Gbenge 77:

Kudos.

emiye:

Great Initiative.

Beaf:

Bruv, where is the list na? LOLZ!
Aregbesola is just telling his usual high stories. Na who be di maga?

QUESTION: The last time I met you four or five months ago or so, you spoke about creating a mid-regional market that will make the state a hub of business activities. You said you would engage the railway in facilitating, how much progress have you made?

[b]GOVERNOR AREGBESOLA: [/b]We have been on it. It is part of our campaign promises. You are asking now about specifics of actualising the vision. We have gone very far, it is not just our style to celebrate programme that are not fully actualised. Yes, we signed an agreement with the Nigeria Railway Corporation in that regard and work has commenced at the Osun State terminal at Dagbolu in Ikirun. The place will serve as port for collection of agricultural produce from all over the state and from where the produce will be moved to the market of Lagos. The state government will be responsible for the cost of the freight of agricultural produce that are to be moved to Lagos. That will be our own incentive to producers of primary food produce. Just before you came in, I was discussing with one of our partners who is working with us on ensuring that nothing will disturb the process. So as we told you before, we are committed to the project. The platform in Dagbolu in Ikirun is ready; the Nigeria Railway Corporation has not yet completed its own part. As a government, we have met our own part. As soon as they are ready, we will roll out. The Dagbolu terminus is not only going to be a mere platform. We are not only going to be moving only agricultural produce, we are also going to move finished products from Lagos. We want to turn the state to a mid-regional market, not only people from Osun, people from Nigeria’s Middle Belt who hitherto would have to go to Lagos for getting their essentials will no longer have reason to do so. There will be a market here where all products for which people go to Lagos will be available at Lagos prices. We also expect conglomerates to partner with us like building warehouses.

Gbawe:

Na you be the"maga" silly dullard !!!! I really marvel at how , in total defiance of logic, some pronounce you as "intelligent" on this forum. They must have extremely low standard or a poor grasp of what intelligence is because , to me , you don't even know how to think !!!! Foolishly , you produce a map that highlights your ignorance and mischief yet you have the nerve to posit that Aregbesola is telling "high stories".  Do you not live in the UK? You should tell us whether a rail map from 5 years ago will be accurate today given the many Station created and still under construction.

Only your bigoted co-travellers , seeing as you are the best they have on NL, tout you as clever when you are simply their inadequate local champion . The solid evidence of the progress been made in Osun is there for all to see even if you and your co-travellers in mischief and sycophancy prefer to sit here lying all day.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=20016

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Beaf:

You are a fool and even more so for posting crap from osundefender which is as good as used toilet roll.
[size=14pt]There is NO railway line yet and our usual megalomaniac is claiming to have bought trains. Where is he going to run those trains, abi you tink say train na boat wen dem fit float for Osun Grove? Or maybe AregbeRASCAL has finally invented road going trains that will overtake luxorious buses on our express ways.[/size]

[size=14pt]Abracadbra and 419, all na di same!! [/size]

Unu go take unu foolishness wound pikin o!

Abeg, sniff more stuff before you reply, you're sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!

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Dunce. Who be di maga?
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koruji:

@Beaf
Give it up. You not only go around telling ridiculous lies, but even when you try to use facts you come up with ignorant stuff.

When you posted that ignorant "map" of Nigeria's railway system I said to myself that you would soon realize that you have made a terrible mistake.

Pointers: On "your map" nothing goes through Ibadan. [size=14pt]If you know anything at all about the Nigerian railway service you would know that Ibadan is a major terminus for Nigeria's railway system - and so is Osogbo. Stop describing things you know little about.[/size]

We must vote so that generations yet unborn would NOT have to read in books that there was once a viable rail system that brought Ibo girls from Bompai, Kano to school with Yoruba-Ekiti girls at Ado through the vibrant Osogbo Train Station. Right now in 2011, I volunteer teaching English Writing to Pry 6 kids at an Ibadan School and when I told them not only my own experience of rail travel from Lagos to Ibadan but the experience of a primary school class at UI Staff School of the 80s going on an excursion to Ibadan station, they were in awe. I read a report of the excursion from the School Magazine to them!
http://www.google.com/search?q=oshogbo+train+station&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Similarly, the establishment of the Railway Station is perhaps the most important single factor in the tremendous developments of Osogbo.

www.osunosogbofestival.com/">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y8HA2LjMxzAJ:www.osunosogbofestival.com/%3Fp%3D32+oshogbo+train+station&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

And according to GEJ,


Addressing a rally in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday in continuation of his presidential campaign, Mr Jonathan said that the rail line between Lagos and Jebba will be completed in March and open for operation.

