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CityNG: Oh for sure there's actual contraction going on. I passed through there from Lagos on 7/28 or so and then from Ibadan on 8/15 or so and what they have managed to accomplish was outstanding. I am certain that when I return in December (in sha allah) they will be almost completed.

One concern I have is the anticipated high speed accidents that will most certainly occur due to reckless driving, lack of well maintained vehicles, etc and I hope they have a plan ahead for that. As it is even when we are doing 100kph we're still getting passed by other motorist going even much faster.

I think our Road Safety and Police men have their jobs cut out for them. Big question however is will they deliver
Another aspect is civic education and sensitization campaign. There our state governors and LGA chairmen have failed woefully. I hope that as our democracy grows further these tiers of government will be made more accountable by we, the citizens/electorate.

As far as classics, I wanted to export one of mine but the roads are horrendous in my area (I live in an old part of town and not in one of the new GRAs). For example in our Isuzu Rodeo it takes careful and calculated driving to get out of my neighborhood without destroying the undersides. So any of the classics will never make it out of my house.

I discussed a car show with someone at Odu'a properties who run the new Shoprite facility in Ibadan. It will make for a fantastic car show destination but that is a long term plan.

The way out would be to load them on & off trailers for the show and subsequent display in one's garage while we work on the different tiers of government (particularly state and LGAs) to also fix their roads. Most of us seem not to realize that the Jonathan/Sambo administration is gradually fixing the main federal highways and very soon the crass neglect by the other two separate tiers (state & LGAs) of government will be so glaring.
The classic cars/vehicle show should be looked at from a tourism/commercial venture with a very long term perspective to get it started anyhow but with planned annual improvements. As Nigeria gradually re-establishes itself and the middle class returns, such a venture will become even more viable. Ibadan needs to take the lead before some other city takes the initiative and may be difficult to replicate/overtake Hopefully its illustrious sons like yourself will follow through on your love/hobby.

CityNG: 1) I am well travelled and thus have a high degree of success in determining nationalities. I work in a company with many different nationalities which gives me an exposure to be abel to determine nationalities.

2) There was a hold up, my drivers was stopped right by him and I overheard him on the phone talking to someone on his cellphone in his language (in between him shouting directions to his Nigerian employees).

PS: He is not really an oyinbo per see but I know even ordinary Lebanese is oyinbo to the average Nigerian.

I have submitted the pictures you requested to prove that there was construction going on. I have videos too just in case I might be accused of photoshopping

The capacity comment was just a teaser however, many thanks for taking time out to respond to my post.
Thanks also for the pictures on the current condition of the road. My comment thereon was mainly for the naysayers around here who have ridiculed the efforts to rehabilitate the road. You can post the video on youtube from where one can access it easily.

Finally, thanks one more time for your many web sites, quite laudable. I hope you will take your love for classic cars to the next level by having a show for them by the owners (I believe they have something similar in Kenya & South Africa) in Ibadan, for example, seeing as you love the great, old, historically rich and still vibrant city of Oluyole.
Cheers.

Philipmems: At the height of Ebola scare we should start researching on local hand sanitizers really?
I am trying to be real here OK, not living in some fantasy world that will never come. We are in a consumer driven economy and unless there are order ideas to get us out of the mess well it is what it is..

I appreciate your reality about the URGENCY of finding immediate solutions.
However BEYOND the immediate solution we should consider the LONG TERM measures that ensure it does not happen anymore. This is where RESEARCH and continuous improvement comes in.
Oyinbo nor get am for two heads abeg

BTW, what do you mean by "fantasy world that will never come"
Hope you don't mind satisfying my/our curiosity.

CityNG: I travelled on the Lagos Ibadan expressway on Thursday and I saw what appeared to be an ordinary Israeli person who was working as a foreman being guarded by an armed police officer.

Can't we find a Nigerian company or form a national road building company that can build roads instead of wasting our foreign exchange money of hiring foreigners?

We have a long way to go as a country.

Na wah for your nationality assessment capabilities oh You see oyinbo man for road come sabi sey im na Israeli
Meanwhile I thought we were told that there is no work going on for the road. It would be nice to have photo-based thread on the update.

Onegai: I am smarter and better than you. If you like, come and tell me I owe you because of that, see if I won't use a cane on your silly bottom.

@MissMeiya, I'm co-opting Ultimate Gay Mission, that line is too sweet, lol!

We had UniIbandan's virology lab, we had Irrua Specialist Hospital, even LUTH, all functioning years ago.

But rather than develop, Nigerians CHOOSE to live in ignorance. I used to get upset till I realised Nigerians preferred to be ignorant.

