Bros I know this is unrelated but if you have the time, please cover the recently constructed Mfum to Ekok Bridge from Calabar to Cameroon. You can drive and come back or even cross the border and come back. Would love to see the road from your perspective
Actually Lagos isn't late, they banned it around 12 years back, it was what motivated Adams Oshiomole to ban Okadas in Benin City. For 12 years or there about we haven't had Okadas in Benin-City. Unfortunately, Okadas came back in Lagos. I hope this time it is for real.
@InfoNigeria 247 semantics! No difference between restricted and banned. I never said they banned them in all of Lagos, I said they were banned 12 years ago in Lagos, which they did, weather it was in specific areas or all of the state, the point is that this isn't the first time it is happening. In Edo state they are not banned in all the state. But the main heart of Benin City they are outlawed. I remember this clearly because when it was done in Lag, Adams Oshiomole followed suite.
I think every one needs to get a bicycle in Lagos, and Govt should easily create cycle lanes. That's how people easily moved around in the 50's and 60's. Very good for the health of the people. London is now a 45% on bicycle 🚲 city. Exactly same size as Lagos.
This so called okada ban is going to have effect on Lagosian because to me state like Lagos is know for traffic and many people move from one location to any other with the help of okada because it is faster and affordable. and a state like Lagos with more than 20million people without okada things will no go well for some people because this so called okada really help people in doing there business faster or getting to work faster. Thank you for sharing!
Lagos Rail Mass transit systems will soon be launched, there's also BRT etc. Even without them there's no good reason to use motorbikes (Okada) for transport. Why should ours be different? Lagos traffic is better than in Bangladesh, but they don't use Okada for transport! Okada is dispensable, Lagosians will cope.
@@NedMedia That is just my own opinion to the issue I just believe we are going to get it right this time. Because this is not the first time okada is been ban in Lagos.
Lagos state government must really consider banning danfo and shuttle because I don't know the need of having a working brt system, ferry and upcoming train if we still plan to leave them on the road they make the state look so disorganized maybe the government can integrate the danfo and shuttle drivers into brt drivers.
Ned Media my man. I love this content and I love that Lagos state government is enforcing this ban to fidelity. If we want a world class city, we have to be firm in implementation of the rules and do the work it takes to bring a city to world class. Next step is to start arresting and charging to court all those people that are crossing the express way where there are pedestrians bridges and those that are selling goods on railway tracks and on road sidewalks. Kudos Lagos.
Thanks 😊 for your amazing insights. Being a world class city comes at a cost, besides Okada does more harm than good. The noise pollution alone from their horns blaring can drive one crazy.
Many humans won't obey the law except there are massive consequences. Even in the abroad people only listen because of the consequences so this is a good move. Let people know there are consequences for breaking the law
Absolutely Princess! Naija 🇳🇬 potentials and prospects are under reported and in some cases de-marketed. Elections are coming, people should endeavour to vote. All politicians are not the same, some of them have great plans...
I think it's high time we start taking this migration into Nigeria seriously because I don't understand how a country will be harbouring so many illegal immigrants from other west African countries and no one is saying anything about it because if it was to be Nigerians those countries will not hesitate to act
After the ban, I couldn't believe that my street could be as clean as it is now. Before, when there is a little disagreement, you will see this aboki calling on their brothers and before you know it, the whole place will be in uproar people will start running helter-skelter.
The guys are a menace. From their irritating blaring horns to driving on the wrong side of the road. They even do double overtaking, 2 bikes overtaking a car from both sides. They do more harm than good and Lagosians will cope and appreciate the ban in a few months.
Great content as usual I would have loved that the bikes be stripped down and recycled, good one arresting passengers enabling the Okadas without passengers riding Okada it won't exist
Okada is never an option in a densely populated city like lagos. We need trains, buses, double deckers, taxi's. Okada need to go. Forget there usefulness, think logically about it, use ants as case study, they are always organized
If banning Okada is what is always done in a civilized society, then so be it. Still and all, has the government created a program that can employ at least 50% of those who will be loosing their source of income as a result of the ban. We can all applaud the government for bringing back sanity to the city because we're not affected.