Addressing a rally in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday in continuation of his presidential campaign, Mr Jonathan said that the rail line between Lagos and Jebba will be completed in March and open for operation.

"I have just received a report from the Chairman of the Nigeria Railway Corporation that by the end of this month, segment of railway between Lagos and Jebba would be completed and people will begin to board train from Osogbo," he said.


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5681272-147/story.csp

Eko Ile:

Isn't Oshogbo train station of of the major train stations in Nigeria? Why is this even any source of debate? T

his is what we get when we pay attention to these worthless ignorant trash.

Gbawe:

My brother, why pass up on a chance , yet again, to show how ignorant and lacking in knowledge Beaf really is? He is the main lying antagonist of Aregbesola and the ACN here. It is good to show the many morons , who follow him ignorantly and blindly on NL , that their'Oga' is a lying low life 'olodo'.

Gbawe:

My brother, Beaf's paymasters will soon give him the sack. They must be disgusted at how he is now 'owned' and exposed as a class A dullard routinely on Nairaland. He is now totally discredited here and thus worthless to those who pay him to deliver spin on NL . His sack is imminent.

According to him, the state Executive Council has also approved the construction of a mid-regional market at Dagbolu area, saying, “we are starting an Osun mid-regional market at Dagbolu and this has to come into place because of the intention of the governor to make Osun the nerve commercial centre of the South-West”.

Aregbesola’s Winning Ways


The boldest sign that things are beginning to change in the state is the youth empowerment programme of the Aregbesola administration. Tagged the Osun Youths Empowerment Scheme, OYES, the programme was conceived to create 20,000 jobs in 100 days, a vision many thought was unrealisable.

The ripple effect of this OYES is already being felt. Local tailors, numbering 6,000, were hired to sew uniforms for the cadets. The fabrics were bought from merchants in the state.

President, Nigerian Union of Tailors, Olorunda Chapter, Oshogbo, Chief Johnson Daramola, is full of praise for Aregbesola. He described him as the first governor to remember the tailors in the state.

Chief Daramola explained that after the initiation of OYES, the governor gave a contract to the union to sew 20,000 uniforms. “Aregbesola gave us contract to sew 20,000 uniforms for the beneficiaries of OYES programme. He said the contract should go round all the local councils in the state. We mobilised tailors in all the local councils. We all benefited,” he disclosed.

Daramola added that many tailors were able to buy new machines and other things needed for their trade. “What Aregbesola did surprised us and the only thing we could do to pay him back was to ensure that ACN won the last elections. That was why we went out to campaign for ACN and voted for the party at the last election. We will continue to vote for Aregbesola and ACN,” he said. The party won all the state and National Assembly seats in the state.

OYES has six initial departments: Public Works Bureau, Sanitation Czars, Osun Sheriffs, Osun Paramedics, Green Gangs and Traffic Managers. The graduates have been distributed to all the local councils, with 600 cadets in each local council. Oshogbo, the capital, has about 2,600.

OYES has drawn admiring glances from the government of Ekiti State, which has promised to set up a similar scheme. The World Bank has also signified its desire to study the OYES.

Closely related to this is the budding agricultural revolution launched by Aregbesola. Agriculture, the major economic activity of the area, through which Awolowo created jobs and tackled poverty, had suffered serious neglect by successive governments.

To revive the sector, Aregbesola has created the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agriculture Programme, O-REAP, as the engine that will drive the revolution and return farmers to the sort of pre-eminence that they once enjoyed. While the revolution is not yet full-blown, observers reckon that its first fruits will be harvested in the current farming season, when bumper yields are expected.

O-REAP comprises micro-credit and entrepreneurial schemes for farmers’ cooperatives and rural entrepreneurs. The government is planning to develop rural products, especially agricultural, and how these products will be distributed for the optimum return. The entrepreneurial programme will encourage the development of farm produce like cassava, cocoa, palm kernel as well as yam processing and market linkage. Markets for agricultural products will be developed in commercial locations, like Alimosho in Lagos, to complement Mile 12 Market. The agricultural initiative involves Quick Impact Intervention Programme (QIIP) for farmers’ cooperative groups, an agricultural micro-finance programme and a farm settlement programme.

