₦airaland Forum

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Lagos is a monarchy or at best a patrimony. Describing what happens there will make the ancient Greeks laugh and the Romans go green with envy. Forget politics there. Nothing to inspirational.

Look at Kano. There is no way the state will not rapidly progress no matter who wins because the axe is set at the base of the tree. For Lagos it will always be a tale of a better yesterday Ambode worse than Fashola, Fashola worse than Tinubu.... Olu worse than Ambode??

There is just no drive, no impetus, no need to raise the bar. Sanwo Olu's successor is already probably in the wings... and no matter how he plays his hand he is likely going to lose at the next polls

Which Kano? The one that the Governor was caught on tape stuffing bribes into his Babanriga? Standards are really LOW in Nigeria...

RichBoy247:
We have kicked out the fat ugly idiot and his untrained and barren wife together with their foolish Biafran supporters. If the fat pig called Ambode does not take his time, we shall lock him up in prison and give the key of the prison to Tinubu to throw into Lagos lagoon.

You are a disgusting piece of turd...

Melison:
Lol make India catch una

BEANSANDBREAD00:
Just look at all the wasted tomatoes

Betcha they will pick those tomatoes off the road and go and sell them...

chally100:
Just wondering the kind of poverty or problems she is going thru

You lot keep making excuses for evil and CRIMINALTY! SMH

Toseenlove:
Sometimes I Imagine If Nigeria was to be like Europe. The feelings though Gosh!!!

Why do you want Nigeria to be like Europe with all that snow and bitter cold?

You sound like a real LOSER...

So, you think you have “paid” for her? Dude, if you were looking for an Olosho, they are cheaper ones in every hood. SMH

Guyman02:
You don't have enough chairs for passengers and then you decide to occupy all the spaces with cushion chairs, what sort of nonsense is this.
It's when you achieve mass transit that you go into super luxury interior

Both are NOT mutually-exclusive....
And frankly if you can attract high-end customers it increases the chances that these trains will be better maintained.

You can take some people out of the ZOO but you cannot take the ZOO out of them...

Reading many of the posts, it’s clear many Nigerians do not grasp the concept of public transportation projects.

Yes, there are (as there always is) inconveniences during the construction phase, and, like several other Lagos projects, the pace of work has noticeably slowed down considerably since the “political coup” to remove Ambode and even impeach him if he insists on continuing to function as the only legitimate governor in office until May 29.

Nonetheless, the concept of this project remains SOUND, and frankly those bemoaning its design appear unable to grasp the concept of mass public transportation. The primary idea of mass public transportation is the greatest good for the greatest number. Accordingly, with respect to this project which faces the restriction of a roadway that was not historically designed for mass public transportation, priority is granted to the BRT corridor over the private car lanes, given that this BRT corridor is projected to serve about 300,000-450,000 commuters daily (the World Bank projected just over 200,000 in 2009) over 4 local govt areas who are currently served by incredibly poor public transportation choices in the form Okada and Danfo. In effect, the project elevates/upgrades public transportation, not least because the quickest means of resolving Lagos’ perennial traffic congestion issues (pending mass rail transit) is to get more people out of private cars onto mass public transportation. The more comfortable/convenient such public transportation choices are, the better chances of patronage.

Finally, regarding the engineering design, again given the historical limitations of the roadway a BRT corridor placed in the median of the the roadway makes the most sense, with enough stops and pedestrian bridges to enable commuters ingress and egress at regular intervals. If conversely the outer lanes were used for the BRT corridor (as elsewhere) in this particular stretch of road, one would have to either demolish myriad properties encroaching/bordering the right of way to expand the roadway or would effectively block off the side streets and businesses located along the roadway (as failing to do so would effectively negate the ‘rapidity’ of the BRT service as cars egress/ingress the highway. Meanwhile, the 2 lanes left for private cars is more than sufficient (1) because there will no longer be Danfo on the roadway stopping every few minutes/yard to pick up/drop passengers, and (2) if our generally inconsiderate Nigerian drivers stop packing along the highway or stopping in traffic to buy everything from Gala to Boli and Plantain.

