₦airaland Forum

Skyflygang2:
I wan chop am my brother

See!
I talk am.
Bad boy.

Lasisieniola77:
Hello nairalands, i am so confuse right now. I just want to transistion into IT and i am confused between learning data science or becoming a software developer. I am so confuse. Help me to decide. I don't want to learn something that is not in demand. Which one is better

Skyflygang2:
No mind all this people ooo dem no get sense hit me up on whatsapp I go help you reset ur bro button I clearly understands what he is going through been there b4

kaybbs:
It's well

Omicron007:


Even vulture griller will be grilling vultures tomorrow on his house. Chicken is way more expensive than vultures now.
This is a repeat of what happened between 1983 amd 1985.
But some retard brainwashed APC zombies led by that Benue Man will be shouting Darling Daddy up and down.



HellAnus is even on this thread spewing trash as usual.

E don repent na.
You still dey see all those hin useless comments defending the chief terrorist?
Hin eye don clear las las.

helinues:
Na everywhere

iwaeda:
Buhari will fight inflation.
Next President should know how to defend it

Jlow2:
see this one, name three commercial rice farm in abakaliki, the rice mills you re taking about is it not , the one a ogoja road, izzi, and osu Edda along the road to ishagu, recently a man from abakaliki bought 2 trailers of rice from Bauchi, Bauchi had a good rice harvest this year, bro forget, what you dnt knw about the so called abakaliki rice is much

Jlow2:
50kg rice from obi CUBANA, and one governor is sharing 5kg and claiming that his state is highest farmer of rice in South east because of the investment he has made in agriculture, but the truth remains they go to kebbi and northern states to buy rice to feed there rice mills, you can not see any commercial farming there, at night you will see trucks bringing rice from the north

Nemere2020:
https://www.thecable.ng/igp-iswaps-ability-to-launch-rockets-in-borno-disturbing/amp

ajalawole:
Someone should bless me in the spirit of xmas. Am starving

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Uba

AntiWailer:
Wao they released him and he did not disappear before then ?

Also I expected Sunday Igboho to have disappeared from Cotonou Prison by now.

Like turn to a bird and fly away.

Africa need to wake up from their illusion and face challenges using 21st century approach.

Tadeknkeepcalm:
Ọmọ
What is Nairaland doing about this stupidity pandemic we are seeing all around.

Mko123:
South East Politics

presidency:
KANO-MARADI RAIL: AMAECHI MEETS GERMAN FINANCING ADVISORY, VISITS MAJOR MOTA-ENGIL RAIL SITE IN PORTUGAL

...Holds Bi-Lateral talks at the Portuguese foreign office

Minister of Transportation, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has met with the financing advisory for the construction of Kano-Maradi rail line, seeking a speed-up of the process to ensure construction begins as soon as possible.

In the meeting held at the Nigerian Embassy, Berlin with representatives of KfW-IPEX bank of Germany who are serving as an advisory in partnership with African Finance Corporation for the Kano-Maradi rail project, Amaechi stated that the ECAs (Export Credit Agencies) are free to come to Nigeria and become part of the process on ground to ensure that everything follows their recommenced practices and avert hiccups in the course of the project.

Following their concerns on resettlement of villages that may be impacted by the construction, Amaechi assured that Nigeria has laws in place for that and that the Ministry of Transportation ensured that the right of way was distant from the villages except in Kano where it is difficult to totally avoid the town.

“For us in the Ministry of Transportation, in choosing the right of way, we avoided communities. If we don’t do that, we’ll clear the entire Kano. Like in Lagos, we avoided communities and used the old line, because if we had to choose a different route we would pay billions. In fact, to even work from the old line, we paid 7 billion naira in compensations, not because the people had the right to the land, but because after 12 years and nothing is done it becomes their land and you just can’t chase them out. We still paid compensation, because the rail line was moribund. To eject them we still had to treat them as though they were the original owners of the land. We didn’t wait for Europe. That’s our law.

“In Kano-Maradi, we also took into consideration the people, we choose the right of way distant from the communities, which makes it even more expensive, because government will have to do access roads from the rail line into the communities. We did that because of environmental issues, but the Europeans want us to assume that there are people living along the route. There are none, apart from Kano.

“I don’t know what the law is in Europe in terms of your ESIA. We’ve taken the first step by giving notice, we have assessed the land. What we have not done is payment, because the payment is tied to the contract. On our part, we are ready. What I want to know is the next step to paying compensation, to know that the project is going on and that we can create employment.

The Managing Director/Global Head, Aviation Mobility and Transport, KfW-IPEX Bank, Dr Carsten Wiebers expressed belief that the Nigerian government will be able to manage the risk with pay back of the loan. He advised that the process of putting in place the consulting firms for the project should be sped-up to facilitate financing, while documentation of the process should be properly done.

