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Nigeria and confusion eh.

The Senate claims having the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) within the EFCC is not right and that the international body wants an independent agency otherwise they will totally expel Nigeria.

The EFCC on the other hand is claiming that it is not totally strange for the Financial Intelligence Unit to be under a govt security agency, but that the International body just wants Nigeria to review a part of the EFCC Act about the NFIU. And even went further to state that if a totally Independent Agency is created as par what the senate is presently doing, Nigeria will also be sanctioned by the international body and be totally expelled.



Who are we to believe now??

Too much vested interest in this country, that is what makes it so difficult to sit down and analyse a situation or policy and select the most appropriate for the country. Everybody will just be making requests and tendering advice based on their vested interests. No be small work to be president of this country oh.

Anyways, with the speed the senate used in passing the 1st and 2nd reading of the bill for the creation of the new Nigeria Financial Intelligence Agency, I dey suspect them. They seem to have an hidden agenda to reduce the powers and reach of the EFCC.

Oga Mynd44, OAM4J, additional opinions on this is desirable.

Magu, NFIU director tackle Senate over moves to create independent agency

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday insisted that the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, was independent of its control.

The Acting Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, said at an interactive session with editors on Wednesday in Abuja, that ongoing efforts to create a “stand-alone’’ NFIU was needless.

It would be recalled that the NFIU, which is domiciled in the EFCC, was recently suspended by the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units reportedly for allegedly not being independent.

Egmont Group is a global financial intelligence gathering body made up of 156 Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) representing 156 countries.
It is a platform for members to share expertise and financial intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

The group reportedly demanded autonomy for the NFIU as a condition for the suspension to be lifted, failing which Nigeria would be expelled in January, 2018.

Following the suspension, the Senate moved to establish the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Agency through a bill, which passed second reading in July.
Mr. Magu said, “I am not opposed to the autonomy of the NFIU; in fact, the NFIU has always been operationally autonomous.


“I understand the workings of Financial Intelligence Units around the world and they are domiciled in law enforcement agencies based on their credibility.


“This is another way of corruption fighting back; people are fighting and pretending to be in support of what is ongoing, but they are not giving a face to the fight against corruption.’’

Shedding more light on this, the Director of the NFIU, Francis Usani, said the Egmont Group was simply asking for amendment of Section 1(2)(c) of the EFCC Act.

Mr. Usani said the group was not demanding the creation of a separate NFIU as being portrayed in some quarters.
“The section says that the EFCC is a designated FIU, but the group is saying the provision is not clear to them.

“What the group is saying is that we should create the NFIU as a unit under the EFCC by amending that provision of the EFCCT Act. It is as simple as that.

“But it is unfortunate that the perception generally is tending towards abusing what the Egmont Group is asking us to do.
“As the chairman has said, there is a very high level of operational autonomy in the NFIU.

“When we talk about operational autonomy, it is different from administrative autonomy.

“The NFIU has three core responsibilities which are to receive information, analyse the information and disseminate it to law enforcement agencies.”

Mr. Usani said other law enforcement agencies make request for information directly to the NFIU without the knowledge of the EFCC chairman.


He explained that the chairman had no knowledge of information given by the NFIU to agencies like the ICPC, DSS, among others.

“The NFIU signs MoUs without the EFCC chairman’s consent, I attend meetings within and outside the country which the chairman doesn’t know about.

“There are a lot of other things we do at the NFIU without his knowledge. The chairman doesn’t ask me who is making request to us or to who we are making request to.

“Even my international engagements he doesn’t know about.

“All these give credence to its operational autonomy. But these issues are being politicised and that is what pains me the most,” he added.
The director warned that a stand-alone NFIU was against the principles and protocols of the Egmont Group and would earned the country total expulsion.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/242041-magu-nfiu-director-tackle-senate-moves-create-independent-agency.html

texazzpete:
Excuse me broda.
This community, is it not in any local government? Is that road too big for the local government to fix? Or perhaps the state Governor?


This lazy entitlement mentality you people have is the bane of the Niger Delta.

I am very sure, if contractors were mobilized to that place, and they come without a lot of policemen, they wont allow them to do any work until they settle.

That is just the sad and pathetic way things are in that place.

