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Unless these are strictly SARS officers, I fail to see the benefit of this exercise...
Why transfer policemen (and dislocate their families) after they have become familiar with the communities they are policing? SMH

NEIGHBOUR:
Idris is now the Lagos state commissioner for health for life since Tinubu regime. Haba!!! No other medical person qualified to hold the post in Lagos.

So long as he is doing a good job, what does it matter?
While I recall Leke Pitan used to be commissioner for health, must everything in Nigeria be "chop-I-chop"?

rusher14:
Wait for the haters.

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ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!

Not against the concept of rehabilitation and development for the war-ravaged North-East, but setting up a permanent commission (no doubt with offices, staff, cars, estacode and other benefits, overseas and local training, housing and transportation allowances, etc.) is simply a BUREAUCRATIC boondoggle and waste of resources that would be more usefully applied towards the actual people who need the help. I suspect that this development commission will more significantly "develop" the bank accounts of contractors than of the masses.
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trytillmake:
and that makes Him what? the level china is; is Nigeria aspiring to be anywhere there yet?

Please do not mind low-expectation Nigerians...
This same China was poor not that long ago, but today they are building high-speed trains while we are trekking cattle up and down! SMH

caprini1:
Thanks for the eye opening....i appreciate.

You're welcome...

We can even use satellite technology to monitor pipelines, which can spare us the dangers of transporting petroleum products by road.

caprini1:
Abi o? they should be researching on how to build lasting good roads and constant electricity, misplaced priorities.

In a vast country as Nigeria with many different terrain and soil types, you cannot build one-type-fits-all roads...
High resolution soil mapping provided through satellite technology enables you to reach more efficient decisions on these matters.

EVILFOREST:
NIGERIA is cursed
Is this a POULTRY or What....
PEOPLE will be asked to submit CVs, just for salary emoluments, yet nothing to show for it.

Come back here after 6MONTHS and see BUSHES.
It will incidentally turn into an AGRO RESERVE CENTRE

The government can only build it, but it will require people (particularly the academic community) to breathe life into it. We cannot hold government solely accountable for all of our failings as a nation.

Mcreloaded:
I remember also Nigeria sent 2 satellite to space and am yet to see or hear the advantages of those satellite in space or how it affects the common man even if it is to make data cheap or to watch films via satellite.

Really there are other priorities that go ernmwnt should involve in to benefit the common man.

For the now the best we can do is copy and paste until we have solved power problem

The images/information from those satellites are used to predict rainfall/flooding patterns (albeit the warnings are hardly heeded on the ground by the states forewarned), and even high resolution soil type mapping to determine the suitability of crops/livestock for particular regions (and even the suitability of fertilizer applied). It can also be used to track population settlement, resettlement and/or growth patterns, and thus can be very useful for planning purposes (such as decisions regarding the location/prioritization of roads and other infrastructure).

Meanwhile, the telecommunications satellite not only saves Nigeria and Nigerian companies and organizations the millions of dollars expended on using foreign satellites, but also serves a wide range of ancillary functions such as providing GPS services to Nigerian airlines and such other entities. Finally, the knowledge acquired by Nigerian engineers and scientists in these ventures can be applied in other areas of national life.

Kenmatt:
When is Federal government creating the long awaited Adada State?

No more stares abegi!!

Most of the ones we currently have are not working...
But people are too concerned with their kinsmen getting positions that eventually every clan and family will demand their own state.

kaen1317:
Nigeria that is still jaga jaga is looking for what in space

Many of our problems can be resolved through the application of science...

Kudos!

tactius:
You are right...and I gave you a like...but the guy you quoted's grouse is not really with MR kayode.

In the 1980's we had several brilliant youth squads with brilliant players. The idea most of us had back then was that by 2002...we would be in the final of the World Cup..

Well, it did not turn out according to plan, and overaged players are the reason why

Not necessarily...
Most youth internationals never quite make a successful transition to senior internationals anywhere in the world.

Meanwhile, footballers (like most other professionals) have to be continuously DEVELOPED - and that's where we often fail...
If you run 10 secs as a teenager, you are not going to run better as an adult in your 20s - unless you keep training/developing.

oluwaseyi000:
26 with three kids

Do you have to be that guy? Haba!!
And one of those kids look like he's 5/6 years old. Just saying.

wiseone28:
Not only this building.

Nigerian houses in general

Agreed...
Bothersome for a country with such a rich tradition of creativity.

tactius:
Well, inasmuch as I don't like the PDP (or the APC even), many of the textile companies were in soup as far back as the 1990's.

As for power, while I blame politicians, I also blame Nigerians.

