₦airaland Forum

Everything seems to be a joke to nairalanders.

Even if, some policies or leaders will negatively affect their future, they will still just laugh

and as always, for Nigerians, elections are not the time to elect the best leaders, but a time to dance, do owambe, and collect garri and vegetable oil.

loopman:
Simple! When next you people are planning to protest, avoid destroying govt properties so they won’t have any alibi to stop providing the service they ought to provide

Nigeria!

loopman:
I pointed out the reason why the street lights may not be working but you are insisting that the govt is using it to punish you, which obviously is not the case.

If you think govt will use street light that all Lagosians use just to punish some insignificant but destructive few, then you are also free to punish the state by taking away your valuable skill or investment to any of the other 35 states regardless of whether you are a Lagosian or not

Well maybe it's cause I'm an engineer and don't see the big deal in replacing whatever control mechanism you are referring to, so please, stop making excuses for a lax government.

I am sure if they haven't fixed this a year from now, you'd still be blaming endsars.

sigh, abeg, you, me, we... we all deserve better so don't sell yourself short abeg.

people are liking all these posts that are pro No-Traffic lights.

sigh!

cutting off your own nose to spite your face

loopman:
You think the erected poles are just all that is about the tragic lights? Do you know if the switching and synchronization system has been tampered with ?

Yeah, I speculated that at the top of this thread.

But somehow, I don't believe that's true!

and Even if that were true, how long should it take them to fix this? A year? 10 years maybe?

A government neglects the traffic lights on an axis in which it generates sooo much revenue from company taxes.


Even today, Sunday, you have to be careful approaching any junction on Ozumba/Lekki-Epe. Pathetic!

and we were already praising these guys for doing roads, but their blackness just had to show one way or the other

Evil rulers that hoard indomie

loopman:
We have 36 states in Nigeria, if Lagos is no longer functioning, you are very free to move out to any of the remaining 35 states, I’m sure no one will even know you left lagos

Typical Black man tribal response


if, if, if, move out

I am a Lagosian, were am I moving to?

and why can't I assist in making Lagos better by pointing out things like this?

loopman:
So protesters should destroy traffic lights during protests ?

Bro, I am going to take pictures of all the lights at each junction, they you'd be the judge whether the lights were destroyed or simply switched off

I mean did they destroy lights from Ozumba all the way down to Chevron?

Even if the lights were "Destroyed", what will it take Lagos to put them back?

We move like snail in this country and sometimes, we don't even move at all, while other times, we move backwards.

udemzyudex:
You no see better thing complain you dey complain about traffic light turning red.

Here in the mainland, someone will just volunteer himself, wear the yellow or red jacket and control traffic at night when the lasma/police is gone.

If you can not do that, oga say something else.

Why must we as black men always be satisfied with chaos?

Doesn't it hurt to imagine that a whole Lagos, the busiest city in the most populous BLACK Nation, can't even maintain traffic lights?

we are not talking of Electric Cars, Space programs, Vaccine Development....

We are talking about TRAFFIC LIGHT, na wa

I am going out today to take pictures of all the lights, to show that they are still mounted, just not functioning

na wa for Nigeria. So common traffic light is being used as punishment

loopman:
Enjoy it

It’s the consequences of actions of some people, they destroyed govt properties thinking they were doing Tinubu, Sanwoolu and APC

So because a protest happens, the citizens don't deserve traffic lights?

loopman:
Endsars hoodlums destroyed streets and traffic lights in Lagos

That could also be a possibility, but the physical lights are still there, or do you believe they destroyed the power/control points for all the lights?

If that is the case, I wonder just how long it would take for them to get them up and running again.


The chaos is real yo! Take Lekki Phase 1 junction for instance, you have people on each side that could go left, right, straight... and with no lights, it's just crazy.

Beblessedbaba:
i almost asked same questions weeks back as its seems some one is sabotaging the sector not necessarily the government.
I understand the stretch of ikeja and other areas same thing is applicable.

It's so strange. All lights are down.

If you drive in the afternoon, then lasma may be there to control traffic, but from evening, it becomes a mad house.

I wonder what is happening. I am observing sha

Kwamecron:
Is it not from the toll gate fee, all this are maintained

Traffic lights shouldn't need to be maintained with toll gate money

and besides, the axis is soo free now, as opposed to spending hours everyday trying to pay that toll

If you drive the lekki epe route, you may be treated to chaos at the junctions where traffic used to be controlled by traffic lights.

Now, for whatever reason, most of the traffic lights on that axis are off, meaning road users have to fight for right of way.

Is this the punishment for Lagosians protesting?

Or does it mean if we don't pay toll, we can't get working traffic lights?

