vatoslocos:
Is it not an irony that poverty stricken Bangladesh and war torn Iraq are also considered as fast glowing economies, meanwhile many in both countries and Nigeria are swimming in a vast ocean of poverty. A paradox

China and Qatar are also on the list,what do you have to say about that?

uokocha70:


I heard security also has a part to play. I am thinking I need to feel something directly though. The simple and basic things. Which I am not feeling.

In 2013 bags of Rice during the yuletide cost around 12-14K but last year it cost around 8K-10k ditto other food stuffs...despite falling Naira how did you think that happened?

Also engaging idle hands in productive Jobs helps improve security by reducing available hands for crime.That's why GEJ is focusing on the Agric sector especially in the North

uokocha70:
When last did you eat economic growth in a plate. Or in this case "possible" growth?

Economic growth sends positive message to investors who'll have confidence to invest in the country leading to Jobs which will ultimately put food on ur table

https://mobile.twitter.com/CNNMoney/status/558528588207517697?p=v

Another Reason to VOTE GEJ

omenka:
Chief stop living in denial. That was not a "1" but just a "stroke", meaning he didn't sit for the subject. There are over 5 of such on that result sheet.

Took another look & u are actually correct...Thanks for been civil

Justbright:



are u dis daft?....take a look at d result well.....all subject he dnt attempt or sit for were marked out in a symbol l to show its empty....so to u his grade in Igbo is also l abi?.....ur mumun no get part 2

Are you capable of making your points without insult? Or is that how u were trained?

Obiagelli:

1959 that you got from Wikipedia? Haven't you seen buhari and yardua's picture in school together on this same forum?

That Wikepedia page has been edited countless times since after Buhari's press conference..

Also Jarus you didn't explain how Shehu Yardua who joined the service in 1959 got to write WASC together with Buhari in 1961

Jarus you didn't address how he got an A1 in Igbo..so he did Hausa & Igbo together then? Thought its only one Nigerian Language?

So GEJ been called arna (unbeliever) and stoned is justifiable in the eyes of most of you on this thread? Seriously I need what you guys are smoking

Please this is the main thread www.nairaland.com/2105249/nrc-takes-delivery-5-new

Mods u can block this thread

Delible:
The only achievement by Jonathan's government is TRAIN . Are we talking about president of a Nation here?

Its not just train..Its about a cheaper alternative means of transport,Its about taking the pressure off the roads...Its about reducing the cost of goods transportation...Its about companies spending less on freight meaning they can reinvest money meant for that it in hiring more hands..Its about making it possible to live in another town and work in another thereby crashing property cost & cost of living...Its not just a train

GEJOneMoreTime

The Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC has taken
delivery of five additional 68-seater air conditioned
coaches, two 16-seater rail buses and eighteen 5-
seater Motorised Trolleys.

Addressing journalists in Lagos while conducting
final inspection on the new railway vehicles, the
Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation,
Engineer Adeseyi Sijuade said that “the new coaches Will be deployed over the next two weeks on an extension of the train service from Makurdi to Gombe passing through Lafia, Kanfanchan, Kuru, Jos, Bauchi and with a spur line from Kanfanchan to
Kaduna.”

He disclosed that “while the two new rail buses will
be deployed for inspection of certain parts of the railnetwork, the eighteen motorized trolleys will be
allocated to railway maintenance engineers to
facilitate regular inspection and maintenance of the
tracks.”

Recall that the Corporation had in April, 2014
commissioned the first set of 68-seater passenger
coaches, six in number, bringing the total number of 68-seater air conditioned coaches added to the
corporation’s fleet to eleven.

Sijuade told journalists that the railway vehicles were designed and manufactured in China specifically ’ÃO the Corporation’s narrow gauge railway system by CSR Nanjing Puzhen Company Ltd., and Kintech Nigeria Ltd.

According to him, the newly acquired air conditioned coaches have been tested satisfactorily in the Corporation’s Lagos workshops and are now being deployed for commissioning.

He said: “We spent the whole weekend testing the
whole appliances within these five coaches. These
include the air conditioning, the automatic dust
system and the passenger information system etc.
They have all been tested satisfactorily. We are
deploying them to the Eastern line.”

“However, for the commissioning purpose, we are deploying them to the Makurdi Railway station,
where it will be commissioned on Thursday, 22nd
January. The commissioning will be taking place
along with the flagging off of the intercity passenger
service that runs from Makurdi to Port Harcourt. As a matter of fact, the trains will be moving from
Makurdi, following the flag off, to Port Harcourt,” he
added


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/nigeria-railway-takes-delivery-five-68-seater-coaches/

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twoMcfemad:
*case closed*
GMB till 2023
febuhari 14 is the day!

Which case closed? Has the certificate been presented?

Presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC),
Muhammadu Buhari, has finally broken
his silence on the school certificate issue.
Buhari, in an address released to the
press on Wednesday, January 21,
categorically stated that he attended
Provincial Secondary School, Katsina,
where he obtained a Cambridge/West
African School Certificate.

