MY TEN KOBO;THIS IS LAGOS.

No, this is not Lekki, and it is not Surulere, definitely not Ikeja.

This is U-turn bus stop, Along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ojokoro, around 11pm yesterday.

The street lights are on, for the first time in about thirty nine years.

The Lagos Abeokuta Expressway was built around 1977, and expanded in 2001 to its present size.

It begins at Ile zik, where it veered left from Agege Motor road, which started at Mosalashi in Mushin, and ends at the capitol junction in Agege.

Not once, in all these years were provisions for streetlights made for this road, which at night, is one of the most dangerous to navigate, especially the Mangoro/cement, Super and kantagoa portions, where the road either became a sharp bend, a90 degree curve and/or dip dangerously, especially when it is pitch dark.

Not even the then mandatory reflectors, those reflective things that bounce off your headlights and serve as a beacon on most off town roads were ever provided.
So, for the time being, the governor Ambode' s initiative to light up Lagos has reached our part of town, including the entire stretch of the old Agege motor road from ile zik to pen cxinema , and even my own Agbe road!

And with the flyover now being constructed at Abule Egba, and a permanent reconstruction of the ile epo portion of the same road, this is the first time those of us in that axis are feeling included in the scheme of things on such a massive scale.
Given room for the Nigerian factor, and our penchant to take our eyes off the ball once no one is looking, things may yet go south, but it would be a function of maintenance, not infrastructure.

I commend the governor, on this, for now.

My Ten Kobo.