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BRT BUSES IN LAGOS - A FAILING SERVICE

Lagos residents in 2008 received news of a Bus Rapid Transit System. It was a plan in which luxury buses would provide better transportation services at cheaper rates compared to what existed at the time. Dedicated lanes on certain roads were created with the buses given exclusive permit to drive on this lane. The buses soon arrived and were subsequently commissioned. A lot of publicity work was done to promote the availability of the buses, prevent regular buses from driving on the dedicated lanes, the routes available as well as the ticket costs. Lagosians soon began looking out for these buses and indeed they provided some immediate relief to the teeming population. Lagos has forever remained plagued by traffic jams. A trip that should ordinarily take 30 to 40 minutes usually becomes an endurance test running into 4 hours at times. On some occasion, people leave their cars, seat at road side bars to wait out the traffic while commuters have often left commercial buses and contin

The Own Goal that a Buhari Victory Represents

Before now, football had been the one sport or contest to generate so much passion in Nigeria. It enjoyed this monopoly of passion but always united Nigerians. Our politics and elections however are another sport that now generates more passion and tension compared to football but unfortunately fails to unite us. It’s finally 2015 and a lot has already happened in the build up to this piece. General Buhari for the fourth time is running on the platform of the All Progressives Congress or "Conpidence" the first successful merger of political parties in Nigeria. The elections were postponed; Obasanjo asked his PDP card be torn. PVC distribution has remains shoddy while there have been sparks of violence in a few places. I have been a critic of the president. On several issues like the subsidy management, rule by committees, refusal to say amen to a prayer on corruption, his refusal to give a damn about the number of shoes he owns, I disagreed with the pre