These cars look refurbished

agitator:


So, the buses are meant for rich people who can afford better bus services. hmmmmmmmm.

I understand you clearly now, in UK, US, Japan, and most of Europe where they have efficient top class bus services, those on minimum wage don't board public buses. I learnt a new thing today. Thanks

No you don't.

If Nigeria wants good quality...we have to earn more money.,...and that is where voting in a government that raises our GDP,and our tax to gdp ratio comes in.

Right now, we rely mostly on oil for our revenue. On a good day, oil can yield, at 1.8m bpd...at 100 dollars a barrel...something like 70bn dollars a year. . Keep in mind that oil prices for the last 10 years have been mostly below 80 dollars, sometimes as low as 50 dollars a barrel.sometimes less....so we don;t earn much money.

At the end, we have to become a producer nation...not a nation of sell raw material, share the money...while a country takes the raw material and uses it to make products ten times the value of the raw materials..(one year an african country sold cocoa for 2 billion dollars. Part of that cocoa was bought by a chocollate company...and sold for 17bn dollars. ).

The thing is it involves hard choices like.

1.Removing subsides on petrol and power....which would cause harship...BUT...also attract billons of dollars in investment and yield billions in export revenue, as any profts are reinvested in both sectors...which would grow...AND theoretically export a lot of stuff (Niger has a working refinery because the fuel they sell from the refinery is sold at N350 aand above. And they have crude oil deposits. AND...they can export because their refinery works.)

2.Rasing our tax to gdp ratio...and making sure the 70% of the population that does not pay to federal and state coffers pay.

3.Encouraging techincal and vocational education...to have a good workforce for

4.Industrial develoipment...which can use our raw materials to produce industrial goods...for export....at a price we control. (And the Americans would love it...if we were producing phones for example...and exporting them...it could bring down consumer prices...which is good news for western governemtns and their argument about cost of livin).

You want good services...then you have to make more than what we make right now...and really really fight corruption....because if we don't, we would still lose.

The US, UK and so on can afford all the goodies because they pay for them very well...including their low income earners...and yes, their low income earners complain very well. (Go and read about the US healthcare crisis...for example.).

PS

Communist countries like East Germany, North Korea, and the USSR, did what you want...they provided high quality service including transport, at very low cost. Infact, they provided a lot of high quality stuff (in the DDR, housing rent was kept below 3 dollars a month, for e xample)....by the 1980's keeping such things cheap meant they had a heavy duty EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL debt running into billions. This debt is one of the reasons why they collapsed....or like North Korea, are on life support from the Chinese (the chinese hate doing it, but they don't want a US armed untied Korea on their border either...so).

At the end, people want to be paid. And that includes the people who work for transport services, people who sell the buses, people who make the buses, people who repair the busses...even people who clean the busses...they are mostly ordinary Nigerians like u and me...and foriegners. Either we pay them their price, or we get bad service because...we are poor.


PPS

All the countries you mentioned tax their citizens well, and are all diversified economies, with actively exporting industrial sectors. Meaning they can set the prices of what they produce, and mine a lotof income. Nigeria is earning only from oil....and oil price is not set by us. We cannot raise the price of our oil to 200 dollars a barrel unilaterally...our buyers will go to where it is cheaper.

This guy is one of the best governor in Nigeria. I’ll put him in top 5.

Nice one... Keep it up Gov. Ganduje

fieldbus:


The type of private imitative we have in delta state where only keke is the known transport in a whole state.okowa crippled the scheme in place when he came in for private imitative of only keke

Imagine??

Terrible people in government

True.

Parachoko:
We have to start somewhere.

Parachoko:
I wander why some of you are so bitter

the same thing that got you poor living below average is the same thing that got us bittered

Better late than never. Approaching the end of their second terms in office and nothing to show for it.

Some governors are so either very wicked or just imbeciles. I don't know who Okezie Ikpeazu is, but Nigerians deserve better. It's a pity. He and others will surely pay for their actions.

angelfallz:
This is good.
However, it wrong that Nigeria launches mass transit with buses. Mass transit is done via trains. Buses can never compete with trains with the sheer volume of passengers that trains can move at once.
Governments should invest in intra city railways.

States owned railways could start at a modest level e.g. one long line, right across the state, or 50 miles long - whatever is finically manageable in terms of state budget . This, supported by busses. Rail ecosystem is enlarged over time....

Kasssandra:
The problem with the mass transit scheme is not the launching...but the maintenance.

Within a few years, all the buses are going to be scrap, and the thing will fail...because the people of Kano won't pay the kind of money...either in fares, or subsides...that would be needed to keep the thing running.

I bet that the standard fare would be less than 200 naira. Meanwhile, Kano state does not collect enough in taxes, and the revenue from oil is not enough for a big state like this.

If i suggest that Kano people should pay something like 700-1000 naira per trip as fare, many people will shout 'We are poor'. Well, at the end, you get what ye pay for.

How can people pay 700-1000 for a BRT trip just within a city? . Fear God nah!

SILVERLINES:
the same thing that got you poor living below average is the same thing that got us bittered

You must be high on drug

That is a good idea.

Litmus:


States owned railways could start at a modest level e.g. one long line, right across the state, or 50 miles long - whatever is finically manageable in terms of state budget . This, supported by busses. Rail ecosystem is enlarged over time....

funshint:

How can people pay 700-1000 for a BRT trip just within a city? . Fear God nah!

How else do you want the thing to earn the profit needed to keep it running at high quality? Fear God!

You guys want Ferrari to cost N20000 ! At the end, all the good things you see abroad, cost a lot of money. A lot.

Ok12345:
Lagos leads while others follow

While others follow sluggishly

Parachoko:
You must be high on drug

parachoko ur fada

Trying to think why one day I would wake up and say I am going to Kano

funshint:

How can people pay 700-1000 for a BRT trip just within a city? . Fear God nah!

How much does the vehicle cost
What is its life span
How long would it take to recover the investment and at what rate do you think passengers should be charged

Have you ever done any business in your life?

I should say you have composed an extraordinary article.

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naptu2:


https://dailytrust.com/ganduje-launches-kano-mass-transit-scheme-with-100-buses-50-taxis

Commendable but that won't still stop you from going to jail after your tenure

Long overdue

magzey:
Sai Baba Ganduje, Khadimul Islam. May God bless you more

Khadimul Dollars

naptu2:


https://dailytrust.com/ganduje-launches-kano-mass-transit-scheme-with-100-buses-50-taxis

The true definition of show me your friend...well done Ganduje.

OIL MONEY from the south at work!

Good one