You see these states sef. Everybody will be shouting Fed Govt all the time. One would have expected the rich Akwa Ibom state to charge intending students an amount that is not too much.

The FG even advised schools to charge 2,500 and they still found a way to charge an exorbitant 10,500.

jaxxy:
Bump

Location? is the price negotiable?

iamchybs:
Akwa Ibom should be shining but our national curse (corruption) won't let it happen

It is just obvious that even if resource control is granted, the development will still not be at par with the available resources.

234ng44uk:
How can Bayelse with just 8 local governments and a poplulation of 1.7million people owe salaries and remain grossly underdeveloped despite earning more than states with 6 times its size and population?

Our problem as a nation is definitely not due to lack of resources, but corruption and bad leadership. Trust me, this will not go away even if Nigeria is splitted to different entities. It won't also go away by replacing the old crop of leaders with younger ones as the youths are as bad as it comes.

Is there a solution? There is no solution, at least not in this generation. We are bad, cruel, desperate and very corrupt inside out. There is no hope for Nigeria.

Its just disappointing and sad, we are just too selfish and greedy. I am beginning to also align with your submission that there seems to be no hope in sight for this country.

erico2k2:
VAC is what the Uk outsourced their Visa application to,that was what killed queues at thier Embassy.

oh ok.

damola1:
Kudos to waste of time. Because time is unlimited. Money . Morals. VS Time. Best to use my time sleeping at home than trying to change a system that's paralyzed.

The corruption in the system is caused by the people at the top because they are too corrupt to do their jobs. This is an open crime. it's not hidden. am sure even if their DG walked in there they wouldn't know. but their DG's priority is to rake in corrupt money than do his job. or they don't have HR Department?

What are these guys doing there?... what's special about capturing of data. it's data entry work. no different from when a bank takes your details. or what's there in using a webcam, a signature pad and a thumb print. same thing waec and jamb does everyday

Let them fire everyone there. Hire fresh ond, hnd and bsc graduates who need jobs badly. Give them daily target of work to be delivered. Install security cameras. And define the workflow expectations on how everything should be. anyone who cuts corners will be suspended immediately.

These things are not rocket science. it's just the incompetence of the guys at the top.

The fact is that the real problem of corruption is not just the loss of money that people shout about but the real loss is the chaos and incompetence it causes.

It is not only incompetence at the top, it is incompetence at all levels ably supported by cowardly masses who cannot challenge the status quo.

Change must be driven by everybody at everywhere we get to. The process is this rotten because a lot of Nigerians are chicken-livered and like to get things done fast fast.

We want the best of everything, but we are not ready to pay the price. Civilized society where things run normally, they have paid the price in time past!

So from your comment, if the Head of the Organisation refuse to drive the needed change and is corrupt, everybody should keep quiet and let things continue, till Heaven brings a saint to head the organisation??

It is this kind of mindset that has made all our institutions totally corrupt. Nigerians are cowards that cannot stand for their right, even when few people want to stand for their right, people like you will discourage them, that nothing can be changed and so the whole process just continue like that.

For your information, if more and more people stand their ground and people around them give them the necessary support, the fraud will reduce.

It is people like you that are always in a hurry that has ensured the sustenance of the corruption.

No matter the system introduced, if the people at the receiving end don't say enough is enough to hanky panky and smart moves by the people running things, they will still devise a means of ripping off the masses.

erico2k2:
Well after going fru online and bank and you still return and they say the passport is not ready what are you going to do?
I think they should outsource it the way VAC works.charge us 3K more fore the outsource services and we are good to go!

The present mode of payment is not a problem at all. It is fine, you can choose to pay online or go physically to a bank to pay. Payment is not actually done at their office, even though a lot of people pay cash to the officers, they will still take it to the bank to pay or pay it online using a card. That is why I said the introduction of POS is not needed at all. As it would give them power over the payment again, something they don't have even now.

The major problem are those guys at the office, they are the ones frustrating the entire process making it seem very complicated just to ensure people have no option than to give them cash to do it for them.

As you suggested, outsourcing it is another very good option, but the Govt may be concerned about releasing its database to a private entity.

What is VAC as per the bold?

kaikubura:
I applied for renewal weeks ago via the NIS online portal and paid 17800 (15k for passport, 2k for address verification and 800 service charge).

