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| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Obynodgreat(m): 9:12pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
d buttom line is dat we ve train movin on our railways in dis administration... 1 Like
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| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 9:13pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Premium Times, as biased as they are towards this govt, did LIVE blogging twice on the railways. On no occasion did the journey from Lagos to Illorin take more than 9 hours https://www.nairaland.com/1226729/train-ride-lagos-kano-live http://premiumtimesng.com/news/125455-live-blog-premium-times-train-trip-kano-lagos-the-return.html Now according to the commentaries in the first link, the train left Lagos around 14.43pm and arrived Illorin at 23.40 pm covering a total distance of 391km from Lagos. That means it took the train about 9hrs to arrive Illorin from Lagos. Haters can go and commit suicide. 1 Like |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by OCTAVO: 9:24pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian: Premium Times, as biased as they are towards this govt, did LIVE blogging twice on the railways. On no occasion did the journey from Lagos to Illorin take more than 8-9 hoursDid Premium Times travel on the train? There's no point embarking on baseless defence of Nigerian rail service! People are terribly complaining about the rail transportation bro. We are talking about the real people that travelled on those locomotive trains and not some paid Bloggers! |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 9:27pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
OCTAVO:Shameless ignoramus. Open the link and read it again or better still, call for help from those who can read and write around you. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by bilms(m): 9:29pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Insincere nigerian, do you think everyone would be insincere like you? |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by 3ace(m): 9:36pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
22 hours? That must have been one hell of a journey. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Confusionist(m): 9:49pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian:dude, u shld learn to shut up! That way, people won't even realise how foolish u are! 1 Like |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by olivertwist: 10:05pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian: Maybe there was a 'traffic jam'. At least the travellers got enough 'fresh air' on board and enough opportunities to buy 'fresh gala' on the road or shall I say, railway track/line. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 10:11pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian getting wiped right, left and center as usual. Dude I have told to give this railway crap a rest. It's a shame to even discuss this crap. To put humans in that thing is war crime. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by OCTAVO: 10:13pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian:You are evidently portraying the reverse of your name.  You are a shameless and clueless bigot! Always painting black as white. I'm not surprised, idiota!!! |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Symphony007: 10:16pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian: The thread on the approval rating of the president didn't make front page. I'm waiting for the moderators to move this baseless, senseless, watery and convulsion-induced thread to make front page.that threas is the real rubbish. My good friend joe biden will call it a bunch of marlakey....a poll affiliated with a serving minister under the president being polled is flawed. It's amazing how empty your head becomes when the truth hits you in the face. 2 Likes |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by OCTAVO: 10:19pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Obiagelli: Sincere 9gerian getting wiped right, left and center as usual. Dude I have told to give this railway crap a rest. It's a shame to even discuss this crap. To put humans in that thing is war crime.Let him continue to wallow in mediocrity by defending this administration all the time. He's not to blame, he's doing what he's paid for! Other parts of the world are talking about express trains and here he is defending obsolete locomotives! His brain obviously needs a flush! |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Symphony007: 10:27pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Is'nt this what i was saying on this thread? https://www.nairaland.com/1403230/jonathan-rail-revitalization-shamefull-missed |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by awodman: 10:27pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