As far back as 1990...NEPA was crying that many people did not pay their bills and did 'illegal connections' .Some places even got light for 'free' (at one point the university where my parents worked was on free power ....technically some money was being paid). The same problem persists today under the DISCOS....and quite frankly (and I really hate making this argument, but after reading up more about this issue since 2014...when PDP took the 'insane' decision to sell power...and after NO Nigerian came forward to the panel set up to discuss the problem to oppose it..and learning a lot of stuff.)....we are not paying the DISCOS enough cash to allow them make investment in improving power...the same way we did for GSM over 10 years ago...when we were paying 20000 and above for a SIM, and for service so bad that at one point we could not make calls in between networks..but they took the money and invested it in better equipment

The truth is, Nigeria is a country where we like to share money. If PDP wanted to improve power...they would have sold the whole thing to foreign power companies, who would have raised prices, and made profits well well, while we groan....but eventually would have used the money plus the profit to make things better...in five years.(my estimate). But they did not because such decisions are not poltically popular.

So they sold the DISCOS to local investors (cronies), made them charge less than the cost of prdouction, while government buys electricity via Nigieria Bulk electricity trading company, and sells to them at lower prices,,,meanwhile GENCOS are forced to sell power at lower prices under the rules...lower than their production cost. No wonder power aint improving.

All the off grid solutions of this government are just temporary....either we take a long term loan to improve generation and transmission, or we tighten our seatbelts.

The process was open to foreigners.

In fact, the US energy company Symbion participated in an ultimately-successful joint bid (with Transcorp) for the Ugheli Power Plant. There was NOTHING wrong with the process (which had technical help from the World Bank and others) itself, but the reality is that most reputable foreign companies/investors are NOT attracted to such a heavily price-regulated industry. That's basically the same reason that foreign companies have never shown any interest in petroleum refining in Nigeria. Conversely, when you look at the GSM/telecommunications industry, the deregulation of pricing ultimately led to a much more competitive industry (in terms of service and pricing).
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tactius:
2.You Nigerians refuse to pay your power bills, your government agencies refuse to pay your power bills, you want power companies to accept bills that are below the production cost for power, some of you chase away DISCO officals doing their job....and you insist on subsidy for fuel...preventing petroleum companies from making a sufficient profit to invest in new refineries, new gas plants, you vote for the people in PDP who robbed our country for 16 years, and some of you vote for APC with people like Grasscutter, Gandollars, Lion cub of ubima, and Bourdillion Jagaban, and you expect light 24/7?

Dude, you are preaching to the wrong person...
https://www.nairaland.com/4995124/family-members-fighting-nepa-officials/3#75326285

9jaRealist:
Nigerians stealing electricity since 1960...

In a country of supposedly almost 200 million citizens (of course we don’t really know how many we really are), there are only about 6 million registered electricity consumers, and even then the military and the government MDAs steadfastly refuse to settle their bills. There are actually entire estates in Nigeria with illegal connections to the public grid. Anyway, it’s perhaps poetic justice for those insiders who rushed to grab the privatized DISCOs based on a misguided notion that it will be like GSM telephony.

Meanwhile, why beat up innocent foot soldiers at the bottom of the corporate pyramid who are merely doing their job rather than the suits in the corporate suites who set policies, send the bills and make enforcement (including disconnection) decisions? This is pretty much the same reason that violent protests are usually confined to the Mainland in Lagos and virtually never in the elite districts of Ikoyi or VI. SMH

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OkunrinOloro:
Emefiele said the companies collapsed "in recent times" and not in the nineties.

Emefiele is trying to keep his job, but even Emefiele would not be that clueless...
That part of the news report is not a quote from Emefiele, but merely the reporter's ill-informed editorialization.

jarkbauer:
Textile Companies collapsed in the early nineties

Thank you!

They started collapsing in the mid-1980s, before some of us were even born, following the introduction of SAP. But why will the textile (or any other manufacturing) industry not collapse when this country is bragging about 5000 MW of electricity (energy being a significant cost in textile production) or when smugglers pour in through the open Northern borders (the same borders allegedly used by many Next Level voters ).

chosenwan1:
Oh I understand alright, it is you who lacks understanding. Go back read all that I have said, read it slowly after a couple of more times you will understand what I mean. You cannot understand if you don't take into cognizance all I have said. I am not surprised, most of you on here think you are all knowing and everything you say should be applauded. We were talking about the benefits of an international deal when the EVIDENCE is clear for everyone to see, you now wrote nonsense saying Davido looks broke to me Please don't quote me. Do your research and keep an open mind when discussing with people.

You keep writing unnecessarily pedantic posts but still keep avoiding the BASIC question...
What about an international deal makes it ANY MORE DETRIMENTAL than a local deal?! SMH

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I realize there's political motivation to get these bus operations going...
But it is frankly unsafe to have so many commuters in close proximity with ongoing heavy construction.
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comshots:
Corruption will dilapidate those buses just like the brt buses fashola introduced.The corruption in Lagos and Nigeria is ridiculously high.

These buses will be well-maintained because three first-rate and well-equipped maintenance depots have been established at Yaba, Odhodi and Awoyaya-Lekki (with the last one constituting an assembly plant as well, for planned future batches of buses), with engineers, mechanics/technicians being trained over many of these past months (as well as drivers) to properly service these vehicles.

