₦airaland Forum

Ovamboland:
And after 100 years as a country you dont see the need for goods and services produced in the West to reach the East efficiently and vice versa?

The situation in 1900 is logical, British don't care about East West trade, but is that still the case now, we should not care too?

Ovamboland:
Any league of dummies in Nigeria.

Why do you think one of the first projects by the British colonial master in 1890's was rail projects, even before they conquered the whole Nigeria.

What those 19th century adventurers saw, you are yet to comprehend in 21st century. Even a cow herder understand it. What the British built served us for up to 100 years.


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▶️⏩Stop displaying the shallow one
track mind common to many people
on NL.

The British built railways primarily to
link centres or areas of production of
agriculture & mineral commodities to
the coast, because that is where the real
money or revenue lies, moving large
quantities goods at minimal costs. Tin & columbite from J, coal from Enugu, groundnuts from Kano, hides & skins from Nguru.

Conveying passengers was secondary.
Today, railways have become areas of
scoring cheap political points.
Any rail network in Nigeria aimed
primarily at moving passengers will
eventually fail. Abuja to Kaduna is
already half dead.


You may also be ignorant of the fact
that their were no motorable roads linking
the South to north at the time, so, building
railways was the only way out.

It doesn't make real economic sense
making railways linking West to Eastern
Nigeria if Lagos, Warri & PH ports are
made functional.

If people importers & exporters in
the East begin using a functional PH port,
then what is the need for west to east
rail link?◀️⏪
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There was a PhD holder president who rather financed private jets acquisition, luxury yatch purchase etc when cash was flowing rather than start a project like this in his region. Now all those jets have been sold off at giveaway, yatch seized.
Who get sense between cow herder and PhD holder?