I was given a date for capturing which was a week after application. On getting to the passport office in Ikeja, those NIS officials didn't even attend to those who had done online application. But I was determined not to bribe any official, so I walked up to someone who explained that I needed to get a file, write an application letter with 2 passport photographs then arrange it a particular order.

After arranging, I took it to a place called DFU and an official wrote "XP" at the top corner of the file and told me to steward the file myself to where it will be signed. When I got to the place, I was told that the person to sign was out on training that I should wait if I can. It was there and then that an official asked me what I was waiting for and asked for my file, when I gave it to him he saw XP and said "oh! You're self process" then he handed it back. Eventually the lady to sign arrived and signed. I was then told to come back the following week.

When I got there, they brought out files of those that will capture for the day and my name wasn't called. I went to ask the official calling the names to ask him why my file wasn't there because I submitted the previous week. He then asked "who is assisting you? ", I told him nobody. He advised that I should go to where I submitted my file the previous week to make enquiry. I went straight to the man I submitted to and he asked of my name and I told him. He stood up and went straight into a room to pack some files marked XP. He gave me mine and told me to queue for capturing. To cut the long story short, I was captured. I am currently waiting for my passport to be ready. I don't mind how long it takes, I'm not giving any official any bribe.

NIS needs a total overhauling. Their members of staff are just too inhuman and corrupt.

Kudos to you! I just really wish your comment was on the front page.

That is the spirit. Nigerians will be complaining as if it is Angels that will come from heaven to make a stand for them. And people like you that make a stand for what is just and right, they will even be talking down on you as if you are not smart or you are stingy.

Our major problem is just that we as a people are not organised, like to cut corners and are not patient. We like to get things done ahead of every other person thinking it is smartness, there is chronic selfishness in us. It is this mentality that corrupts the whole process of things in Nigeria and it thereafter becomes a norm.

Keep it up. It is few people like you that will drive the change Nigeria requires.

That is same thing I always do when renewing my driving licence. I pay online, then go to their office, ready to spend as much time as needed. And I always get my license without paying extra.

Which passport office did u use please?

erico2k2:
The best way for the FG was to go cashless,ie pay for passport at the office but via POS which goes directly to thier account and can be Audited. Thats the only way to stop it.since the POS will have a trail of transaction unto the CBN

This is a very bad idea. The payment mode presently is the best. The person holding the POS can decide to make it available to people who had tipped him/her while the rest of you will be on an endless queue. You can't imagine how wicked and callous some of this govt officials are.

They just need more supervision by competent, honest and patriotic Nigerians to ensure the process from start to finish is completed by NIS officials without any mandatory tip.

BabaAlabi:
If this same online payment processing is replicated for drivers license procurement, I bet you that things would improve. The world has gone digital and Nigeria should not be left behind.
In order to curb deliberate slowness in processing of the passports (now that extra money will no longer enter their greedy hands), the management should make it mandatory for a specific minimum number of passports to be processed daily. Any number short of this should result in query and possible termination of employment.

Driving licence is done online. I have done mine repeatedly and paid online without paying any extra cash to anybody.

It's only people that are not patient and want to cut corners that pays extra.

chinoxstock:
Which flag is that?

Armed forces flag

asfrank:
Who prevented GEJ from constructing a rail road to his place? Or is Daura not part of Nigeria? Are they supposed to be cut off because they have the president? Were we not all here in Nigeria when Goodluck was busy awarding pipe line vigilant contracts worth billions to his own people, militants for that matter? All utilities in this country should be centred in Lagos nd oil producing States, no rural development. People like Reno makes me believe that Nigeria is lost.

Nobody prevented Jona. GEJ Ensured the Calabar - Lagos line touches Otuoke. Nobody complained, even the present govt left it like that. Despite that Jona couldn't organise/source funding for the project until the present govt did same.

Jona brought Fed University to his home town, nobody complained. If it were to be Buhari, all hell will let lose. And Reno will spit endless trash.

rafindo:
When Jonathan included otuoke in the Lagos to calabar corridor. Nobody reminded him DAT the route Lagos - sagamu-ijebu ode-ore-benin-agbor-asaba-onitsha-awka-enugu with split to connect the corridor going to north and one going to pH.No he chose to use Onitsha as a detour and connect it to is otuoke helmet. Our hatred for Muslim is increasingly blindingly our thought. God help us

I just don't understand. Nobody took GEJ to the cleaners over that, people showed understanding and just left it like that. If you look at the map of that route where it branched off to Aba and Onitsha, it looks somewhat awkward but it's well and good to foster economic integration and harmony.

