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Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by seeme2(f): 11:05am On Feb 18, 2023 |
The scene was awful at the famous Oshodi bus stop on mainland Lagos. All sorts of rubbish littered the roads, the shopping areas, the commuters' hangars and the railway station. From a distance, the entire Oshodi area looked like a battleground just vacated by a plundering army — a veritable wasteland of some sort. The unorganised chaos and beauty of the famous junction were absent. Instead, what was presiding over the vast emptiness of Oshodi was a "committee" of rubbish standing arrogantly at conspicuous places. The roll call was an unenviable what -is-what. Potholes, refuse bins, abandoned police barricades, carcasses of motor vehicles, portable plank shops, heaps of waste paper and nylon bags, smelling human waste, mosquito-infested cans, tins of all shapes and sizes, disused tyres, iron rods and anything imaginable, in the world of filth, littered the daylight jungle of Oshodi as human beings retreated to the inner sanctuaries of their abodes, in obedience to a national call to keep indoors for .a head count. Welcome to naked Lagos, poor Lagos. No thanks to restriction of movement during the census exercise. For the second time in a year (the first time was in March £Lagos was left bare to show its naturalness but in many areas the outgoing capital failed to impress... The city caught the picture of a chinaware shop which had just been ransacked by a drunken bull... TELL, December 6, 1991 More coming. 5 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by seeme2(f): 11:08am On Feb 18, 2023 |
when there was a pre-census test) Lagos was exposed as a sprawling landscape of filth and a convenient abode for mud-loving swine. Poor Lagos. In its natural, rustic setting, the old capital city of Nigeria looked like a dustbin of nature as the countable passers-by stood with mouths agape at the previous day's showcase of pretentious beauty. Now, like an ugly strumpet just waking up from bed without her make-ups. Lagos was left bare to show its naturalness but in many areas, the outgoing capita; failed to impress. Without its promotional stunts, commercial plasterings and facades of beauty that normally make Lagos tick, jump and intoxicate poets of the intellectual statures of T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and our own J.P. Clark, the city caught the picture of a chinaware shop which had just been ransacked by a drunken bull. That was Lagos on the days that its environment was laid bare like the ue'v buttocks of a baboon. From Ikeja Roundabout to Oshodi, from Oshodi to Mushin, from Mushin to Yaba, from Yaba to Oyingbo and from Oyingbo to Idumota bus stop the story of Lagos was that of a city with the semblance of an oil-spillage environment. Oily sidewalks, stinking gutters, and sprawling wastes of left-overs made nonsense of the monthly ritual of environmental sanitation which was supposed to have made Lagos a neater environment. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Roboto11: 11:11am On Feb 18, 2023 |
A few years later... 2 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by cmikel: 11:13am On Feb 18, 2023 |
seeme2: After Fighting Ambode for using state money to build oshodi and its termals you are now giving him credit for what he was fighting against Ambode. when he made it open that Ambode used state resource to build the rubish he built at oshodi , that with the PSP and other issue raised againt Amode made them remove him. . Please let give credit to who credit is due ; 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by derecho(m): 11:16am On Feb 18, 2023 |
Kikikiki... All these iragbijirians trying to rewrite our Lagos story. General IBB just left Lagos, Nigeria's capital in 1991 o. Between 1996 and 1998 General Buba Marwa had transformed Lagos to a safe place only for Tinubu to institutionalize Agberoism in 1999 again. I remember what happened in 2005 at Oshodi when one of Tinubu's touts stabbed a soldier to death for trying to separate a fight. I remember Tinubu going to plead for them at the military cantonment and was walked out . I wish I could get a clip of how the touts were crying like babies. Na Borno dwellers like shettima una go dey bobo with Tinubu's Lagos story. 4 Likes |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by PointZerom: 11:18am On Feb 18, 2023 |
Thifnubu left Oshodi the same way he met it. It Ambode that did a great work in Oshodi. 3 Likes
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Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Brendaniel: 11:19am On Feb 18, 2023 |
Lagos was still the dirtiest city in the world after Tinubu's tenure, it was Fashola that started the clean up of Lagos, starting from Oshodi to Mushin to Idi-oro and Mile 12... 1 Like |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Samuel1402(m): 11:20am On Feb 18, 2023 |
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Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by PraizHim: 11:27am On Feb 18, 2023 |
Lamba from the pit of hell. So All these men below were playing during their times in charge of Lagos State. I dont blame Tinubu and his lamba. I blame people believing the lamba. 1 Like
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Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Bluntguy: 11:44am On Feb 18, 2023 |
PraizHim:Help me ask the fool. |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by MXrep: 11:46am On Feb 18, 2023 |
Mention one thing built and completed by Tinubu |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Apophenia24k: 11:49am On Feb 18, 2023 |
MXrep: Blueprint 😆 🤣 😂 |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Buckeyemedia1: 11:50am On Feb 18, 2023 |
