Akson man:

U are a confirmed dumbass...An extremely hungry man is offered a loaf of bread for starters and he's cursing for not having Pizza.

Go and check out cargo moving locomotives in most parts of Europe,it's still this same type of engines that are in use for moving heavy goods. Some of them still use steam/coal engines.

If your arguments were based on unavailability of high speed passenger trains,one can then listen.

bloggernaija: Sorry,
The rehabilitation was contracted and paid for right from
Abacha 's regime(I remember vividly when the Chinese got to the centre of Ibadan).
And the work continued all the way to the beginning of obasanjo.
Obasanjo expanded the /paid for the entire overhaul of the existing rail system and had a road map for the east west rail system which ought to have been built by now if there was really a tranformation .
Jonathan is simply commissioning the work of others in much the same way as that guy is doing in akwa ibom.
NIGERIA IS SIMPLY NOT WORKING AS IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THAT THE SKY HIGH CRUDE OIL PRICES IS COVERING UP THE WEAKNESS OF THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY AND THE INEPTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT

cbrass:

If you like go to the moon on holidays its non of my concern..it shows the kind of up bringing..no wonder you saw a train twice in your life. Am not shy to have been raised in agege it only puts me in the better position to rate and debunk the claims of your weakling president about its..sorry his Transformation agenda

E.M.Ezzy:
who the bleep said you should use the train....i know we are more than this and a light rail would be better for human transportation.but my arguement here is that a locomotive train is not bad for cargo,even if it take a decade to get to kano i dont bleeping care because 1) our lives has been improved cause we wont ha ve to put up with the carbonmonoxide trailers emitt. 2)accidents will be avoided.
Which do you prefer, we make do with what we have and avoid potential accidents or we wait 15 years to build a subway train and the containers keep falling and killing people.....its your call but i know which i'd rather have.

Tadon200:
You are dumb fellow,this trains are not up to par as its disadvantages make it frustating for those who want their goods transported thru this means.i don't think you've used it to transport goods ,that's can you can come here with your silly propanganda.

Akson man:

I'm glad that you take pride in your poverty stricken '(Agege) up bringing...good for you.
My joy today was seeing cargo trains with several containers moving up North. Not the usual passenger trains you and your 'Agege' siblings are used to hanging on its doors and roof tops.

cbrass:

This is why Nigeria will not move forward cos most of you here are on the outside..anyway that cargo train has been happening since and mostly what they carry even up till now is gravel,transformers but none of them carry petroleum products although they started this from inception but the military came in and aborted it. So if they don't carry petroleum products our roads will still be busy..they don't even carry livestocks like cattles etc so how can you now say that there is a transformation

cbrass:

Do you have to insult...rich boy....this shows you are out of ideas

Akson man:

@Bolded...U are very wrong about that.
The movement of petroleum products by rail resumed last year, even NRC had to buy more rail tank wagons to consolidate...see link http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nrc-acquires-20-more-tank-wagons-to-haul-petroleum-products/164955/

scipher: nwanne, go bar beach for fresh air

cbrass:

This is why Nigeria will not move forward cos most of you here are on the outside..anyway that cargo train has been happening since and mostly what they carry even up till now is gravel,transformers but none of them carry petroleum products although they started this from inception but the military came in and aborted it. So if they don't carry petroleum products our roads will still be busy..they don't even carry livestocks like cattles etc so how can you now say that there is a transformation

Sincere 9gerian: ** NRC, ICNL resume haulage transportation 17 years after

by OLUSEGUN

Aug 23, 2013|



The Nigerian Railways Corporate (NRC) is set to convey containers facilitated by Inland Containers Nigeria Limited (ICNL) through the rail tract from Lagos to Kano after 17 years of suspending such exercise.

NRC Managing Director, Mr. Adeseyi Sijuwade, said the resumption of the operations demonstrated the Corporation’s ability to enhance the development of the nation’s economy with active private sector participation.
Sijuwade said in Lagos that as part of the pilot scheme, the Corporation would deploy 20 wagons carrying between 20 and 40 containers.

The Managing Director noted that the commencement of the container freight would help in decongesting the ports as well as help in facilitating the establishment and use of Inland Container Depots (ICDs) along the track corridors.

He added that with the strengthening of the freight capacity, the Corporation was ready to enter into partnership with organisations that require its services.
Sijuwade said: “Twenty containers is equivalent to 20 trailers or 40 trucks on the road. This goes a long way to improve the state of our roads, boost the economic, health, safety and environmental sustainability of the nation.”

Also speaking, ICNL Managing Director, Mallam Ismail Yusuf, noted that the company was taking a giant leap forward by commencing rail haulage of containers from Lagos to Kano and Kaduna Inland Container Terminals respectively.

Yusuf stressed that being a foremost dry port operator in Nigeria, the company’s birth in 1980 through instrumentality of a presidential fiat to open up the hinterland to shipping trade and to provide the necessary solution to the intractable port congestion became a welcome development among international communities, particularly in the maritime sector.

He, however, regretted that the last batch of container traffic on rail left the sea port in March, 1996 and the wagons never returned for lack of traffic and declining fortunes of the rail corporation.

