What make a city lively and interestingare not only the hustling and bustling during the day, but also the sauntering and partyingof her people during the night. Over the years, Lagos as always been known only as a city active during the day and dead during night unlike other African big cities. Accra, the Ghanaian capital, for example, is a city that does not sleep because of her night life. People go about in the night like in the day without the fear of being harassed.
But Lagos’s night life is being redefined by the administration of AkinwumiAmbode with the massive replacement of faulty street lights at the major roads in the city. The last administration of BabatundeFasola ensured that most roads on the island, especially Victoria Island and Ikoyi, were beautified with streets lights and that may be the reason why most popular night clubs are located there.
Now, major roads on the mainland are being lighted up in the night thereby giving these roads beautiful illumination. TheCapital went out to some of these streets and roads – Ikorodu to Lagos Island, Ikeja, Oshodi, OjoduBergers – and confirmed the lighting project
The project is termed “Operation Light up Lagos” and is in line with the fulfillment of Governor Amobode’s campaign promise of 24 hour city.
Some of the people who spoke to us could not hold their joy seeing the development. They all confessed that they could work and walk freely in the night without fear of being attacked by hoodlums who used to perpetrate evil by snatching the belongings of pedestrians and motorists when there were no street lights.
They however called for Governor Ambode to extend the projects to other parts of Lagos.
