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Dis Guy: Sorry, i didnt know u're being sarcastic ![]() I live around that area and i'm goin home in the next few days, I'm really afraid of the pressure i'll go thru when i get home ![]() |
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An article written in punch on Sunday, 17 Oct 2010 [size=13pt]Ayobo/Ipaja: The worst road in Lagos — Road users[/size] Years of neglect have combined with failed promises of repair to leave the Ayobo/Ipaja road in such a terrible state that it now sinks jeeps and trailers. And as it assumes the notoriety of ‘the worst road in Lagos‘, EMMANUEL ONYECHE reports that vehicle owners are avoiding it like plague, leading to untold hardships for those who reside or do business there ![]() Constructed about 13 years ago without drainages, several portions of the Ayobo/Ipaja road have failed so terribly that many people who go through it told our correspondent that they consider it as the ”worst road in Lagos.” “What you have on that road are no longer potholes but gullies,” said Mr. Sam Arikawe, the Supervisor at a beer distribution business located at No. 225, Ipaja Road, Lagos State. In the past six months, Arikawe said, three vehicles that his organisation uses for the distribution of its products have been condemned as a result of that bad road. ”Sometimes, if the vehicles go out, they won‘t return. It is either the back axle gets damaged or the radiator gets overheated,” he said, as he pointed to large van that broke down in front of his office after it passed through the bad road to bring cartons of beer all the way from Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. As he was speaking, his phone rang and the driver of one of his distribution vehicles told him on the other end of the line to send people to come and push another of his distribution vehicles that had just broken down on the same road. ”To worsen matters, our customers are no longer coming to us to lift products. When we call them, they tell us that they are not willing to put their vehicles at risk, saying that the little profit they make is spent on vehicle repair anytime they pass through that road to get to us,” Arikawe said. Our correspondent, who went through that road, noted that the nightmare began at Opeki area for those going to Iyana Ipaja from Church Bus Stop in Ipaja. In this area, some sand filling work was seen going on - a palliative measure that people in the area said was from the Ayobo/Ipaja LCDA. Attempting to count the potholes and the gullies was needless stress, as there were just too many of them - all filled with stagnant muddy water that constituted death traps to vehicles that dared to wade through. At P&T Bus Stop, opposite the Ministry of Communications and Information, two buses that dared the road and got stuck were seen being pushed by their conductors and drivers, as the perplexed passengers sat inside, unwilling to step out into the muddy potholes of their vicinity. Apart from a few sections, the entire stretch of the road from Opeki, Boys Town and all the way to the gate of the Low Cost Housing Estate, Abesan, has completely collapsed. The gullies at the Estate Gate were the type that swallowed small cars and caused jeeps and even bigger vehicles to be stranded. Our correspondent observed that anywhere the portion of the road in front of the Estate Gate was fair, all the vehicles tended to that direction and soon it caused gridlock that led to chaos and confusion that stressed everybody. The horror at the area around the Estate Gate is further heightened by the fact that over 90 per cent of the vehicles going to Ayobo from Iyana Ipaja divert at the gate and go through the estate to connect Ayobo, Ikola Ilumo or Command, just to avoid the Ayobo/Ipaja road. Many drivers going to Ayobo from Iyana Ipaja end divert their vehicles through Baruwa to Oluwaga to connect Ayobo, all in a bid to avoid the extremely bad road. Ordinarily, the shortest distance to Oshodi for those living in Ayobo, Bada/Aiyetoro is through the Ayobo/Ipaja road, but our correspondent learnt that people in these areas now prefer to go to Oshodi through Sango in Ogun State, passing through the recently built Ikola/Command road, to come out at Abule Egba, before boarding Oshodi Bus - a needless merry-go-rounding that also makes commuting to cost more. Again, from Iyana Ipaja, many people now prefer to connect Meiran, passing through the Command road in Ajasa to get to Baruwa - not minding that these are opposing ends to each other. Because of this, those who live directly along either side of the bad road or do business there (like Arikawe) and who have no other route to get to their destinations are usually stranded and suffer untold hardship. One of them, Mrs. Ogechi Opara, a lawyer who resides in Majiyagbe area of Ipaja said, ”Sometimes, you could stay one hour without getting a vehicle that is passing through this bad road. It is causing people a lot of hardship.” Another road user, Mr. Akin Babajide, a Supervisor at A-ONE Nigeria Enterprises, a venture that makes furniture, says, ”My customers call me on phone to come to their houses. They don‘t come here again and it has reduced the level of growth of my business and my profit. It is now that I understand what they taught us over 20 years ago in secondary school about the importance of good roads to an industry. Mr. Samuel Oyinlola, who resides at Baruwa, said, ”My three cars have been completely damaged by the bad road. I had to abandon them after I got tired of dealing with problems relating to gear box, ball joint, etc., everyday, not to talk of the daily stress of going out and coming in. If you stay at home beyond 5am before you escape from that terrible road, you must definitely get to work late that day.” Mr. Adetula Muyiwa who manages Lilijo Spot, a very large beer and pepper soup joint along the bad road, says his volume of business has reduced so much that he is considering retrenching some staff. It was 7.15 pm and the customers in his joint were just four. ”Before, by this time, everywhere would be filled up and all my staff would be busy. Now, they stay idle from morning till night. Only few people bother to travel through this bad road to come and relax. A man who gave his name as Daniel posted the following on the Internet concerning the bad road in question, ”I have made up my mind never to pay tax again because of the way we have been abandoned in Ipaja Ayobo. I am a legal practitioner living in Abesan and use a car worth about N2m. I have had my gear damaged at the Abesan Gate by the bad road and had to spend N100,000 to fix it. Now, it is the engine that has been