We distrust anyone who is very smart, intellectual or even reads a book because we are physically hardworking but mentally stu.pid.

Case in point: I announced how much it would cost for latex gloves, face-masks and a full hazmat suits (I didn't add a kobo, we were even going to pay shipping ourselves). I said we should donate it to our hospitals, because if our hospital staff was protected, our chance of survival was high.
NOT ONE PERSON SHOWED. Infact, the only people that agreed were atheists (and I'm not one). One said to me "if you had been a pastor calling for special offering against diseases, you would gotten the money in a week, max".

The rest were too busy screaming Ultimate Gay Conspiracy CIA Mission and Operation Kill A Country Too Stupid To Fund Malaria Research Even Talkless of Ebola.

As in, walai, Nigerians' sense of entitlement is magnificient. Dear Nigerians, stop thumping on your chest, you're a giant of Africa in your mind only. If you were truly respected, you wouldn't be begging for visas from every country, Arabs and Asians won't be building your roads, running better healthcare facilities than you, running your telecomms companies, running your television cable companies, running almost everything infact while you are begging for visa to go and wash plate in Hungary sef and insulting the US of A.

You'll see, after this outbreak, someone will say "let's fund hospital care instead of offerings and insist GEJ only win 2015 if he builds a fully functional research lab for common malaria and measles" and Nigerians will scream "that's stealing from God! My pastor deserves a private jet! GEJ till infinity, APC is out to destroy him!" Blah blah blah...

And it is NEVER our fault, we are under-developed because a Western country wants to "hold us down", because China Qatar and Malaysia, they got tired of trying to "hold them down", abi? We went from making tanks in Biafra to importing bullets, from exporting the world's supply of Groundnuts to importing even paper. And it is STILL NOT YOUR FAULT YOU HAVE FALLEN SO LOW.

2 years ago, I nearly cried when I couldn't get Nigerians to donate for scholarships to give some LASG govt-run highschool kids (who had built systems to recycle plastics into energy or reusable materials). I couldn't get people to volunteer to refurbish a school in Ajegunle. I struggled to find people willing to sign up to organise a summer teaching camp for any child, priviledged or under-priviledged (so as to teach them more than our obsolete education syllabus). Nigerians would either want to hear gist of what I was saying, then send bc or tweet and clap for themselves that that had achieved much or would happily tell me while those schemes would fail, without offering solutions.

Seriously, China should come and colonise us. Africans are helpless, foolish children, we don't understand freedom or how to use it. We certainly are not worthy of the resources God has given us. And even worse, we are shamelessly happy about our ignorance.

I can relate to all you said but hope is not lost.
The genes/DNA of our immediate forebears who had a reasonable measure of progress and orderliness up to January 1966, when Nzeogwu's misadventure opened the floodgate for other impatient &clueless COUPISTS, are still in us. We shall get back there and proceed further once we get next year's electionS sorted out.

Ofunaofu: i don't know what made him(ribadu) to join the pdp. But what i know is that as a man you need to have principle and integrity. He was the presidential candidate of the ACN in the 2011 general elections, he was one of the party chieftains that help form the Apc few months ago. To achieve a gubanitorial ambition he decamped to the pdp. To me its a new low. Who says he cant win it as the flag bearer of the APC

Where was your sanctimonious "principle & integrity" when Thief'nubu sold RibaduN's ACN presidential votes to Jonathan for his own personal stomach infrastructure in 2011

synergycom19: In stead of taking preventive measures towards ensuring that the virus never steps it foot in Nigeria, they were aware of it outbreak in Liberia, Sierra lone, ginue Bissau.

Do you mean GUINEA [Conakry]

The world renowned Mayo Clinic even spells it out better for DIMWITS like aresa parading themselves like gurus but who will send many to their early GRAVES

Prevention focuses on avoiding contact with the viruses. The following precautions can help prevent infection and spread of Ebola and Marburg.
•Avoid areas of known outbreaks. Before traveling to Africa, find out about current epidemics by checking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.
•Wash your hands frequently. As with other infectious diseases, one of the most important preventive measures is frequent hand-washing. Use soap and water, or [size=14pt]use alcohol-based hand rubs containing at least 60 percent alcohol[/size] when soap and water aren't available.

Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ebola-virus/basics/prevention/con-20031241

Seeing the number of people who liked his IGNORAMUS post it is no wonder we had so many of us clamouring to ingest the PESTICIDE Nano Silver as cure for Ebola
Why are we so DUMB

aresa: Using hand sanitizer is good hygiene practice, but hand sanitizer have zero effect on Ebola.

