₦airaland Forum

luvmijeje: Then who is in charge? If I'm Jonathan, my next course of action will be in Ota farm in order to prostrate and ask baba for forgiveness.

Uchiha Madara: I am having mixed feelings about this thread. On one hand, I have seen some nice pics of good roads, but on the other hand, we are still talking about roads.

This definitely means that in the next election, which would be 2015, some politicians out there will still be using roads to campaign. Now I do understand that roads are a very important part of government, but at this stage of our development, we should be more concerned about complex road solutions i.e new bridges to reduce traffic after massive road usage data interpretation and so on.

Word bank statistics have new road construction at $800,000/mile-lane, and road rehabilitation at a much lower cost. At this rate, with allocations given to states, a 4 year space would be enough to completely pave about 70% of roads in all states (not new road construction). Take Ameachi's Jet for instance at a rumored price of $45,000,000. That's enough for about 45mile-lanes of new road, so that's like 22miles of a two lane road newly built. Now if we are talking rehabilitating roads, then you can multiply that number by about 5 on average. so that would be about 110 miles of two lane roads completely rehabilitated.

Nigeria is changing, but at what pace? We are moving like an old man trying to find his way back around the gym, when our counterparts have already done about 3 sets of warm ups, and already have peps in their steps.

I don't want to grow old and still have to listen to a politician campaign about roads, and not in a good sense as I explained earlier, but about repairing a road that has been abandoned for so long.

tobex_23: I knew you were bittered, but never knew you were this bittered to the extent of not understanding simple english!!! You were also paid abi, so all ur argument have been penned down! Dullard

tobex_23: Worry not! I noe a little about you..He wanted to spill it away but she said he should stick it in and that's how we came about you. You were so watery and looked bittered even at that stage of your life!

jmaine: I tuale for the guy. Na real 419 him be . . .

tobex_23: This imbe*cile snapped a picture and he wants people to bliv that shit!!! I said passed there today....I left osun 7am and got to lagos 10pm..WHY Because of bad road! Go to APC states were work is going on and tell me if you won't be tired of taking pictures! Lagos? Ibadan? OSUN!! Damn u really need to get a life!

N.B: if you bliv that work is going on on that road bcause this e-dog snapped a picture, I guess you should go and wash your head in the nearest river!

KIRIJI: So because obasanjo and yar'adua didnt do anything about the road, Gej should also do likewise? Is this the transformation he promised us? So Gej's achievement should be measured based on what past administrations did and did not do?

Sincere 9gerian: That is the opinion of an ordinary Tinubu goat. Before GEJ came to power, a certain OBJ and Yar Adua ruled for 11 years? What did they do about the road?

36STATES: If any of you writing these things here had lost money in the stock market crash of 2008 you would have known that Soludo was a disaster. Solude is a big time crook and doesn't have the qualification and the uprightness to run a sensitive institution like CBN. Sanusi is the best thing that happened to the central bank ever. Though a lot of corruption is still going on there, but that is a discussion for another day. Soludo was 100% aware of all the thieving happening in the banks by people like Mrs Ibru of Oceanic, Erastus Akingbole of GTB etc. OBJ, Soludo and Ndi Onyiuke was real axis of evil for investors in Nigeria when they were heading there respective offices.

Sincere 9gerian: GEJ like all humans is not perfect. He has his flaws. If you have decided to focus only on those flaws, then goodluck to you. But if we use the same strict parameters that you used to write off GEJ, then no one will be good enough to be president of Nigeria.

The issue of Stella Oduah has been exhaustively debated here. You believe she is guilty of corruption and that she should be killed or sacked, but many of us believe she is guilty of insensitivity, not corruption, and that an administrative caution will do. So its a matter of where you belong. But even if the president sacks her, that will still not make you support the president. It will only make you draw up new list of "sins" just to justify your continued hatred for GEJ.

The Lagos-Ibadan road is currently undergoing reconstruction. This has been said several times here but still, you keep including it in your list of the "sins" of GEJ. Maybe someone you release an album on this.

Work on the Second Niger Bridge is progressing, though not as fast as many of us expect. Hopefully, next year, the ground breaking will be done.

The reality is that no leader can do all the projects at the same time. It is impossible. Even the APC/ACN is yet to complete the Lagos light rail project 14 years after. This is a project started by Jakande in the 80s.

ndu_chucks: This action is not enough to ward off the impending doom of this presidency.

ajoskele: Major General Ajoskele, the former Director Nigerian Army Snipers' Training School is now the GOC, Sango-Ota Army Barracks..Lord, see me through!

Akinmail: I swear your brain is a joke of a brain! Hian you said soludo's crisis was exaggerated. Tell that to all the people that lost substantial amounts holding shares of those banks. Nonsense soludo was good sanusi was good too.

Pukkah: I support resource control but oil as an extractive resource does not really indicate hardwork and ingenuity. Revenue from such activities should be used to fund capital projects and not consumption activities. Ideally, salaries should be fully funded from taxes of all citizens with something left for capital projects.

Oil revenue aside, the present structure of Delta is not sustainable. Something must be done to address it.

Pukkah: Delta has a revenue of N45.5 billion and pays salaries that's almost twice as that - N85.2 billion!

This simply means Delta cannot afford the 'high service civil workforce' (I don't know the meaning of this) either in terms of their headcount or salary range or both.

This also means the productivity per head (civil servant) in Delta is much lower than that of Lagos.

There's a major problem here.

Garri the 1st: Why??

Who are the civil servants rendering service to??

Or do the states just employ people off the streets even when there is no meaningful service for them to render to the good people of the state??