The present govt did not even attempt to change it but also left it like that. But just imagine the unnecessary uproar this particular project is generating.

Imagine the OP even deliberately cut off part of the story that covers the SE just to give more fuel to suspicion and strife.

IgboSubmarine:
onyiloyi

agabusta

Education is truly poor in Nigeria


There is a railway line already in existence from PortHarcourt to Maiduguri right from colonial era.


Why not construct the East to West Railway line


Why not construct

1) East to Abuja line

2) Benin to Abuja line

3) Lagos to Abuja line

4) Jos to Abuja line

5) Maiduguri to Abuja line

6) Lagos to Calabar line through Yenegoa

7) Lagos to Calabar line through Onitsha

8 ) Lagos to Ogoja line through Onitsha.


and ensure that these lines passes through some states in other to boost economic development


@ Igbodefender thundafire splashme. ritababe pls put this post in your comment at the front page so as to help many illiterate Nigerians to know that PortHarcourt to Maiduguri line already exist.

The way you people reason is mind blowing. So they should leave the archaic and dilapidated PH - Maiduguri guage that interconnects many Igbo cities. And start building a fresh line. Was that not what your Senator Abaribe complained about? Now, the project has been given life, and you are still whimpering?

Drawing an analogy to what you are saying is tantamount to saying they should leave the already existing roads that are in terrible conditions and not usable, and start building fresh virgin roads entirely.

Won't they first resuscitate lines that are archaic and dilapidated to the modern gauge before constructing new lines entirely?



Contract has already been awarded for a East-West line (Calabar to Lagos). And this was made to touch Bayelsa, Anambra and Abia states.

Lagos to Abuja line through Benin is a worthy project that can be constructed in future. So is the East to Abuja line.

Everything cannot be done the same time.

SnowJay92:
I think we all know the truth here, do you know why this country have not made any meaningful progress in the past 3 decades?

Tell me...

opal4real:
We have been doing it and still doing it. Maybe its cheaper don't know but the traffic is high and railway from Lagos to Benin will bring in more money to Nigeria. Than Jigawa-Niger Rep.

I know that there is high traffic through Benin Rep, but its basically poor management on the part of Nigeria Ports Authority and the country at large. We have the capacity to process all our goods through Nigerian ports!

In essence, the money we are supposed to be making at the ports are being lost to Benin Republic including the associated economic activity like logistics and transport that you are talking about. It is crumbs that is coming our way by way of this logistics, when we can have the real deal including the crumbs that comes from logistic activities.

SnowJay92:
Who's spinning tales here, I'm not interested in the modernisation of ph-maiduguri that's been existing, I asked what's the economic importance of having a rail to Daura with none to Onitsha, you quickly pointed out to me that a detour to Onitsha was included in the Lagos-Calabar line, when I now raised a point about how that whole section was intentionally and punitvely excluded in the Nexim bank loan plans, you start talking of spinning tales?

I said A lot of people spin tales to satisfy their selfish intentions, if you agree you are part of them, na you know.

Now you are changing the goal post. This was your first quote of me.

SnowJay92:
Didn't you read about the how the recent loan applied for by the FG for this same rail project you're referring to (a loan that would be paid by every section of the country), completely excluded the south east section?

Your quote was in no way based on discussing economic importance of Daura rail link and perceived omission of Onitsha.

Now, this particular statement is false, because as I rightly pointed out, the Calabar-Lagos line has Onitsha on its route in addition to Aba. This is a fact, your can confirm in the link below.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/03/08/fg-china-to-finalise-11bn-lagos-calabar-rail-deal-in-june/


What Abaribe complained of was the Eastern rail corridor, which is basically what this present news is about. What else do you want??

Arysexy:
You just dey list states you don't know how they border each other. D so called Lagos to calabar rail way is going the route of east west road. If you know that road well, u won't list the above states you ignorantly listed to defend d indefensible.

