Acting President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, has officially launched construction work on a long-delayed, 156km, Chinese-funded railway from coastal Lagos to the inland city of Ibadan.

“Our ultimate goal is to restore a railway-using culture for both commercial and personal transportation,” Osinbajo said at the ceremony on 6 March, adding that the target date for completion of the $1.5bn double-track railway was December 2018, reports Nigerian newspaper, The Guardian.

State-owned China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) will build the railway.

The Lagos-Ibadan rail link is the first leg of a much longer railway stretching from Lagos inland to Kano. A multi-billion-dollar contract for this railway was first awarded to CCECC in 2006 under then-President Olusegun Obasanjo, but a lack of funds prevented the project from starting.

https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/nigeria-starts-work-la7gos-ibad7an-railw7ay/

Just imagine, OBJ awarded the contract back in 2006 and left it dead, cold and abandoned right there on the drawing board.

Yaradua didn't bother to look at it.

GEJ accumulated more oil wealth than any administration in the history of Nigeria and still didn't bother to touch the project.

14 years after the useless, worthless and incompetent past leaders, PMB started and completed the project in less than 4 years without the huge oil wealth we had under GEJ and the presidents and leaders before him.

To God be the glory.

Putting things in perspective, the $2.3 Billion GEJ and Okonjo stole and gave to Dasuki too share with their crooked and corrupt cronies was enough to build 2 Lagos Ibadan railway.

Sad..

Ugandatales:


I have been waiting for this since for years now, and I can't explain how overjoyed I am. I am using it for the first time on Thursday...from Moniya in Ibadan to Lagos. I can't wait.

Yet some people will never respect you as a stakeholder and end-user.

They will insist you must be angry, crying and cursing the government for "ordinary chinko trains" when the entire world has been enjoying bullet trains for 6000 years. Lol.

The Nigeria of our dream is unfolding in our lifetime.

God is good.

saasala:
Omo this man don old o. Almost 90 years. He has lived a fulfilled and purposeful life. He will die a legend and his name will remain on the lips of men till eternity

I swear!!!

candidtalk:


Mumu. You think I am one of the unexposed [/b]Yorubas who believes Igbos are more valuable migrants to the SW than others?

You don't pay taxes, you flood the market with fake, inferior and poor quality goods from China and you guys never employ non-Igbos even on SW soil thereby constituting yourselves into economic saboteurs and parasites. [b]It is the reason the Ghanaians government don't want you in Ghana. You don't pay taxes and you never employ Ghanaians.

Furthermore, it is you guys alone always nursing malevolent takeover/usurpation of political power from the Yorubas in their own land. Something you intolerant people are vehemently against in your SE.

Your so-called benefits to the SW are fake and mythical like the average Igbo is. Try your scaremongering about Northerners with unexposed Yorubas. Minus violent bandit-type, most Northerners are no worse than Igbos.

You can just about spell, but you actually really sound really unexposed.

NGpatriot:
Putting things in perspective, the $2.3 Billion GEJ and Okonjo stole and gave to Dasuki too share with their crooked and corrupt cronies was enough to build 2 Lagos Ibadan railway.

Sad..

But GEJ built the Kaduna-Abuja rail and the Abuja metro line enjoyed by Abuja residents. Why are you guys pretending this is groundbreaking and has never been done before?

Obi1kenobi:


You can just about spell, but you actually really sound really unexposed.

Lol. Shukwudi abi na Shinedu, bring the most accomplished PHD holder in your entire State and I will use superior intellect to slap sense into their flat head. Now run along and cry in the corner.

when are we going to stop thanking our leaders for providing basic amenities with tax payers money?
This is a normal what they signed up for and are meant to serve the people
Stop thanking them it is their duty to provide basic amenities

candidtalk:


Lol. Shukwudi abi na Shinedu, bring the most accomplished PHD holder in your entire State and I will use superior intellect to slap sense into their flat head. Now run along and cry in the corner.

