Basic amenities like roads are meant to make life easy but this is far from it for residents living along and around the Igbogbo-Bayeku Road in the Ikorodu area of Lagos.
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KUNLE ODEREMI examines steady efforts at opening up Ekiti State for transformation by the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi in the face of harsh socio-economic realities prevalent across the country.
PENETRATING the skyline of Ibadan is the imposing 25-storey Cocoa House completed in 1965. Previously called Farmers’ House, the amazing structure is among the enduring and timeless legacies of the first generation of politicians that managed the resources of Yoruba land in the First Republic.
Another timeless monument of that nostalgic period is the Government Secretariat Complex in Agodi, also in the Oyo State capital which, till date, remains the footprint of a resourceful, purpose and visionary leadership. Similar great strides of that era cut across public utilities and infrastructure designed to unlock the potentials of the citizens, but which, sadly, have suffered a reckless abandonment in the hands of successive leaders.