₦airaland Forum

George_D:
tpia,
i'm not the guy you met that dark night and i can't possibly do what your insinuating.
pls don't make blanket statements, ok?

Atreides:
@tpia,lwkmd. . Na real Nnkan be oh. 5 mins begging you? Normal people will ask you once and if you refuse they go. They might even be angry that somone they wanna help is doing shakara. . Buh 5 mins? And in the night? I'd have run as well-maybe its cos ive watched too many serial killer stories sha. There are many mad people in the world. . In any case i gave the George fella my Nl email-not my regular one.

Lagos state may be poor by American standards but is probably the richest in Nigeria and if its really a poor state, please let's see the evidence in the lives of our public officials.

But this is more personal poster, what do you do when you have been praying to God on an issue and it seem as though there's bearly any visible change taking place. At such an instance what would you recommend that one do.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is!

Now players have gotten really sophisticated and can do all of the above "prince-like" actions, (maybe not the meeting the family part) but they still end up playing you anyway. They are players and can play the game really well. Sure, they'll call you when they say they will but that doesn't mean that the other woman isn't call waiting on the other line or that when he brings you chicken soup, he didn't tell the other woman that he will be back in a sec. Sure, they will put in effort o get to know you and romance you slowly. They know if they did it any other way, you would see through their game. Then all too late when you have fallen in love with them, you realize that they were players after all.

The foreigners who may have helped you, am sure are most likely to be whites, whose preference for attraction in women may not be African women.

I was stranded at the tram station because my cc was not accepted by the machine, i spoke with one of the inspectors who decided to buy me the ticket from his purse and he did not ask what my name is.
Few times i have had to stop at fuel station to inflate my tyres and had to ask guys to help me with it they usually do that and go their way.
I had to change my tyre one very cold evening and asked a male passing by to help with it, because of the cold he asked me to sit in the car while he fixed the spare tyre for me, he didnt ask to know me better
I had a heavy luggage sometimes and while alighting from the plane a guy offered to carry it for me out of the airport and he was ok with just thank you.
I was asking a guy who was driving a space bus for direction while it was raining and despite that it wasnt his way he offered to drop me there and  he didnt ask where i live. ALL these guys are foreigners.

Now, i remember very well that while at home i have had to ask for similar favours from men and if they do such favour they will end with either wanting to know you better, asking where you live, where you school, your phone no and generally the next thing is they want to go out with you, infact a very close family friend who also was my teacher in the sunday school promised to help me out of a tight financial situation sometimes ago and when i went for it he told me to sleep over with him or he would not be able to help me, i had to take a 'lift' back to school and the 'good samaritan' who gave me the lift  also did not go without taking my name and address so he could visit and that brought the question 'cant Nigerian men do females favour for free?'

Your story is so fictive that i can smell the synthetic nature of it.

you met her on the net?  that's really risky

how did she get into the US, possibly it was another internet boyfriend that sorted out her papers to travel and since she has no need for him she called you and you got her an apartment. This chic is really doing some work on you played like a fiddle and a cello (in the air and on the ground)

this has been the trend for a while now

Because it is strange for a church to act like that

Can i try them on??

I wouldn't know until the chance creates itself.

Stealthy:
I tire for folks like tpia & babapupa. U guys keep bringing up USA. But in reality how many roads within cities are tolled in USA? I was in LA recently. I did not drive on a single tolled road. I know some intercity roads are tolled abroad. But that's like putting tolls on Lagos-Ibadan - no one would complain about that.

It is unfair to put tolls on a road that people use on their daily commute to work/school/shop. Worse still that it's 3 toll gates on such a short stretch (compare to 3 tolls previously on the ~120km Lagos-Ibadan expressway). Even worse still, the road construction has significantly reduced traffic on that road and only about 25% of the work is complete. This can only happen in Naija!

@tpia- is detroit a dead city or not? if the city was thriving and full of people not on some kind of welfare thanks to the fall of the auto industry, would they be doing that? what does that have to do with lagos.

He however disclosed that road users have a choice of paying the standard tariff, in which they have to make their payments by cash or the electronic system known as ePayment.