Wow......I'm dazzled by the "superior intellect" of a keyboard warrior who thinks Nairaland is real life. I don't really care to trade juvenile, primitive, small-minded tribalistic barbs with you. Just pointing out that only an "unexposed" doofus thinks Igbos is Lagos don't pay taxes and are "parasites". Also further exposing his primitive, parochial mentality by claiming we somehow nurse some "malevolent takeover/usurpation of political power from the Yorubas in their own land". Do you care to elaborate on this malevolent scheme of ours and how exactly we intend to carry it out?

Insecurity Nepotistism and the fact that he his not connected to Nigerians..only seat at home all day long

Wiifesnatcher:



Amen God bless Buhari&Ameachi for this wonderful event


Buhari should addressed the insecurity excesses of this country, insecurities will just spoil most of your efforts, stand to your responsibility

All of those raillines where commissioned by BUBU...

Obi1kenobi:


But GEJ built the Kaduna-Abuja rail and the Abuja metro line enjoyed by Abuja residents. Why are you guys pretending this is groundbreaking and has never been done before?

blueghost:
when are we going to stop thanking our leaders for providing basic amenities with tax payers money?
This is a normal what they signed up for and are meant to serve the people
Stop thanking them it is their duty to provide basic amenities

That's the primitive conditioning on Nigerians for you. A guy who has buried Nigeria in more debt than several administrations before him combined to provide a few amenities must be exalted to god-like status despite the staggering shortcomings and incompetence of his administration in innumerable ways. I despair for the future of this country. I supported Buhari's election in his first term but his mindless sycophants are a special level of stuupid.

Ginusa79:


Probably that’s because the SE’ners are economic refugees in the SW. Some of them have travelled SW to the SE more than they have travelled within their communities in the SE.

Moreso, maybe the government knew trains cannot be built in the erosion prone region because the vibration alone could cause a disaster and turn the whole city to another Syria.

By the way, I thought Goodluck Azikwe gave you guys the second Niger bridge so what do you need trains for?

Finally, Lagos-Ibadan is actually the destination that needs that rail service more than any where in Nigeria because it has the highest volume of to and fro in Nigeria.

Goat fucker, You think with your anus and speak with your penis, It's a shame for you to always compare yourself with the South Easterners. A very big shame indeed. People given only 20 naira by your late thief frogeyes, while all their properties and wealth were consficated came to your region and became Landords and you still have mouth to talk, I spit on your grave, you are an idiot withut an iota of shame. Leeches,

Obi1kenobi:


Wow......I'm dazzled by the "superior intellect" of a keyboard warrior who thinks Nairaland is real life. I don't really care to trade juvenile, primitive, small-minded tribalistic barbs with you. Just pointing out that only an "unexposed" doofus thinks Igbos is Lagos don't pay taxes and are "parasites". Also further exposing his primitive, parochial mentality by claiming we somehow nurse some "malevolent takeover/usurpation of political power from the Yorubas in their own land". Do you care to elaborate on this malevolent scheme of ours and how exactly we intend to carry it out?

Sharrap!!!! I sound like a teacher to you? Anyway I see I am dealing with a dishonest Igbo. Go and ask your relatives and fellow Igbos those dumb questions.

Tekrify:
All of those raillines where commissioned by BUBU...

Abuja light rail was about 90% completed by GEJ. Kaduna-Abuja line was at an even more advanced stage of completion. GEJ would definitely have finished them in his 2nd term - just as Buhari is finishing this Lagos-Ibadan line in his 2nd term. I despised much in GEJ's administration (which was why I supported Buhari over him) but pretending Buhari deserves credit for those is dishonest.

candidtalk:


Sharrap!!!! I sound like a teacher to you? Anyway I see I am dealing with a dishonest Igbo. Go and ask your relatives and fellow Igbos those dumb questions.

My "relatives and fellow Igbos" didn't make the dumb assertion. You did. Which is why it's you I'm asking the question. Abi, your superior intellect couldn't figure that one out?

ogwumgbe:

Goat fucker, You think with your anus and speak with your penis, It's a shame for you to always compare yourself with the South Easterners. A very big shame indeed. People given only 20 naira by your late thief frogeyes, while all their properties and wealth were consficated came to your region and became Landords and you still have mouth to talk, I spit on your grave, you are an idiot withut an iota of shame. Leeches,

Are you guys not ashamed to still be repeating this discredited garbage? Perhaps it is the thousands of your brothers hawking on Third mainland and Eko bridge who are the "landlords" you are referring to. Lol.