Bluntguy:Lazy thing, Almijiri go & help your self, even Obama cannot save a lazy person. |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Buckeyemedia1: 11:51am On Feb 18, 2023 |
MXrep:The foundation for a progressive Lagos State. Eko Oni Baje. 2 Likes |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Viscuz: 12:54pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by lucro: 1:03pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
I have lived in Lagos all my life. Was born here. Tinubu left Oshodi the same way he met it. Molue buses were still on the roads after Tinubu. The sanitization of Lagos (in practical terms, not by claiming ownership of a blueprint) began with Fashola and continued under Ambode. Fashola started the BRT lanes and buses while major cleanup of Oshodi was done under Ambode. |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Ofunaofu: 1:10pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
Brendaniel: The second most unliveable city in the world |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by forgiveness: 1:15pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
This is another undiluted truth. |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by Buccalcavity2: 1:15pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
Oshodi cleanup was done by Fashola.... and the same Fashola gives credit to Tinubu so why are you crying more than the bereaved? The summary is that Lagos is a better managed state compared to others. Rest your case 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by MadamExcellency: 1:19pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
What is Lagos's Ranking in world liveable cities in 2022? |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by seeme2(f): 3:37pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
Foolish people can't understand whatever Fashola achieved is still part of Tinubu's achievement. Isn't Fashola his son, and Ambode (who got the boot for not following the blueprint to the letter) and Sanwo Olu who categorically told the world the father and the son are same. Asiwaju is not your fathers' mate. |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by 3ple9iner: 3:57pm On Feb 18, 2023 |
lucro:Major cleanup was actually done by Fashola the only thing Ambode did was the BRT lanes and the bus station. Infact, when Ambode entered and disbanded KAI the sanity Fashola had created in Oshodi dropped. If you want to use molue as a means to judge progress which I don't agree to, you would want to know that till today, molue are still operating in Iyana Ipaja, Oshodi etc. |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by lawani: 2:05pm On Jul 22, 2023 |
What Tinubu did is kick off the freedom of Lagos from federal allocations but obviously it was a fluke but still creditable to him. It started with landuse charges but now it is PAYE and they are not collecting up to 30 percent of what can be collected. The governor that shifted Lagos to be depended on PAYE has improved on what Tinubu did. LASG is employing 500k people and that is more than the FG. Any state that does same will catch up with Lagos in due course of time. Once again the contribution of Tinubu is that he did not chicken out as did other governors when Obasanjo directed them to cancel the newly created local governments by then. If no issue with Obasanjo I believe Lagos will still be depended on allocations |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by MTNnews: 2:23pm On Jul 22, 2023 |
Foolish ipob n Igbo cut n paste fake publication. Why no show us the link where he said that ? PointZerom: |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by MTNnews: 2:31pm On Jul 22, 2023 |
Foolish ipob like you that credited Peter Obi with the airport he never a block n left so much debt are here wailing over Tinubu that the world can attest stop the ocean that too over barbeach, built Abraham Adesanya Estate, open up the fast developing area in the whole of Nigeria in the area Dangote cited his refinery are here wailing. You won't believe the fools that celebrated obi for bring inoson to Anambra when he never contributed a dime or brink to establish Innoson are wailing over the achievement of a Tinubu that transformed Lagos to the 4 largest economy in West Africa, built Eko Atlantic, Lekki seaport is being denied is due accolade by hate filled bigoted ipob n igbos alike. PraizHim: 1 Like |
Re: Lagos Before Tinubu - A 1991 Publication by MTNnews: 2:33pm On Jul 22, 2023 |
114 Duplexes, high-income units at Oba Adeyinka Oyekan 11 Estate Lekki. ( completed and commissioned, 12th Sep. 2003). 163 Units of 2-bedroom low income housing at Ayanghuru Phase 11, Ikorodu. (commissioned, 28th of June, 2001). 20 Units of Town Houses and 32 Units of 8 in, 3bedroom flats at Gbagada Medium Housing Scheme 1. 56 Units of 8 in 1,3 bedroom flats at Awolowo–Odofin Medium Housing schemes. cool 1101 Units of 8 in 1, 3 bedroom flats at Abraham Adesanya Phase 11. (commissioned, 2007). 60 Units of 8 in 1, 3 bedroom flats at Ikeja. 640 Units comprising 1,2 and 3 bedroom low-income flats at Ojokoro Millennium Housing Scheme. 204 Units of 12 in 1 two bedroom low-income flats at Shasha 96 Units of 12 in 1 two-bedroom low-income flats at Alagba. 88 Units, comprising detached / semi-detached and terrace houses at Lekki 11 (High income). 300 Units of 2 in 1 two-bedroom bungalow at Oke Eletu (Low income). (commissioned, 2007) 138 Units of 2 in 1 two-bedroom flat at Oko Oba. 200 Units of 2 bedroom bungalows at Ewu Elepe (Low income) PPP. 24 Units of 4 bedroom maisonette at Ilupeju PP (High income). A total of N22,4936b was committed btw 1999 to 2007. MXrep: 1 Like |
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