Hand sanitizer kills bacteria, it doesn't kill virus. sanitizer kills 99.9 % bacteria and not virus, bacteria is different from virus.

These ignorant leaders need to quit the stupidity and stop sending the wrong message.

It is quite PATHETIC when an IGNORANT person like the quoted poster above displays his STUPIDITY with so much ARROGANCE, the very essence of CLUELESSNESS.
I guess he knows something the US Centre for Disease Control, CDC does not know about Ebola PREVENTION

Because we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola, few primary prevention measures have been established and no vaccine exists.

When cases of the disease do appear, risk of transmission is increased within healthcare settings. Therefore, healthcare workers must be able to recognize a case of Ebola and be ready to use practical viral hemorrhagic fever isolation precautions or barrier nursing techniques. They should also have the capability to request diagnostic tests or prepare samples for shipping and testing elsewhere.

Barrier nursing techniques include:
•wearing of protective clothing (such as masks, gloves, gowns, and goggles)
•using infection-control measures (such as complete equipment sterilization and routine use of disinfectant)

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/prevention/

ignis: it depend on the location.
Soap is more effective in the village.

Why/How is soap LESS effective outside the village

Philipmems: Just saying if hand sanitizer is very important in this Ebola scare won't it be a wise decision to
I. Import as many as possible and give it out for free or at a subsidized rate so its available to the populace.
II. Reduce the tariff on the importation of hand sanitizers so its very cheap.

How about we find/create/RESEARCH/develop viable and equally efficient LOCAL sanitizers
Why are we such LAZY BLACK BUMS that only want to IMPORT from other people rather make our own?
For how long shall we remain the LOWEST category of humans

So it will be a stupidly CLUELESS decision to simply import sanitizers, which is the easy, non-edifying route.

phemybof: that is why the SOUTHWEST is ahead and well developed than every other parts of this Nation. all advanced countries are financing their projects wt taxpayers money. SOUTHWEST can survive in the absent of crude oil, unlike SOUTHEAST 99%depending on National cake.

So why has the supposedly non-oil dependent Southwest NOT proposed resource CONTROL for all states in the [at least two] constitutional amendments since 1999

BTW, Akwa Ibom is not in the South East.

NgeneUkwenu: GoodLuck To The Policeman! However Never Trust Nigerian Policeman!

Having been traded by the APC JagaBandit in 2011 for his own personal stomach infrastructure one can understand RibaduN's desire to flee from the TRAITOR on Bourdillon.
I am sure that if you are in RibaduN's shoes you will also run from Ogbeni Ojuyobo's DECEPTION party.

django1: You surprise me, no talk of pipe borne water? primary and secondary education? I guess those questions are reserved only for some people.

Thank you for raising the issue of TAP water, which was not part of my comment.

I am aware of Akwa Ibom's free education duly praised by no less than Kongi.

gurnam: Don't derail thread..

But have it at the back of your mind that you should always be careful of creating tension and division with your comments...

Again I say Back to Sender (BTS) i.e. take your own advice as you obviously need it more than I do.

gurnam: You like looking for trouble where none should ordinarily exist...

Change you ways.

I know you before abi na wetin
Maybe you should take your own advice and change your MURDEROUS THUG ways:

gurnam: Customized.

Today is another Sunday.....are you paying your friend another visit ?

Let's arrange for a meeting today again....you can send me a PM and I will holla at you straight away.....

Don't be a coward....don't act cowardly today...no one will hurt anyone in the food court of Ikeja Shopping mall...


From: https://www.nairaland.com/1861276/igbo-woman-chief-mrs-josephine/1#25547877

Obviously your APShi't job is a Do or Die affair. supporter of APC people
Shameless Mofo

jmaine: And some people will come here and tell us that Akpabio is a mediocre governor . . . .

Nice one Gov Akpabio . . .. . Absolutely free, no tolling . . . . .

Why you too like to find trouble like this
You wan make our supporter of APC friends of the Amunisin (Enslavement) People's Congress, APC come "catch you" ni
Their own slogan na Jeun s'oke, Jeun s'apo - raise taxes & IGR from the people to fill your own pocket

jazzydee: Akpabio is a performing governor, commissioning of uquo gas processing plant, groundbreaking of ovias petrochemical/methanol plant and now this beautiful road too in the same day! this Gov. Too much o!
I heard he is also building one of the best stadiums in nigeria, a 294 bed specialist hospital, a suspended bridge, a hilton hotel, Ibom tropicana all to be commissioned this year.

I hope the state government will find a way to lease these hospitality projects to private investors on long term lease for enduring sustainability and profitability to the people of Akwa Ibom state.