.

Warri Itakpe was abandoned for 30 years, PMB/amaechi completed it in less than 3 years.

To God be the glory.

God Bless Amaechi

God Bless PMB

God Bless Nigeria.

candidtalk:


Mumu. You think I am one of the unexposed Yorubas who believes Igbos are more valuable migrants to the SW than others?

You don't pay taxes, you flood the market with fake, inferior and poor quality goods from China and you guys never employ non-Igbos even on SW soil thereby constituting yourselves into economic saboteurs and parasites. It is the reason the Ghanaians government don't want you in Ghana. You don't pay taxes and you never employ Ghanaians.

Furthermore, it is you guys alone always nursing malevolent takeover/usurpation of political power from the Yorubas in their own land. Something you intolerant people are vehemently against in your SE.

Your so-called benefits to the SW are fake and mythical like the average Igbo is. Try your scaremongering about Northerners with unexposed Yorubas. Minus violent bandit-type, most Northerners are no worse than Igbos.

Pray, where did i state Igbos are ‘more valuable’ to the south-west than other ethnicities? The fact you label a Nigerian that moves and settles outside of his region as a MIGRANT in his own country (a country Ndigbo/Biafrans wanted to leave for una in 1967, but your forefathers spilt blood to continue the ‘love-fest’)....the fact you call them migrants says a lot about your nasty, duplicitous and two-faced character! I suppose it’s lost on you the point i was trying to make about whose presence -between the two regions/ethnicities- has negatively affected your region the most in the recent past!

What data/studies leads you to assert that amongst the Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Efik/Ibibio/Annang, Ijaw, Uhrobo, Tiv, etc, that it’s the Igbo that are the ones who ‘don’t pay tax’ and are importers of ‘poor quality goods from China’? Care to share the links to such data/studies? In any case, assuming without conceding that your assertion is the reality on ground, doesn’t it say more about the useless state of customs and tax collection in the south-west in particular and Nigeria in general?

This talk of ‘not employing non Igbos on south-west soil’....are you talking of big Igbo owned coys (like ones registered with the corporate affairs commission and who have 100s of employees or more) or are you talking of Igbo traders in the ‘2 by 4 kiosks’ that you normally use to mock us with? You have access to data/studies that show large Yoruba coys employ more Igbos than large Igbo coys employ Yoruba....or is all this a figment of your over-fertile, bigoted Imagination?

I never thought I’d see the day when a so called ‘fellow Nigerians’ would justify the acts of xenophobia visited on Nigerians in countries like Ghana and South Africa! Pathetic!!!

You talk of Igbos nursing ‘take over bids and usurpation of political power in the south-west’! I hope you’re not referring to Igbos availing themselves of the rights and privileges accorded them in the constitution to ‘reside in any part of Nigeria they so choose...and to vote and be voted for anywhere within the Nigerian borders’? Has any Yoruba tried to contest for election anywhere in Alaigbo and been visited with threats to his/her life? If so, care to furnish us with the details of such a misadventure?

You imply that ‘minus banditry, marauding bloodthirsty herdsmen, the occasional Hausa/Yoruba fisticuffs in Yorubaland, and greedily cornering power at the centre’ that besides all that, the core-northern muslims are no worse than Igbos! Are you kidding me? The negative impact of the core-northern muslims in the south-west....Yoruba have experienced this in blood and tears, but when it comes to Ndigbo in the south-west, all you have is unfounded assertions, gossip and bile!

Like i said before, your hatred of Ndigbo will be your undoing!

May PMB live long.

post=97528321:
Kudos to our darling Daddy for all the good works he and his Vice president have been doing all over our darling nation.

Slow and steady, Nigeria will be great in our lifetime.


Correct.

More sad news to the eyes of wailing zombies.........

