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[quote author=One_Naira]why can't you people ever stop pretending. why una dey claim ethnicity and changing it like clothes. anyway when you pretend Igbo, remember your past post betrays you.

Nigeria is already broken, all its left to do is sign and stamp it. Take a look at the country and tell me without fibbing that Nigeria is moving as one. the citizen are happy together and the country is behaving like a country that's not divided. swear with your life you truly believe this nation is not divided already.[/quote]So further balkanising the country is your way out. Hehehehe dreamer, keep dreaming, when the real issues come I will be the first to tell you. This sit at home is not the issue.

biafran soul: Bia onye sabo, you can have your say but remember the majority carries the vote. You can switch ethnicity if you like cos In our world you simply don't exist.

Sabo for telling you the truth. Okay, keep living in your World of fantasy.

Let me make these myopic people understand something.

The Igbo's failed to secede with the war because what Ojukwu saw during the war was not the same as what he saw before the war. Ojukwu was a young buzzing officer, had a lot of energy in him and he thought it was once Awo agrees with us to secede, then that is it, everyone goes their way. What he did not remember was Awo did not command Soldiers. Was he really expecting Awo to go to Lagos and declare secession in front of Gowon? Gowon would have simply destroyed him.

The truth is the issue of secession got more complex than Ojukwu thought initially and it is same with this protest organised by those making money off this deceit. It is easy to organise 'sit at home' protests, however, that is far from secession.

When the real thing comes, we will know how serious you people are.

bxcode: What in God's name ¡ѕ he talking about .....
Back to the topic, here in Awka, the sit αt home ¡ѕ being observed, mainly skeletal movements in and around the state capital.

MUHEHEHE, he wants Biafra, dream on.

Ogaeme gi vooom n'anya

biafran soul: Just wondering why you are crying more than the bereaved. The same people saying igbo people are not organised, that they don't love themselves, they love money blah blah blah... are now having high bp for a mere sit at home being observed world wide.
The question remains can any other ethnic group in this contraption called Nigeria pull this off?

Nwokem please take a seat. I am more Igbo than you are but I have a brain to think. Those other ethnic groups know this ia a huge joke that is not going to happen, so why waste your time.

You can keep fooling yourselves, you can keep letting those jobless 'Inaga' people at Maris junction in Owerri make money off you. Fact is, this country is not going to break anytime soon, so it is best you live in it and make it work for you instead of dreaming endlessly over what will never happen.

All these noise about Biafra is just a sign of how uneducated and myopic a lot of these people are. Some of them may have been through higher schools, however, that does little to their reasoning.

Biafra may be desirable but the fact is you cannot have it and so stop letting some jobless people make money off you.

Igbo's with a huge population are able to thrive today because of access to the macro-environment outside their tiny landlocked area. What happens when barriers and access is denied to these markets. Our World today thrives because barriers are being broken and not being placed.

When you get your Biafra, you leave all your assets behind in the North and East and start from scratch again. Don't tell me you did same in the 1970's. Fact is you were able to come out of it because you moved to environments outside your area. Also the population of the 1970's is not the same as today and so it won't be the same as it was then.

If you understand the issues with balkanising this country Nigeria, you will go back to sleep and work harder on how to build it.

It is easy to organise protests and make loud noises at Ariaria but that is far from the issue.

The same Obanikoro that stole money from Lagos Island LG and set fire on the city hall?

Motaka ofo kuro laiye mi!!!

True talk. As you can see Tambuwal does not fly with the Presidential fleet. Shows you he knows what we all do not know,

It is those paid butt lickers on here organised by Oronto Douglas and Omokri.

You see Goodluck Jonathan is a failure and the only strategy they have to prevent his failure from being obvious is to try real hard to make every other person a failure. Bring him to Jonathan's level, it is ogogoro politics.

They also perceive Raji Fashola as a threat and that is why Labaran Maku will open his foul mouth to say the trash he said days ago. Omokri at a time opened one thread on this forum calling it "the truth about Fashola's success". Unfortunately for them, Lagos people stand strong behind Fashola. He may not be the perfect man but he stands way above their level.

Imagine a Lagos in the hands of PDP. That is telling the people of Lagos to choose between Tinubu and the ex-convict Bode George.