The erstwhile head of state, said he has
requested for a copy of the result from
his old school, and once it is available, he
would present it to the world.
Buhari said: “I only consented to address
you this morning because of the genuine
concern expressed by many supporters
and other well-meaning Nigerians that the
issue be addressed. Otherwise, I would
have dismissed it for what it is; ‘sheer
mischief’, and would not have considered
it an issue worth the nation’s while.”

“I had assumed all along that all my
records were in the custody of the
Military Secretary of the Nigerian Army.
Much to my surprise, we are now told
that although a record of the result is
available, there are no copies of the
certificates in my personal file. This is why
I formally requested my old school the
Provincial Secondary School, Katsina
[which is now known as Government
College, Katsina] to make available the
school’s copy of the result of the
Cambridge/West African School
Certificate. This will be made available to
the press the moment this is available.”

“However, before we obtain that, let me
say for the record that I attended
Provincial Secondary School, Katsina. I
graduated in 1961 with many prominent
Nigerians, including General Shehu
Yar’adua, former chief of staff at the
Supreme Headquarters, and Justice
Umaru Abdullahi, a former President of
the Court of Appeal. We sat for the
University of Cambridge/WASC
Examination together in 1961, the year we
graduated. My examination number was
8280002, and I passed the examination in
the Second Division,” the statement
added.

Furthermore, Buhari bemoaned the fact
that a certificate “obtained 53 years ago”
has become the major talking point in a
political campaign, that should ordinarily
be centered on pertinent issues.

He said: “And although the ruling party
may want to wish this away, the issue in
this campaign cannot be my certificate
which I obtained 53 years ago. The issues
are the scandalous level of
unemployment of millions of our young
people, the state of insecurity, the
pervasive official corruption which has
impoverished our people and the lack of
concern of the government for anything
other than the retention of power at all
costs.

www.ynaija.com/breaking-news-buhari-finally-breaks-silence-on-school-certificate-read-what-he-said/

I watched Buharis campaign speech yesterday
and I left feeling like I was listening to my father
speaking to me- and that’s sort of natural afterAll
he and my father are about the same age. Buhari
is an awesome figure, very impressive in terms of
what he stands for as a person . Indeed i must tell
a story – way back in 1998 during the perennial
university strikes I was in kaduna during one of
the perennial fuel scarcity episodes. I was at the
ungwar Rimi filling station and had been on a line
for 3 hrs or so waiting for my turn to buy fuel.
And if you can recall those days, fuel lines were
like military camps and people were violent if you
tried to jump the queue unless you were a friend
of the petrol station manager or a soldier And
Buhari drove into the area in his 505 looking for
fuel and somehow people saw him and all of a
sudden people started moving their cars out of
the way to allow him drive up to fill his tank.

This people did without compulsion-it was out of
sheer respect of him, the man, the father figure-
that was Buhari(pre -PTF).

If Buhari was going to be allowed to run the
country based on his ideals alone, I would
probably change my mind ( after I get past the
age factor) But honestly speaking , governance is
not strictly about a single personality- it’s a series
of conversations around different interest groups
and institutions and walking the fine line between
your decisions based on personal interest or
moral values and / or public interest- which
usually means a politicized decision.

I feel that a Buhari presidency though well
intended will not achieve much due to the fact
that he will try to purge Nigeria via old school
methods which are no longer practical. He will be
the face but the real machinery will be run by
some of Nigeria’s most “pious” politicians –
people like Tinubu, Amaechi , Atiku ,etc. The
question is will they allow him to stop the
business as usual environment they have
benefited from to their detriment?

When he spoke about sharia a few years back
which was seen as very inciteful and how it was
necessary in Nigeria, he spoke as a devout
Muslim that he is- but the statement was so
politically incorrect especially since you know that
same Sharia implementation led to the death of
thousands of man and women in kaduna state
alone in the early 2000′s This led to the division of
southern kaduna from northern kaduna and the
relocation of the people to Barnawa and beyond
due to religious intolerance.

When it comes to elections, I personally feel that
we are asking a man who’s ways and actions are
set to suddenly become dynamic and new and do
so with the support of leaders who were not just
part of the PDP rot but were key players in it.
Suddenly the are born again and old things are
passed and have become “new”…

Goodluck is far from perfect but I see him
continuing to make steady inroads especially in
the area of the economic advancement of young
people because the cliche is true – the youth are
the future but the future is now and here!
Has he done well? In some areas yes but in
security no. That’s the fact. I won’t go into the
reasons why not but we should note that the rot
in the army started many years before Jonathan
and the insurgency only opened the cankerworm
that was hidden because the need to protect
Nigeria hadn’t arisen in over 39 or so.

About corruption having worked around
government for almost 3 years I now understand
things I never quite understood. Most of the
corruption in Our country is usually attributed to
government and the civil service which is true but
we forget that they need collaborators in the
private sector to successfully perpetrate these
crimes. The best way to fight corruption is to
build institutions and use technology to fortify
them so they can reduce incidences of
corruption- that’s the truth. You can’t tap an MTN
line like we used to tap the box telephones at
home in those days. You can’t pass the Lekki toll
gate without paying 120 at the automated gates
but the politicians can set up companies to
surreptitiously buy the company that owns the
gates( hope you get my drift) and that’s done at
top level. You can’t also fight corruption if you tip
a policeman at every checkpoint instead of taking
the day off and ensuring you get your drivers
license so wecan stop the extortion – yes that too
is corruption.

