djustice: See mumus paying tolls for a bridge built with their own money. Lagosians are the biggest mugus I know. Totally magalised.

billante:

This ur old boring song of we begging! If we leave lagos for u with all our investment, month no go even end and ur govt will be running to abuja for monthly alawee!

Na because we sustain lagos state govt with our business taxes u hav mouth to talk! Don't provoke ibos to take all their investments home! U will never knw wat u got till u loose it!

babyosisi:

In the state of California the minimum wage is also $8 an hour I.e $64 a day Lagos is less that $1 a day




PHCN was also privatized in Nigeria and so was NITEL,where did it lead you
The average annual income in America is $45,000 a year,in Lagos,it is by the grace of God

Stop comparing apples and oranges dear

Never heard of anyone celebrating toll gates and taxation on people who are already being rap.ed from all angles except one whose head is deep in the butt hole of the beneficiaries

babyosisi:

Go and get a real job
One that will help you build on any shred of dignity you may have left
Singing praises day and night and licking shait is a repugnant way for a grown man to earn a living

Stand in a mirror
Take a good look and tell yourself that you are capable of doing better

ba7man: So you can't afford to pay N250 and you live in that axis. You're biting more than you can chew. The estate association might end up weeding you out with the annual dues.

Eko Ile: This looks so so better than many in Yankee gan sef.. Eko o ni baje o.

pendusky:
its okay! Oshe!! U jst register on NL abi? I can c, we wer in ur shoe in those days,u think to be active is jst to comment thrash on al the thread? Nah, dont worry when u reach a year here u will learn how to behav in a forum!

Seriously we need board here for under18.

ILIDEFI:


As if I wasn't in Lagos in 1998. Mind u, I never said Igbos developed Lagos. Lagos was built with Nigerian wealth. So you guys should stop claiming all the glory of Lagos. If u want to talk abt south west, talk abt Ibadan Osogbo, Akure, Ado Ekiti, Abeokuta (former president's city. Guess u know I'm aware of that).

Sincere 9gerian:
I'm not here to debate fuel subsidy but I just raised the issue to buttress my point of hypocrisy.

By the way, can all those who staged fuel subsidy protest in Lagos be said to be the very poor? Was it the poor that supplied the T-shirts, music and food for the protests?
Kerosine is one product that is mostly used by the poor but it has been selling far above the cost fuel (for as much as N150per litre at times) for a very long time. No one seems to be interested in that. Why? Because the middle class and elites have nothing to do with Kerosine.

This same ACN e-warriors that are showing us how beautiful a toll plaza is and opposed removal of fuel subsidy by PDP led govt may tomorrow promote fuel subsidy removal by an ACN led govt. That is Nigeria for you, where issues are analysed from the prism of partisan and ethnic sentiments.

Anyway, I will say nothing further on this fuel subsidy issue to avoid derailing the thread.

Sincere 9gerian:
I'm not here to debate fuel subsidy but I just raised the issue to buttress my point of hypocrisy.

By the way, can all those who staged fuel subsidy protest in Lagos be said to be the very poor? Was it the poor that supplied the T-shirts, music and food for the protests?
Kerosine is one product that is mostly used by the poor but it has been selling far above the cost fuel (for as much as N150per litre at times) for a very long time. No one seems to be interested in that. Why? Because the middle class and elites have nothing to do with Kerosine.

This same ACN e-warriors that are showing us how beautiful a toll plaza is and opposed removal of fuel subsidy by PDP led govt may tomorrow promote fuel subsidy removal by an ACN led govt. That is Nigeria for you, where issues are analysed from the prism of partisan and ethnic sentiments.

Anyway, I will say nothing further on this fuel subsidy issue to avoid derailing the thread.

bloggernaija:

Off point and off topic. The protest against oil subsidy removal was protest against extreme rightwing ideology ,plutocracy ,slavery and colonisation. Every president from IBB , ABACHA,OBJ tried to increase fuel price and faced one protest or the other.
I won't bother you with stories.Have you ever wonder why there is growth without development ? It is not by accident . It was meant to be this way.
GO AND READ ABOUT MILTON FRIEDMAN AND THE DAMAGE HE CAUSED IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.

MARK-REN:
@ bloggernaija you are speaking from both side of your mouth. @9gerian made his point aptly.....

There is no difference between toll gates as presented by LSSG and the removal of fuel subsidy as presented by PDP as they are both aimed at generating revenue for so called infastructure. ACN should not call us for protests when it suits them to "fight for the poor".

HNosegbe: This bridge was obviously built for the high-class neighbourhoods of Lekki Phase I and environs... People who can AFFORD to pay the toll.

I would have had issues if the bridge was built (and tolled) at Ayobo, Iyana-Ipaja, Agege, Ajegunle or Ikorodu.

