₦airaland Forum

ishmael: How many did he (Jonathan Goodluck) create as a science graduate? Why did he jump into politics if it is easy for graduates to create jobs for themselves and others. Just get the certificate and look for connection to enter civil service, that's all.

gbammmmm!!!!

Nigerians and President GEJ, you have a solution but insist on tribalism

Innoson is there for you to explore. Nigerians wake up

@Chino 11

The Great Wall of Lagos is formidable in its design and already does a magnificent job of protecting the coastline, even though it's not yet finished.

Over the last 100 years, pounding waves from the Atlantic Ocean have eroded the land off Lagos, bringing the sea closer to the financial centre of Victoria Island. The threat of serious flooding was a major concern. Before the Great Wall, tidal surges used to regularly cause water and debris to spill over onto the main coastal highway – Ahmadu Bello Way.

Today the highway is clear from flooding, already protected, thanks to the development of Eko Atlantic.

Testing the Great Wall

Before the first of the giant concrete armoured blocks for the Great Wall of Lagos was lowered into position, its ability to withstand the worst of the Atlantic tidal surges was put to the test. Urban engineers at DHI, the world-renowned Danish hydraulic research centre, carried out extensive scale model trials. Data analysis by computer models showed that the Great Wall would keep Lagos safe from the worst tidal surges that can be expected.

Facts and Figures on the Great Wall of Lagos

When it's complete, the Great Wall of Lagos will be over 7 kilometres long. It is made from tens of thousands of concrete blocks (accropodes) weighing 5 tons each which interlock loosely to form an effective barrier that dispels the force of the waves and provides the primary armoured sea defence. Beneath the accropodes are various layers of rock that function as the secondary armour and core.

In the first quarter of 2011 the Great Wall of Lagos was already well over 2 kilometres long and is growing at the rate of about 6 metres a day. In its completed form it will protect not only Eko Atlantic, but the whole of the Atlantic coastline off Victoria Island and Lagos.

Creating the Foundations of Eko Atlantic

The Great Wall of Lagos is already so substantial that it has created a calm lagoon between it and the coastline off Bar Beach. The beach is getting bigger with each passing week as sand is dredged from the ocean floor beyond the wall and is pumped in to raise the land level. An area of more than two million square metres of land has already been reclaimed.

The Belgian company, Dredging International, a leader in this field of engineering, is fast-tracking the sand-filling work. Dredging is operational around the clock. This massive operation is being done with great care and efficiency to reclaim land that our grandparents walked on as children.

By the time the work is completed, they will have moved 140 million tons of sand – that's 95 million cubic metres. This massive foundation will form the solid platform on which Eko Atlantic city will stand.

http://www.ekoatlantic.com/greatwall/index.htm

LeoMax: Why are we so scared to disintegrate ? There is a peaceful way of doing that under the supervision of UN.

No one is scared of disintegration but the question is

Would disintegration solve the problem ?

[size=14pt]Just found out that phase 1 has been completed, congratulations people[/size]

Arosa: Its not a complete waste of fund, but I agree that we did not utilize NIFOR to its optimum potential.

Why do you think it is not a waste of fund when a research institute cannot research and improve herself ?

Maybe you might have a point but I would like to hear it first.

achi4u: hw can i run?,i've been watching America War Movies and am learning alot from them.i no need war but instead make aboki first kill me...hmmm!! i go first attack am.

why not direct your anger at Boko haram rather than "aboki"

Willy4Willy: Co Northern politicians are stupiid, they said that the cause of Boko Haram is poverty, tell me why Ilajes are not behaving like them, Have Ilajes killed one single Nigeria? Moslem Northerner are sooooo confused

My wife quit saying rubbish !!!

chino11: And who told you that its not lagos that is sponsoring the project? The last I checked 70-75% of funds including allocation of the land came from Lagos state, so don't be deceived. No investor be that foreign or local will sink his funds in a lagos that is far below the sea level knowing the adverse and dangerous of effect and consequences of such adventure.

My brother you are just being pessimistic here.

The Abudabi Island in Saudi Arabia is also below sea level

New york is way below sea level even lower than Lagos.

The building of Eko Atlantic is not only to attract investors but also to accommodate the increasing population of Nigerians.

Moreover Fashola COULD NOT HAVE GIVEN them land because the land they are constructing on was already eaten up by the sea.