damaged by the pool of dirty muddy water that is constantly at the Abesan Gate and this will cost me about N200,000 to fix.” Another individual, Mr. Lateef Gbolagade, also on the Internet, simply asked, ”Eko o ni baje? what of Ipaja? Is it not a part of Lagos State?” The entire stretch of the bad road also had no drainages - a situation that definitely quickened its failure. The website of Technology Transfer Centre in New Hampshire noted that inadequate drainage greatly contributes to road failure. Proper drainage, it said, is vital, as water affects road serviceability. To maintain a good roadway network, the road manager must keep water out of it. A drainage system reduces water damage and saves money. The site listed roadway, shoulders, ditches and culverts as the major elements to a drainage system and added, ”These elements work together to prevent water from passing through the road surface. The roadway and shoulder move water to the side and carry it away. Even properly designed roads could flood, wash out, and develop potholes if drainage is neglected. Ironically, the problem is not that the authorities are not aware of the problem since it was the route Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, went through when he attended the burial ceremony of the wife of the General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church in April last year. Fashola, in his speech at the ceremony, even promised that he would see to the repair of the road, according to media reports. The Chairman of Ayobo/Ipaja LCDA, Mr. Bisi Yusuf, who lives in the Bada area of Ipaja does not deny being aware of the problem of that road. At a time, he was accused of relocating from his house in Bada to another area because of the bad road. But Yusuf, speaking to our correspondent in his office said, ”[size=15pt]The road in question belongs to the state government[/size], but we have commenced palliative measures that will bring relief to the people while awaiting the state government‘s presence. ”The state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, had already earmarked the Ayobo-Ipaja road for construction, and work would commence there after the completion of the Moshalasi-Idimu road in Alimoso Local Government Area. ”Our measure is to make the road motorable from Ayetoro Bridge to Abesan Estate Gate, which is the boundary we share with Mosan-Okunola Local Council Development Authority. We have commenced the filling and grading of the road from Ayetoro boundary to Abesan Estate Gate, even beyond our boundary, Yusuf said. If the ‘road work‘ our correspondent witnesses last week was what Yusuff described as ”filling and grading,” then it is apt to say it falls short of any standard whatsoever. This is because ‘workmen,‘ who described themselves as members of the Abesan Gate chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, were seen using bare hands to pick slabs of hard tar that seemed to have been brought from another failed road to fill whatever they could of the failed road. Worse still, the heavy rainfall of a week later made nonsense of their efforts, as the entire road got submerged in flood, which simply washed it away. On allegations that he had relocated from his house in Bada because of the bad road, he denied it, saying they were allegations that could not be substantiated. ”I follow the same route my people follow every day, so that I can experience what they experience and feel what they feel.” He said http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20101017116125 |
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Dis Guy: Please dont come here and display your ignorance ![]() Who told you, its federal government road? ![]() Is Fashola denying that its state govt. road? ![]() |
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[size=13pt]PLEASE READ THIS THREAD, IT CONTAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW![/size] Register and post your question if any Dont take a shortcut, read everything! I've warned you o! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621498 And Goodluck! ![]() |
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Thats HTC Blackstone! ![]() ![]() ![]() Here you have eclairs running on it, watch the video [flash=480,385] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCx5elAKKoQ?fs=1&hl=en[/flash] Here you have it running froyo [flash=640,385] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZmhlhx1Bak?fs=1&hl=en[/flash] |
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Tasma: Thats |
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[flash=640,390] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIgijB97kz8&rel=0&hl=en[/flash] Na wa o Mr. Fashola, fix this road if you are expecting our votes for 2011 o! Source: http://www.saharareporters.com/video/video-ghettorization-poor-people-lagos-ayobo-ipaja-road-12-years-waiting?nocache=1#comment-152430 |
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@ ciscostraz sorry for the mixup, i'm refering to the post by Tasma ![]() ciscostraz, continue jare, nothing do u! Gingerbread is on the way for your SGS ![]() |
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ciscostaz: Give details of the exact kind of phone, then we can help you! |
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@mukina, pls help post the article that was snagged by the spambot. And pls enlighten me, what exactly is the trigger of the spambot so that i can avoid it d next time, pls! |
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[size=13pt]Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results[/size] ![]() Google Voice Actions was the first step towards our Star Trek dreams of lassoing the world with naught but vocal cords, and today Google's taken a second hop towards that inevitable future by letting Android devices record our every utterance. Yes, if you've got a handset running Froyo or better, you can download an update for Google Voice Search right now, which will let your phone dynamically personalize its speech-to-text engine to better recognize your voice most every time you use it. Of course, by so doing you're giving Google permission to record your sentences -- anonymously, of course -- to use in future products, but whether that's a problem or just a happy coincidence depends on whether you take Google at its word. We hit the "yes" button, in case you're curious. Find it on Android Market, or just use the handy-dandy QR code below. ![]() |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() laggchick: And the guy na local material thru and thru! Chai! i'm impressed ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [size=14pt]But will he not handover the lagos treasury to Tinubu?[/size] ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Only in Nigeria ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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To be honest i was so disturbed, i couldn't finish watching the video ![]() [flash=640,390] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXRuAaCVlY&hl=en[/flash] Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338479/Sudan-flogging-video-showing-screaming-woman-prompts-international-outcry.html |
