Toosure70:
Thanks to developers that choose to develop Lagos and abandone their potopoto villages.

Thank you for the sincerity and respect....

GreaterFuture3:
You did not give technical info about this Jetty.
Where does it go, what Water Boats are there can itaerve long distance, cannot come and operate my own Boat from there etc.
These info here is too small, repetitive and Mundane

My brother one cold beer for you! That is what am expecting to hear, not just telling us about their structural facilities, just to stir a tribal war. And the Mod ma wey go resurrect the post from the grave wet be em rightful place na em I blame. Wetin be your aim, to stir the on going tribal war the more, abi?

NGRsenate:
Is it really an architectural masterpiece??

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Actually it is.

Did you see two front pillars and send-down-the-rain roof on it?

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Kobicove:
If its purpose is to serve workers then their opening time of 8am is rather late

Exactly what l was thinking!
And to think it closes by 5pm, how many workers have left their office in that vicinity, by 5pm?
It should close earliest by 7pm and open by 6am.

Moreover, l was expecting to see large, flat Bed Sea Boats that can haul around 300-500 passengers or more, per trip.
But all l see are small efizzy boats for the Elites ro two lovers on a cruise.
I guess the Terminal was done with only Elites in mind, as usual with Sanwo-Olu.

As a matter of fact, with the amount of water surrounding Lagos and V.I. in particular, the sate can afford to pedestrianise a lot of areas, restrict Vehicular movement to particular routes and convey hundreds of thousands of Commuters by Boats.
Safe Boats ofcourse, not some Europe-condemned, rickety Boats that our Governors will import for Nigerians, as new ones and at the cost of New ones.
We don sabi that 'Tinubu style', since 1999.

Wickedfacts:
There's a waterfront bar there, WBar. Carry babe there at night, she no go wan go house. Or just go across the water and do Radisson blu waterfront.

Na because of Ashawo peeps like you, den dey take close the place for daytime - 5pm!

Lovely

One4me:

Na because of Ashawo peeps like you, den dey take close the place for daytime - 5pm!

Who tell you? I dey go that W Bar at different times between 10am to 3am. Not for riff-raffs with sagged jeans and raggedy look though, strictly upwardly mobile professionals.

travelwaka:
The five Cowries Terminal was commissioned on 30 August 2019. It was built by MTN Nigeria, furnished and donated to the Lagos State Government through a Public Private Partnership. It has a multi level car parking facility that can take 800 cars. it is overlooking the lagos Lagoon facing Ozumba Mbadiwe and on the side of the Falomo bridge.

The place is also the LASWA Headquarters.

1. LASWA logo
2. The Terminal
3. The view from the other side of Lekki
4. Aerial view of the jetty at the Terminal

Source: https://www.travelwaka.com/five-cowries-terminal/

EKO ONI BAJE!
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emmajodeci:
What are their destinations from that terminal.

Critical information that should have been disclosed upfront in the OP. Thanks for your vigilance.

travelwaka:
1. Cross-section of the boats at the terminal
2. The Lagos State Governors boat
3. Another Lagos State Governors Boat
4. The boat and the terminal

Not “Governors Boat” but LAGFERRY...
Or Lagos State Ferry Services Corporation.
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jneutron4000:
God bless Yoruba land.

For something built by MTN
Is MTN a Yoruba company?
Or mobile phone technology was researched and developed by Yorubas?
Are all the revenue from MTN generated in Yoruba land?

What manner of empty tribalism is this your own

pricklewane:
Mod please hide this thread, cursed jews from hellfire will be angry with this new. They prefer colored road by failure personified Ikpeazu.

Another tribal loony on the loose, chest beating on top of a private, South African company’s donation.
Are we so shameless

emmajodeci:
What are their destinations from that terminal.

seguno2:
Critical information that should have been disclosed upfront in the OP. Thanks for your vigilance.

LAGFERRY has trips to and from CMS, Ikorodu, Badore and Bayeku several times a day...
There are a few other PRIVATE operators who may also commute from Five Cowries to other destinations.
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WorldRichest:

Post pictures of better ones in your village and I will tell you why your State governor spends more time in Lagos than your state

What is the sense of your post?
Is Lagos benchmarking itself with a village or any of the 35 states?
Is it not always bragging about world class facilities, even though it does not have the level of education for everyone, or mass transit that world class cities have?