According to him, it is more profitable to embrace the ePayment which has two variants - eTag and SwiftPass. Each of these variants, he said, offers price reduction benefits. While SwiftPass offers five percent off the standard tolls, eTag comes with 10 percent.

He continued: “Road users who subscribe to SwiftPass with motorcycles pay N48, while those with eTag pay N45. Those who use cars and tricycles and have subscribed to SwiftPass will pay N114, even as those with eTag will pay 108. Road users with SUVs or pick-up-trucks and are on SwiftPass will pay N143, just as those with eTag will pay N135. Danfo drivers on SwiftPass will pay N76 while those on eTag will pay N72.

“Light truck drivers on SwiftPass will pay N238, while those on eTag will pay N226, and heavy trucks drivers with SwiftPass will pay N333, even as those with eTag will pay N315.” To accommodate the interest of low-income earners and ensure that commercial bus drivers do not increase fares on the route, the managing director informed that a special ‘Public Transpart Discount’ has been packaged for this class of vehicles.

“This discount applies only to commercial ‘danfo’ mini-buses. They will enjoy a 47 percent reduction off the standard toll for vehicles in their class only if their vehicles are registered to pay for their tolls using eTag,” he said. Noting that tolling is a fundamental aspect of Toll Road Concession, Oforriokuma highlighted some of the benefits motorists stand to enjoy for making use of the road: “Based on market and other research conducted in and around the Eti-Osa Lekki-Epe axis, LCC forecasts that road users should enjoy estimated savings of N25 or more per kilometer each time they use the Toll Road.”

Under the new system, cars and commercial buses will pay N120 and N80 respectively, while commercial motorcycles (also known as ‘Okada’) will part with N50 as toll to ply the road.


all motorcycles passing through the Toll Plaza would also pay a standard toll tariff of N50 while the commercial minibuses popularly called ‘Danfo’ would pay N80.

He added that saloon cars and tricycles would pay N120, while Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), minibuses and pickup vans would pay N150. Light trucks and 2-axle buses, including and heavy trucks with two or more heavy axles would be paying N250 and N350 respectively for just one trip in each case.

and most people are forgetting that its 120/150 naira per toll per journey. Who makes one trip, won't you return? at 150 naira per toll per journey you're looking at 900 naira a day. And Lekki isn't made up of Bigmen. What of staff, what of the people who have to commute in. Even if I stole money why should I spend almost a grand a day for an uncompleted road where I can spend up to 3 hours just getting into V/I?

Lekki also offered hope as a destination point for those who had become perennial victims of the area boys' menace that had gripped Central Lagos. Those who came from Ikoyi had laments of the extremely high and unaffordable property rents and prices, in addition to the increasing wave of commercialisation of some districts particularly the South West Ikoyi.

The territory had been held down by a web of negative notions. It was as if the government programmes were mapped out to dispel the fears in the real estate circle that Lekki would "cave in". Many contended that the territory was doomed while some likened it to a cul-de-sac. The worst was expected for the residents of a fully occupied Lekki.

Undocumented statistics were reeled out to back up [size=14pt]the claim that only a fraction of the expansive territory had been occupied and yet the traffic situation was already so bad.[/size]




Fueling these fears was the state of grossly inadequate infrastructure in Lekki. [size=14pt]The Lekki-Epe Expressway was the only point of entry in and out of the territory, accounting for nerve-breaking traffic bottlenecks that sometimes last for several hours.[/size]


Matters were made worse during the rainy season when the expressway becomes flooded and movement of traffic is seriously impeded.


Many decried the situation where[size=14pt] housing development was of geometric (exponential) progression, but infrastructural development stagnant[/size]. It did not make sense at all.

At the outset of the current spate of development in the early 90's, the corridor was regarded with great optimism by investors, real estate analysts and the various stakeholders.
This accounted for the flurry of investments that were quickly attracted to the axis during this period. Overnight, many residential housing estates sprang up like mushrooms on the landscape.

There was massive movement of people to Lekki from the Mainland Lagos and also from Victoria, Ikoyi and Lagos Island (Central Lagos) as well as from abroad.



http://allafrica.com/stories/200904010232.html