selemempe:
remind me again the real (not inflated cost) of an airport and why each state in nigeria shouldnt aspire to have one. Apart from the telecommunication and rader tech, an airport is actually basically a bus station. The cost of a basic airport shouldnt be more than $3m.

Does it occur to u that why there are less ppl using air in nigeria is because of inadequate investment in air travel. If there are 37 airports in nigeria and up to 10 local airlines as massive as airpeace, they can force air fairs down to say 15k from lag to abj....tell me why the millions of nigerians making daily travels on deadly, herdsmen-infested high ways wont put a little extra and fly?

Saying an airport is basically a bus station, shows you how clueless you are.

I dare you to find an airport runway that cost $3M.

selemempe:
since it has a budget 5 times that of nigeria, nigeria shouldnt have an airport at all na...or we should just have one...lol

Ur argument is just that....arguement

You are the one who brought the stupid comparison. California as a state is bigger and richer than Nigeria but you think because California more than 5 airports, every state in Nigeria should have one?

California has air traffic passengers of 16Million, while Nigeria as a country struggles with less than half of that.

selemempe:
every single state in nigeria needs an airport. States like california have up to 5 even

Los Angeles which is a city in California has a budget $32.5 billion, which is more than 5 times the budget of Nigeria as a country.

Stop embarrassing the people that sent you to school.

NNEWIsuper:

are you from Ebonyi, if no leave them to worry about it and focus on your state, is their state resources not yours, I'm from Anambra but won't put an eye for them...if they need to develop their state that's their business not yours...besides it mustn't be the state indigenes alone that will use it.. after all Every Nigerian uses Abuja and Lagos airport even though they're not from there

Unfortunately, some of the money they are spending comes from my state so what's your point?

I will never understand Nigerian governors fascination with airports and Stadiums.

Ebonyi doesn't need an airport or a stadium right now.


How do we think in Nigeria?

ivandragon:
Over 120% increase in two months...


Lol.

And the increase just happened right around election period...

Kenny4real68:
Good day house, please I intend to travel in 3weeks time but my luggage exceeds the normal required two boxes of 23kg, and the airline I booked charges 302USD (#108,720) per extra bag of 23kg, lol you can imagine.
Please I intend to ship my foodstuffs so as to save cost, but I don’t know any good and reliable shipping company to use. Please kindly recommend,as I would be very grateful.. thanks!

Are you really saving cost by shipping your food?

fykes:

If only u know how many projects both industrial and agricultural I have done since 2012. but again... That's a Nigerian youth for u.

What has been the effect?

Is the rice grown in Nigeria cheaper than imported rice?

fykes:

If mediocrity is harnessing an area I have an obvious advantage in order to build and produce a system that will further impact and solve a major economic and social problem for my country, then I am at home with it.
China has cheap labour... They harness it to produce
India has cheap labour... They use it to produce.
Naija has cheap labour... But they seen to believe here is Dubai. They will rather watch bbnaija, have sex and smoke while waiting for machines to do their work... And of course... It's 2019.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/farmers-earn-more-from-youtube-than-their-crops-amid-tough-times


You are still stuck in the 40's and I'm not sure anyone can help you.

You cannot make money from agriculture using manual labour.
If your price is not competitive, your business will close down.

If manual farming was profitable, people will not be leaving their villages to come and ride Okada in Lagos and Port Harcourt..

eodavids:


Boss, you seem to have missed the bigger picture.

I think Mr. Ogar may have to go to the Villa and convince Mr president that Agriculture majorly concerns farmlands than it concern cows (Even though both encompasses agriculture).

Our sitting president may be of the view that cow majors above farmlands. If the later is the position of our helms man, then Mr. Ogar may have failed the screening test for not mentioning cows in his statement.

Nigerian politicians don't have a big picture....Mr Ogar is only saying what the people want to hear.

fykes:

Only in Nairaland, empty heads call accomplished industrialists dullard... While u are talking about mechanized farming u forget that we have a comparative advantage in a teeming labour force who must be engaged productively to reduce unemployment.
U also forget that growing an economy is a matter of improving
per capita income and not more expenditures as ur machines will have to be imported.
In all ur wisdom u won't imagine that a modern farm settlement or an integrated Agro based industrial city will both provide direct and indirect jobs in the interim and a host of other side industries to stimulate the economic growth we so need?
U want mechanized farming... What has happened to all the tractors our governor's and officials has been buying all these years. .

