Where we conclude that Aba does not have a train station where all its whimsy can go, therefore the bus terminal is the closest.
Beautiful infrastructure, beautiful individual houses, green spaces collectively create the “beautiful cities” we pay top dollar to holiday in.
I see your point I will not be smoking you. But this is first thought. Like first draft of a brilliant thesis.
Second draft is realising that infrastructures are built to be both functional and signal development using the most modern technology & aesthetics.
Third draft is 1/
I will get sticks for this, but I think it needs to be said.
No bus terminal has any right to be this way, not in a country with such a massive infrastructure deficit.
That said, I completely understand why it was built this way. Nigerians are obsessed with glossy outcomes, even when there is no fundamental infrastructure to sustain them.
A more intentional country would build simple, functional bus stops that match its level of development. More importantly, the opportunity cost could be used to standardize bus stops and transportation infrastructure across the state.
But you build what people emotionally connect with. This is why every governor wants a white elephant project that sends people into a frenzy.
Our governance, and how we are run as a nation, is ultimately a reflection of who we are.
In May 2001, President Obasanjo was scheduled to make a 3-day working trip to Japan.
He drove to the airport, where it is reported that he waited for roughly three hours.
Why? His Vice-President Atiku was airborne and unable to land because of bad weather. Obasanjo waited until his VP touched down, before he boarded his own flight to Japan.
This was in keeping with Nigerian state protocol and national security convention, that the President and Vice President should never be out of the country at the same time.
Seems like a different era, doesn’t it?
Deeply dislike this genre of Yoruba names, they annoy me as much as Anglicised Yoruba names (yes, I’m talking about Tiaraoluwa). Another example, Ibukunoluwalonmunilalaifilalasi. Looks ridiculous, sounds crazy, doesn’t mean more than the average name it’s derived from.
One day we need to talk about how the “boy child left behind” is the same as reverse racism. It's a fake issue that doesn't actually exist. There is no systematic exclusion or disenfranchisement of boy children.
I think adult men created it to excuse their failures in life.
I really detest the way Igbo women are spoken about on this app. In case you didn’t know, Igbo women being branded as “wicked” or “evil feminists” is tribalism.
I know everyone jokes about this stuff a lot but it’s a very poor (and in my opinion lazy) understanding of Nigerian psychology and Nigerian social behaviour.
Nigerians are not white supremacists.
Nigerians are POWER supremacists.
They align and support every oppressive power structure in any society they find themselves in or observe.
If black people in America had been the ones to enslave and oppress white people, Nigerians would come along and tell you how white people too were the ones who provoked black people into enslaving them, and how being white is inferior and disgusting, and white people should try to be more like black people.
Nigerians mental and social orientation is to have far more sympathy for the people who wield structural power than for the people who are victims of it.
It’s the same reason they support clearly harmful African politicians and leaders.
Nigerians are sexually attracted to dictators and despots because they have power over other humans beings at scale.
Arguing with a misogynist feels a lot like arguing with a racist… it’s like you think you’re having a disagreement about one issue, then realize you’re actually arguing against an entire worldview that depends on seeing another group of people as inherently beneath them ��
Thank you feminism. Because of you , I can get education, own property, have cards, wear whatever i want, reject marriages or motherhood, use internet, hire people to assist me, and many more…