Daily Independence of January 20th 1985 headline report of conditions of our railway lines during under Buhari's leadership.

For those downplaying Jonathan's efforts in reviving our railway transport see what your progressive principal did to it in 1985. A problem Jonathan is solving now. This is aside the cancellation of Lagos metro line which would have added so much value to our transport sector by now.

Photo credit: @ikhide

Facts are flying..
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EDIT: So I made FTC and was expecting an alert on my a/c buh got notin!! Wy then do pple fight and cry over it like it makes them richer Na wao! Naija been hyping tins unnecessarily since d slave trade era..

Bullshit its still the same as it was in 1985.

And they say GEJ isn't working?

acenazt:
Bullshit its still the same as it was in 1985.

Mumu liar like you.
Comparing the two situations is like comparing BARCELONA FC with SHARKS FC.



JONATHAN'S transformational TRAIN.

with all these some right thinking Nigerians will vote Buhari. Ok o. since the north is sabotaging GEJ'S govt with Bokoharam and claiming he is weak, when they take power even in 2019 it's their buckets that they will take to Rivers state if they must see crude. God go punish North papa.

Since this has made front Page let me modify.

I know every right thinking Nigerian that has followed Nigeria's Politics and development will not vote Buhari. Buhari claims he is Mr. Integrity but he does it at convinience only. If he is Mr Integrity he should come clean about the fact that he did not finish Secondary school and entered the military through quota sytem (wallahi dan uwa. wannan Kworruftion ne pa). He should come clean about the fact that he did not buy a single rifle for the Army as President. Buhari claims he is Mr Integrity but he served under Sani Abacha and said openly that Abacha is not corrupt (& we want him to fight corruption) etc I don't blame the Millions of Northerners that he and his likes has kept illiterate and poor supporting him but it hurts me when I see enlightened Nigerians like you and I shouting change. Its Pathetic. At this point we are already facing the right direction as a Nation what we need is Improvement not change.

History really hurts...just like truth will always overtake any falsehood...thank you@Op

PhockPhockMan:
Mumu liar like you.
Comparing the two situations is like comparing BARCELONA FC with SHARKS FC.



JONATHAN'S transformational TRAIN.

this child. Have you been to any train station in Niger state?

Operational performance of the Nigerian Railway
Corporation (NRC) reveal that the highest number of
passengers carried was 15,555,200 in 1984. Under buhari

businessdayonline.com/2013/04/attracting-private-investors-in-rail-transport/

A man who couldn't transform his community with an annual pension of N300million wants to transform Nigeria


Only educated illiterates will vote for Buhari


God bless GEJ for reviving our trains.

At least , Shagari's grandson can board one.

KwoiZabo:
with all these some right thinking Nigerians will vote Buhari. Ok o. since the north is sabotaging GEJ'S govt with Bokoharam and claiming he is weak, when they take power it's their buckets that they will bring to Rivers state if they must see crude. God go punish North papa.

giving excuses for his failure.It is very unfair for you to compare a govt of 1&1/2 years with six years. but you forgot to tell the world that buhari built two refineries, that GEJ,is struggling to the revive in 6years.we should stop celebrating mediocrity.

Jorussia:
giving excuses for his failure.It is very unfair for you to compare a govt of 1&1/2 years with six years. but you forgot to tell the world that buhari built two refineries, that GEJ,is struggling to the revive in 6years.we should stop celebrating mediocrity.

Built whaaaaaaat. The only refinery connected to Buhari is Warri Refinery started by Muritala and commissioned under OBJ when Buhari was petroleum minister. that's all. Kaduna was commissioned in 1983 by shagari and that same year Buhari toppled him, PH is 1989 by IBB and Eleme 1965. How did that uneducated crap called Buhari come into the picture? stop bowing to propaganda. The PIB currently at the National Assembly prepared by GEJ's govt. will finally kill corruption in the NNPC, so why has our legislators not pass it. well for your info. The North has missed it by frustrating GEJ'S govt with Bokoharam.

KwoiZabo:
Built what. The only refinery connected to Buhari is the on started by Muritala and commissioned under OBJ when Buhari was petroleum minister. that's all. stop bowing to propaganda. well for your info. The North has missed it by frustrating GEJ'S govt with Bokoharam.