Kobicove:
If its purpose is to serve workers then their opening time of 8am is rather late

The OP should update the information, otherwise it means that the project is a fancy place for bragging rights mostly, rather than as part of a mass transit system.
What stops them from opening at 5:30am and close at 10pm

This took 7 years to build? Naija sef

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BGZiXSTSIo

seguno2:
What is the sense of your post?
Is Lagos benchmarking itself with a village or any of the 35 states?
Is it not always bragging about world class facilities, even though it does not have the level of education for everyone, or mass transit that world class cities have?

There are inner-city public schools in “world-class” cities such as Chicago, NYC and Wash DC just as bad as the worst public schools in Lagos - just as there are very good public schools in Lagos. A world-class city does NOT signify perfection. There are ghettos and inner-city slums in several “world-class” cities that will (relatively) rival some of the slum areas of Lagos. The reality is that the best of Lagos can match up well (relatively, because everything is relative) against the best of several other world-class cities. The new public bus system and public buses (with its card technology and ITS system) matches up well with several world-class cities (Lagos does not control PRIVATE buses like Danfo, but has now set out to reform and better regulate same), and it is building a “world-class” light rail system.

Nonetheless, A CHAIN IS ONLY AS STRONG AS ITS WEAKEST LINK - and accordingly, as an integral part of Nigeria, there’s only so far that Lagos will be able to “outrun” the rest of Nigeria and will always suffer with the burden of dragging along an severely underdeveloped Nigeria along. In this regard, Lagos can never enjoy an international credit rating above that of Nigeria’s sovereign rating (which is barely above junk rating), regardless of Lagos’ own financial management or revenue generation. Similarly, under Nigeria’s tortured (largely centralized) nominal “federal” system, Lagos cannot fully control its own internal waterways, electric power (generation, transmission and/or distribution), seaports, and even basics like its educational curriculum, among several other areas.

So long as Nigeria itself remains a severely UNDERDEVELOPED nation (a Third World s/hole, as I personally often refer to it here on Nairaland), there’s only so much of “world class” aspirations that Lagos can achieve, regardless of its best efforts - not least because the better and more world-class Lagos becomes, the more some of the poorest and often least-educated Nigerians vote with their feet and pour into Lagos seeking economic refuge and opportunities, putting greater pressure on Lagos’ physical and social infrastructure (for example, Lagos provides FREE education in public primary and secondary schools for all residents, regardless of state of origin) without commensurate tax revenues, as many of these poor migrants are not taxable. Nonetheless, we have to accord DUE CREDIT to Lagos.

EKO ONI BAJE!
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Simplyleo:
Thread created since 2019 just gracing the front page today? Nawao.

Next like you said, it's Grace

NGRsenate:
Is it really an architectural masterpiece??

KendrickAyomide:
I just tire. The village of blind men where the one eyed man is King.

Originalsly:
Wouldn't you too call it an architectural masterpiece?....if you lived all your life in the village and is now exposed to this kind architecture??

Bloggers just telling on themselves and don't even know.

Of course, it is...
The Staten Island Ferry terminal in lower Manhattan (NYC), which won a design award, is frankly NOT better.
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StrongInBed:


It doesn't change the fact that it's a no man's land and Eboyi is developed than all the 5 South Western states.

Go to idumota or Agege just one day and identify yourself as a pig then start shouting Lagos is a no mans land..., I trust my guys for area, you won't live to tell the story.... Ebonyi is developed but yourself and other pigs Won't let the west rest, every time na invasion, una be like housefly for lagos

Pigs dey talk say na MTN get am, these people's level of foolishness and stupidity can never be matched

9jaRealist:
There are inner-city public schools in “world-class” cities such as Chicago, NYC and Wash DC just as bad as the worst public schools in Lagos - just as there are very good public schools in Lagos. A world-class city does NOT signify perfection. There are ghettos and inner-city slums in several “world-class” cities that will (relatively) rival some of the slum areas of Lagos. The reality is that the best of Lagos can match up well (relatively, because everything is relative) against the best of several other world-class cities. The new public bus system and public buses (with its card technology and ITS system) matches up well with several world-class cities (Lagos does not control PRIVATE buses like Danfo, but has now set out to reform and better regulate same), and it is building a “world-class” light rail system.