Yusf noted that succour came with positive intervention of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government to remodel the rail system and reinstate it to its rightful place.

He said: “And this impacted positively on the economy through a massive service delivery of import goods and import products with the associated earnings from such trade.

“However, a functioning rail haulage system is very vital for a seamless distribution of cargo across Nigeria. The vital rail haulage system has been inert for several years despite several forlorn attempts at revamping the system.

“The current expectations are hinged on a carrying capacity of a twenty-wagon train load which will hopefully make a round trip in 10 days with a fortnight movement through a iron tract of 1,132 kilometres to Kano and 909 kilometres to Kaduna and also return empty/export boxes within the same journey with a three-day transit time on each leg.”

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/nrc-icnl-resume-haulage-transportation-17-years-after/

cbrass:

Hmmm...I would have loved to click the link bu I discovered it was a thisday newspaper link so I changed my mind cos we know the "reputation" of that tabloid...anyway we still take petroleum products to the north amd we still pay fees to truck drivers so as to stabilize the price of fuel- and this is part of the reason for the move of the privatization of our refineries or haven't you asked your self why they want to sell them.....please bro stop dreaming...there is no single train carrying petroleum products in naija

bloggernaija: Sorry,
The rehabilitation was contracted and paid for right from
Abacha 's regime(I remember vividly when the Chinese got to the centre of Ibadan).
And the work continued all the way to the beginning of obasanjo.
Obasanjo expanded the /paid for the entire overhaul of the existing rail system and had a road map for the east west rail system which ought to have been built by now if there was really a tranformation .
Jonathan is simply commissioning the work of others in much the same way as that guy is doing in akwa ibom.
NIGERIA IS SIMPLY NOT WORKING AS IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THAT THE SKY HIGH CRUDE OIL PRICES IS COVERING UP THE WEAKNESS OF THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY AND THE INEPTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT

cbrass:
Do you have to insult...rich boy....this shows you are out of ideas

jmaine:

Suprised i didn't see Lord Lugard referenced in your post . . .

Akson man:

In case you no go school,please read the last bolded line below.

Sincere 9gerian:
That guy is a psycho

cbrass:

Hmmm...I would have loved to click the link bu I discovered it was a thisday newspaper link so I changed my mind cos we know the "reputation" of that tabloid...anyway we still take petroleum products to the north amd we still pay fees to truck drivers so as to stabilize the price of fuel- and this is part of the reason for the move of the privatization of our refineries or haven't you asked your self why they want to sell them.....please bro stop dreaming...there is no single train carrying petroleum products in naija

Capt. JH Miller:
Really bro!!? Cargo train!? Smh

luvinhubby: Click `like` if you think this thread should go front page.

Sincere 9gerian: If you ask me, GEJ should remain president of Nigeria till 2040. But if that is impossible, I can manage till 2019.

The consensus out there now is that GEJ is the best president Nigeria ever had, atleast in the last 3-4 decades.

This govt has given Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic or religious divide, a FRESH AIR that is sincere, progressive, dependable, sustainable, refreshing and most importantly, that can be SEEN.

God bless our president, all those working with him and all those that are working FOR the PROGRESS of my fatherland!

Shame on the nay sayers, cynics, tribal/religious bigots, enemies of progress and sabotuers!

Sincere 9gerian: If you ask me, GEJ should remain president of Nigeria till 2040. But if that is impossible, I can manage till 2019.

The consensus out there now is that GEJ is the best president Nigeria ever had, atleast in the last 3-4 decades.

This govt has given Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic or religious divide, a FRESH AIR that is sincere, progressive, dependable, sustainable, refreshing and most importantly, that can be SEEN.

God bless our president, all those working with him and all those that are working FOR the PROGRESS of my fatherland!

Shame on the nay sayers, cynics, tribal/religious bigots, enemies of progress and sabotuers!

Sincere 9gerian: If you ask me, GEJ should remain president of Nigeria till 2040. But if that is impossible, I can manage till 2019.

The consensus out there now is that GEJ is the best president Nigeria ever had, atleast in the last 3-4 decades.

This govt has given Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic or religious divide, a FRESH AIR that is sincere, progressive, dependable, sustainable, refreshing and most importantly, that can be SEEN.

God bless our president, all those working with him and all those that are working FOR the PROGRESS of my fatherland!

Shame on the nay sayers, cynics, tribal/religious bigots, enemies of progress and sabotuers!

jmaine:

Suprised i didn't see Lord Lugard referenced in your post . . .

Tadon200:
when you travel abroad ,this are the trains you see ovetr there?

Maxymilliano: Too little too small but a step in the Right Direction.

Countdown to the start-off of the Port Harcourt to Maiduguri train route by the federal government.

Kairoseki77: How the NL politics section works.

Talk about propaganda!

These Igbos just create threads all over the place, fill up the first page with praise singing, and then gang up on anyone who disagrees with their nonsense.

Then once they find a thread where they have taken up ALL the posts on the first page with pro GEJ propaganda, they scream for it to be on the FP. FINALLY, all the NL Igbos come to "like" the posts.