I refuse to believe the government is being intentionally wicked, but then again, this is Nigeria

what has nairaland become

see the front page, everyone has one negative thing to say or the other

I once said "Hi" to soldiers in my estate

That was the end oh, from "hi" to threatening to shoot me and they don't care who I am

All this from just saying "Hi", when I could have passed in peace if I said nothing, na wa

Kyase:
Why is ametakun allowed in the sw

lol, you're kidding, right

Freestainworld:
They allow the north to run their affairs the way they want but when the south speaks, that is when they talk about constitution as if we are in different country from them

I'm telling you bro, it's weird, too weird

emperor863:
You dey mind them?

People that are near illiterates. All over the world, certain roads are tolled for adequate and timely maintenance. If in doubt ask your relatives who are struggling to survive in the white man's land.

okay bro, why not do lagos state a favor by placing a toll gate on your street. so that every time you go to work, you pay.

I am sure you don't even pass that road daily, you will just be saying trash, when the people that use the road multiple times a day are trying to protest.

Please petition your local government this morning, it's still early, so that they can place toll gate on your street.

Please do it! Contribute your quota

Please bro

Please

ImaIma1:
The toll gate is not supposed to be there forever. I am sure they have already recovered every money spent on the roads. But greed won't let them stop and we Nigerians don't speak up to challenge it

recover? bro, they must have flipped by now, only question is times how much?

remember the distance between the two toll gates is only about 10km.

aremuforlife:
Same things happen in developed countries, their major roads are toll, and you must pay everytime you use the road, except if you have a pass.

Na wa oh, which country is that?

Ask dem for state police, they will say Nigeria is not ready.

But Nigeria is ready for Hisbah, ba?

Yet they send crocodile to smile I'm the east

Yet they cried because of small amotekun

How is this injustice allowed?

Since when are regions or religions allowed to do their own police?

Last I checked, this is still a capitalistic society, am ah right? am ah right

If you feel you can produce cement cheaper, why not go ahead, after all, the customer is king right?

This reminds me of those Buhari price control stories I used to hear, chai!

That's how Nigerians are always disturbing the likes of DSTV. Did someone force you to watch DSTV? Is DSTV like electricity? Roads? Rail?... which are all your rights? Shouldn't you be more concerned with making sure you get the services you pay for without being cheated, rather than being concerned with banning the service itself?

Funny.

If me I know how to produce cement for N500, I will sell it for N1000 if my overhead allows for such cost price. That way I will undercut every single seller out there and become a billionaire.

Did the government have to force MTN to reduce sim prices or did competition force them to?

Trapnews:
So much for a man fighting for the common man, the comments here are unbelievable. Nigerians are ingrates. You all deserve the kind of leaders you have.

It is so sad reading their hateful comments.

Sowore could be enjoying life now in Newyork, yet he is here fighting; prison after prison

and all Nigerians can do is curse him?

God have mercy on us please

When you tell people about Islamizing the country, it's always painful to listen to how they dismiss it.

I wonder if the doubters think, overnight, Nigeria will become a sharia country. Maybe they doubt cause they think, it will happen tomorrow, mtcheew.

It's a gradual process. Tell me, isn't almost half your country already practicing sharia today? The northern states?

Yet, somehow, you will find an excuse for this fact. The fact that in your secular country, SECULAR, nearly half of it is already practicing sharia, but you will still say something silly like "it can never happen", bro, like really?

Then the birth rates, oh the birth rates! Even someone as elite as an Atiku has 26 CHILDREN

Imagine if each of his 26 children has 26 children of their own? Any mathematician in the house? Is this a linear, geometric or exponential progression?


It's so clear to see that unless Nigeria divides, it will be a full blown islamic country in about 50-100 years from now, maybe even sooner.

The tech giants like Twitter and Facebook have played such a hateful role against Trump.

Even the latest news of Bidens sons shady dealings, published by a legacy newspaper like the Washington Post, got blocked on twitter.

The also blocked the post of everyone who tried sharing it, claiming, it wasn't gotten through legal means, sigh.

musicproducer:
even if they vote a cat the country will still run well

Yes it will bro, but for how long?

Remember when Nigeria first got her independence and we used to see those red British phone booths everywhere?

How many of those were still in existence during the peak era of wired communication in naija?

OfficialAwol:
In the run on the 2015 general elections, Tinubu and Sowore used their media platforms to bastardize Jonathan's govt. They made most undiscerning Nigerians think Jonathan was the worst President since human existence. The headline of most daily tabloid either reported Boko Haram killings or how Chibok girls were still in captivity. So much was the noise about Boko Haram that it was driven into our subconsciousness until we couldn't see the good side of Jonathan's govt anymore.

