₦airaland Forum

nograv:
One wrong does not negate the other. Also the examples you cited are class based prejudice. Indians typically engage in RACE based prejudice and that is very different.

One can work hard and change their class as my grandfather did. One cannot change his or her race and only deluded blacks try...

My examples has as much to do with “class” as does the original story...
In other words, about the only relevance to class herein are the employer class and the employee class.

If we legislate and implement adequate safety standards and good working from ALL NIGERIA-BASED EMPLOYERS, the race or purported class (unless you think that only poor Nigerians are employed in Nigeria companies) becomes 100% IRRELEVANT. I am not inclined to “identity” policy (or politics on NL), but when one actually thinks about it is even more disgusting/despicable when we treat our own as subhuman.

Also he was asked about a position in government, and NOT specifically a “political” position...
Personally, if accordingly he was offered the position of CBN Governor or something like that, I would hope he takes it.

FAKE NEWS HEADLINE ALERT!

Dude essentially said that it was a HYPOTHETICAL question and thus he didn’t have to think about it unless/until any offer is made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xll3O0hwz6s

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RomanReigns:
Useless Olosho... Please don't compare this junk to the well modernised and refined Eurostar. Anuofia.

God bless Nnamdi Kanu
God bless and protect Biafraland
God Bless The Igbos
God Bless The South South Except Edo State (Useless state of Cultists)

Thunder Fire Nigeria
Bad News Upon Nigeria from The Rising of the Sun to its setting
May Fuel Scarcity and an Epidemic disease hit Nigeria
May no good news ever come out of Nigeria
May Sars, Politicians, Bandits and Bokoharam continue to oppress Nigeria Amen.

Abegi quit with the bigoted bile.
I have personally ridden Eurostar as well as Amtrak in the US, and the Abuja-Kaduna train is very good. Hopefully, they’ll maintain standards.

ruffhandu:
Safety breach I guess. I am yet to hear stuff like "Nigerian boss slaps his American domestic staff in Texas" or "A Nigerian company maltreats it's local employees in Shanghai" or "A large manufacturing company in Tokyo owned by a Nigerian/Nigerians on fire, many feared dead".

Everyday you hear it happening in Nigeria and nobody cares, not even the government. Well, even the Nigerian government doesn't obey its laws, is it foreigners that will?

But I am sure that you have heard stuff like “Nigerian boss/housewife pours scalding hot water on his Nigerian domestic staff” or “Fire at Nigerian Company in Nigeria kills Nigerian staff” or “Nigerian boss fails to pay his Nigerian staff for several months”. Our campaign should be for safety standards/good working conditions from ALL NIGERIA-BASED EMPLOYERS, rather than succumb to xenophobic instincts.

inoki247:
is the guy representing Isreal or Nigeria

His name is Israel...
A name that I am yet to see among Israelis.

But then again, many years ago I once met an African-American named “Nigeria”!

Sconty09:
My brother, I wish to let you know you're the one more reason I come to Nairaland. You bring authentic and real updates to this platform with evidence and that's why I like you. I can't wait to see Lagos and the whole Yoruba region developed If Nigeria keeps wanting to be stagnant. I love my country but I'm Yoruba man before Nigeria, No deception.

Bros, when (admittedly before you and I were born) Egbon Femi Okunnu as Federal Commissioner for Works for 8 years under General Gowon used “oil boom” money from the Niger Delta to build Eko Bridge, rebuild Carter Bridge, modernize/expand Apapa Port, embarked on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Badagry Expressway, Tin Can Island Port, and dredged most of Victoria Island, or when the Babangida government used oil funds from the exploitation and despoliation of the Niger Delta to build/finish Egbin Power plant and the Third Mainland Bridge, among other national infrastructure projects in Lagos (and the SW), your kind was NOT forming “Yoruba man before Nigerian”. SMH

Rhaspody:
And Lagos State government have abandoned badagry road.

Badagry Expressway is a FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ROAD.

And even though the LASG decided expend Lagos taxpayers’ fund to rebuild, modernize and expand it (just as with this Airport Road), it has nonetheless taken NNPC more than 3 years just to relocate its pipelines along the right of way, and seemingly forever for the Army to agree to demolish parts of the Ojo Cantonment wall that abuts the right of way.

majamajic:
ambode contractors are very slow, one of the major reasons he lost the second term, four years in office most of his contracts are half way.

kudos to him though but he for finish most of these contracts in 2 yrs,

like the oshodi bridge, he was busy doing the beatification, instead of doing the main road then beautification, but he was relaxed thinking the 8 yrs was in the bag already, secondly he toyed with investments of his boss, that's the main reason he didn't go for second term.

No, they are NOT slow.