Why is budget implementation so poor?because
the National Assembly unduly politicizes the
process leading to late passage of the bills ( in
2013 it was in July / August same as 2014) so
when projects don’t get delivered its mostly
because of slow passage of the bill.

The other reason is that the appropriations
committees can tamper with the budget how they
like that’s why a project like the perilous Lokoja -
Abuja road which led to the death of many
Nigerians took over 10 years to be completed
because the amounts appropriated by the NASS
was simply inappropriate to adequate fund the
completion. It was only when Sureprogramme
intervention came that the road was fast tracked
( as most can testify) same with the railways ,
roads and bridges etc- why?because the SUREP
funds were better insulated from tampering
unlike many other projects approved for
completion. There are now policies being put to
change this to make execution more effect off of
the lessons we learnt via Surep on a federal level.

But I digress, I agree that GMB is a fine
gentleman and leader but I also believe that if I
did vote for him I would be doing so nostalgically
not realistically because there’s a new Nigeria
where people are earning a living off their talents
and passions and creating a new middle class
which was virtually non existent post GEJ and
that’s the Nigeria I want to be part of…Agriculture
is becoming the new sexy and his administration
has pushed it even more than Obasanjo ( a
renowned farmer did). No matter how I explain
FB or Instagram or the global economy to my dad
now he may not fully grasp it as a person below
35 would and I fear that I would rather move
forward imperfectly than go back to the past in
search of Utopia.

This is just my view of things and I have taken
time to state it and not berate GMB – it’s my vote ,
it’s my choice, some will say that I vote for hm
because of SUREP. But honestly I do so because
in him I see a man who is imperfect, struggling
with his imperfections to make things better and I
see room for improvement and change….in all
fairness we are all sort of like that trying to get a
better report card and improve on poor subjects
of last semester. In the latter I see an upright man
of integrity and high discipline who doesn’t yet
realize that one of his disciples may yet betray
because they don’t stand for the same ideals.

www.newswirengr.com/2015/01/14/chocolate-city-boss-audu-maikori-tackles-apcs-muhammadu-buhari-in-this-must-read-op-ed/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Alright...I see they were repairs on locomotive,track and picking up of passengers...all contributed to the delay

spyder880:


It took me 10 hours! I am not happy.

E much ooo...Did the train develop any technical fault on the way?

This is the MEND GEJ was referring to as not behind the independence bombing...Charles Okah was behind it as have been proved in South African court

PhockPhockMan:
Did I tell you that I traveled to Enugu?

Sorry I meant Umuahia...(had something in mind typed another thing)

PhockPhockMan...Ph to Enugu took how many hours?

Can you imagine how excited those kids are finally seeing themselves in a train..something they previously saw in movies

Iriruaga100:
Kudos to the government. FG should also commercialise or privatise the rail sector, to avoid mismanagement by the managers of the sector.

GEJ's govt has drafted a bill to repeal the railway code of 1954 and pave way for privatization & commercialization of NRC via BPE

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/fg-privatise-railways-inland-waterways-6-others-2015/

spyder880:


I am in the village now and I asked someone about the trains since they cannot pass from Enugu to PH without passing my town. They said the trains passed on Monday but didn't make a stop at the usual station in Nomeh .

They said they will only be stopping at 5 stations for now..Ogui,Ovim(isikwuato),Omoba(Ariria-Aba),Imo River and Station (PH)

We told them that the old yellow trains won't be used forever...GEJ is keeping to his words and replacing them with modern ones proudly painted in Nigeria's colour...

Kudos to GEJ

Fashola should find another lie..So GEJ is frustrating the rail project & yet approved a loan meant for its construction?

Maku said the project covers the construction of a 27km light rail,
construction of schools and the construction
of Adiyan Mini Water Works to provide
2million gallons of water per day.

www.leadership.ng/news/373411/fg-approves-n40bn-loan-lagos-state

If it was GEJ that made this gaffe...I bet this would have been on the front page but since its his anointed..OAMJ won't see this

And this is a link by Thisday today telling us to check their special pull out for the Buhari interview
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-i-am-not-a-fundamentalist-atiku-wish-me-success-not-good-luck/196246/

ISpiksDaTroof:
If you believe that Crap above, then you'll believe that Patience Jonathan truly has a Masters Degree.

This is a copy of the interview pullout in today's Thisday newspaper....Ask anybody who bought Thisday today if they didn't get this pullout...sorry your general disappointed u

This is Buhari's response to a question on the economy thrown to him in an interview by Thisday newspapers published today.My people is this the man we want to lead us?

baccaspace:
All future tense. Will, expected to and bla bla bla Since 2010.

My friend you better look for a mugu

Copy the link I pasted into a browser and read up for yourself on Kashimbila Dam...Cheers