BTW, the BRT buses are PRIVATELY-owned (by Primero, and financed by Sterling Bank), and are still in relatively good shape (other than ordinary wear and tear, which obviously wears greater on a mass public transport vehicle than the regular Oga's car) but are nonetheless being supplemented by newer buses because vehicles actually DEPRECIATE and do not last forever (not least given the nature of our roads).

The red-colored LAGBUS buses (which are owned/operated mostly by the NURTW) are the buses that have been rundown, because they are older than the BRT buses (buses cannot last forever) and not well-maintained by the NURTW. LAGBUS buses are essentially upgraded molues.
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barojana:
Living faith infrastructure is always like FG infrastructure.
I'm not surprised NUC was confused. This school is bigger than chrisland university, koladaisi university and its admin building is the same size as Madonna's senate building

Hopefully the NUC makes accreditation decisions based on more than buildings? Otherwise, that would be truly MORTIFYING...

HigherEd:
It obviously has a design lol. But you want to derail the thread with irrelevant opinions.

Well this is a secondary school, the idea isn't to show off mind blowing infrastructure. Even in the West, the average high school isn't so much about architectural masterpiece.

The greatest seat of power in the world - the White House is so basic that Trump would have preferred to rule from Maralago if possible. The US can afford to build the biggest hi-tech villa in the world. But that's not their priority.

The priority of living faith is not to dream up expensive and unnecessary architecture but to provide quality education and biblical grooming to young adults.

I agree, but suspect the dude only made architecture an issue because of the OP...

Meanwhile, as I noted when some were celebrating the new donor-funded schools in Borno, let's hope QUALITY OF TEACHING is prioritized.

wiseone28:
So Nigeria no fit give design for building like other countries does?

Thank you!

Perhaps it's the photography that's poor, but my first thought was the architecture is UNDERWHELMING!
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partnerbizz4:
This story is a fabricated gibberish!
The author is mediocre!

Exactly! I did not even bother with finishing that CRAP...

Nonetheless, anybody (male of female) is absolutely free to decide for whatever reason not to proceed with a marriage BEFORE the wedding! This obtuse mentality of "I spent money on you/your family, and so you must be bonded and indentured to me" portends a BAD marriage.

iammo:
Sure and thats where Fashola and Peter Obi, destitue relocation badt guy plan comes in, you beg , loiter or constituite nuisance you get booted out, or else you can take up menial jobs to help or economy with cheap labour, from shoe making, to cart pushing

Even if they merely remain destitute or start their own Boko Haram only in the North, some of OUR money (regardless of where we are in Nigeria) will be ultimately expended - either as the N5K monthly electoral bribe called "social investment" or on fighting the former and IDPs!

AmuDimkpa:
Lol, which way Nigeria . This is happening in some states now , after looting, these people will be rewarded with life pensions while the masses who have served for 35 years are not paid their little pensions and retirement benefits. Naija , which way?
How long will it take for people to throw away ethnicity and religion and understand that looting and bad leadership know no religion and ethnicity and take their destinies in their own hands.
Nawa o.

Thank you!

This trend was of course started by the likes of "Comrade" Gov Adams Oshiomole, who got himself a pension-for-life and N200m house while Edo State pensioners went unpaid. SMH

iammo:


If their decission in far away kano doesnt affect my dear southwest, i will watch this as a spectator, its season of Opreation Mind your Bloody Region, and thats the principle of true federalism.

It will ultimately affect us all...
Because many of those Almajiri kids this money could have be better spent on will eventually become criminals and terrorists.

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Why is the female judge bowing down to the Governor?!!
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chosenwan1:
What I am trying to make you understand is that you can be rich on paper but in the real sense broke. I like to stick to reality, all those artiste that were signed before her what happened? Davido & co. So you know that the labels are there to cash out with "handsome profit", to whose detriment? It is just a situation of when you think the grass is greener on the other side... lol at the "mutuality of interests", how can you arrive at that conclusion after all you have said.#naive

Dude, if you have ever held a formal job, the notion that EVERY employer-employee (or business partnership) relationship by definition involves a "mutuality of interests" should be easy enough for you to grasp. Frankly shocked that anyone would struggle to grasp such a basic concept.

chosenwan1:
What I am trying to make you understand is that you can be rich on paper but in the real sense broke. I like to stick to reality, all those artiste that were signed before her what happened? Davido & co. So you know that the labels are there to cash out with "handsome profit", to whose detriment? It is just a situation of when you think the grass is greener on the other side... lol at the "mutuality of interests", how can you arrive at that conclusion after all you have said.#naive

So Davido looks "broke" to you? Or Wizkid?!

Quite sure that most Nigerians their age (heck any age) would love to be that "broke"! Meanwhile, still waiting for you to explain the simple basic question at the start of this conversation: exactly how is signing this international deal more detrimental than not signing it and remaining solely with a local label?! That's a basic question that you've dance around with no substantive response, because for your position to remotely make sense it would by definition be premised on the notion that locally-signed artistes are rich "in the real sense" and never broke! Is it really that difficult for some Nigerians to be happy for others?! SMH
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