Jona playing his ogogoro politics again. As the pilot rightly said, these are bills that are usually paid later and that is the norm. It is not your Upper Iweaka motor park where you give mpiawazu boys money before take-off. The norm for most corporate organisations is that bills are accumulated and paid much later after the transaction date. They can accumulate debts and pay through standing orders with their banks. It should not be a pay as you go service.

The helicopter should only have been stopped from flying if they had exceeded a credit limit and not on a single transaction. Even if you felt they should have paid before take-off, the ideal thing is to allow the flight and issue a request for payment later, it is common sense.

We all know this is a continuation of Jona's ogogoro politics. These organisations should be built on safety principles and rules. However, controls are daily being circumvented to meet Jona's disgusting ambition. It is dangerous, it is criminal as it is a threat to those who these institutions are meant to serve and also ensure their safety.

Tomorrow a plane will crash, Labaran Maku will come out with his foul mouth and tell us how "it was almost me". ANIMALS!!!

kaorama: Dont think u reason. Can u do same in developed country like th US? SHAMELESS HYPOCRITE

Will you stop talking nonsense there. In those countries, you accumulate debts and pay via direct debit through your bank. No one goes chasing you around like umu agbero. You think aviation is the same as your bus park at upper Iweka.

If the operator had been hugely in debt, he should not have been made to take off and even if he had, you send a request for payment later. That is the ideal thing.

Skillbobralph: U re even the one blind becos nowhere in developed countries you pay after services, it is pay before services. These leaders ought to lead with example so they aren't showing it. GEJ is doing the right thing now, you people are complaining. No matter who you are you must follow due process. Can the pilot try that abroad where he claimed he have been all his life. He would have been behind counter for trying to avoid tax not only delayed for 1hr.

Abeg close your mouth joor, "nowhere in developed countries you pay after services". Who told you that rubbish.

The ideal thing would have been to send a notice requesting payment from the operator.

These are organisations that should be built on safety principles and rules, Jona has turned them to tools to play his ogogoro politics. When plane crash tomorrow, Labaran Maku go tell us how he escaped again and we should thank God for him.

Animals!!! Ezeala kugbusia ununile

Labaran Maku, a failed cattle rarer, with zero sense is Jona's 'Minister for Misinformation', one can not but pity my country Nigeria.

Is the man on drugs? What does he smoke?

This is what happens when a failed cattle rarer is made Minister for Information, he will become a nuisance.

Maku does not even have the brain to assess performance, so what do you expect him to say. Does Maku know the cost of waste management in a State like Lagos? To a large extent they have been managing waste reasonably well and they are improving.

If Maku with his tiny brain is given just a local government in lagos to run, he will go completely mad, so it's best he is ignored.

Maku is a failure seeking relevance. He failed as a union leader, failed as a cattle rarer and also failed as a minister.

Do you expect anything good from such a person.

PapaBrowne: The NGF is as constitutional as OPC, MASSOB and your Neighborhood association as well as the Association of retired Prostitutes. They all have a right to freedom of association.

NGF is unconstitutional as a body of governance with regard to jurisdiction of state functions. In that light any utilization of taxpayers money for the funding of the activities of the NGF is totally illegal.

Are you telling me a State has no right to make donations to a not for profit organisation? Under what law or guiding principle due you determine where donations should be made?

mikeansy: The NGF is constitutional but has no jurisdiction. I think Nigerians use the word unconstitutional loosely to mean lacking any power or jurisdiction. Of course the NGF is constitutional.

Thank you very much, it is silly and mischievous to say the NGF is unconstitutional.

shadrach77: This is funny. If the Jang faction is not the authentic version, why are they suing it? Suing it indicates they (Amaechi and co) are acknowledging that the Jang faction is the authentic faction. I'm a man and somebody says I'm a woman. Why should I sue the person who says I'm not a woman if I know for sure that I'm a man

So if I own a land and you come trespassing, I can't get a court order restraining you from further trespassing.

You Sir deserve to be awarded the "mumu of the day"!

All these talk about the NGF being 'unconstitutional' is totally stupid. The constitution guarantees the freedom of association and nobody can take this right away from us.

If the Governors deem it fit to exercise this right by way of the NGF, nobody has a right to stop them from doing this. And this is what they want. They want to have a hold of their forum where they can share knowledge and information; and not have one drunk man from Aso Villa determine how they choose to associate.