It's a win-win as far as I see. The Lekki folks get the satisfaction of bypassing Ozumba traffic (leaving it less congested for others) and the government makes more money which can be used for other purposes.

Can't complain.

bloggernaija:

Lagos was not built with nigerian wealth. Neither was it built by the federal government . The only contribution of the federal government is to built a few ugly flyovers and third mainland build bridge. Most of he roads were there before. Expanding a road does not make you the builder.
Lagos was built with the wealth of yoruba elites(egbas,ijebus, ilajes,Ibadan ,oyo,Brazilian ,ondos,akokos,ikale and other carribean slave returnee,Lagos island elite ,binis,Dahomeys,Freetown ).lagos importance predates the whiteman because it served as a major port for the evacuation of produce from the thick forest of the yoruba hinterland.
The most recent postitive influence on Lagos was the British .
Lagos wealth has always been there. it generates revenues from it's taxes.
However, Lagos is nt getting any derivation fom the use of it's natural resources(waterways).
Fact:The wealth of Lagos and the western region was used to subsidise other parts of the country before oil.
The wealth of Lagos ,ogunand ondo is still being used to subsidise other laggard parts .
The southwest as a whole is revenue neutral(we contribute our keep). Only the south south can boast of this.

LAGOS WAS ALREADY BUILT UP AND WAS A MODERN CITY BY THE 1920
many of the old 3/4 storey buildings in Lagos island were built before the 1940s

The developments of the 70s ,80s and 90s basically destroyed Lagos. People started immigrating into Lagos in droves . Green sites , public park ,car park were parcelled out and built on and building codes were ignored.
SO GET THAT IN YOUR HEAD. LAGOS WAS NOT DEVELOPED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ?LAGOS WAS NOT BUILT WITH OIL MONEY. EXPANDING ROAD THAT AVE BEEN THERE FOR OVER 100 YEARS AND BUILDING A FEW UGLY FLYOVERS(GOWON) IS NOT BUILDING A PLACE.CITIES LIKE LONDON,PARIS HAVE VERY FEW OF THOSE EYESORES .

Broken TV: Eko ilee i want ask a simple question and i want answer, if it was pdp government that construct the brigde and tolls on it what will be your reaction.

ichidodo: Bloody Liar, Lagos was collectively built by Nigerians hence the adage No Man's Land.

bloggernaija:

Lagos was not built with nigerian wealth. Neither was it built by the federal government . The only contribution of the federal government is to built a few ugly flyovers and third mainland build bridge. Most of he roads were there before. Expanding a road does not make you the builder.
Lagos was built with the wealth of yoruba elites(egbas,ijebus, ilajes,Ibadan ,oyo,Brazilian ,ondos,akokos,ikale and other carribean slave returnee,Lagos island elite ,binis,Dahomeys,Freetown ).lagos importance predates the whiteman because it served as a major port for the evacuation of produce from the thick forest of the yoruba hinterland.
The most recent postitive influence on Lagos was the British .
Lagos wealth has always been there. it generates revenues from it's taxes.
However, Lagos is nt getting any derivation fom the use of it's natural resources(waterways).
Fact:The wealth of Lagos and the western region was used to subsidise other parts of the country before oil.
The wealth of Lagos ,ogunand ondo is still being used to subsidise other laggard parts .
The southwest as a whole is revenue neutral(we contribute our keep). Only the south south can boast of this.

LAGOS WAS ALREADY BUILT UP AND WAS A MODERN CITY BY THE 1920
many of the old 3/4 storey buildings in Lagos island were built before the 1940s

The developments of the 70s ,80s and 90s basically destroyed Lagos. People started immigrating into Lagos in droves . Green sites , public park ,car park were parcelled out and built on and building codes were ignored.
SO GET THAT IN YOUR HEAD. LAGOS WAS NOT DEVELOPED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ?LAGOS WAS NOT BUILT WITH OIL MONEY. EXPANDING ROAD THAT AVE BEEN THERE FOR OVER 100 YEARS AND BUILDING A FEW UGLY FLYOVERS(GOWON) IS NOT BUILDING A PLACE.CITIES LIKE LONDON,PARIS HAVE VERY FEW OF THOSE EYESORES .

Eko Ile:

I know its all fun and laugh, but these villagers are in serious pain hence all the anger and sadness. But hey, they prefer beg beg and laziness instead of handling their own future and destiny.... Na.their akpu so make den chop am like that....

lmao....

eko ilee:


Silly question. You are assuming they know how to build bridge or do anything . The fact is, toll or no toll I don't care, just build infrastructures and make our lives better which so far the useless and worthless PDP don't know how to do.

This bridge was built in less than four years while the useless people are still in capable of building a shorter village Niger bridge after 14 years rule.