Bullshit if humans are left to do as they pleased we would still be in the stone age by now, every one wants Nigeria to look like America but doesn't want to implement the regulations that made America that way
Most of the riders aren't even Nigeria, I don't know why you think Lagos will be the one providing Job for them when there country government can't. We would have like them but they keep killing our people because of small things. Imagine killing someone because of #100
@@cristiano4289 Is it not the currupt system created and nurtured by or so called leaders that allowed them into the country in the first place. What would you do if you were one of them?
The black market will sell to them, people will start fuel business by the side that sells to them at ridiculous prices the okadas will start buying with gallon what's the best is to ban importation
The Okada ban will make our roads safer and other numerous benefits. People want our cities to be like Oyinbo own, but they don't know that it comes with a lot of change.
Is not just be saying we ban okada But by enforcing it but the enforcer We de be able?, they can if only they let corruption of their mind n do the needy.
If I may ask are they going to provide vacancies for them? How about does that have family and their source of income could be from the okada? Governments should think before taking actions. I rest my case😒😏
It will be nice to ban the Okada after the rail is completed. There are no alternative to banning those okada. Some of those riders will result to illegal activities. I believe they should have waited until 2023 after the completion of the Red & the Blue line.
What about the amputations, death, crimes and burning of people between now and then? Most of them are Central African Republic, Cameroonian, Nigérien, Béninois, citizens. No more furniture makers, mechanic, builders, etc because Okada brought quick money from riding and criminality
How will ordinary people get about? The public transport is totally inadequate while the road infrastructure is wholly inadequate. So banning Keke too as well as Okada is the solution your brain comes up with? With more cars comes more traffic, more pollution and longer journeys. Chai! See African sense O!
I read lot of comments and I was dejected 😞 sanctioning BIKES 🏍 is a good development for a good city who got alternate plans for ppl to survive and other good means of transportation!! My question to the Lagos state government is WHAT ARE THEIR PLANS FOR THE RIDERS WHO LIVE OFF FROM THIS TO SURVIVE? Shameful 🤦♂️
Honestly I assume you don't live in Nigeria. These Okada guys cause havoc around the city, injure passengers, cause terrible traffic and Lagos already has enough traffic. They should go please. I agree the government should create more jobs though.
There used to be artisans before, such as builders, mechanic, carpenters, hulticulturists, but the arrival of Okada turned them all away from their trades to Okada + crime to make things fast. Now, you will see Trades springing up again. To build houses right now you need to get far to get workers, but as son as the Ban is enforced, things will return to order again
Easy to ban but no rehabilitation, training in skills etc. Yes they constitute a nuisance, we might have created a world of terror. We shall find out shortly.
This ban is ridiculous. Why can't you simply licence the Okada riders? That way, the riders can be properly regulated. Lagos traffic is totally chaotic. Without this affordable form of transport providing a valuable need everyone suffers. Or can they not see that? The commentator is an idiot. He compares Lagos to other cities in the world. How brainless is that?. A population of 20 million with inadequate road infrastructure is the very reason Okada riders exist. I hope this ban means that the Lagos State Government has alternative plans for the employment of the riders!
You can make your point without insults. No! Traffic is not a good enough reason to use Okada as a means of transportation. It is defeatist and a lazy man's approach to solving problems. Many cities abroad that have worse traffic than Lagos, do not use Okada. The traffic problems will reduce drastically when the Red Line & Blue Line starts operations in Q1 2023.
You seem angry. No city can regulate okada bikes. It`s a nuisance and people will find another way. Do you want progress or are you happy with a slum lifestyle?
@@NedMedia I have quite rightly insulted the commentator because his reasoning is stupid. Can I not be honest? Just because (as he wrongly claims) nowhere else in the world uses motorcycle taxis, does that mean that we shouldn't. Are we really such brainless apes that we cannot find rational solutions to our own problems? What is wrong with proper regulation? Okada riders can provide an inexpensive and efficient solution to the needs of a ridiculously chaotic city such as Lagos. Simply banning Okada riders is thoughtless and authoritarian. People like you don't give a damn about the unemployment that these riders now face. Tell me what they are supposed to do in the face of already chronic unemployment rates? Do you care at all? Or is it just insults which concern you?