OCTAVO:If GEJ wasn't building a standard rail tracks I would have joined you to shout mediocrity but alas the standard gauge line that will house speed trains from Abuja-Kaduna is at an advanced stage of completion,the same with that from Itakpe-Warri and also the Abuja City Monorail.... Yes we might not be ωнεяε we wanna be but surely we are taking steps in the right direction... 2 Likes |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by bilms(m): 11:27pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Continue dreaming. Useless train. The part two of my article is coming out soon. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by mj(m): 12:05am On Sep 05, 2013 |
My personal experience, I have travelled via the railway from ilorin to lagos, that was 2 yrs ago, just for the experience. We left ilorin 9am on Sunday and we arrived Agege, Lagos 6pm in the evening that same day. We even arrived ibadan around 2pm, there were so many stop overs, offa, ibadan, etc, like 5 stop overs or so. We have security personnel in the train as well. I don't rily know where the OP got that information from, enemies of progress. 3 Likes |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by raytony: 12:45am On Sep 05, 2013 |
Most funny post on Nairaland so far. As for those abusing him, why not counter him by embarking on the same journey and come back to tell us how far. Nairaland is a no man's land. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 1:05am On Sep 05, 2013 |
awodman:Dont mind the fools who are excited over a poorly constructed lie. Their excitement over the baseless and poorly constructed lie by the OP just shows how hungry and desperate these DEVILS are for BAD news. They'r hunting, panting and seeking for BAD news, whether true or false, anywhere just to satisfy their EVIL thoughts. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 1:18am On Sep 05, 2013 |
mj: My personal experience, I have travelled via the railway from ilorin to lagos, that was 2 yrs ago, just for the experience.That is more like it and it tallies with the time on the PREMIUM TIMES live blogging. Thats about 9hours. 2015 is around the corner, so we'r not suprised that shameless liars, enemies of progress and DEVILISH Nigerians have started concocting all manners of LIES just to satisfy the inordinate political ambitions of their pay masters. Where were these vultures about 4 years ago when the trains were DEAD and NOTHING was moving? They were all worshiping at the temple of their various masters, some of whom ensured the trains remained DEAD. None of them came here to share with us tales by moonlight of how they spent eternity on the trains because there was NO trains anyway. Now that the trains are back on track, vultures and apostles of the DEVIL would have none of it |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by DisGuy: 2:26am On Sep 05, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian: Premium Times, as biased as they are towards this govt, did LIVE blogging twice on the railways. On no occasion did the journey from Lagos to Illorin take more than 9 hours Businessday is pro government August 26 2013 and heres their experience http://businessdayonline.com/2013/08/lagos-kano-train-service/ we got to Abeokuta at 7.33pm, Ibadan 10.12pm and Oshogbo at 2.20am on Saturday yet at that unholy hour, under-aged children and aged mothers were seen hawking all kinds of goods at the train station. At this station, I saw passengers struggling and jostling to get inside the train and most of them were elderly women traders with several bags and baggages. That scene alone strengthens Nigeria’s position as a country with a high level of child abuse. Less than 10 minutes into the commencement of our journey to Offa, I noticed a sudden shutdown of engine noise and all of a sudden, the 300 tons engine head started pulling all the 21 coaches at a 100 percent less speed than that of a millipede. When our reporter asked one of the security officers drafted from the NRC Police Command what is the cause of the sudden development, he retorted “Ah my brother, we have to crawl like this until we get out of this situation. Any time it rains and the tracks gets waterlogged, it impedes free movement of the steel wheels as a result of the scratching effect until it is dried up again and the train returns to its normal speed. And if the train moves faster than the crawling speed, it will derail.” It took the combined effort of some NRC staff to come down from the train anytime there is a wheel spin to pick stones and sand in order to lubricate the wheels for easier movement of coaches. At this point, I remembered telling my wife to commit my journey into prayers. I also recollected that Victor Obayagbona, a colleague of mine, had prayed for me Thursday night in the office prior to my departure. We got to Oshogbo at 2.20am and struggled to get to Offa station by 8.05am on Saturday as a result of the hitches. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by DisGuy: 2:29am On Sep 05, 2013 |
I wonder why they cant just get decent toilet set up on the trains? whats with the shot put on the tracks? |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by bilms(m): 7:51am On Sep 05, 2013 |
Some people just sit in their office to write shit about that hell called train. Take a trip on the hell of a train and will come back to tell us how hot it is. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 7:58am On Sep 05, 2013 |
