Singapore, Dubai, where most structures are owned by Nigerians

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
It is common knowledge that Nigerians are highly enterprising. What may not be generally known, however, is that most of the beautiful buildings on parade in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Singapore, are owned by Nigerians. KUNLE AWOSIYAN reports.


Dubai



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It may sound unbelievable but it is true that some of the beautiful buildings in Dubai and Singapore are owned by Nigerians.

This was revealed by a team of Lagos State officials who recently returned from the Middle East after a two- week manpower development training in the cities.

Speaking to the Nigerian Tribune at the arrival hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on Thursday, the General Manager, Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency, (LASIMRA), Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said he was sad to learn that some of the edifices in the cities were owned by Nigerians.

“Our leaders have lost tracks and have taken our money to develop foreign lands, leaving Nigeria to decay everyday,” he said.

As he put it, “Singapore and Dubai, these are people we were better than about 30 years ago. Singapore was able to transform from a third world country to a first world country through dint of hard work and the commitment of the leadership.”

“We went there to see how they did it. Dubai and Singapore are now the destinations of the world and the pride of the Middle East. How come the people of Dubai were able to transform a desert to what it is today? That is what we went there to study, we are loaded and are ready to replicate this in Lagos,” Igbokwe added.

According to him, when compared with Singapore and Dubai, the roads in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole are nothing to write home about, adding “we are very far behind. There are massive constructions everywhere in Dubai; the power there is non-stop. If they take light in Dubai, they may not be able to work because of the heat.”

He stated that Nigeria could not progress unless it is able to solve the problems in the energy sector, adding, “We need power and roads to be able to move. Everywhere in Dubai is air conditioned; even shops for ordinary people are air conditioned. They invest so much in the power sector because that place is hot.”


Singapore
“We have not got there probably because we don’t have that kind of planning and we are not challenged like Singapore. Nothing has challenged us in Nigeria, even the civil war; we learnt nothing from it, which is why we remain like this. I don’t know whether to cry or shed tears. We can replicate what is happening in Dubai and Singapore in Nigeria,” Igbokwe stated.

Corroborating Igbokwe, the Chairman, Lagos State House Committee on Education, Mr. Alawiye King said that Singapore had succeeded because it had invested massively in education.

According to him: “The two weeks I spent in the cities showed how its government had been able to invest so much in human capital and that had transformed into what they are getting today. We have seen massive and aggressive infrastructural renewal in Dubai, we went there to see how they did it in such a short period of time,” he said, adding that he would soon sponsor two bills on the floor of the House on how to move education forward in the state.”


Porto Dubai
The Palm Jumeirah, Dubai's man-made isles, is a 30 square-km island group that took five years to raise from millions of tons of Persian Gulf sand and quarried rock.
To the Secretary, State Consultancy Board, Mr. Lateef Lawal, Singapore and Dubai had stable political system, which had aided their development, saying, “they invested so much in human development and they made sure that they go into real development. The shortest building in Dubai is 25 or 30-storey and they are even going higher.”

He noted that Singapore operated direct investment which it had transformed into heavy development, calling on the Federal Government to learn from the idea. “We should start and concentrate on massive infrastructural renewal. In the area of power, we should not run away from it, we have to go back to our original master plan.

“Federal Government should as a matter of urgency come to the rescue of Lagos State, because there is the need for it to put in place massive investment in the state as the commercial hub of the country,” he said.

The officials were drawn from the Ministries of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Environment, among others while some others were also drawn from government agencies, such as the Lagos State Infrastructural Maintenance and Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA), State Consultancy Board and the Lagos State House of Assembly.

It is common knowledge that Nigerians are highly enterprising. What may not be generally known, however, is that most of the beautiful buildings on parade in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Singapore, are owned by Nigerians. KUNLE AWOSIYAN reports.

Nigerians might be enterprising but i feel most of properties in dubai owned by nigerians are actually politicians and not necessarilly biz men.

asha 80:

Nigerians might be enterprising but i feel most of properties in dubai owned by nigerians are actually politicians and not necessarilly biz men.

true talk - Please show me a real business man in Nigeria that would happily invest $14 Million Dollar for 3 bedroom flat penthouse. it is all stolen loot by African leaders.

poster

omo, you don't want to mess with singapore those guys have an incredible school system specifically when it comes to primary and secondary school. In most international competitions, they always come first way ahead of other countries especially America. America is only known for having the best university system in the world, a lot of there elementary and high schools are nothing to write home about.

let start investigating an nigeria that have property outside the shores of the country. it will amaze what outcome it will be

Aloy_Emeka:

Singapore, Dubai, where most structures are owned by Nigerians

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
It is common knowledge that Nigerians are highly enterprising. What may not be generally known, however, is that most of the beautiful buildings on parade in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Singapore, are owned by Nigerians. KUNLE AWOSIYAN reports.