After all, Abule-Egba and Ajah flyover projects were completed quickly, the Ikorodu BRT corridor, the Epe and Alimosho road networks, as well as several other projects. However, it seems that since he lost the APC nomination he’s either taken his foot off the pedal or he has probably been threatened with impeachment if he continues to prioritize those projects that do not put money in the infamous Bullion Vans.

Devilhimself:
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Nonsense
stop making fool of yourself
English is not a measure of intelligence

Dude, you completely missed the point.
He’s simply pondering if the hospital is actually “nearing completion”?

The term “ultra-modern” is arguably the most MISUSED term in Nigeria...
But hopefully the equipment to be installed will be modern (and not used second-half ones).

Xbursta:
op
where's burna boy

TODAY! 12.15 am (Sunday night/Monday morning) Nigeria time, and it will be streamed LIVE on YouTube.

Mr. Eazi was a’ight...
But I can’t wait for Oluwa Burna today!

Babysho:
Lol this thing wey you talk. Person papa talk am when e just marry. Now e don get grey hair.

Na slow minded dimwits dey incharge walai. Nigeria is just going forth and back. Such archaic developments. Nairobi has a high speed train and the population is slightly above three million. It's unbelievable that there's not a single train in Lagos. A city inhabited by eighteen million people! Eighteen million!

With prejudice, Nairobi does NOT have high-speed intracity mass transit rail.

What some erroneously refer to as the “Nairobi High-Speed Rail” is actually the new Nairobi-to-Mombasa standard gauge rail line, which is in all material respect similar to the ongoing new Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line. These INTERCITY (as opposed to intracity) rail lines have been colloquially referred to as line “high-speed” because they will each be faster than the old narrow gauge lines, but neither line is technically a high-speed (or “bullet”) line (and while Nairobi-Mombasa clocks in at 120km/h, which is even lower than Abuja-Kaduna’s 130km/h, the Lagos-Ibadan line is projected to clock in at about 150km/h although I am personally a bit skeptical about that projection).

Meanwhile, Nairobi is currently looking to refurbish it old standard gauge commuter rail that is similar to the limited Lagos commuter rail service currently provided by the NRC. Furthermore, Nairobi recently sent its officials to Lagos to study the Lagos BRT system with an eye towards instituting a similar system in Nairobi (btw, only one of several African countries that have come to Lagos to study the BRT system).

komodapson:
In addition to this, is to have large car park like 10 floors made of steel, jus' like the one @ ikoyi club...it should b constructed around oworonsoki or ogudu axis...where people park there cars and get on board ferries to island....jetties must b constructed also & d lagoon should be buoyed by expert in navigation.... all these can be achieved through PPP without LASG spending a penny...The problem with motorist and commuters in Lagos is not only bad roads or inadequate buses...but one thing LAWLESSNESS & bad driving culture

This is already underway at Oworonsoki (or at least was underway under Ambode, not sure what Sanwo-Olu will make of it). That’s what the massive reclamation project at Oworonsoki was all about. The plan is to construct a mega ferry terminal and a mega ferry terminal (preferably under a PPP arrangement), with shopping and entertainment facilities, and maybe someday in the distant future, a mass rail spur/connection.

LogicStatement:
E tire me too. But you will always hear them say "Lagos is a mega city", a mega city without a fast train in 2019 lol

The term “mega city” merely refers to population (usually over 10 million residents), and while some misinformed members of the Nigerian press and even some Lagos officials misapply the term, Lagos is already by definition a mega city.

BTW, Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is another mega city without a mass transit rail line. Like Lagos, it is currently building a Light Rail project scheduled for completion at about the same time as the new projected completion date for Lagos’ Blue Line (2021/22).

LogicStatement:
Have they started constructing Lagos light rail system?

Yes, they have been working on the first line (the Blue Line), although it’s dragged on much longer than anticipated, while they have finally secured the right of way for the second line (the Red Line) after years of negotiations with a politically-hostile federal government.

Offpoint:
I'm not against buses, I'm against their visionlessness. Ten years to now they'll still be chunking buses out, instead of them to go back to the drawing board and do their homeworks they'll always want the easiest way out.

It hurts me these guys spend their holidays in the western world, but fall blind to all the good things they see there.

But Lagos is already building mass transit rail (albeit it seems to be taking forever) and mapping out/dredging ferry routes (after fighting with the federal government’s NIWA for jurisdiction), so the prospect of viable inter-modal public transportation seems close enough to fruition.

CONGRATS to the couple...
But why is marrying a “white” person seemingly always news on Nairaland?

gagzee:
I just weak when I got to that NURTW part of the article...
Same bunch of rascals

NURTW will not be operating these buses.