Don't come online and show off crass ignorance by insulting the sensibilities of learned people. If u must insult a man, better know more than he does

Your post is an example of why Nigeria is not moving forward. You seem at home with mediocrity.

U also forget that growing an economy is a matter of improving per capita income and not more expenditures as ur machines will have to be imported.

You will not improve per capital income by employing people to do manual labour on a farm because the farm will most likely not be efficient which in turn would make what ever is produced more expensive and this would lead to importation/smuggling of cheaper products which will ultimately kill the farm and make the people that were hired unemployed... Back to square one.

Reducing unemployment is why the Nigerian civil service is bloated, inefficient and consuming more than 50% of the budget.
Reducing unemployment is why the Nigerian government keeps building new sub standard universities.


Nobody starts a business to reduce unemployment, rather when a business is started with growth and profitability in mind, unemployment would reduce.



Look at the list of countries in which depend on agriculture and see that they are all poor countries...



Then when you look at the list of high earners from agriculture, you would see that they are highly mechanized.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-most-dependent-on-agriculture.html

Take for instance, if you build a farmland where you can house over 150 youths and you provide enabling accommodation for them and you give them all the necessary amenities. I can tell you that these youths will be powerful to turn an entire piece of land to something that will create revenue for the entire country.

Another dullard about to be made minister by the IQ reducing President.

Someone please tell this man that to be remotely competitive in agriculture, it has to be mechanized. If your farm is not mechanized, it would be cheaper to import.

This is 2019 not 1943.

thesicilian:
Would he have declined it if he was listed?

When his tenure as DG was coming to an end, people on twitter started an e petition for him to be reappointed and he publicly begged for them to stop because he didn't want to continue.


There are plenty Nigerians who don't want to work for the government.

googi:
With all respect sir, Africans are the most productive people on earth, no matter where we are. You should wonder how we still survived.

Starting from Nigeria, most of the poor people work from dusk to dawn making meager profit. You can even say that is what you mean. The rich and the fortunate ones go outside Nigeria to open factories in the middle of the jungle with zero enabling environment and still make a profit but not as much as the do in Nigeria, the profit capital of the world.

The same is true in the so called green pastures. Africans become productive by tulasi working against all odds without tapping into the enabling environment they complained about at home.

I still remember the day I carried phone books in the middle of a major street because I lied that I had a car. I had to get a friend to drop the phones books at different blocks so that I could deliver them from one office to another. African must wack nah, plus the fact that I had school fees to pay in September, a couple of months away. We all laugh and tell stories now but in those days, it was do or die!

Would I do that in Nigeria? For wia?

Greed makes us import refine and finished products like oil and export crude. Since that is where demand is.

Japan gained entry into world market after bombing the heck out of them to rehabilitate them. Chinese gain entry to spite Russia. No single African country is a member of the world trade. Check it out.

You can be hard working and still not be productive.

courage89:
This is one of our biggest problem in Africa. I don't understand why this doesn't get the necessary attention and debate it deserves. This is a fundamental problem responsible for Africa's economic woes; the reason why poverty levels continue to increase. Every time an economy devalue its currency: we have massive job losses, poor economic growth, closure of manufacturing facilities and other regressive economic issues. Currency issues is a big problem in Africa. As Africans, the time is now to combat this menace with necessary awareness, debate, strategy and policy formulation.

This is a big lie....China and Japan currently keep their currencies low because it enables export. The reason why Africa is poor is because we are not productive.
Take a look at Nigeria, we export crude to import the refined products...how would you make progress like that?

In 2014, the pledge was to add 1000MW yearly.......

5 years after the target is transmission of 7000MW 7 years after the initial promise.


PS: Nigeria already has an installed capacity of over 10000MW...