@@ayo9703 Yes. I am angry. Who in their right mind wouldn't be? I'm not an Okada rider but I am staggered not only by the arbitrary and thoughtless ban but the support it seems to have by people who I assumed might have given more rational thought to the issue.Nobody seems to have considered consultation or a system of regulation. Only in totalitarian states can officials behave like this and the masses simply lie down and accept it. No thought about unemployment. No thought about affordable alternative means of transport in the short term. My friend, if you are not angry then you too are part of the problem of Nigeria. Politicians act with impunity and will continue to do so as long as people acquiesce. The old saying may well be true..... "people get the government they deserve". If you are happy with the livelihoods of poor people being removed at the stroke of a pen, don't be surprised when your own liberty or livelihood one day is removed in exactly the same way.
@@Africa1000 dude. It isn't like they weren't warned. The Lagos state government banned them more than 10 years back, they came back. Stubborn people. We see other nations how they do things, yet we like to encourage backwardness in the country. In Benin City Okadas are Banned, the world didn't end. The law is the law. Your excuses are silly. It is like saying because there are no enough public toilets in Nigeria, therefore it is okay to urinate and shit on the road. Okadas provide jobs doesn't mean it is ideal. Okadas were never a mode of transportation in Nigeria in the 60s and 70s, even in the early 80s. They have become a nuisance. If they want work, they should go and find other things to do. It is about time.
This is senseless crushing This Okada, even in India and most South Asia country, they modify them and use them for plowing on the farm, search for motorcycle use on farms on youtube.com, is so sad that nigeria is still backward we can't even produce 2 stroke engine, my friend what innoson etc is doing is called motor assembly, not manufacturing, this what we are doing in Peugeot automobile in kaduna and Volkswagen assembly mile 2, 40 years ago. We are stuck in technology of 40 year's ago, if we want to catch up to this little Asia dragon we have to use our head better. How do you call assembly, production when you can't even produce the steel.
@@AnikulapoOlawale they can even remove the engine and repurpose it in agro industries or used for boats, concrete block maker, Gari processing etc, they will sell to Indians to melt them down to make steel for roofing, what they did is like what the former president of Phillipines did he said he was doing anticorruption and start crushing Lamborghini rolls Royse Bentleys etc seized, instead of selling them, whose country money is wasted I. USA where I am writing this, when they seize anything; drug seizure or terrorism they auction it off. We don't have but we are destroying the little we have, trying to pretend that we have arrived, I agree to taken them off the road in major cities because of there nuisance. Even in America here people go on bicycle, electric scotters etc.
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Sanity will gradually return to Lagos roads, the total ban in Lagos state can't come sooner. Thanks for the amazing comments 👏 😀
Bros I know this is unrelated but if you have the time, please cover the recently constructed Mfum to Ekok Bridge from Calabar to Cameroon. You can drive and come back or even cross the border and come back. Would love to see the road from your perspective
@@BoskiM That's very far from Lagos, maybe if work takes us to Calabar in the near future...
Believe me this is bad because there will now be a flurry of keke napep which would cause even worse traffic jams
Actually Lagos isn't late, they banned it around 12 years back, it was what motivated Adams Oshiomole to ban Okadas in Benin City.
For 12 years or there about we haven't had Okadas in Benin-City.
Unfortunately, Okadas came back in Lagos. I hope this time it is for real.
You're right Azeez but Lagos is late in terms of serious enforcement. Others seriously enforced the ban...
Thanks for your insights 👍🏽
@InfoNigeria 247 semantics! No difference between restricted and banned. I never said they banned them in all of Lagos, I said they were banned 12 years ago in Lagos, which they did, weather it was in specific areas or all of the state, the point is that this isn't the first time it is happening. In Edo state they are not banned in all the state. But the main heart of Benin City they are outlawed.
I remember this clearly because when it was done in Lag, Adams Oshiomole followed suite.
I think every one needs to get a bicycle in Lagos, and Govt should easily create cycle lanes. That's how people easily moved around in the 50's and 60's. Very good for the health of the people. London is now a 45% on bicycle 🚲 city. Exactly same size as Lagos.