Eko o ni Baje!

gaskinachi:
You couldnt have said it better. No engineering expertise was employed in the execution .unlike the road from airport to oshodi that brought solutions this hopeless misadventure of a project by Ambode actually increased road users headaches rather than bring solutions,imagine after ile zik the next turning is almost at Araromi.people that live on mangoro would pass their homes and go and face hours of traffic at dopemu.hopefully the new puppet governor does a total overhaul and restarts that project. The company that did the project was strabic nig.a company that had never built a single shop talkless of hroad of that magnitude .just another front for ambode to rob lagos state’s treasury. Rogue

The reason there are many bus stops/pedestrian bridges on that stretch of the BRT corridor (I believe as many as 14) is to enable commuters to get off closest to their destinations and then use the bridges to access the side streets. There’s no need to “go and face hours of traffic”.

Your tin god has removed Ambode...
It is his and Sanwo-Olu’s headache now.

Joromi12:
Dangote never thrives when there is free market. He also will not sell fuel at 145. Forcing govt to pay hin subsidy

If the same government is paying subsidy to others who are importing fuel (thereby creating jobs abroad where they are importing from) to sell at N145, then why shouldn’t the government pay the same subsidy to Dangote (who will be creating thousands of jobs here in Nigeria) to sell at N145. In fact, not only will Dangote be saving Nigeria all of those billions of dollars used to import fuel (and will even be earning Nigeria dollars from exports), but people employed at his refinery and other ancillary businesses will be paying income taxes to the government.

AutoReportNG:
Some of those facts are wrong... We did an extensive report on 4th Mainland bridge some few months back, I hope I can still lay my hands on it.

This is a well-researched article on 4th Mainland Bridge

https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/04/lagos-4th-mainland-bridge-is-this-end.html

Mark my word... 4th Mainland Bridge will not happen in 20 years to come... Forget about the paparazzi

Probably right, unless they completely hand it over to private investors under a good PPP arrangement...
Frankly, if the last financial group headed by the AFC could not do it, this is going to be a rather tall task. But Lagos needs it!

Building the Fourth Mainland Bridge before the proposed Coastal Road will simply dump even more traffic into the already overstretched Lekki-Epe Expressway...

olu77:
We are always celebrating mediocrity. Those days, we used to have Jet club for young undergraduate scientists and a lot of other educative activities. They've all been replaced with these nonsense, phonography-in-disguise entertainments.

Our leaders need to wake up and fund meaningful researches that will restore our pride and help our continent.

Entertainment is an INDUSTRY!

Behind everyone you see on your screen are SCORES of people earning a decent honest living - from the artisanal set builder or electrician to make up artistes, audio and visual engineers, stage designers, maintenance personnel, etc. Not everyone will (or should) be a scientist.

contigiency:
And so? So he should close CBN gates because he will soon leave office? Please CBN is not Emefiele and Emefiele is not CBN. Work continues from where he will stop.

And the new CBN Gov might champion a drastically different monetary policy...
In fact, one of the reported contenders Bismarck Rewane regularly and repeatedly publicly campaigns for an expansionist policy.

contigiency:
And so? So he should close CBN gates because he will soon leave office? Please CBN is not Emefiele and Emefiele is not CBN. Work continues from where he will stop.

The “so” is that he cannot be proclaiming the CBN’s monetary policy for the YEAR if he will be out of office in 2-3 months! SMH

StOla:
I have spoken for myself, but am I surprised that rather you speak for yourself too, you are rather angry that your fellow man can be so upright?

And Atiku with all the money he acquired as a civil servant and as a political officer, he could not buy the love of simple honest men who identify with Buhari over the typical corruptly wealthy public servant. He could not even buy the support of his own village who rejected him and his filthy lucre.

If you had championed the support for new era candidates, I would have taken you as a serious human being, rather you are one of the jokers who wanted to impose on us a poster boy of all that is wrong with public service, siphoning of public funds and the use of public office to enrich friends.

Many like you kept on polluting the minds of the righteous, that a vote for anyone but an epitome of corruption that Atiku represents, was a vote to keep Buhari in power.

What you are suffering from is post election depression, acute denial, and agony of defeat after premature congratulations were already offered by you a day before the election, to the loser who could not even win his own village polling unit, and whose close political associates lost all the local governments in their states or only scored 2 votes in their own polling units.

I would never return to Egypt, despite the toil and disappointments in the wilderness that would lead to a better Nigeria.

Sorry, but without prejudice to a lot of the other sensible points in your posts, I simply cannot buy into that notion that being worshipped by an army of mostly dirt poor illiterates (who continue to multiply under Mr. Buhari’s tenure, up to Nigeria presently wearing the shameful toga of the world’s poverty capital) is a virtue. Furthermore, there’s really no substantive benefit in the purported personal probity of Mr. Buhari if corruption nonetheless continues virtually unabated at every level of the Nigerian government under him (from the Gateman to the Minister).