Dubai



http://odili.net/news/source/2009/aug/4/618.html

It may sound unbelievable but it is true that some of the beautiful buildings in Dubai and Singapore are owned by Nigerians.

This was revealed by a team of Lagos State officials who recently returned from the Middle East after a two- week manpower development training in the cities.

Speaking to the Nigerian Tribune at the arrival hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on Thursday, the General Manager, Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency, (LASIMRA), Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said he was sad to learn that some of the edifices in the cities were owned by Nigerians.

“Our leaders have lost tracks and have taken our money to develop foreign lands, leaving Nigeria to decay everyday,” he said.

As he put it, “Singapore and Dubai, these are people we were better than about 30 years ago. Singapore was able to transform from a third world country to a first world country through dint of hard work and the commitment of the leadership.”

“We went there to see how they did it. Dubai and Singapore are now the destinations of the world and the pride of the Middle East. How come the people of Dubai were able to transform a desert to what it is today? That is what we went there to study, we are loaded and are ready to replicate this in Lagos,” Igbokwe added.

According to him, when compared with Singapore and Dubai, the roads in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole are nothing to write home about, adding “we are very far behind. There are massive constructions everywhere in Dubai; the power there is non-stop. If they take light in Dubai, they may not be able to work because of the heat.”

He stated that Nigeria could not progress unless it is able to solve the problems in the energy sector, adding, “We need power and roads to be able to move. Everywhere in Dubai is air conditioned; even shops for ordinary people are air conditioned. They invest so much in the power sector because that place is hot.”


Singapore
“We have not got there probably because we don’t have that kind of planning and we are not challenged like Singapore. Nothing has challenged us in Nigeria, even the civil war; we learnt nothing from it, which is why we remain like this. I don’t know whether to cry or shed tears. We can replicate what is happening in Dubai and Singapore in Nigeria,” Igbokwe stated.

Corroborating Igbokwe, the Chairman, Lagos State House Committee on Education, Mr. Alawiye King said that Singapore had succeeded because it had invested massively in education.

According to him: “The two weeks I spent in the cities showed how its government had been able to invest so much in human capital and that had transformed into what they are getting today. We have seen massive and aggressive infrastructural renewal in Dubai, we went there to see how they did it in such a short period of time,” he said, adding that he would soon sponsor two bills on the floor of the House on how to move education forward in the state.”


Porto Dubai
The Palm Jumeirah, Dubai's man-made isles, is a 30 square-km island group that took five years to raise from millions of tons of Persian Gulf sand and quarried rock.
To the Secretary, State Consultancy Board, Mr. Lateef Lawal, Singapore and Dubai had stable political system, which had aided their development, saying, “they invested so much in human development and they made sure that they go into real development. The shortest building in Dubai is 25 or 30-storey and they are even going higher.”

He noted that Singapore operated direct investment which it had transformed into heavy development, calling on the Federal Government to learn from the idea. “We should start and concentrate on massive infrastructural renewal. In the area of power, we should not run away from it, we have to go back to our original master plan.

“Federal Government should as a matter of urgency come to the rescue of Lagos State, because there is the need for it to put in place massive investment in the state as the commercial hub of the country,” he said.

The officials were drawn from the Ministries of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Environment, among others while some others were also drawn from government agencies, such as the Lagos State Infrastructural Maintenance and Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA), State Consultancy Board and the Lagos State House of Assembly.

is this not the same Joe Igbokwe that was writing plenty articles in the papers a while back?
he has joined govt to chop his own portion!! na wa forthis country o.
what did he go to learn there that he did not already know or find out otherwise?
did he need to go there to know that Singapore is in a different league?
the bazaar continues.

asha 80:

Nigerians might be enterprising but i feel most of properties in dubai owned by [b]nigerians are actually politicians and not necessarilly biz me[/b]n.

Are politicians not business men?.

sometimes i shed tears while driving through the streets of port harcourt.i dont know why i love naija otherwise i for don move since.all these noise about fashola this,amaechi that is nothing compared to one street in south africa,our past leaders should be moving around with their faces covered.

Abagworo:

sometimes i shed tears while driving through the streets of port harcourt.i dont know why i love naija otherwise i for don move since.all these noise about fashola this,amaechi that is nothing compared to one street in south africa,our past leaders should be moving around with their faces covered.

How many nigerian cities are planned and their plan stuck to?

Aloy_Emeka:

Are politicians not business men?.

Political businessmen

Are politicians not business men?.

They are not,

1. a person who is active in party politics.
2. a seeker or holder of public office, who is more concerned about winning favor or retaining power than about maintaining principles.
3. a person who holds a political office.
4. a person skilled in political government or administration; statesman or stateswoman.
5. an expert in politics or political government.
6. a person who seeks to gain power or advancement within an organization in ways that are generally disapproved.


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/politician

I don't believe the story tho',