Please, instead of ignorantly talking like an illiterate, did you even bother to make a little finding on the route of the Calabar-Lagos line?

A simple check on google will give you this information, but still, you prefered to expose your ignorance to the world.

So you think the rail is being constructed in a rigid way according to how the states border each other?? Oga use your head, the rail line is designed to branch of and connect some major commercial hubs along the line.

Educate yourself with the link below and pay attention to the bold, I even omitted Akwa Ibom in my listing:

FG, China to Finalise $11bn Lagos-Calabar Rail Deal in June

The acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday said the federal government and the People’s Republic of China would round off negotiations on the Lagos-Calabar rail project estimated at $11.117 billion in June.

Osinbajo also disclosed that the federal government had already provided its portion for funding the rail project and promised that the negation would be concluded in the next three months.



He said this at the unveiling of Lagos-Ibadan rail project at the Nigerian Railway Corporation compound, Ebute-Metta, Tuesday, noting that the national rail project would create 500,000 jobs.

On behalf of the federal government, President Muhammadu Buhari had in June 2016 signed an agreement with the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway line at $11.117 billion.

Under the agreement, the federal government was able to negotiate the price of the contract downwards by $800 million, stressing that although the contract was initially valued at $11.917 billion, it would now to cost $11.117 billion.

The first segment of the rail line comprises Calabar, Uyo, Aba and Port Harcourt. Other segments of the Lagos Calabar coastal rail line such as Otueke, Yenagoa, Ughelli, Warri, Sapele, Benin, Agbor, Asaba, Onitsha, Ijebu Ode, Lagos, would be ready also within another two years.

Osinbajo, however, unveiled the Lagos-Ibadan rail project alongside the state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, his Oyo State counterpart, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Senate Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye and Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, among others.

At the unveiling, the acting president disclosed that the federal government “has already provided our portion for funding for the Lagos-Calabar route as well. We expect that negotiations with the foreign component of the funding will be finalised within the next three months”.

...

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/03/08/fg-china-to-finalise-11bn-lagos-calabar-rail-deal-in-june/

opal4real:
Niger prefer Benin Republics sea ports. They have been using it for ages, the import of Nigeria through Benin borders in 3 months are more than Niger annual import.

We seriously dont need to import through Benin. Our ports are not overwhelmed, so I begin to wonder why we need to import from Benin, it doesn't make sense at all.

Why should we be importing from a country we have a longer coast line than??

opal4real:
Niger prefer Benin Republics sea ports. They have been using it for ages, the import of Nigeria through Benin borders in 3 months are more than Niger annual import.

We can make imports through Nigeria more attractive! That is simply business. That someone prefers a product/service currently does not mean you cannot modify yours to be more attractive, does not mean you should not make efforts.

SnowJay92:
Didn't you read about the how the recent loan applied for by the FG for this same rail project you're referring to completely excluded the south east section?

You guys needs to cool down and digest information properly. It didn't completely exclude the South East sections. A lot of people spin tales to satisfy their selfish intentions. The geographical South East and South East rail corridor are different entities. What we are reading about and discussing now is the South East corridor, which touches a lot of SE cities.

Even the Calabar to Lagos line which has earlier been awarded does not even exclude the SE. It has points where it detours to Aba and Onitsha and even Otuoke. You can make your findings yourself; stop relying on diluted information.

As stated, the current news is about the Eastern corridor, from PH to the North! So in essence, every part of the country has been taken care of in this railway modernization projects.

opal4real:
Kano to Daura?? What's in daura aside the sick president? Jigawa to Niger Republic? SMH!!!

It should have been Lagos to Benin Republic. But wetin d sick head know and Amaechi the garrulous one has eaten too much beans and fried egg that he thinks more with his anus.

Niger does not have an access to the sea, they need to import through countries that has such access like Nigeria. Building a railway will facilitate commerce and there is money to be made by Nigeria.

Warrisdis??

SnowJay92:
Was that why the poster was emphasizing "umuahia" and "Ibo" as if there are no stations anywhere else? that narrow guage rail has been existing since independence, talk about the new standard gauge rail, is any of them anywhere near the south east? Dara gets a rail line and onitsha doesn't, and you want to rationalize that it's okay?