The government will be involved in the storage and transportation of the products to quality buyers to ensure that farmers receive optimal returns on investment. Plans to cooperate with the Nigerian Railway Corporation in the transportation of the goods, which will be stored in warehouses to be built near the Oshogbo Train Terminus for easy haulage, are already at an advanced stage. The government is also working on how to reduce the multiple chain of agents between farmers and end consumers of produce. This will put more money into the pockets of the farmers and reduce the cost of food.

To create more jobs, Mr. Gbenga Fayemiwo, an aide to Aregbesola, disclosed that through O-REAP, the government has 100,000 acres for farming. According to him, the land will be distributed to prospective farmers at two acres per person. The government will also provide necessary assistance in the shape of modern techniques. The expectation of the government, he said, is that 75,000 metric tonnes of grain will be produced this farming season.

Fayemiwo added that the government plans to revive the Oshogbo Trade Fair to boost commerce in the state.

Beaf:

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You must be a fool not to know that Dagbolu used to have a rail station in the time of Hitler, now it is no more. Yet, my guy wan buy train wen go ply di route. Na wa! LOL!!
How are trains gonna get to Oshogbo from there. . . Maybe they will drive on Ikirun Road sha.

No be small tin o! RASCALS wan wound babies wit dia foolishness! Keep on sniffing o!

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koruji:

@Beaf
[size=20pt]Really. You are this DAFT.[/size]

You are providing convincing evidence that there is something fundamentally wrong with your thinking patterns.

Meanwhile, for the second time today below is your educations. See Dagbolu right on the rail line. Even on your half-baked map the traffic goes through Dagbolu, even though whoever did the drawing pretended there are no Ibadan or Osogbo rail lines. It is not as if Nigeria has spur lines all over the place.

Dagbolu is in Osogbo. I have personally walked across the rail lines both in Osogbo and Ibadan, so just give it up.

Addressing a rally in Osogbo on March 3, in continuation of his presidential campaign, Mr Jonathan said the rail line between Lagos and Jebba will be completed and open for operation by the end of March.

"I have just received a report from the Chairman of the Nigeria Railway Corporation that by the end of this month, segment of railway between Lagos and Jebba would be completed and people will begin to board train from Osogbo," he said.

Mr Jonathan; the Vice President, Namadi Sambo; and Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel subsequently undertook a 98-km train journey on March 12 from Ebute-Meta Junction to Abeokuta to show the tracks were ready for operations.

Their train ride followed the commissioning of the new 25 locomotive engines procured by the NRC.

The Minister of Transport, Yussuff Suleman embarked on a test-run ride on the train from Ebute-Meta to Abeokuta in Ogun State on March11.

Mr Ndakotsu stated that the MTTS project had been replicated in Kano, Kaduna-Challawa, Jos and Maiduguri while a concrete sleeper had been established at Bodija, Ibadan.

"The cement freight train service for Lafarge Cement Company, Ewekoro; rehabilitation of the Lagos-Jebba rail line; refurbishment of coaches and wagons, workshops re-equipping and staff trainings had also been carried out," he said.

Beaf:

Poor thing.

Firstly, Dagbolu is about 10-15 kilometres from Osogbo, [size=14pt]secondly that railway line was last used in 1932. Na only bush and rats de deh nowadays, maybe if you had looked carefully while walking, just maybe you would even have seen Mungo Park or Lord Lugard.[/size]
. . ."40 coaches and 40 wagons.". . To drive along Ikirun Road! Up Aregbe!!
One day is one day, unu go take laf kill pikin for dis NL o!

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koruji:

I guess you have changed your mind as usual - Rail lines do pass through Dagbolu and Osogbo afterall.

Only now Dagbolu is 15-20 km from Osogbo. Is that measuring from the governors office, powerline, steel rolling mill, Osun State University, Alekuwodo or where?

If you were not reading with jaded eyes, you would know that Aregbesola indeed spoke of NRC "REPAIRING" that particular station.

You came up with a map with no stopping points in Ibadan or Osogbo and went to town saying there were no rail lines there. When that was proved otherwise, you went on and on about Dagbolu being the one with no rail lines. Now that a google map actually includes Dagbolu on a rail line that goes all the way down south and up north, you have like a chameleon that you are decided it was last used in 1932.

A station and a rail line are two different things - get it?

Pray tell me which line was your dear leader GEJ was speaking about here:

Beaf:

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