I HATE TRAINS.
I HATE BRIDGES.
I HATE RICE.
I HATE TALLEST BUILDING EAST OF THE NIGER


Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr Ben Gbenro: “Why are some people allergic to good news about Nigeria? You are angry about the test-run of Lagos-Ibadan rail, you are angry about the development in Onne Port, but will eagerly amplify any negative news even if it’s not true. Something is wrong with you and I am here to tell you.”

Of course, that comment generated responses, both positive and negative. But the one that caught my fancy specially was by Ayekooto, who declared: “We have got to a stage when GMB achievements can no longer be denied but hated. I hate trains. I hate bridges. I hate rice.”

Very profound. A lot of people can no longer deny the many achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari, particularly in the area of infrastructure, building a new Nigeria, and so, they have decided to hate it. Sad. Very sad.

Nobody can deny that there are very serious challenges in the country, particularly in the areas of security, the economy, and standard of living generally. But that is not all there is to Nigeria of today, and those challenges are being addressed very robustly. That hymn says “behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour.” We will surely see an end to the challenges, if we all work together, and eschew hate speeches.

Why then do some people choose to see and amplify only negative things? Why do they choose to remain willfully blind and deaf to positive things? And surrounded and confronted by salutary developments, they keep repeating; what has the Buhari administration achieved? Show us.

You tell them that just last weekend, there was a test run of the Lagos-Ibadan rail project, with brand new coaches that will begin commercial operation before the end of the year.That is happening in a country where we were told we couldn’t afford new coaches when our oil was selling at over 100 dollars per barrel. Now, at about 40 dollars per barrel, we are launching new coaches. Instead of giving credit to a prudent government, they just say; I hate trains.

Okay, if you hate trains, what of brand new airports in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, Enugu, and others in the works? There was a time we were said to parade the worst airports in the world. But not any longer. Buhari reversed it in his four years. What do they say about that? They look up, look down, scratch their heads, and say; I hate airports. I’ve never even boarded a plane in my life, and I don’t want to board. Will I ever enter a plane if I’d been killed by bandits?

Okay. You hate airports and planes. What of bridges being built over rivers in different parts of the country, most especially the Second River Niger Bridge, which the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) built with mouth for 16 years. You tell them that the bridge is almost 50% done, and should be completed in the first quarter of 2022. There’s also the Loko-Oweto Bridge, linking Benue and Nasarawa States. It was started by a previous administration, but almost completed now. Like a cornered rat, their eyes dart furtively from corner to corner, seeking a hole to enter. Finding none, they tell you deadpan: I hate bridges.

Okay. All those are physical structures. So they want stomach infrastructure. You then tell them of the rice revolution, which has freed us from being a net importer of the product in the world. You point out that if Buhari hadn’t put his money where his mouth was, and encouraged us to go back to the land, causing rice farmers to rise from six to 12 million, we would have been in serious trouble when COVID-19 struck. How would we have imported rice, with all international borders closed, and no foreign exchange to even place orders? They pat their tummies gingerly, belch after a hearty meal, and then declare: I hate rice.

A Cancer Centre has been built and commissioned by President Buhari at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). An ultra-modern diagnostic center also built and commissioned in Kano. And just this week, another diagnostic centre built at a cost of $5.5 million, was commissioned at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, in Abia State. What do they say of all these? “I hate hospitals. May I never need to use any diagnostic centre. It is not my portion.”

You join them to say amen, since you don’t have a hateful heart. And you remind them that the largest ever vessel in the country, Maerskline Stadelhorn, with a length of 300 meters and width of 48 meters, berthed few days ago at Onne Port, in Rivers State. That is the biggest ever container vessel to berth in any part of Nigeria. Onne people were delirious with joy, and praised the government to high heavens, because no vessel had come to their port for 12 years, till August last year, under Buhari. You tell the naysayers the positive economic implications, but they refuse to listen. They dive under water, shouting as they go: We hate container vessels.