We could no longer see the fact that for four years consecutively, Nigeria's economy was among the top 4 fastest growing economies of the world, growing at 4% with only China, Indonesia and Mexico ahead. But the press told us to forget it. That are mere paper percentages. Asking us the effect of it on our life.

It was in Jonathan's era that Nigeria's economy overtook that of South Africa to become the biggest in Africa till date.

GEJ saw that power was privatized. And even though it's not yet Uhuru as regards power, those who have got prepaid meters are at least sure that they pay for what they consume and not the era of PHCN killing businesses with over bloated estimated billing system. And generally all over the country, power has improved.

In fight against corruption, it was GEJ who introduced IPPIS which led to the wiping out of thousands of ghost workers from govt payroll.

He introduced BVN which makes money traceable even to the 20th account. Now looters are scared of putting money in accounts. So also did he introduce TSA, though he didn't implement it. But the press told us that systemic fight against corruption was useless. They told us that Buhari's preferred use of brute and brush brigandocia was the best.

That was how majority agreed with the press and echoed "anything but Jonathan". And Jonathan lost. 5 years after, result has called itself and we daily rue our mistake of 2015.

What happened to us in 2015 is not different from what is about to happen to Americans. And the usually culprit, the press, is at it again. And it is what has so driven hate for Trump to the crescendo.

Trump has overseen a bubbling economy even in the midst of a global pandemic. Unemployment too has reduced to one of lowest rates in history.

Trump wants America for Americans. Closing porous border with Mexico. Going against unfavorable terms of trade with China.

What most people don't know is that most companies that were in America packed up and went to China because of cheap labour only to ship back to USA at very low excise duty. That's what Trump doesn't like. That's why he imposed higher excise duty on Chinese goods which will make companies interested in American market to consider coming back to US as it would be more expensive to operate from China.

Take for instance the issue Buhari govt had with Benin republic and rice importation. Where tiny Benin Republic was the third largest importer of rice in the world with 98% of that rice destined for Nigeria through our land border free of charge. But these importers pay the import duty they would have paid to Nigeria to Benin Republic. That was bad business because Nigeria was losing big time. And that's why sane Nigerians, irrespective of political sentiments, applauded that Buhari's singular act of closing our land border. Now importers are forced to import through our ports and they pay their excise duty into our purse. That's good business.

It is the same thing Trump is doing with China as regards trade. And that's the genesis of the trade war with China. And it is also why dangerous Jewish capitalists like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates who have factories in China don't like Trump.

Now they've used the press against Trump until most Americans are echoing "anything but Trump". Majority of American press and the campaign strategy of the democrats has been "Covid covid covid” ( in Trump's voice). And like Trump said, after November 5th, you won't hear it again. Now most of the votes Trump lost is majorly because of what they tagged his "handling" of coronavirus with CNN at the forefront of lambasting every of his steps or missteps.

So, it was Boko Haram for GEJ. Now it's Covid for Trump. Both of them victim of the press.

But I hope it won't be for them like it has been for Nigerians.?

I've been saying the same thing.

Remember when Trump blocked travel from China when Covid started?

Biden called the action xenophobic, the media called it racist. Palosi went to China Town without a mask and urged everyone to "come over", to spite Trump.

Now, the same people are saying he didn't do enough when the pandemic started.


The hypocrisy is everywhere.

What about how they have no video proof of Trump being racist, yet when you play 10 videos of Biden being hateful towards blacks, they just dismiss it.

How can Trump get Black Americans the lowest unemployment rate in History and be racist?


I even first heard about Trump back in my secondary school days, not from news or books, but from rappers, yes that's right, rappers.

Back then, every rapper would rap about Trump and giving Trump props, but as soon as he decided to go against the establishment, he became racist.



I just hope these guys are not making the same mistake. How can they vote a Biden that doesn't even know where he is half the time?

freshMallam1122:
for this yr message I must truly confess today that u are truly a coward....olodo... oloriburuki..u are high of mushin weed

Why am I am olodo?

Is it because I said border security of any country should be taken seriously?

Look at how porous Nigerias border is, where foreigners stroll in and assume the Nigerian identity.

Is that what you want for America?

I'm sure you voted twice for Buhari.

People saying Trump is racist for wanting a wall or wanting to stop illegal immigration. Isn't that absurd?

Why do the democrats want to legalize illegals in America?

How is that justice?

People fight and sweat legally to emigrate to countries, filling out paperwork after paperwork, paying fees and so on, only for one guy to smuggle himself in and now get citizenship.

At least Trump still holds the record for having THE LOWEST BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RATE in the history of America.

Let's see what Mr "if don't vote for me you ain't black" Biden does for Black America