Meanwhile OP what is the source of the story and pictures? As in is it also available online on another web site where it can be downloaded easily for further broadcast?

gymer: Fashola is also a failure in Lagos state na.

- No portable water,
- bad roads all over the places,
- poor drainage system,
- armed robbers and touts on the increase, etc.

why can't he faces the business of governing Lagos instead of always looking for platform to attack the FG? Despite the huge burden of multiple taxes we are facing in Lagos, we don't feel any government presence, yet the man in the helm of affair is running his mouth everywhere. Attacking the FG is not what I voted him for.

Thank you as you don take style blow correct plenty air so tey Fashola nyansh of COLOSSAL FAILURE dey exposed for more to see.
You must give it to the guy sha im sabi TALK nor be small and na so im take am wayo all of us for im first term plus flower planting decoration gimmicks while taxing us like crazy not forgetting plenty gbese aka debts

For example, it is no coincidence that only 2 (two) States, Lagos and Rivers, governed by APC Governors are executing rail projects on their own as a mass transit solution. (Anonimi: what is the status of these two projects- nor be Amaechi dey way us with photo magic last month and Fashola wey go Canada go buy second hand train since 2011 never still complete for Lagos Meanwhile Jonathan/Sambo continue to make progress with the Nigeria Railways so tey Aregberascal take am do 419 for Osun state people claiming N1 billion to renovate just one Osogbo railway station, chai )

The party in power has lied about when there will be stable electricity for 16 years, and an APC state, Lagos led the way in showing what is possible with its power initiatives in Egbin, Akute, Lagos Island and Alausa. Ikeja and Lekki will be commissioned this year.

This man sabi LIE nor be small, chai
His Lagos state Electricity Board web site says they have commissioned their IPP since June 2001 adding 270 megawatts of electricity LIES to our national grid
See attached screen.

Naysayers, please note the following published just last month:

• China expresses satisfaction with loan application
25 Jul 2014

Ndubuisi Francis

It was thumbs up for the terminal expansion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and the light rail in Idu as well as the Abuja-Kaduna rail projects, as the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Oknojo-Iweala, yesterday undertook an on-the-spot assessment of the level of work at the various project sites.

This came even as China expressed satisfaction with the way the federal government has so far utilised the loan from the China NEXIM Bank for the execution of the projects.

The minister who embarked on the inspection tour along with some top officials of the federal government and Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), expressed satisfaction with the level of work done so far on the projects.

On the airport project, she said the federal government was looking forward to completing a terminal comparable in standard to those in other climes, and capable of eliciting pride in Nigerians.

``My impression on the progress is very good, the work is going on well and the terminal is 30 per cent completed. I am quite excited as you can see because what I saw up there is quite impressive. The quality seems solid and the design looks good.

``The federal government took a loan of $500 million from the NEXIM Bank of the Chinese government to construct modern terminals in the country. We have four terminals that are going to be financed from this money. They include Abuja, Lagos, Kano and Port-Harcourt,’’ she said.
Okonjo-Iweala, who also gave her impression on the rail projects, said what she saw surpassed her expectation, noting that the quality of work she saw would endure.

“They have explained to me how they will be working in phases for the project and God willing, by May next year, we will be riding on it. What we had borrowed was $500 million, but they had started work before then and we had already paid $162 million before the loan was approved,” she said.

She added: “This is not just about borrowing money, it is about a relationship between China and Nigeria, and for this segment, we have already borrowed what is needed to complete this section. I think they are likely to complete this work as projected since they have divided it into sections and I have been looking at the finances to see how much they have spent and where we are on the project.’’

In his remarks, the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Gu Xiaojie, expressed the commitment of the Chinese government to the partnership, assuring that China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) was also committed to completing the project.

``Best quality is assured for the project and CCECC is also undertaking the project and are undergoing training programme and employing local workforce for the project. It is a very good project and the Nigerian government is making very good use of the Chinese loan.

``I think from what I have seen, it is going on very well, they are constructing according to the standard and I think we will finish this on time,’’ the envoy said.

The Director, Rail and Mass Transit, Federal Ministry of Transport, Mr. Gafai Bature, said the national rail was at 84 per cent completion and would be ready for commissioning by the President in December.

``The Idu station is the first station and one can come here and take a train to Kaduna within a maximum of one hour. The train speed is about 150 kilometre per hour. We are hoping that by December, new locomotives will arrive to carry passengers within the FCT.

``The light rail is like a city train within the FCT and its environs but the national rail is a heavy gauge train that carries passengers and goods. The national rail is segmented into six. After this, we will embark on Lagos to Ibadan, Lagos to Ilorin, Ilorin to Minna, Minna to Abuja and Minna to Kano,” he said.