FTC

Does this dude realize that he most likely has just a couple of months left in office?

Smooyis:
No for such expensive census now Nigerians are suffering and need food on their table. Ordinary minimum wage of 30k government is still battling with. Let's set our priorities right

CENSUS SHOULD BE ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES!

We cannot properly plan or budget for anything without reliable census data. We have to know how many school age children there are (and frankly where they are) to properly budget for education, including planning for teacher education and recruitment. We have to know the demographics of our population to know what sorts of healthcare investment to make. We have to know how many people live where to make decisions regarding the citing and/or development of infrastructure (including things like where rail lines should be built and/or inland waterways, etc.). Even that minimum wage issue is tied to figuring out our population and how many public servants/agencies are reasonably optimal to service such population. At the moment, large swathes of the Nigerian public sector appear horribly overbloated.

Nonetheless, proper investment in appropriate technology should make the census CHEAPER (not more expensive), easier and more reliable.

hisexcellency34:
We are 200 million people. We don't need any useless census because they can never get accurate figures. Use the money to fix roads and power and other things

How do you know that?

That number is suspicious to say the least when a hotly-contested national election could barely muster about 30 million voters. The reality is that no one knows with any degree of certainty how many Nigerians there are or even how many people (citizens, foreigners, tourists, transients) are within Nigeria’s borders at any given time. Nonetheless, technology should make the census easier, cheaper and more reliable.

Story of the gods...

Dude probably stole money entrusted to him, hid/buried it in his village and now claiming that it was scammed off him.

Cantonese:
See the truth is that corruption, greed and insensitivity is a major issue in this country. The assets are bought up by them whether fully or partially privatized. They are the ones that lose their stolen monies invested there. Until corruption is dealt with completely this country will remain where it is.

Have you ever wondered who and who own the Gencos and Discos? They are owned by the same people that we fight ourselves to vote for.

The agreememt was carefully crafted to make government shoulder most of the responsibilities while they simply smile to the bank. The reverse is the case now as they are heavily indebted to the banks. Very soon estimated billing will become complete history and let's see how they move.

The government does not shoulder any responsibility except for paying pre-existing pension liabilities and gratuities to former workers of PHCN. And if you think that DISCO investors are “smiling to bank” when they are buying power at N80 kw/h and selling at N31.26 kw/h (and that is even if they can collect 100% payments and/or power is not being stolen), then I have a bridge between Ikoyi and Lekki to sell to you.

Meanwhile, it is very easy to find out who the owners of the GENCOs and DISCOs are, This is not secret information, and can easily be gotten from BPE, CAC or NERC, among other agencies/sources. Nigerians love silly conspiracy theories, as if the wealthy did not purchase these assets (which btw turned out in most cases to be much worse than the government portrayed them - just ask North-South Power about the state of Kainji), you were going to purchase them and make the massive investments necessary to rehabilitate and expand these facilities.

deomelo:
Again, in case you missed it, what the FG is obligated to pay or not to pay is totally irrelevant because the DISCOs still have to come out of pocket to pay their own bills or maybe you mean the FG is responsible for their entire operations and financial obligations.

Btw, you are wrong, it was a crooked, corrupt, thoughtless, unrealistic, unpatriotic and hastily signed agreement. What's so private about an agreement that saddled the FG for nearly half of the DISCOs and FG subsidies? There's nothing private about privatization because the FG is still involved and on the hook for for hundreds of billions, even trillions forever.

The whole DISCO/Privatization agreement = SCAM.

Shouting/bolding your post does not make the content any more valid...

I realize that this might be a difficult concept for rent-seekers to grasp, but since the government retains 40% of the equity of the “privatized” DISCOs, of course it should be responsible for 40% of capex. Furthermore, the Share Purchase Agreement between the government and the investors provides for specific obligations on the part of each of the parties but the government has consistently failed to meet its obligations - not surprising in a country where governments consistently fail to respect contracts, to applause from an often ill-informed chattering class.

Nonetheless, ironic that the government keeps bragging how much more electricity is now being produced under the “scam” regime!

deomelo:
To start with, the DISCOs owe Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) and Market Operator debts exceeding N536 billion and regardless of any agreement with the FG, the DISCOS can not survive or deliver any kind of meaningful service.