Good move Raji Fashola.

Them say money no do. Like Fela friend wey dey save money to buy fan, these ones dey save money to build bridge.

"They start to save and save and save for 30 years and six months. Inside pillow, under cushion, under mat". Hehehehehe I dey laugh O.

Fact is Africa and Nigeria does not have enough to meet it's development needs. However, with the right strategy, we will use what we have efficiently and even raise more.

Nothing wrong in securing long term finance for such a capital intensive project. Like development in Dubai financed with a lot of debt, we can replicate same if we get our acts together. Get yourselves together, make the right case for these projects, secure finance and build.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi once called for an infrastructural development bank and I agree with him. It's an effective way of making people think as they have to compete for finance for development instead of the lazy transactional approach to development.

Abagworo: Why can't Delta which is a richer State build the bridge?

Why can't Delta and Anambra set up a joint entity to build the bridge? Set up a joint venture, call it 'ANDE', develop a business case, lobby the useless FG to release its waterway and guarantee loans.

Toll your bridge, run it like a business. The benefit to a traveler avoiding Onitsha will far exceed the cost and they will be willing and happy to pay.

Obiagelli: It's all about will and vision

Do they know, do they think, do they have a strategy? Do you not hear them ask why Lagos is collecting tolls on its roads. Fact is Anambra may not have a huge budget, however, with the right strategy and case for that project they will secure finance for it.

Get Delta, get Anambra and get the FG to guarantee repayment of any loan. Get the FG to also give out its water way. Then you build and collect your tolls. You boost economic activities, collect more taxes, the users of this road make more money through improved transport efficiency, concessionaire makes money from tolls, bank gets its principal and yield; and everybody is happy.

Peter Adaobi -the man woman- cannot even control mpiawazu boys in Onitsha so how do you expect him to have the vision and strategy for this.

They ask where the money is going to come from because they are not thinkers. Look at the railway they 'relaunched', a continuation of the same old same crap with trains spending 36 hours from Lagos to Kano. Yet the finance for that project was partly provided by the China Africa Development Fund. How are they going to repay the loan for a project that will hardly earn a positive net present value with the way it is being run? Of course 'Oyel' money, lazy thinkers, no strategy and the rot goes on and on.

Sincere 9gerian: Confused opposition warriors. When it pleases them, they tell us Nigeria is a failed state where the roads are death traps. But when faced unprecedented achievements of GEJ, they tell us OBJ and Lord Lugard had fixed all the roads before GEJ came to power. This is why I call them CONFUSED CRITICS.

Boooo, insecure human, go and get a life if you do not have anything to say. It might be "unprecedented" to a failure like you, however, to me it has no meaning. There is nothing to celebrate as it's all still cheap.

If you knew what appraisal means you won't be on this forum again.

Symphony007: That is why i love the westminster system of government. If jonathan was prime minister and every tuesday, he had to go before parliament and the nigerian people and debate the opposition on his policies..nigerians will shutter at the IQ of their president and he will definitely loose sleep when he thinks of the next embarrasment the following tuesday.

Hehehe, even David Cameron runs from his PMQ at times because he knows what awaits him.

I'm sorry to say but are Nigerians dull. Their eyes dey shine where e no suppose. If these people know the power they have over these insecure leaders, by now these low lives masquerading as leaders will be pissing in their pants.

And so what? Before Goodluck Jonathan we had over 30000 km of Federal roads in the country. Who built it, did it fall from the sky? Should we knight those that built these roads?

Fact is roads have always been constructed (not even Jonathan's rehabilitation) but like we say and we have always said, it is still largely insignificant!

OBJ was on the Benin Asaba road, the Ibadan Ilorin Road, the Benin Bypass, started off the Onitsha Owerri road. Onitsha to Oba had been completed before OBJ left; and the ground works and site clearing had been completed for a significant part of the project. The credit for that road should even go to Late Umaru Yar'adua who worked on the most difficult terrains between Uli and Owerri. Umaru revoked part of the contract which OBJ criminally awarded to Chris Ubas CCC and re-awarded to JB and at least 80% of that project had been completed before Umaru died. Even during Abacha's days I could travel from Lagos to PH in 8 hours.