Nonetheless, A CHAIN IS ONLY AS STRONG AS ITS WEAKEST LINK - and accordingly, as an integral part of Nigeria, there’s only so far that Lagos will be able to “outrun” the rest of Nigeria and will always suffer with the burden of dragging along an severely underdeveloped Nigeria along. In this regard, Lagos can never enjoy an international credit rating above that of Nigeria’s sovereign rating (which is barely above junk rating), regardless of Lagos’ own financial management or revenue generation. Similarly, under Nigeria’s tortured (largely centralized) nominal “federal” system, Lagos cannot fully control its own internal waterways, electric power (generation, transmission and/or distribution), seaports, and even basics like its educational curriculum, among several other areas.

So long as Nigeria itself remains a severely UNDERDEVELOPED nation (a Third World s/hole, as I personally often refer to it here on Nairaland), there’s only so much of “world class” aspirations that Lagos can achieve, regardless of its best efforts - not least because the better and more world-class Lagos becomes, the more some of the poorest and often least-educated Nigerians vote with their feet and pour into Lagos seeking economic refuge and opportunities, putting greater pressure on Lagos’ physical and social infrastructure (for example, Lagos provides FREE education in public primary and secondary schools for all residents, regardless of state of origin) without commensurate tax revenues, as many of these poor migrants are not taxable. Nonetheless, we have to accord DUE CREDIT to Lagos.

EKO ONI BAJE!
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So Lagos has the same rate of children in government schools, as New York and Washington DC?
Or what is the starting point for your flawed comparison
What do we gain in justifying the rogues that we have allowed to ruin our government at the local, state and federal levels in the legislative and executive arms
What exactly is our gain from this vain attempt at the deprivation?

seguno2:
So Lagos has the same rate of children in government schools, as New York and Washington DC?
Or what is the starting point for your flawed comparison
What do we gain in justifying the rogues that we have allowed to ruin our government at the local, state and federal levels in the legislative and executive arms
What exactly is our gain from this vain attempt at the deprivation?

Comprehension issues?

For re-emphasis, Lagos is an integral part of a SEVERELY UNDEVELOPED Nigeria...
Thus, even if Lagos placed every kid in school, scores of new poor and un/under-educated kids will keep flooding in.

Nonetheless, Lagos offers FREE public primary/secondary education to ALL resident kids...
However, unlike places like NYC and Wash DC, parents are not punished (even jailed) for their kids being out of school.

PERFECTION SHOULD NEVER BE THE ENEMY OF DOING BETTER...
And if we RIGHTLY criticize bad governance, we should also be willing to acknowledge good governance.
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Hayzead07:
This took 7 years to build? Naija sef

It did, because the PDP federal government stopped its construction using armed soldiers....
The projected was not restarted until the new APC federal government came into office in 2015.
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9jaRealist:




Of course, it is...
The Staten Island Ferry terminal in lower Manhattan (NYC), which won a design award, is frankly NOT better.
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OK.... I learned something new today..... a building that wins a design award is designated an architectural masterpiece. I guess thensame goes for paintings.... one that wins a competition is a masterpiece.

Originalsly:
OK.... I learned something new today..... a building that wins a design award is designated an architectural masterpiece. I guess thensame goes for paintings.... one that wins a competition is a masterpiece.

You speak as if “masterpiece” is an objective term, when it’s actually SUBJECTIVE...
Nonetheless, winning a design award signifies it’s architecturally more than ordinary.
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NGRsenate:
Is it really an architectural masterpiece??

.... Maybe not to you, but it is to others and that's what matters

travelwaka:
The five Cowries Terminal was commissioned on 30 August 2019. It was built by MTN Nigeria, furnished and donated to the Lagos State Government through a Public Private Partnership. It has a multi level car parking facility that can take 800 cars. it is overlooking the lagos Lagoon facing Ozumba Mbadiwe and on the side of the Falomo bridge.

The place is also the LASWA Headquarters.

1. LASWA logo
2. The Terminal
3. The view from the other side of Lekki
4. Aerial view of the jetty at the Terminal


Source: https://www.travelwaka.com/five-cowries-terminal/

..... If all these facilities can be maintained and added to in time to come, Lagos will become one of the best cities to live in the world

seguno2:


For something built by MTN
Is MTN a Yoruba company?
Or mobile phone technology was researched and developed by Yorubas?
Are all the revenue from MTN generated in Yoruba land?

What manner of empty tribalism is this your own

Where is your evidence that MTN built it?