successman100:
Buy Inoson Vehicles....

Omihanifa:


Bro don't be carried away by what you see online. Go to niger state and see the state of the roads yourself.

What's the point of buying these buses when it won't be able to give comfortably due to the state of the roads.

The roads are bad and narrow, by the time you start using these buses it will further complicate the problems because they can't move fast and most people will just opt for keke or bike instead.

It's like you driving a ferrari where there are potholes. It has defeated the objective of the car

Busu001:
The Architect Of New Niger state.

Exousiang01:


If I be Nigerian leader, I go just dey do anything I like, because nothing anyone does ever looks good in the eyes of Nigerians.
Despite the headline saying construction of about 500KM of road is on the way and this same guy has been doing dangerously great in agriculture you are still her faulting him.
Una be plague

Exousiang01:


If I be Nigerian leader, I go just dey do anything I like, because nothing anyone does ever looks good in the eyes of Nigerians.
Despite the headline saying construction of about 500KM of road is on the way and this same guy has been doing dangerously great in agriculture you are still her faulting him.
Una be plague

Juliearth:

And you think these extensions/ expansions are not underway? Why criticise unconstructively and blindly? When was the last time you visited Minna?

Godoverevery:


No commendation??

Only condemnation and criticism

Omihanifa:


The truth is bitter. How many Nigeria roads are designed for this kind of buses?

How do you expect this of bus to move side by side with smaller vehicles, keke, and trucks? Go to niger state and see things yourself.

Exousiang01:
I love this guy.
He is another Zulum in the making.....

Taking serious steps without noise......

Oti would construct gutter with N500m and spend N100m to snap pictures and do adverts..

Plant Julius Berger sign post and pay media for coverage

TheAlchemist:


All the innoson vehicles used for uber in Lagos where are they now? supporting local content does not mean supporting substandard products. Innoson needs to get back to the drawing board to unravel why a 20 year old Corolla used on uber is still out performing a brand new innoson vehicle. We should not allow sentiments to becloud our sense of reasoning.

madridguy:
The great performer and not noise maker.

tiwasiaife:
We have Innoson CNG but they prefer to source for dollar and use it to import from China yet they want economy to grow.

oseiwe:

Boss, CNG vs LNG, which is cheaper to run?

alimiadedayo1:

Don't mind him. Even though I don't like APC as a party but when it comes to performance, this man try. I am based in minna and I can see his works with my physical eyes and the man touches all sector from Agriculture to construction and other infrastructures

Tallesty1:
Everything is not hate; I am not sure if you are in Niger state, else you will agree with him. Suleja - Abuja road is already choked and has been begging for expansion since the time of Adam. These buses won't function well on that route; the road is small and incredibly busy, so traffic will be mad.

Also, who buys vehicles first before building the roads on which they will run? Telling your leaders to do things the right way is not hate.

Cantonese:


Surely the roads are not what they should be. However that is not common to Niger state only. We have many states in the country with the same horrible road infrastructure. If resources are embezzled by a few, how can the states develop?

Niger state has about the biggest landmass in the entire federation. Previous governments have not much to show with all the revenue. Someone must kickstart proper development from somewhere. Before now, there has not been such thing. That governor must be commended. By the way have you not seen his efforts with agriculture?

With time, if he keep corruption low, he surely will invest in improving the road network. For me, I just hope. However for now, let’s commend him for his effort to make transportation less expensive for the citizens.

khattab02:
hmmm... Interesting to hear.


Niger state is also my adopted stated. It good am hearing things like this.


Does it also mean that Sanni Bello did virtually nothing in his 8 years?
my brother he did nothing for 8 years, if not that they are in the same party abu loko would have been in jailed by now.. He sold all most all the government properties to his clonies and friends

Am just asking

DesireV:

He obviously has great dreams for the state but he's poor with setting priorities or not being properly advised. I'll elucidate using the health, education, and works (infrastructure) sectors.