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I think maybe Jenner might have whispered that one of them is infected and didn't feel it was necessary to tell Rick before because he was planning on mass suicide/murder,but since they were leaving felt obligated to let him know that one of their party was going to turn. |
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Do you agree with Jenner that humans will have an extinction event? YES. Everything has an expiration date. Dinosaurs, the sun, the solar system. We will be gone too. |
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What I think Jenner said to Rick is that they’ll all going to die due to virus is air borne and it’s matter of time they all going to change. Reason I think is because the blood test he conducted in the beginning on the show and when Rick asked him about it? Jenner replied back they’re all okay, however he was going to kill them all the next day! Also if the virus did not go air borne why would the other CDC scientist all kill them self. To a scientist any virus or bacteria going air borne is the last stage and the final stage of the evolution. They all knew there is no cure or answer. I don’t think the doctor cares about Rick’s wife being pregnant, that’s the last thing in he’s mind before he’s going to die!!! It got to be something bigger that affects the whole group. |
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Kind of disappointed that they killed off Jacqui, but I guess they wanted to emphasize that nobody is safe and reduce the cast for season 2. Looks like they want to paint Shane as the villain now, I suppose that adds to the drama, especially when we find out that Lori is pregnant with Shane's baby and that it could be a Zombie Pup |
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Wait, didn't Shane say that he listened to Rick's chest and there was no heartbeat? Could Rick have some resistance to the contagion? Or, like others have said, they all already have it, but came back with full function? ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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there is a cure and safe place in alaska says my friend, ( a producer), and Shane is infected ![]() |
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Other insights "I think Jenner told Rick that either Lori is pregnant and how far along she is or Lori or her son may hold a cure in their blood but he didn't have enough time to run tests because the clock was ticking down." ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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kITA TITA:U see until we evolve above the "adiye da mi logun nu, mo fo leyin mentality" (a hen scattered my stuff, i must break its egg - hope i got the translation right) there is no hope for us and we are just like the barbarians, u mean everyone in that village is guilty of killing the seven soldiers? ![]() This just about reprisal and nothing more! ![]() |
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chyz:I'm not whipping up opposition against him, in fact I'm of a believe that he is the lesser of all the evil we have as presidential candidates! But the above is all wrong! ![]() |
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johndoe200: ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm sure u wont be talking like this, if your house is among the houses burnt to the ground with your wife and children in it! Entitled to compensation? ![]() ![]() In Nigeria, do the innocent had to be punished along with the guilty? ![]() |
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I'm really loosing hope fast, on anything good coming out of this entity - Nigeria How can this kind of thing happen under the watch of GEJ? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Joint Task Force (JTF) attacked the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week, leaving severe damage in their wake. ![]() Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. ![]() Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. ![]() Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. ![]() Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. ![]() Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. ![]() Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. [img]http://www.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/photo_images/Photo0013(01).jpg[/img] Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. ![]() Damage from the Joint Task Force (JTF) attack on the Ijaw community in the Niger Delta last week. ![]() Source:http://www.saharareporters.com/photo/joint-task-force-jtf-attack-ijaw-community HOW MANY INNOCENT CHILDREN, WOMEN AND MEN DIED IN THIS MADNESS? THIS JUST LIKE ODI MASSACRE! ![]() |
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Definitely a possibility! Vieira: Keep em coming, what do u think again ![]() |
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or maybe Lori is pregnant, and he also probably told him that how long ![]() Jenner tested everyones blood! So Shane is going to be a father and that will thicken the plot of season 2 ![]() |
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I think jenner had bugged all the rooms and was monitoring everyone for signs of zombie behaviour, but he caught Lori and shane having their issue, maybe he was warning Rick to watch his back, you could see the way he was looking at his wife after the explosion! ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Can anybody in the guess what jenner said to rick? Anybody? ![]() Let the debate start b4 the season 2 ![]() |
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4llerbuntu: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() LOL Wetin nairaland go cause, just got back from work now and saw d post of texazz and moonraker, na him i reply o! ![]() ![]() ![]() @chinese tablets, its all over the place naa, i mean K.I.R.F's http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/345475611/10_inch_Android_tablet_PC.html and they are also very cheap, i dont advise you buy them naa! |
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