cater for.

Resources are over strecthed and evry1 appreciates the fact tht BRF has done quite a lot in tht sector.Those schools are a clear departure from wht we used to have in the past.

Get a life dude and stop embarking on blind and illogical criticism.It leads no where other than destruction.

ballabriggs:

How many public schools in Rivers have the same features as those photos I put? Lagos cannot afford such fancy, it has to spread resources given its population. The schools in the riverrine communities in Rivers are still a mess.

Those photos in page one are a less than significant percentage of schools in Rivers.

You know what is important, these people are working while destructive elements like Goodluck Jonathan and his Rhino looking wife continue to move around to look for those to bring down. I cast the spirit of Egbesu and Amadioha combine on their wicked souls.

This your GEJ diversion is soooooooo weak! Please try something else! Amaechi, a PDP governor, is far better than Fashola, an ACN governor, fact! If you doubt me, ask Eko Ile, your brother.....

Policewoman: These schools are soooo.....20th century. For your info, we are now in the 21st century

ballabriggs:

If Amaechi builds half of the number of classrooms Lagos has built in the last few years then I will Knight him.

I know Amaechi amazes you because what Alams and Jona could not do with over N3 trillion, Amaechi has done with less than that. Yet madam hippopotamus wants to go and live in PH to remove Amaechi and make Oronto and the one eyed Tony Uranta Governor and Deputy. Amadioha magbukwe ununile

ballabriggs: Some of them the Mudashiru buildings, some from scratch.

ewet:
You had better come join the progressive train. The PDP one you are on is not in anyway progressive nd its leading you no where other than destruction.

ballabriggs: Lagos has built far number of classroom blocks in the last few years. It is just there and we don't even look at it anymore. From Ikeja High School, Ransome Kuti, to Ewutuntu, to Gbaja girls, how many do you even want to list.

ballabriggs: Lagos has built far number of classroom blocks in the last few years. It is just there and we don't even look at it anymore.

If anyone knows the uncompleted buildings we call "Mudashiru" in most Lagos schools in those days. If you go round Lagos today you will not see any of those buildings, they have all been completed. Those buildings were left abandoned since Gbolahan Mudasiru's time in the mid 1980s. Fashola came in with the State Schools rehabilitation project and they are all completed today.

But like I always argue, Lagos is highly constrained by the surge in it's population. Places like Ikorodu and Ibeju were local fishing towns before have been taking over by the rising urban population. Most of the schools in those rural areas were planned for the farming population but today people are migrating in large numbers to those places and there is a huge pressure on resources and services in those areas.