The Jonathan and the crooks involved designed FG subsidies into the privatization agreement to favor the DISCOs, it's called double dipping.

It doesn't matter what the FG is paying or not paying, they can not survive or deliver credible products and services because they not only lack the financial capacity to do so, they also lack managerial and operational skills needed to grow their operations.

Duh! Of course the DISCOs are owing because the government is not living up to its end of the bargain...
Furthermore, with loss-guaranteed tariffs (averaging almost minus N50 kw/h), why would they be owing NBET?

Electricity is not like Akara balls, once produced it cannot be stored, which is why despite the huge electricity deficit in Nigeria, we have a ironic situation of almost 2000MW of “stranded” power (ie, electricity generated but which the DISCOs refuse to distribute because they cannot collect tariffs for same). Like our democracy, Nigerians appear to love the veneer of “markets” without its substance. SMDH

Nonetheless, glad to see that you have apparently LEARNED that it had nothing to do with a “hasty sales agreement”!

iammo:
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Stop covering up for Jonathan
2005 reform act simply unbundled nepa to gencos transmission coy And phcn

As. Culled from wiki: On 30 September 2013, following the privatization process initiated by the Goodluck Jonathan regime, PHCN ceased to exist. In its stead, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) was formed. The independent regulatory agency, as provided in the Electric Power Sector Reform Act of 2005 was tasked with monitoring and regulating the Nigerian electricity industry, with issuing licences to market participants, and with ensuring compliance with market rules and operating guidelines.[4]

PHCN Successor Companies

Following the 2013 divestiture of the federal government from PHCN, the company was divided into separate companies or entities called Local Electric Distribution Companies or Local Distribution Companies (LDC). Each company will be responsible for handling electricity distribution in each state or region.

As of May 2016,[5] the structure of the

. The link is available here for all sensible people to read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Holding_Company_of_Nigeria

Again, WRONG!

NERC was formed under the ESRA 2005, and was inaugurated on 31 October 2005. Enough with the ‘burukutu’ fly-by-night sources.

iammo:
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Stop covering up for Jonathan
2005 reform act simply unbundled nepa to gencos transmission coy And phcn

As. Culled from wiki: On 30 September 2013, following the privatization process initiated by the Goodluck Jonathan regime, PHCN ceased to exist. In its stead, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) was formed. The independent regulatory agency, as provided in the Electric Power Sector Reform Act of 2005 was tasked with monitoring and regulating the Nigerian electricity industry, with issuing licences to market participants, and with ensuring compliance with market rules and operating guidelines.[4]

PHCN Successor Companies

Following the 2013 divestiture of the federal government from PHCN, the company was divided into separate companies or entities called Local Electric Distribution Companies or Local Distribution Companies (LDC). Each company will be responsible for handling electricity distribution in each state or region.

As of May 2016,[5] the structure of the

. The link is available here for all sensible people to read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Holding_Company_of_Nigeria

And why was NEPA “unbundled”?

Dude, go read the ESRA 2005, instead of relying on free-for-all Wiki ‘sources’ - although even Wiki was not looney enough to state that a new “hasty sales agreement” was used for the 2013 privatization (which btw was supervised by the World Bank, for whatever that is worth). The ESRA 2005 is the definitive roadmap for the privatization of NEPA (PHCN) assets, with a principal role in the process granted to the NCP.

kalvoken:
What then do you talk about your P. Man that spent a whole year in uk? Or did it stop you from voting him back to office? Abeg Lee mee joor

While I did not vote for Next-Level, at least we knew where Buhari was...
Till today, most ordinary citizens in Enugu do not know where Sullivan went (nor what he went for)!

MrMcJay:
Saraki and his dying breed in the Senate want to surreptitiously send booby-trapped legislation for Buhari to sign. They think it's still GEJ in power?

Una say Buhari no go school, no worry. When e come from school, e go read am.

Government and governance does NOT stop after elections...

The government in place today (all THREE branches of them - executive, legislature and judiciary) continues in full force until a new administration or new office holders are sworn-in. Furthermore, when the new NASS is sworn-in, the members would need some time to get up to speed and would likely have to reconsider existing bills de novo resulting in even more delays. Nigeria is truly forked! SMH

deomelo:
I don't see any ignorance in what he posted, the ignorance is on your part, obviously.

What he posted was FICTITIOUS...
So if he was not ignorant of the true facts he was dishonest. Choose your poison.