emiye: https://www.nairaland.com/1335980/premium-times-train-trip-kanoIts not enough to throw the negative comments about the trains services at us while turning a BLIND eye to the POSITIVES. Lets now bring out the positives from the same PREMIUM TIMES: 1. 15.48 A little more description of the coaches: The First Class A/C is divided into A and B. Those of us in A are having the sole privilege of enjoying Nollywood-on-the-go 2. 15.52 I’m trying to read, but the lady beside me won’t just stop moaning about the Nollywood movie. “How can Ini Edo wear the same cloth for two weeks?” “How can Mike Ezuruonye go into a bush bare chested?” “The director of this movie is not a pro?”…. I may change my mind and have another beer 3. 15.58 By the way, the train is escorted by a crack team of dare devil police officers armed to the teeth with AK47 rifles. 4. 22.19 We hit Offa. 346km from Lagos. Power is still on, so the coach is incredibly cold. Almost everyone has a cloth draped over her body. No blanket is offered by the train company – yet 5. 23.36 It’s still all quiet. Train is moving, electricity is restored, and everyone’s attention is riveted at the Nollywood. I am torn between taking a nap, and another trip to the bar 6. 00.26 Just had a serious discussion with the railway official on the coach. The temperature is approaching zero degrees. “This is a train. Before you enter the First Class, you supposed to prepare for the AC,” he said. 7. 15.20 One dude who was left behind at Gwada, the last station before Kaduna, dashesinto the train. He’d used Okada to pursue the train. And paid N2,000. One Yoruba guy screams: “N2,000?! Ah!” 8. 16.53 Fortunately for me, I meet Salisu, a Kano resident travelling Second Class from Lagos. I ask him if he had enjoyed the ride thus far: “I like it. We are only two on this chair. I’m not a big man. The A/C is for the big man.” 9. 17.04 Someone in the First Class coach just told me that the “toilet is OK.” Iss okay 10. "Alhaji Tanko, standing at the door, tells me the last time he boarded a train – in 1973 – to Jos. From Lagos. “We spent one week before we reach Jos. At Kafanchan, we spent more that three days.” My beer is suddenly bitter" 11. 21.25 The train pulls out of Oshogbo station (9:09 p.m.) . A woman beside me sprints into the coach, breathless. She says she has disembarked to ‘gist’ with her daughter who lives in Oshogbo . And this ‘heavenly’ train nearly left her behind https://www.nairaland.com/1226729/train-ride-lagos-kano-live There are MORE but these are the ones I could produce for now. So in essence, for every one negative testimony about the train services, there are two positive testimonies. A half-empty cup can also be described as half-full. We all know that there are lots of room for improvement but we will not allow apostles of hate and evil to shoot down the positive testimonies about the return of the railways. 1 Like |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by awodman: 8:02am On Sep 05, 2013 |
bilms: Some people just sit in their office to write shit about that hell called train. Take a trip on the hell of a train and will come back to tell us how hot it is.So we should believe ur account than the one from a reputable media like Premium times in which the reporter blogged live..giving minute updates?? |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by naptu2: 8:37am On Sep 05, 2013 |
The BBC's Will Ross takes the train from Lagos to Kano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFoPpxldbI0 VOA on the Lagos-Kano train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD6TKc8Blfw 1 Like |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by bilms(m): 8:41am On Sep 05, 2013 |
Premium and co were hired by govt to counter my article. They are paid agents to cover the rot as exposed by me. Lol |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 8:42am On Sep 05, 2013 |
d op may be right. My train experience was worse. That will be my first and last |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by DisGuy: 8:44am On Sep 05, 2013 |
naptu2: The BBC's Will Ross takes the train from Lagos to Kano. I'm surprised yet again that it's only a foriegn media outfit/reporter that has been able to make a video of 'new development', the rest couldnt even manage a decent picture documentary thanks Naptu2 |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by jmaine: 8:45am On Sep 05, 2013 |
OCTAVO: You need to shut up, open the link, read and illuminate your ignorance. . . . |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Pataki: 8:54am On Sep 05, 2013 |
VOA NEWS: Lagos - Kano= 37.5hours. BBC NEWS: Lagos - Kano= 31hours. And yet one doofus here wants me to believe a paid government blogger on Premium times like himself. |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 8:57am On Sep 05, 2013 |
booqee: d op may be right. My train experience was worse. That will be my first and lastThe trains are even congested and can do without ignoramuses like you. As if those who travel by road or air dont have issues. Do you know how many Nigerians are killed or maimed daily from road accidents? |
| Re: I Left Ilorin Via Train Around 7 Am And Got To Lagos This Morning Around 5am by Nobody: 9:09am On Sep 05, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian:WHEN WILL JONATHAN START USING HIS TRAINS Na, |
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