They should ban the importation too
This so called okada ban is going to have effect on Lagosian because to me state like Lagos is know for traffic and many people move from one location to any other with the help of okada because it is faster and affordable. and a state like Lagos with more than 20million people without okada things will no go well for some people because this so called okada really help people in doing there business faster or getting to work faster. Thank you for sharing!
The trains hopefully should be running soon.
Lagos Rail Mass transit systems will soon be launched, there's also BRT etc. Even without them there's no good reason to use motorbikes (Okada) for transport. Why should ours be different?
Lagos traffic is better than in Bangladesh, but they don't use Okada for transport!
Okada is dispensable, Lagosians will cope.
@@gardensteps I agree with you!
@@NedMedia That is just my own opinion to the issue I just believe we are going to get it right this time. Because this is not the first time okada is been ban in Lagos.
We would adjust, we can't wait till they more bread winners.
Lagos state government must really consider banning danfo and shuttle because I don't know the need of having a working brt system, ferry and upcoming train if we still plan to leave them on the road they make the state look so disorganized maybe the government can integrate the danfo and shuttle drivers into brt drivers.
Nice idea
Ned Media my man. I love this content and I love that Lagos state government is enforcing this ban to fidelity. If we want a world class city, we have to be firm in implementation of the rules and do the work it takes to bring a city to world class. Next step is to start arresting and charging to court all those people that are crossing the express way where there are pedestrians bridges and those that are selling goods on railway tracks and on road sidewalks. Kudos Lagos.
Thanks 😊 for your amazing insights. Being a world class city comes at a cost, besides Okada does more harm than good. The noise pollution alone from their horns blaring can drive one crazy.
Many humans won't obey the law except there are massive consequences. Even in the abroad people only listen because of the consequences so this is a good move. Let people know there are consequences for breaking the law
Absolutely 💯 It's shocking that people expect too much from government, but simple rules they can't obey.
Exactly!
About time! 👏
@nedmedia, you have really changed my outlook on Nigeria; I am optimistic that the best is just a few years away.
Absolutely Princess! Naija 🇳🇬 potentials and prospects are under reported and in some cases de-marketed.
Elections are coming, people should endeavour to vote. All politicians are not the same, some of them have great plans...
I think it's high time we start taking this migration into Nigeria seriously because I don't understand how a country will be harbouring so many illegal immigrants from other west African countries and no one is saying anything about it because if it was to be Nigerians those countries will not hesitate to act
Very very true woooo migration is a problem in nigeria every one can just come into infers just like that ..
Many of them.
The problem is that we don't know blacks people as foreigner
Today incident in owo just proved a fracture of what I said
They should have banned okada many years ago . They are really a menace on the roads
After the ban, I couldn't believe that my street could be as clean as it is now. Before, when there is a little disagreement, you will see this aboki calling on their brothers and before you know it, the whole place will be in uproar people will start running helter-skelter.
The guys are a menace. From their irritating blaring horns to driving on the wrong side of the road. They even do double overtaking, 2 bikes overtaking a car from both sides.
They do more harm than good and Lagosians will cope and appreciate the ban in a few months.
Great content as usual I would have loved that the bikes be stripped down and recycled, good one arresting passengers enabling the Okadas without passengers riding Okada it won't exist
Thanks 😊
Crushing is the first step of recycling them.
They should learn to listen
Those tricycles too causes rowdiness. They should go too.
nice video brother, keep it up with the very informative content
Thanks man long time😊
Okada is never an option in a densely populated city like lagos. We need trains, buses, double deckers, taxi's. Okada need to go. Forget there usefulness, think logically about it, use ants as case study, they are always organized
You forgot most important: tunnels for cars and subway 🚇
Ants do not drive cars
If banning Okada is what is always done in a civilized society, then so be it.
Still and all, has the government created a program that can employ at least 50% of those who will be loosing their source of income as a result of the ban.
We can all applaud the government for bringing back sanity to the city because we're not affected.