Although I understand your fears but I really hope for the best and Insha Allah God would make it a good project that would benefit all Nigerians.

People, this is not a tribal issue. Lets think for once !!! Neither is this about war

Arosa: When i think of research institute in Naija I always think of NIFOR, countries like Singapore and Malaysia came to us to learn. So just like NIFOR this naval one can work too.

Are you aware that the method of extracting palm oil has long been improved but NIFOR has not improved her method thus they are no long the highest exporter of palm oil.

A research institute is meant to be researching for better methods not just saying docile.

Malysia is now the second largest exporter of palm oil

On 16 December 2007, Malaysia opened its first biodiesel plant in the state of Pahang, with an annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes, and which also produces byproducts in the form of 4,000 tonnes of palm fatty acid distillate and 12,000 tonnes of pharmaceutical-grade glycerine.[34] Neste Oil of Finland plans to produce 800,000 tonnes of biodiesel per year from Malaysian palm oil in a new Singapore refinery from 2010, which will make it the largest biofuel plant in the world, and 170,000 tpa from its first second-generation plant in Finland from 2007-8, which can refine fuel from a variety of sources. Neste and the Finnish government are using this paraffinic fuel in some public buses in the Helsinki area as a small scale pilot

Even worse Malysia has imporved her technic by using Palm oil as a form of biodiesel and built a refinery to refine palm oil. Nigeria cannot boast the same. Remember they learn all this from us but have now surpassed us.

A complete waste of fund

chino11: This is junk. Lagos is already below the sea level. This is not matter of doom, its a matter of facing reality. This man is just wasting the tax payer's money on a white elephant project that will is awaiting the ocean surge. He need to go back and start cleaning up the mess in Lagos instead of embarking on a senseless project.

You may have a point, but to stop the sea from eating up lagos, one must make barriers and also do as much land reclamation as possible. Not to forget good drainage system.

BTW it is not Lagos state government that is sponsoring eko atlantic

[quote author=~Bluetooth]What do these guys stand to gain/prove from all these bombings ? [/quote]Just creating confusion. Those Boko haram people are the worse set of people in Nigeria.

kokoA: In Nigeria, it is an outright waste of funds. This so called research institute will soon join the quene of the [b]uncountable abandoned projects [/b]littered all over the country. Smh!

Thank you !

texazzpete: They need to 'put a civillian in guardroom' because she does not agree with this brainless waste of funds? You need your head examined!






How are we ever going to develop with YOUR attitude? Our universities lack research centres and research grants and yet you're babbling about this PR project. In saner climes, a large chunk of industry changing research and innovation is done in the Universities!

Sometimes I think Nigerians are cursed with foolishness. This is how Nigerians were joining their 'facebook president' in celebrating the launch of the first 'Nigerian' satellite while no single school in Nigeria offered any courses in advanced aeronautics, rocketry and space technologies.

roachas my man !!! we are behind u

It is high time another International airport (in the SE) is built or rather renovate the current ones we have.

From all the revenue Nigeria generate, do they want to tell the masses that they cannot renovate MMIA ?

By Omoh Gabriel

Passing through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport has remained a nightmare for travellers. The ordeal of getting through the arrival bay of the airport is better imagined than experienced. Last Tuesday, scores of prominent Nigerians and foreigners who came into the country on board British Airways had an unpleasant taste of the ordeal at the airport.

Immediately they came out of the aircraft which was well air-conditioned, they entered a very hot atmosphere. It was such that little children were choking while the adults were sweating profusely. At the Immigration desk, passengers clogged the area for hours. It was a pitiable sight.

The airport, like most other monuments in Nigeria, has become a show of shame. If you are travelling out of Nigeria, Murtala Muhammed Airport experience is a bad one and you will end up not having a pleasurable experience.

Mr. George Uriesi, the new Managing Director of FAAN, once told reporters that the organisation wants to intervene in the current sad experience at the airport and create an environment that gives passengers respect and dignity while they use the airport, and provide services that will make them feel like yes, ‘this is my country and it is beginning to get respect.’

He had said that President Goodluck Jonathan has come under pressure over the airport. “This January”, he had said, “the President and his team went for a meeting with some foreign investors and he was told to get serious with his airport, that it’s a disgrace. The pressure has gone all the way up and I like it.”