The Calabar-Lagos line is making a detour to Onitsha. You can make your enquiries.

SmartMugu:
Makes sense somewhat. I just think it's somewhat biased. Why Daura? Nobody even knows that place. I just know they may have cows there. Has anyone done NYSC in daura before?

Places like Taraba, Enugu, Ekiti, Abakaliki etc are yet to be connected via rail lines. Has anyone ever heard of Daura before? What exactly takes anyone there? What mineral resources do they have in daura? What tourist attractions exist their? How many corporations have their headquarters in Daura? Isnt that someone's village?

Why start with daura before major areas the economy depends on? Is there even any plans to have rail lines going to bayelsa, cross river etc - the areas that actually feed the economy? Why daura? I guess to move cows from Daura to Kano and probably goats from Kano to Daura or what else could it be? What does Daura have to offer to the economy? Why make it a hub? Why run train lines down there? Are there plans to have a presidential train? Abeg, this is a completely biased decision. Daura bawo?

Yes, there is plan for a Calabar to Lagos line, that has already been given the go ahead by the National Assembly.

This line will transverse Cross River, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Abia, Anambra, Edo, Ondo, Ogun and Lagos states. Educate yourself more on this using google.

Bullhari007:
what economic benefit will a train from duara to portharcourt bring to our coffer, he build helipad , now train... I won't be surprise if he move Aso rock to his village... Ndi Ala

The line is making a detour there, not bad at all. At least, the Calabar to Lagos line was also made to have a detour to Otuoke, which was not directly in the route.

At least, these towns will have this as a benefit for once producing first citizens.

NafeesaAA:
GEJ actually approved the project, Buhari only approved the funds.

http://aitonline.tv/news?search=Rail%20Line

To approve make dem do project no be hard thing na? To be able to squeeze out funds for it or source funds for it na the major work.

JFK68:
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a rail line from Kano to his hometown in Daura, Jibia local government areas of Katsina state.

This was disclosed by Rotimi Ameachi, the minister of transportation, at The Osasu Show Symposium — which bothers on the economy and its effects on the less privileged — in Abuja on Friday.

According to Ameachi, the president also approved rail lines from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri, Kano to Maiduguri, Makurdi to Jos, Gombe to Yobe to Borno, Jigawa to Niger Republic.

Amaechi said the transportation infrastructure in Nigeria has been mismanaged for many years, and so much has to be done to restore the railway activities, and drive the economy.


Source: https://www.thecable.ng/just-buhari-approves-new-rail-line-kano-daura

Buhari approves rail lines from Kano to Daura, PH to Maiduguri


President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a rail line from Kano to his hometown in Daura, Jibia local government areas of Katsina state.

This was disclosed by Rotimi Ameachi, the minister of transportation, at The Osasu Show Symposium — which bothers on the economy and its effects on the less privileged — in Abuja on Friday.

According to Ameachi, the president also approved rail lines from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri, Kano to Maiduguri, Makurdi to Jos, Gombe to Yobe to Borno, Jigawa to Niger Republic.

Amaechi said the transportation infrastructure in Nigeria has been mismanaged for many years, and so much has to be done to restore the railway activities, and drive the economy.

“GE came here and annouced that they would give us 100 locomotives, we did the audit of our; our narrow gauge can’t carry 17 locomotives, so by October 1st to October 2nd, we would be lauching about six to ten locomotives, because our narrow gauage cant carry more than that,” Amaechi said.

“Government said concession this narrow guage, and we have successfully done that to the extent that we are able to sign an agreement with GE. By October GE will take over the narrow guage and begin to run from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri.

“When they stop at Umuahia, economic activities will be at Umuahia; the Umuahia station will become an economic hub. We the Ibos in Umuahia will be able to establish shops and sell goods we would like sell.

“That station from Port Harcourt to Aba, Aba to Umuahia, Umuahia to Enugu, Enugu to Makurdi, Makurdi to Jos, Jos to Bauchi, Bauchi to Gombe, Gombe to Borno.”

https://www.thecable.ng/just-buhari-approves-new-rail-line-kano-daura


Op why didn't you post the complete report?or did you purposely cut off the areas of report that covers the SE?

wadanki:
what about South-East. marginalization

Why not read the full report before crying marginalization?