Bullshit if humans are left to do as they pleased we would still be in the stone age by now, every one wants Nigeria to look like America but doesn't want to implement the regulations that made America that way
Thanks 4 this comment. It makes sense Wella. Clear corruption and get rid of unemployment and then clear okada. Nigeria is Hypocritical.
Most of the riders aren't even Nigeria, I don't know why you think Lagos will be the one providing Job for them when there country government can't. We would have like them but they keep killing our people because of small things. Imagine killing someone because of #100
@@cristiano4289 Is it not the currupt system created and nurtured by or so called leaders that allowed them into the country in the first place.
What would you do if you were one of them?
@@cristiano4289 seriously? They killed someone over N100?
Am not against the government but they should try to provide means of living for this ones
Most of them aren't Nigerian. You can tell your state government to do that for them
The best way to handle this issue is to pass a law banning fuel station from selling petrol to the Okada riders
😀😊 You wicked ooo.
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The black market will sell to them, people will start fuel business by the side that sells to them at ridiculous prices the okadas will start buying with gallon what's the best is to ban importation
@@PAYDAYHEDGE Yes. Just make the importation illegal
Policing these okada drivers is Lagos States' responsibility.
Good I like its
The Okada ban will make our roads safer and other numerous benefits. People want our cities to be like Oyinbo own, but they don't know that it comes with a lot of change.
@@NedMedia True 💯.
Please recycle everything.
Is not just be saying we ban okada
But by enforcing it but the enforcer
We de be able?, they can if only they let corruption of their mind n do the needy.
Give them another way to make money
WOW, by the heavens there is a brain ...
A lot of them are full time robbers and part time okada drivers so good riddance to bad rubbish and not a moment too soon.
Some are not even citizens
If I may ask are they going to provide vacancies for them? How about does that have family and their source of income could be from the okada?
Governments should think before taking actions. I rest my case😒😏
Yes they can apply for the Last Mile Buses according to the state govt.
It will be nice to ban the Okada after the rail is completed. There are no alternative to banning those okada. Some of those riders will result to illegal activities. I believe they should have waited until 2023 after the completion of the Red & the Blue line.
So that more people could be killed? If they were banned totally in some state it means something is wrong with them.
What about the amputations, death, crimes and burning of people between now and then?
Most of them are Central African Republic, Cameroonian, Nigérien, Béninois, citizens.
No more furniture makers, mechanic, builders, etc because Okada brought quick money from riding and criminality
Well done government
You only pick your side of the story...
Even Keke Marwa, or Keke Nepad should be banned so that sanity can return to our roads. Good Job Lagos State Government..
These guys constitute a lot of nuisance.
Keke NAPEP in the 90s
@@NedMedia, thanks for the correction. Lol
How will ordinary people get about? The public transport is totally inadequate while the road infrastructure is wholly inadequate.
So banning Keke too as well as Okada is the solution your brain comes up with? With more cars comes more traffic, more pollution and longer journeys.
Chai! See African sense O!
If every passenger who uses okada or keke drives a car instead how will that improve traffic?
I read lot of comments and I was dejected 😞 sanctioning BIKES 🏍 is a good development for a good city who got alternate plans for ppl to survive and other good means of transportation!! My question to the Lagos state government is WHAT ARE THEIR PLANS FOR THE RIDERS WHO LIVE OFF FROM THIS TO SURVIVE? Shameful 🤦♂️
Honestly I assume you don't live in Nigeria. These Okada guys cause havoc around the city, injure passengers, cause terrible traffic and Lagos already has enough traffic. They should go please. I agree the government should create more jobs though.
There used to be artisans before, such as builders, mechanic, carpenters, hulticulturists, but the arrival of Okada turned them all away from their trades to Okada + crime to make things fast.
Now, you will see Trades springing up again. To build houses right now you need to get far to get workers, but as son as the Ban is enforced, things will return to order again
Easy to ban but no rehabilitation, training in skills etc. Yes they constitute a nuisance, we might have created a world of terror. We shall find out shortly.
Keep quiet baba. Most of the riders are from Mali, Niger republic,
When you get to the bridge, you cross it. Kill criminals and they will get scared
💯 ban on okada. It's about time
Absolutely! The benefits outweigh the detriments.