You then take them to Yenagoa, in Bayelsa State. Just last week, the skyline of South-south and South-East was transformed, as President Buhari commissioned the tallest Federal Government structure in the region, the 17-story Nigerian Content Tower, Headquarters of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

The architectural masterpiece occupies an area equivalent to four football fields, and has a 1,000 seater conference centre plus a 10 MW power plant. Started in late 2015, now completed, all under Buhari. Engineer Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of the agency paid tribute to the resolve, determination and encouragement of the President, that saw the structure to completion in record time. And Wabote, third E.S of NCDMB in its 10 years history, has written his name in gold. Just because he has a supportive President.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylvia, under whose tenure as Bayelsa State Governor the land was allocated for the project, declared: “The commissioning of this building is symbolic in many ways. It shows that Mr President is keen to see infrastructural development in every part of the country...It shows that skyscrapers and other laudable infrastructure can be built in the Niger Delta.”

But they say Buhari hasn’t achieved anything. You show them the 17-story building, and as they gaze skyward, their caps and headgear fall off. You pick the cap and headgear, dust and hand them back. And you ask, brothers and sisters, how now? Rather than admit defeat, they pull the caps and headgear over their eyes, and grumbled: We hate skyscrapers. They make us dizzy.

At that point, you pity them.
You realize that they need prayers.
They hate everything good.
They hate anything uplifting.
They hate development.
They hate their country.
They even hate themselves.


Once Again,,
Happy Birthday to our handsome darling Daddy.

To the enemies of the country,
Children of hate, Frustrations and perdition,
Lovers of bad news,
The anointing wey all of us @[color=#006600][/color] carry,
No be una Papa mate!
No Cap!

MAY BUHARI SUCCEED.

We moveeeee.....

It gets better.


While enjoying his train ride, a young man approached the professor for an autograph and the professor gave him something to cherish for the rest of his life.

How a wonderful piece of infrastructure created a memorable event, interaction and history.


God is good.

AFONJACOW:
Money don change hand, fat brown envelope don enter , see as professor pose like pussycat emmm mama just died, nah their poster boy emmmmm be now


Afonja and betrayer be like 5/6

If anyone betrayed the South, it’s Ibos and Jonathan

While we celebrate this wonderful and historic acievement, we must not forget to commend Asiwaji Bola Tinubu for making this possible.

Under GEJ, the SW was ignored across the board, GEJ not only ignored and hated the SW even though the SW fought, protested and risked their lives to put the same GEJ in office, he even went out of his way to insult the SW and their leaders, he called them rascals.


Fast forward to Tinubu and SW's alliance that created the APC and installed PMB as the president of Nigeria, the SW is the rescipent of the largest share of infrastructures and investments in Nigeria.

This is the most productive and strategic alliance in the history of Nigeria.


God Bless Asiwaju Tinubu.

candidtalk:



Indeed. Would not be bad if they were gracious, civilized and respectful people. Instead many openly show they have disdain for their host and that they came to the SW with a hateful, insultive and malevolent attitude towards the Yorubas.

Their influx into the SW should be checked in any way possible. All other Nigerians are okay with me.

How many ibos have you met to justify all this statements. Ordinary nairaland stereotype is cultivating this kind of hatred in you.

loopman:


If anyone betrayed the South, it’s Ibos and Jonathan

That's how stupid and hateful Igbos are. Soyinka is on a train provided for use of all Nigerians yet that is "betrayal".

I guess Soyinka should be hateful like them to talk down or attack a positive for Nigeria because such was delivered by a Fulani President.

PROUDIGBO:


Pray, where did i state Igbos are ‘more valuable’ to the south-west than other ethnicities? The fact you label a Nigerian that moves and settles outside of his region as a MIGRANT in his own country (a country Ndigbo/Biafrans wanted to leave for una in 1967, but your forefathers spilt blood to continue the ‘love-fest’)....the fact you call them migrants says a lot about your nasty, duplicitous and two-faced character! I suppose it’s lost on you the point i was trying to make about whose presence -between the two regions/ethnicities- has negatively affected your region the most in the recent past!