Fact


The North will pay dearly for this sabotage

Nigerians started criticising GEJ when he was less than 3 months in Office.

One thing is that GEJ has done his part, there is no man that will ever please Nigerians while in office.

The Abacha that people celebrated his death, is today one of the "saints" that ruled this country.

Even if this same Buhari wins today, Nigerian will still complain in less than 1 year in office.

acenazt:
this child. Have you been to any train station in Niger state?

No, I've not been there. I just show you the pictures of Port Harcourt station, show us the pictures please.

Obiagelli:
Operational performance of the Nigerian Railway
Corporation (NRC) reveal that the highest number of
passengers carried was 15,555,200 in 1984. Under buhari

businessdayonline.com/2013/04/attracting-private-investors-in-rail-transport/

With scrappy locomotive abi?

PhockPhockMan:
No, I've not been there. I just show you the pictures of Port Harcourt station, show us the pictures please.

sorry i don't have it. Are we in a oix or I don't believe?

Obiagelli:
Operational performance of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) reveal that the highest number of
passengers carried was 15,555,200 in 1984. Under buhari

businessdayonline.com/2013/04/attracting-private-investors-in-rail-transport/

Any business admin/economics/accounting student understands the TIME LAG between investments and performance as well as the reverse i.e. LACK of continuous investments and SUBSEQUENT deterioration.
In 1984 the peaked number of passengers benefitted from PREVIOUS regimes' investments in railways that was yet to ROT away completely.

No wonder you gave us a very small excerpt of the businessdayonline story for a complete DISTORTION of what the news was all about. You were trying to be CUNNING hoping that most of our fellow citizens are LAZY mofos who won't bother to check out the source and read the whole news. Thankfully not everyone is like that.

Let us see a much larger excerpt of the same story from your provided link =>

Operational performance of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) reveal that the highest number of passengers carried was 15,555,200 in 1984 and the highest volume of freight was 2,375, 000 metric tonnes in 1977.

By 2000- 2001, traffic had fallen to 2,610,000 and 1,283,000 passengers respectively with tonnage of freight conveyed put at 116,000 and 132,000 metric tonnes. Between 2000 and 2010, the rail passengers carried annually were barely up to two million while tonnage of goods conveyed was not up to 170,000 tonnes every year.

With rail transport accounting for over 70 percent of freight tonnage in India, this form of transport constitutes less than two percent in Nigeria, a situation that portends great danger to the economy.

Current rail development

Currently, plans are ongoing to acquire new coaches, signal and communications, purchase of locomotive engines and rehabilitate of rail tracks across major railway districts in a bid to revitalise the transport sub-sector.

In an interview with Ademuiyiwa Adekanmbi, public relations officer, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Lagos District Headquarters, he said that rehabilitation of Lagos-Kano route is already being completed and opened to traffic.

Adekanmbi revealed that about eighteen trains that function within Lagos metropolis recording about 12,000 passengers daily.

“The Lagos-Kano and Lagos-Ilorin rail transport is fully on track, as the trains travel three times in a week. Most trains have conveniences such as bars, fans, beds amongst others to ensure comfortability of passengers. Rehabilitation of the east line that is the Port Harcourt, Jos, and Maiduguri is ongoing. As part of measures to ensure sustenance of the rail transport system, the federal government have recently provided [size=16pt]25 new locomotive engines from Brazil for the NRC,”[/size] Adekanmbi added.

The Corporation is rehabilitating the Zaria-Gusau-Kaura Namoda line, including modernisation project of Phase 1, Abuja (Idu)-Kaduna standard gauge line covering 187km. The Federal Government awarded contract for feasibility studies in new green field areas to further open up the railway routes. These include Lagos-Shagamu-Ijebu Ode-Ore-Bein City (300km).