Immediately he assumed office, he started construction of a teaching hospital and converted the College of Education to a University.
This is a state with non functional primary health facilities & Elementary/Basic education structures. No matter how sophisticated the tertiary health and education are, they will be almost useless in the presence of faulty primary and secondary levels.

For health, the primary level(about 80% of health needs) is to promote health, prevent illnesses, and for prompt treatment of mild illnesses. This is what developed countries now focus on- prevent illnesses rather than wait to manage them when they happen. It's more effective and alot cheaper. Environmental sanitation, health education, nutrition, immunization etc are in primary health. Imagine unavailability of routine childhood vaccines & common antimalarials in primary health centres, women recklessly delivering at home, indiscriminate waste disposal, etc. All of these in the state capital, imagine what's happening in remote areas.
Teaching Hospitals, being at the tertiary level of care(just about 20% of health needs), are meant to attend to complicated cases most of which a functional primary care would have prevented. This governor neglected 80% for 20%. He prefers depriving children BCG, Hep B, Polio, and other vaccines to rather build a teaching hospital to later manage them for Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, Polio respectively.
The cost of 1 teaching hospital will fund functional primary health centres in every nook and crannies of Niger.
Meanwhile, there are 2 tertiary health facilities within 3hours drive from the state capital (University of Abuja Teaching Hospital & FMC, Bida). The Teaching Hospital project in Minna is a misplaced priority, especially in the face of a poor primary health.

A similar thing is happening with education. It was in Minna I first heard primary school pupils run shifts. As in, due to lack of enough schools/structures, some pupils will go to school in the morning, return by noon or so, then some will go by noon and return few hours later. It's that bad. You can drive for hours within habited areas in Niger without sighting a govt primary or secondary school.
You'll wonder who this governor is building the university for. Same children who have been denied functional basic education? Or he wants them to start from the university? There are about 4 Federal universities within 4hours from Minna.
If you provide sound basic education to people, they will access tertiary no matter how far it is from them. The sound basic education would have created the needed zeal.

Sad thing is that, the Teaching Hospital and University projects are capital intensive and lack of interests by subsequent govts will make them end up being waste of scarce resources but primary health centres or schools require less resources to fund and even NGOs or philanthropists can take over the funding later.

On works, this governor asked citizens to remove interlock on road pavements across Minna with the excuse of wanting to plant grass. Months down the line, the road pavements remain unkempt. Many road constructions were started simultaneously, many of which were previously motorable. Works have stopped on some after scrapping the old bitumen and traffic diversion. Meanwhile, the roads linking the capital to FCT & SW via Kwara are in deplorable conditions. A whole lot of roads within Minna itself are not motorable. This governor replaced streetlight poles. The old ones weren't rusted or bad. If anything must be done to them, maybe repainting. Unfortunately, the supposed replacements were thinner and not as strong as the replaced
I forsee lots of abandoned projects by the end of this man's tenure and the ones that will be completed will likely not have maximal impact on the lives of the ordinary citizens.

porthouse7:
how many months will it take innoson to deliver 50 buses or to talk of 200, fact is innoson lack capacity to mass produce

khattab02:
hmmmmm... When I was in Minna then, we all thought he could do better than his then PDP candidate, Umar Nasko.


Many perceived Nasko as Talba's stooge and voted Sanni Bello also accompanied by the APC vast movement then.


Too bad for Sanni Bello

khattab02:
Very very good point!


Am still wondering what Sanni Bello came to do as the governor of Niger state? Yet he was from a wealthy family.

Cantonese:


The same reign of embezzlement and looting of public treasury. That’s all the do with power. They forget absolutely that they would traverse the same roads whether good or bad at the end of their tenures.

Wealthy families use their wealth to capture power, with the aim of remaining in power to loot more.

That’s what it is.

Omihanifa:
The governor should first expand the roads before bringing buses that will be difficult to drive on those narrow roads.

At it stands now the way nigeria roads are designed these buses can't function well. It will create further traffic problems.

How do you expect these buses to comfortably ply a place like suleja without creating traffic gridlock