“Given the fast timeline of 15months, I would recommend speeding up the process of putting in place the consulting companies and other terms of references are met to facilitate the financing. Of course the first level of requirement is your national regulation and law. You take care of that.

“What we are trying to do is create a bridge between your interests and the demands of the Export Credit Agencies, to guarantee we get an affordable loan for you. There has to be evidence of the working group in the areas where the rail would be (actual site) all the way to Kano to convince the decision makers of the ECAs.

“Personally I'm comfortable with your timeline. You dictate the speed of the construction with Mota-Engil. There needs to be an international representative on the site to avoid hiccups with the ECAs. The problem I think is documentation and communication. The process needs to be properly documented and certified,” Wiebers said.

The Director, Mobility and Transport, KfW-IPEX Bank, Sylvia Sedlacek, assured that a consortium of consultants are already working on the ESIA and would come up with the report soon, while a working group has been formed and is in talks with the Nigerian Ministries of Environment, Transportation and Housing on the Environment and social study of the are.

On his part, Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Tuggar explained that the Ministry of Environment in Nigeria started as the Environmental protection agency which also came about through conventions and series of stakeholders meetings, locally and internationally. So they are naturally inclined to abide by the regulations.

Earlier, the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi with a team from the Ministry and officials of the Nigerian Embassy in Portugal toured a major rail project site by Mota-Engil to ascertain their capacity to construct the Kano-Maradi rail within the stated timeframe of 15 months.

The project, ‘Corredor International Sul - Ligação Freixo/Alandroal’ also known as Evora line is a 78km rail project to unite the Port of Sines all the way to Spain. The 20km extension being handled by Mota-Engil has 10 bridges, one of which is a 600m Bridge - the longest in the line, 11 overhead bridges (over passage), 5 underpasses (1 for cars, finished within 2 days of nonstop work, and a total of 800 workers on the project.

The site Engineer, Luis Mota explained that the project of that magnitude is one of the fastest within 19 months.
Amaechi however demanded that the Kano-Maradi project be faster as it is an EPC, “by now you should have finished your backend engineering and design,” he said. Amaechi further called for a meeting in Abuja in the first week of January to identify all the challenges and ensure that the contractor follows the plan.

At the Nigerian Embassy in Lisbon, the Ambassador, Alex Kefas expressed joy that the country is moving forward. According to him, “I have never seen massive railway projects in Nigeria until he (Amaechi) became Minister. We are grateful he is doing very well. We just finished a meeting with the secretary of internalisation which will help in boosting our bilateral relations. At the bilateral meeting, they assured us of their support in achieving this project (Kano-Maradi).

“I recently paid a courtesy call on Mota-Engil at their Headquarters in Porto and they paid a courtesy call to me here at the embassy. I assured them of speedy visa issuance to ensure that the project in Nigeria is completed speedily,” he said.

Both the Minister and the Ambassador were at the Portuguese foreign ministry for bilateral talks and both nations agreed to be of help to one another. The Portugese Secretary of State for Internalisation affairs, Mr. Eurico Brilhante Dias assured the Minister of Portugal’s support and cooperation to ensure that the project by Mota-Engil is completed without hitches.


Eric Orjiekwe
Director, Press & PR
December 23, 2021

MelesZenawi:
May his name be praised.

shigishege:
But I think these ibecile Yamirins are shouting here the other time that it's going to be Orji Kalu that IBB will support?? I will support anyone as long as he is a Yoruba man contesting for the presidency.

lalasticlala:
As shared by Malam Salihu Bamle:

"Just hearing the terrible news coming out from my ancestral home Kaita LG in Katsina State. Armed bandits attacked the LG yesterday night and killed dozens & displaced uncountable people from their home."

Mide1data:
HOLY SHIT

The same way he has caused insecurity all over 9ja, the same way he made 9ja a livinig hell 4 most people, the same way people now turn to scammer and kidnapper coz of no job, the same way he stopped several grants 4rom coming into 9ja, the same way he made food expensive despite d fact dat we are producing our own food, the same way he made dollar 410, the same way he doubled 9ja poverty rate, the same way he promised us 4 refineries, yet we can't see 1, the same way millions of people are complaning about him including northerners, the same way he increased our debts. TO BE CONTINUED.

So don't tell me what I know.

iamDrRhymes:
The Eagle has landed.

God blessed President Buhari,
God bless Nigeria

Arrewa:
Toh

BigSarah:
Tinubu 2023

Insha Allah

Factfinder1:
ooni of ife and wife has separated and the news has been everywhere since an hour ago but not on naira but if its nonsense unreasonable BBNaija and tonto dikeh news it would have been on front page....nairaland is gradually turning to a shit site