A new standard gauge would run from Benin-Agbor-Onitsha- Nnewi-Owerri – Aba, with additional line to Onitsha-Enugu-Abakiliki (500km). Another is expected to run from Lagos-Ibadan-Oshogbo-Baro-Abuja (615km). Feasibility studies are ongoing for the new standard gauge from Ajaokuta (Eganyi)-Obajana-Jakura-Baro-Abuja, with additional line for the standard gauge from Zaria-Kaura Namoda-Sokoto-Illela- Birnin Kebbi(520km).

Interestingly, coastal railway line from Benin- Sapele-Warri-Yenagoa- Port Harcourt-Aba- Uyo-Calabar-Akampa-Ikom-Obudu Cattle Ranch (673km) are ongoing. A line is expected to run from Ajaokuta-Eagnyi-Lokoja-Abaji-Abuja (280km) with construction expected to be done through Public Private Partnership (PPP).

With concessioning envisioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport in 2006, under the arrangement, railway infrastructure remains the property of the Federal Government, while the concessionaires are expected to lease the rolling stock and/or bring in additional rolling stock for their operations.

Adesoji Adesanya, head, Policy Engagement Division, Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan in a paper titled “Bringing the Nigerian railways back on track: Challenges and Options, said that the concessionaires are expected to participate in the rehabilitation and maintenance of relevant infrastructure.

“The planned concessioning in the rail transport sub-sector is aimed at injecting private sector investment and expertise to rehabilitate the existing line and also expand the rail network to cover other parts of the country in line with the 25-Year strategic rail development vision,” Adesanya

The Light Rail project linking Orile-Badagry is sponsored by the Lagos State Government. The project, for which seven lines are being planned (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, Brown and Orange), is to be under a concession contract to the private sector under a PPP arrangement.

The concessionaire is expected to provide railway equipment including electric power, signalling, rolling stock and fare collection equipment among other things. LAMATA is presently focussing on the 27 km Blue Line (Okokomaiko-Marina) and the 30 km Red Line (Agbado-Marina).

Just as the daft pensioner did not buy any gun throughout his two year regime of terror as military DICTATOR he also did not buy any locomotive or coach hence passenger & cargo numbers continued to decline since 1977 until the Jonathan/Sambo decided to give REAL support to this vital sector and we have been seeing the results of steady PROGRESS everywhere

The article was published almost two years ago in April 2013.
Most of the planned rehabilitation & expansion by the federal administration highlighted above have been completed and citizens who had been deprived of this alternative means of transport are benefitting.

munas:


New Year Train Ride From Portharcourt To Enugu

Its new year and guys are traveling to spend time and celebrate with family and friends.
A friend of my just sent in these picture about his journey from Port Harcourt To Enugu yesterday
[size=16pt]in the new train.[/size]


www.nairaland.com/attachments/1991439_train3_jpeg3394f7b06a6446997d181ab362c1ccbd



www.nairaland.com/attachments/1991443_train7_jpeg0c769656344a5026a08ce08f71f487c2

The story for Lagos state light rail of ONLY 27kms is very pathetic. This was a project that Jakande already started CONSTRUCTION before the sadist DESTROYER of the good works of others in the form of a military DICTATOR Buhari cancelled it and made the state pay hefty fines for breach of contract in 1983.
32 years later, we have no rail!

Four years after Toronto aloku scrap train propaganda show and two years after Fashola boasted in January 2013 that five months later in June 2013 we will be tweeting from inside his aloku trains. We can only hope that the Association of Pretending Crooks, APC that has been ruining Lagos state for 16 years will not tell us it was bad business like the N8 billion Sunborn yacht floating hotel

Amaechi's case is not different from SCAMMER Fashola's deception
Since Amaechi joined APC he has abandoned whatever little governance he was doing for Rivers state and recently came out to boldly say without shame that he cannot complete the Port Harcourt light rail.

Why would any right thinking Nigerian want to swap a PROGRESSively performing federal administration of Jonathan/Sambo for the FRAUDULENT people assembled in APC?
What type of citizen would do that except those afflicted by the Cow Cloned Brain Syndrome, CCBS


P.S.: Feel free to share this as widely as possible to all those you are following on NL and even outside NL.






