All the (non)reasons why Lagos state’s NGN 78 million spend on its Governor's website is actually very prudent

Continuing conversation from:

It’s been almost a month since @BudgIt dropped that bombshell of a news on Twitter and sat back to watch it grow into a gentle firestorm.

We still have no idea how a N78 million website cannot fix Lagos’ traffic or how such website can exist at all - in Africa no less, but @akamaozu presents a case for the notorious website in this subtly cheeky post.

No doubt some enterprising fellow bought the domain name tundefashola.com and squatted on it. This isn’t unreasonable, considering people have to pay off omo onile to build on their own land they bought with (sometimes) hard earned money. This is post Y2K. Digital omo oniles are real.
Here is why Fashola’s website costs 78 million naira (USD 391,468) | TechCabal

(I’m aware this has been posted on the above thread. I’m sharing here again to expose it to a wider audience).

Enjoy.

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So they spent $200,000 on hosting? How is that even close to justifiable?
They could have used a free wordpress theme and gotten a better site than what they have now…Plus saved a whole bunch of money.
Hopefully , the original post was tongue in cheek, and I missed it.

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