What data/studies leads you to assert that amongst the Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Efik/Ibibio/Annang, Ijaw, Uhrobo, Tiv, etc, that it’s the Igbo that are the ones who ‘don’t pay tax’ and are importers of ‘poor quality goods from China’? Care to share the links to such data/studies? In any case, assuming without conceding that your assertion is the reality on ground, doesn’t it say more about the useless state of customs and tax collection in the south-west in particular and Nigeria in general?

This talk of ‘not employing non Igbos on south-west soil’....are you talking of big Igbo owned coys (like ones registered with the corporate affairs commission and who have 100s of employees or more) or are you talking of Igbo traders in the ‘2 by 4 kiosks’ that you normally use to mock us with? You have access to data/studies that show large Yoruba coys employ more Igbos than large Igbo coys employ Yoruba....or is all this a figment of your over-fertile, bigoted Imagination?

I never thought I’d see the day when a so called ‘fellow Nigerians’ would justify the acts of xenophobia visited on Nigerians in countries like Ghana and South Africa! Pathetic!!!

You talk of Igbos nursing ‘take over bids and usurpation of political power in the south-west’! I hope you’re not referring to Igbos availing themselves of the rights and privileges accorded them in the constitution to ‘reside in any part of Nigeria they so choose...and to vote and be voted for anywhere within the Nigerian borders’? Has any Yoruba tried to contest for election anywhere in Alaigbo and been visited with threats to his/her life? If so, care to furnish us with the details of such a misadventure?

You imply that ‘minus banditry, marauding bloodthirsty herdsmen, the occasional Hausa/Yoruba fisticuffs in Yorubaland, and greedily cornering power at the centre’ that besides all that, the core-northern muslims are no worse than Igbos! Are you kidding me? The negative impact of the core-northern muslims in the south-west....Yoruba have experienced this in blood and tears, but when it comes to Ndigbo in the south-west, all you have is unfounded assertions, gossip and bile!

Like i said before, your hatred of Ndigbo will be your undoing!

Jew that doesn't want to leave Egypt, nobody will read this long epistle.

TheLionofLasigi:


Jew that doesn't want to leave Egypt, nobody will read this long epistle.

Thank you. Did not even bother with the crap. It's their usual antics of playing victim while pretending to be oblivious to the incendiary and offensive behaviour of Igbos that provokes strong reactions from others against them. Jokers.

JohnBullMySon:
How many ibos have you met to justify all this statements. Ordinary nairaland stereotype is cultivating this kind of hatred in you.

Anambra’ll Soon Overtake Lagos as Top Investment Destination, Obiano Boasts

August 22, 2019 4:29 am0


David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has said only Lagos stood ahead of the state in terms of investment drive and opportunity to net big investors from outside the country to Nigeria.


“We are building a world-class state, and our people are speedily heeding our calls and bringing home their investments. With this speed, we are sure that no state in Nigeria can compete with Anambra in terms of attracting investments from outside.

“Our major competitor now is Lagos State, and we are sure that at this pace, we are going to take major investment opportunities from Lagos very soon,” the governor said.


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/08/22/anambrall-soon-overtake-lagos-as-top-investment-destination-obiano-boasts/

Actually, we see and hear the same rubbish beyond NL , even a whole governor peddled the same laughable chest beating and overtaking ;Lagos rubbish.

Stop being defensive, it's part of the igbo make up and DNA.

“We are building a world-class state,

“Our major competitor now is Lagos State, and we are sure that at this pace, we are going to take major investment opportunities from Lagos very soon,” the governor said.

This is how they are going to overtake Lagos with.

First class indeed.

I just don't get the meaning or even the need for their delusional and hopeless chest beating.

NGpatriot:


Actually, we see and hear the same rubbish beyond NL , even a whole governor peddled the same laughable chest beating and overtaking ;Lagos rubbish.

Stop being defensive, it's part of the igbo make uo and DNA.

Indeed and that's why I did not even bother dignifying his dishonest crap with an answer. Always playing victim and pretending to be innocent is the favorite past time of most Igbos.

Shameless people. He should explain why, for example, all Igbos, to include those who have never set foot outside the SE, wake daily cursing Tinubu.