Nonetheless, the state would still need their buy-in/cooperation (unless it wants to see a repeat of the massive sabotage of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative and Visionscape by the politically-connected PSPs). Accordingly, one of the reasons that these buses have not been deplored since their arrival is that NURTW-member drivers/conductors (who will be uniformed with visible IDs) are being trained/retrained to work in the private companies that will operate these buses. It may not be optimal, but hopefully it’s a pragmatic solution that will work.

LogicStatement:
Lagos roads are too congested already resulting in traffic and waste of man hours. Introducing new buses to add to the existing traffic gridlock is compounding the problem we are yet to solve. A simple solution to ease traffic in Lagos roads and move mass number of people easily and comfortably is to construct a fast light rail system connecting major points in the city. The rail should connect Ikorodu to the Island, Island to Epe, Badagry to Oshodi. This is long overdue.

Offpoint:
Visionless leaders, Buses is not what the already over congested Lagos read needs.. They should use their heads.

While the optimal mass transit system for huge cities are rail systems, but even then buses have an important role to play...
Meanwhile, in Lagos, until the Blue and Red lines (and any other future rail lines) are completed improving bus transportation is vital.

nextstep:
You and I know there's not a maintenance plan in place... even if there were, those who are supposed to maintain will "borrow the funds", somehow equipment will disappear, and the next administration release contract to buy new buses in late 2022, just in time for 2023 elections... etc.

There are three fully-equipped maintenance depots at Yaba, Oshodi and Ibeju-Lekki (the latter will eventually become the assembly plant for future batches of these buses). One the reasons that these buses have not been deployed since they arrived is that drivers and conductors are being trained/re-trained, as well as artisanal mechanics and technicians.

Toseenlove:
See reason why Lagos will and never be Mega City as far as her population keeps skyrocketing!!! This was 2012.....I'm very sure the Population will be around 25Million+ Imagine Ordinary state, A very small Area with a Mammoth Population filled with mostly extremely filthy dirty disgusting beings Spiits. Meanwhile there are so many Countries with a land size of about 50,000+sqm and their population Isn't even up to 5Million. Now I see reason why everything Is extremely tough In this filled up State.

If governments plan well, Lagos can overflow into Ogun State and become a huge economic conurbation. Already, many manufacturing plants are located in Ogun State (primarily in Agbara and Otta) while enjoying the advantage of the huge (and relatively prosperous) Lagos market. What is really needed is to put the necessary infrastructure in place (already the new standard gauge rail line is coming on stream). In fact, with better rail and road connections, people can live in the cheaper Ogun State and commute to work in Lagos.

springtech:
Maintenance !
Management !!
Sustainability !!!

Are key

agarawu23:
thats what they should work on. Not just wasting billions on buses that they will scrap after 1 year

There are three fully-equipped maintenance depots at Yaba, Oshodi and Ibeju-Lekki (the latter will eventually become the assembly plant for future batches of these buses). One the reasons that these buses have not been deployed since they arrived is that drivers and conductors are being trained/re-trained, as well as artisanal mechanics and technicians. Management will be by private operators regulated by LAMATA.

Meanwhile, the buses will run primarily on CNG and thus will be more environmentally-friendly.

ifymadu:
Good move, I hope there is a maintenance plan in place to ensure the buses are properly managed. It will be disappointing and a waste of taxpayers money if these buses are withdrawn from the roads after a year due to poor maintenance and recklessness on the part of drivers.

There are three fully-equipped maintenance depots at Yaba, Oshodi and Ibeju-Lekki (the latter will eventually become the assembly plant for future batches of these buses).

amaniro:
If I didn't look well, I'd have not seen Sanwolu

A “Governor-Elect” is a description and NOT a position...
It’s NOT in the Constitution, and the press should quit tagging these folks as “excellencies” (the ones already on seat are hardly excellent). SMH

The misogynistic element of most Nigerian culture shines through in this article...
The way the piece described her you would be forgiven for thinking that she kidnapped and raped Mr. Franklin. SMDH

sherylbakky:
His life, his business

I agree...
But I am reasonably sure that if it was a female the sentiment would be less charitable. Just saying.

FAKE NEWS ALERT!

Moghalu had an Arise TV interview on Wednesday and only said that it was far too early to contemplate whether to contest in the 2023 elections, but that he was presently joining a non-partisan effort to (1) reform the Nigerian electoral system and (2) deepen voter education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xll3O0hwz6s

boolet:
People should learn to stand their ground abeg

Exactly why people have remained on their knees, being afraid of death. It should be death ahead of dishonor.

Easy to form Revolutionary on the Internet...
SARS is not hard to find, feel free to go achieve “death ahead of dishonor”.

vybzkartel:
we have to avoid germany oo

Epic!