But months after this revelation of the pressure on Mr. President to do something about the airport, nothing has been done to give the impression that the non-functional air conditioners at the airport is being addressed. Remodeling the airport which FAAN claims to be doing does not stop the organisation from getting the facilities at the airport working.


If Mr. President was told that the nation’s airport is a national disgrace by foreign investors, is it not urgent enough for FAAN to quickly address the facilities at the airport? Does FAAN need to remodel the air conditioners at the airport? Instead of embarking on remodeling the entire airport at the same time, why did FAAN not take them one after the other in order to have enough funds to address the ugly and horrible situation at the airport?

Before the minister started her war against foreign airlines, did she take a look at the pains Nigerians and other users go through at the airport? Is it not better to fight a war when you know your house is in order and you have enough bullets in your guns to fight?

FAAN had promised that it was going to “make it a comfortable environment, some people keep laughing but they will see.” Months on, Nigerians have not seen any change.

Is FAAN’s Managing Director proud of being the managing director of a mess? If not, he should be more dissatisfied with the state of the airports than anyone else. He ought to show some urgency in addressing the situation to demonstrate that he is in a hurry to make some significant changes to the way the airport is.

It is a national tragedy that at the nation’s premier airport, the MMIA in Lagos, passengers have continually lamented that it takes hours to retrieve their baggage and other checked-in items, because the conveyor belt system is old and slow whereas the reverse is the case in other climes.

While slugging it out with the conveyor belt at the arrival hall, they also complain of humid and hot atmosphere because the air conditioning system is almost permanently faulty and the entire place is congested. There is also the issue of slow lifts and poor access for the physically challenged passengers, and more.

To cap it all, passengers complain of harassment and touting from various uniformed officials at the airport. Some, they know and respect, and others they do not recognise but dare not disrespect. All these make their experience very unpleasant and are wondering when these discomforts will end.

Also lamenting are airlines that say they are forced to operate their modern jets in dilapidated and congested airport terminals. They lament that they have lost airplane engines worth millions of dollars to bird strikes, with no form of compensation. This, they claim, shows that the bird and animal control is very poor and yet the airport charges are quite high.

Worse still, aviation experts say most airports in the country were built for political, not business considerations and today, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is saddled with the daunting task of managing 22 airports across the country with very minimal funding.

The modern airport business is a captive business module that says, ‘I have a platform that people must use, and it gives me an opportunity to provide arrays of services to this captive people.’ The captive people include those who are flying out and coming in.

Remodeling the airport is good provided it is not the avenue as usual to make money for some people. But what is mostly needed at Murtala Muhammed International Airport is maintenance of existing infrastructure to make the place user-friendly. What is the guarantee that when the remodeling is completed it will be maintained?

In maintenance, is FAAN ready to change its way as a responsible organisation to embrace maintenance culture? Mr. President should please in the interest of Nigerians and other foreigners using the airport intervene now to save Nigeria from this national embarrassment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-the-shame-of-a-nation/

lastpage: Nothing could be far from reality than this! Tinubu as President of Nigeria?
Not in a million years!

As for GEJ meeting with Bank-Ole and Thief-nubu, well, Birds of the same feathers flock together, dont you think?

Lastpage!
BTW: l laugh when l hear peeps assert that Thief-nubu can deliver the S.W. to GEJ?
How will he? Will Thief-nubu force You and Me and our families to vote for GEJ? Or willhe buy my own conscience with stolen money?
Funny how you guys make a "Tin god" out of these mere mortals.....just because they have looted large amounts of our money!

Thank you jare,

Liverpoolfc: Reading through the story and comments hurts me. For the governor to blame pdp, i will not vote for him again, he just lost my vote for him, i hate him for that, he deserved to be punished for that. Eye witness in NTA news said it was a break failure. The accidents that occur in benin -ore, benin okene, and benin-sapele road who caused it? Pdp? It was wicked to blame pdp. May be oshio thinks that all those BREAKING NEWS in our media were not real, it is very bad of him, for governor to try and shift blames of his own BREAKING NEWS. I pray that more Break News affects our politicians that they may realise that BREAKING NEWS are real. I miss olatuji Jacob from ITV, i like the way he reports news....olatuji jacob reporting.

So who should be blamed ? State government (Osho)

Those roads you mentioned are FEDERAL ROADS, The FG has not given the SG the power to build on State roads so how is it Osho's fault ?

Abeg wake up