Bature added that the first stage of the project covered 186 kilometres from Idu to Kaduna, putting the total project cost at $849 million.
Also, the Secretary for Transportation, FCT, Mr. Jonathan Ivoke, said the project was on course.

`` We are on course, you can see the infrastructure, the materials are on ground and everything is on track, we are sure we are going to complete it. In terms of financing, we do not have any problem and the FCT budget and SURE-P funding is going on so we do not have any problem,’’ he said.

From: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/okonjo-iweala-lauds-abuja-rail-airport-terminal-projects/184500/

kmariko: Listening to Ribadu speak one gets the feeling that his belief lies in getting every form of corruption out of the national system. His core belief is that corruption is the root cause of most of the nations problems. He sees party politics as the means to get to the position where he can effectively layout his plans to tackle it. It really doesn't matter the political party as long as he gets to that position and carryout his plans.

He has a wider national appeal and credibility than anyone out there. Am sure he has realized that PDP can provide him the platform to reach every nook and corner of the country

I see him as the next president after GEJ as the rotation moves back to the north.

I also agree with you about being easily carried away when he SPEAKS. But the real question is does his ACTION overall align with his TALK
Or should we continue being easily CARRIED AWAY by cheap talk that has not moved us forward?

Gbawe: Mumu, if and when Ribadu confirms he has joined PDP then how does that affect anyone but Ribadu? The problem with you is that you are a petty individual and a hungry loser who gets excited about today alone. To that end, you never see the big picture. APC is bigger than Ribadu and his personal ambition. Ribadu can take his chances with your uber-treacherous paymaster i.e GEJ. Those of us who wish him well will once again warn him, as we did before, to beware those who will end up rubbishing him. Ribadu has already seen things first hand with the outcome of his work as head of the petroleum task force set up by GEJ. Nuff said.

Indeed Thief'nubu's APC is bigger than RibaduN hence the JagaBandit "rubbished" him in 2011 after receiving his personal stomach infrastructure package from the Shoeless One in Aso Rock

Articul8: More reason why I cnt vote and trust any politician. Does it mean he doesn't av policy or he's taking his ideology 2 PDP?

- Please what is RibaduN's ideology
- What is Amunisin [Enslavement] People's Congress, APC's ideology?

barcanista: we don't need dem QED! I personally prefers the govt pay attention to our local traditional docs... As 4 dis ebola on #Bitter Kola I stand

You IGNORANT guys talk as if the whites also did not have "traditional medicine" for soooooo long before they started doing RIGOROUSLY EXTENSIVE scientific ANALYSIS of medical issues and coming up with cures and preventive measures

How far have we gone incorporating basic personal hygiene measures in our daily lives and asking our CLUELESS state GOVERNORS to ensure provision of TAP water in all households and buildings

BTW, what do you think the snake and cross on the medical logo suggest

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Caduceus.svg/255px-Caduceus.svg.png


The caduceus is the traditional symbol of Hermes and features two snakes winding around an often winged staff. It is often mistakenly used as a symbol of medicine instead of the Rod of Asclepius, especially in the United States. The two-snake caduceus design has ancient and consistent associations with trade, eloquence, trickery, and negotiation. Tangential association of the caduceus with medicine has occurred through the ages, where it was sometimes associated with alchemy and wisdom.

More from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medicine

donroxy: God of secret !!

Africans really need to start exploring tradomedicines and research of their full potentials ....

I won't be suprised if Zmapp's secret is found in Africa but what do we know here other than to chop, Bleep and sleep !

The highlighted is sad but TRUE and hence we will remain voluntary slaves to those who do the hard work and make the long sacrifice needed for their society's success. Since we nor wan use our equally endowed God-given brain

SHAMEFUL situation we are indeed.

andrewza: Been done before by the WHO in the drc for ebola. But it was done to late to be of any effect. The invected where all ready recovering. Currently the WHO is concidring it as a oppstion. Though due to the very natuer of it animail trail are hard thing to pull of. Since you need the blood of the cured.

http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/08/who-ponders-treating-ebola-infected-people-blood-survivors

Many thanks for your response and the credible link provided also.

Permit me, however, to advise you improve your written English language skills.
Cheers.

There is a yoruba saying:

A n gba oromo adie l'owo iku, o ni won o je ki ohun lo si akitan loje - We are preventing a chick (baby chicken ni o nor be babe, abeg ) from getting killed by the the hawk, the chick says we are stopping it from feeding on the refuse dump.

Half a word is enough for the wise!