This ban is ridiculous. Why can't you simply licence the Okada riders? That way, the riders can be properly regulated. Lagos traffic is totally chaotic. Without this affordable form of transport providing a valuable need everyone suffers. Or can they not see that?
The commentator is an idiot. He compares Lagos to other cities in the world. How brainless is that?. A population of 20 million with inadequate road infrastructure is the very reason Okada riders exist. I hope this ban means that the Lagos State Government has alternative plans for the employment of the riders!
You can make your point without insults.
No! Traffic is not a good enough reason to use Okada as a means of transportation. It is defeatist and a lazy man's approach to solving problems. Many cities abroad that have worse traffic than Lagos, do not use Okada.
The traffic problems will reduce drastically when the Red Line & Blue Line starts operations in Q1 2023.
You seem angry. No city can regulate okada bikes. It`s a nuisance and people will find another way. Do you want progress or are you happy with a slum lifestyle?
@@NedMedia I have quite rightly insulted the commentator because his reasoning is stupid. Can I not be honest? Just because (as he wrongly claims) nowhere else in the world uses motorcycle taxis, does that mean that we shouldn't. Are we really such brainless apes that we cannot find rational solutions to our own problems? What is wrong with proper regulation? Okada riders can provide an inexpensive and efficient solution to the needs of a ridiculously chaotic city such as Lagos.
Simply banning Okada riders is thoughtless and authoritarian.
People like you don't give a damn about the unemployment that these riders now face. Tell me what they are supposed to do in the face of already chronic unemployment rates? Do you care at all? Or is it just insults which concern you?
@@ayo9703 Yes. I am angry. Who in their right mind wouldn't be? I'm not an Okada rider but I am staggered not only by the arbitrary and thoughtless ban but the support it seems to have by people who I assumed might have given more rational thought to the issue.Nobody seems to have considered consultation or a system of regulation. Only in totalitarian states can officials behave like this and the masses simply lie down and accept it. No thought about unemployment. No thought about affordable alternative means of transport in the short term.
My friend, if you are not angry then you too are part of the problem of Nigeria. Politicians act with impunity and will continue to do so as long as people acquiesce. The old saying may well be true..... "people get the government they deserve". If you are happy with the livelihoods of poor people being removed at the stroke of a pen, don't be surprised when your own liberty or livelihood one day is removed in exactly the same way.
@@Africa1000 dude. It isn't like they weren't warned. The Lagos state government banned them more than 10 years back, they came back. Stubborn people.
We see other nations how they do things, yet we like to encourage backwardness in the country. In Benin City Okadas are Banned, the world didn't end.
The law is the law.
Your excuses are silly. It is like saying because there are no enough public toilets in Nigeria, therefore it is okay to urinate and shit on the road.
Okadas provide jobs doesn't mean it is ideal.
Okadas were never a mode of transportation in Nigeria in the 60s and 70s, even in the early 80s. They have become a nuisance. If they want work, they should go and find other things to do. It is about time.
This is senseless crushing This Okada, even in India and most South Asia country, they modify them and use them for plowing on the farm, search for motorcycle use on farms on youtube.com, is so sad that nigeria is still backward we can't even produce 2 stroke engine, my friend what innoson etc is doing is called motor assembly, not manufacturing, this what we are doing in Peugeot automobile in kaduna and Volkswagen assembly mile 2, 40 years ago. We are stuck in technology of 40 year's ago, if we want to catch up to this little Asia dragon we have to use our head better. How do you call assembly, production when you can't even produce the steel.
@@AnikulapoOlawale they can even remove the engine and repurpose it in agro industries or used for boats, concrete block maker, Gari processing etc, they will sell to Indians to melt them down to make steel for roofing, what they did is like what the former president of Phillipines did he said he was doing anticorruption and start crushing Lamborghini rolls Royse Bentleys etc seized, instead of selling them, whose country money is wasted I. USA where I am writing this, when they seize anything; drug seizure or terrorism they auction it off. We don't have but we are destroying the little we have, trying to pretend that we have arrived, I agree to taken them off the road in major cities because of there nuisance. Even in America here people go on bicycle, electric scotters etc.
REST!!!