Gandollar:
Are you the child of a IndecentStar?

Yes.

danduchi:
Does Timi actually have a clue how this is going to affect his kids and that of fatoyinbo? Was the lady raped as if wife or someone else's daughter... Y didn't her father sue? Why is he embarrassing his family this way. The internet never forgets. Their kids will suffer greatly as a result of all these shits the bloodily facade couldn't handle amicably. Bastard Hippocrate

Their kids will not suffer anything....
Porn stars have kids and they are doing fine.

Xda59:


But it is common seeing police officers go about their duties with their service armed. Timiis only crying wolf when there is none

There's a big difference between police men with guns on the street and them camping in front of your house..

Why would you send armed folks to invite someone to the police station?

naptu2:
There's nothing new or strange about what happened. In fact, it's almost standard.

Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi appeared before the Senate for his confirmation hearing in 2007. I watched the session live on the NTA.

President Obasanjo had done his homework and the Senate had already agreed to confirm Justice Kutigi.

The senate president, Senator Ken Nnamani told Justici Kutigi that his CV was impressive and that he would be confirmed. However, Senator Nnamani said that they were going to ask Justice Kutigi some questions, so that he could advise and guide the Senate.


I can't remember if it was Senator Ibrahim Mantu or Senator Jonathan Zwingina, but one of them asked Justice Kutigi a question. Justice Kutigi spoke at length and ended up saying absolutely nothing.

The senator was surprised and he rephrased the question. Justice Kutigi dribbled on and on and ended up saying nothing. The senate president intervened. He told Justici Kutigi that they had already agreed to confirm him and that they simply want him to advise and guide the Senate and that his advice would help them to make better laws.

Again, Justice Kutigi spoke at length, but he still didn't answer the question. The senator and the senate president were shocked. Then the senate president asked him to go and they voted and confirmed his appointment.

I was laughing at home, but I was a little bit frustrated by the actions of the senators. I could understand what was happening and I couldn't understand why the senators couldn't understand what I understood.


Justice Kutigi did not want to answer the question because he didn't want his opinion to be on record because a similar issue might be before him in court in future.

I could understand this and I was wondering why the senators did not understand this simple point.

Justice Kutigi deliberately spoke off topic because he did not want to answer the question.

Smart people can say lots of things without saying anything and not sound like an idiot(e.g motivational speakers). The CJN might have tried to evade the question but he ended up looking like a slowpoke.

Tina26:
Cant be enforced. I probably dont live in the address i used to register anymore

Won't you renew your car papers?

Why stay with someone that adds no value to your life?

Buhari and the APC also played politics with security when they were in the opposition.

Madness is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.

Buhari has had the same security chiefs for the past 4 years while the security situation is keeps detoriating. It can either mean

1) The security chiefs are incompetent
2) Buhari is incompetent
3) 1 & 2.

Generalmerchant:
Hi all, my mum is in Canada on visitors visa. Can she apply for US visa from Canada? Has someone tried this before?

I highly doubt that

khatea:
OP! Ur write up summarises selfishness plus irresponsibility... Ur dad married ur mom to have you without being self centered, ur blood need be tested. #walksaway

Who told you his dad married the mum?

thesicilian:
Even though it's a private company, it's still a thing of collective pride for us as a country. If only we can all put our tribal differences aside and massively patronize Air Peace, other foreign airlines that are ripping us off will be forced to bring down their outrageous prices.

This is what the Buhari and co should have been doing instead of trying to float a new airline...

NkemChukwudi:


Hmmm Nigerians and ignorance......the monthly FAAC allocations come from where? From heaven abi?

In 2018, Nigeria had a budget of 9 trillion and still had to borrow to finance part of the budget.

If the TSA racked in 10 trillion shouldn't you be asking questions?

Righteousness89:
The Church in Nigeria is Massively on the Rise.....

The Church is Expanding as Never Before...

Church Business is on the rise... Christianity as taught by Christ is declining fast.

Corruption/greed/crime and the likes should move in an inverse direction to the church.

The same DSTV that shows big brother also has discovery Channel, animal planet's and the likes...


People see what they are looking for.