Kai Buhari!!!
#Liberate-Lagos

Jorussia:
giving excuses for his failure.It is very unfair for you to compare a govt of 1&1/2 years with six years. but you forgot to tell the world that buhari built two refineries, that GEJ,is struggling to the revive in 6years.we should stop celebrating mediocrity.

Which refineries, he built them for your village Abi?

acenazt:
sorry i don't have it. Are we in a oix or I don't believe?

You know na.

before buhari is clueless too now, but now he don't get clue.

KwoiZabo:
Built what. The only refinery connected to Buhari is the on started by Muritala and commissioned under OBJ when Buhari was petroleum minister. that's all. stop bowing to propaganda. well for your info. The North has missed it by frustrating GEJ'S govt with Bokoharam.

how has the north frustrated Jonathan with BH?it is on record that book haram activities started in the govt of Yar adua(a northern). Because the president never took BH,seriously from the beginning.He allowed it grew to the present stage and now he wants us to pity him.leaders are sources of inspiration to the lead,they are to tackle any challenge that presents it self.

PhockPhockMan:
Which refineries, he built them for your village Abi?

Which yeye refinery? The credit goes to Muritala and Obasanjo who were heads of state then.

acenazt:
this child. Have you been to any train station in Niger state?

See what a painter of rice is doing to you

acenazt:
this child. Have you been to any train station in Niger state?

See what a painter of rice is doing to you

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAH
bloods are already spilling in the north
baboons are already dieing.
lies are spreading and rascals like gov amaechi is showcasing his wickedness by stopping pdp use stadium


and some people are here shouting chANGE....CHANGE. please what is the change?



more bloods and heads will role....grand Pa continue

Jorussia:
how has the north frustrated Jonathan with BH?it is on record that book haram activities started in the govt of Yar adua(a northern). Because the president never took BH,seriously from the beginning.He allowed it grew to the present stage and now he wants us to pity him.leaders are sources of inspiration to the lead,they are to tackle any challenge that presents it self.

Simple question

Since it started under Yaradua, what did yaradua to earn the clueful status and what has GEJ not done to earn the clueless status?

Huffington:
Which yeye refinery? The credit goes to Muritala and Obasanjo who were heads of state then.

You're right.

eleven:
Daily Independence of January 20th 1985 headline report of conditions of our railway lines during under Buhari's leadership.

For those downplaying Jonathan's efforts in reviving our railway transport see what your progressive principal did to it in 1985. A problem Jonathan is solving now. This is aside the cancellation of Lagos metro line which would have added so much value to our transport sector by now.

I can't stop baffling at the rate you guys bend on discrediting GMB, dis clown Op is showing us a used and dumped coachs in 1983, does that mean passengers were not conveyed with gud coachs as at then? I wasnt yet born in 1983 bt i travel on train many a time in 1992 and i can still remember how gud 1st class coaches look like. why dont you show us those rotten coaches dumped by the rail-side along Jebba-Kotangora to birnu-gwari. Atleast I still saw them in the last few month I traveled north.

If you think Op is a failed Tanoid click like......................
If you think I am wrong Oya Oga boss click unlike!
GMB till Jonathan knows that steeling is corruption.

Jorussia:
how has the north frustrated Jonathan with BH?it is on record that book haram activities started in the govt of Yar adua(a northern). Because the president never took BH,seriously from the beginning.He allowed it grew to the present stage and now he wants us to pity him.leaders are sources of inspiration to the lead,they are to tackle any challenge that presents it self.

Instead of sanusi to condemn kano Bombings alone he is telling us help is on the way. Why is there so much sabotage, why did Nyako write that letter etc

how can an illiterate know good things




jona has built university for him. he should go back to school
i cannot vote buhari at gun point, a terrorist like him
their plan is to frustrate GEJ out of office with boko haram and return power to the north which has ruled this country for decade with nothing to show

KwoiZabo:
Instead of sanusi to condemn kano Bombings alone he is telling us help is on the way. Why is there so much sabotage, why did Nyako write that letter etc

My point is, he as the command in chief of the armed forces,should stop giving us excuses.Nyako is just a single individual, he is not bigger than the state of Nigeria. There is virtually no leader in Nigeria who didn't experience security challenges ,it was how they handled them that made the difference.