GEJ asked for a marking scheme. I laugh, could the man be so dull as not to know his budget is a marking scheme? Budgets are used in appraising performance. What percentage of his budget has he implemented? Jonathan as signed four budgets into law, take a look at these budgets and tell me what percentage of projects under this budgets have been implemented. Less than 40% of capital projects were implemented in the last budget. Meanwhile debts are growing daily, the costs of these projects will also go up with inflation and changes to the prices of inputs and so we will require more in the future to implement these projects. Is this how we want to catch up? Is this how we are going to reduce the poverty of nations?

I appraise, I use value for money i.e efficiency, effectiveness and economy. That is how we rate performance and not through some cheap propaganda.

Someone once told me if we had been implementing at least 80% of our annual budgets by now we would have gone a long way and I quite agree with him.

You see when people talk about how much of a visionary and strategist Raji Fashola is, notice some people from a particular part of the country develop high blood pressure over it. You know why, because the leaders in their own region are totally useless. There is virtually nothing going on in their part of the country.

But my problem is, instead of being jealous and developing high blood pressure over progress, why don't you learn from what the man is doing and replicate part -even if you cannot do all- in your own region? The man has a model, a progressive model, why can't you copy? There is nothing wrong in copying something good!

That is Umaru Yar'adua for you, not as vindictive and petty as OBJ and Goodluck Jonathan. OBJ ceased Lagos State funds for years and also moved to block the ENRON power project while Jona moved to block finance on the Lagos Badagry expressway.

Guess what both men have in common? The man Tony Anenih advising them on dirty, petty and vindictive strategies. Such strategies include but not limited to making sure others do not achieve better so as not to expose the mediocrity in them. DIRTY PEOPLE!!!

Gbawe: With all due respect, this is why I said earlier that many Nigerians would not be the best judge of what smartness is. We will input dishonesty, deception, corner cutting, cheating to get our ways and even fraud as qualities we erroneously think equates "smartness" because of how our society has shaped us aberrantly.

How is the part in bold above smartness? It is obvious that, condemnably, Mimiko either (1) married hastily within two days for the sake of politics and not primarily for love or (2) he cynically engaged in 'arrangee' marriage or (3) he forged or bought a marriage certificate to achieve a political agenda. Guy, how is any of that smartness? If anything you have helped us make sense of why Mimiko behaved as unprincipled and as crudely as he did recently.

These people are dull and it's such a shame. Why do you waste so much time on them.

Raji, Raji, Raji Fashola.

A strategist, a planner, a thinker and a futurologist. I can see it through his lenses, the man stands way above the others. He has a vision and he works to achieve that vision.

Deceit is not smartness as it has no impact on improving humanity. Of what use is the "smartness" of a r@pist?

Abati is a product of a homo relationship, so says Femi Fani Kayode. Abati is trying real hard to justify his pay and so I understand where he is coming from.

Man must wack now, abi no be so?

You can tell from the rubbish he penned above that Abati is a very insecure human at the moment. I can also see he has been reading Nairaland lately as most of the questions I asked about Jona's drunken meeting were answered in that statement albeit not convincingly. To these m0r0ns anyone who questions Jona's drunkenness must be from the "opposition"? Chai Chineke ekwela inhe ojo.

The Iddo Kano route was running in the 1990s, this was during the Abacha era. To put trains back to that 1990 level in 2013 and call it "transformation", like I say shows you are not a serious person.

Secondly, to ask what was done during OBJs era is the most silly thing. OBJ secured part of the Finance for that project though a loan from the China Africa development fund. Rehabilitation of that Iddo Kano line also started under OBJ.

Thirdly, even with the old rickety trains, there seems to be no strategy for effectively maintaining and sustaining the project. How do you explain trains breaking down frequently and people having to spend almost three days on journeys? This is how you measure performance on the success of transport projects and not through photos.

Fourthly, this is another reason why countries do not take us serious. In this century, when you bring the international media, from economist, to CNN and then to BBC; and keep showing them 1800 trains as "improvement", of course they will smile with you in your country. However, when they go back to their country, they look at you as stupid. To develop, you must think big, you must continually improve and not stick to the 1960's and call it "transformation".

Someone says, "India is a super power with rickety trains". India is no super power, India is developing just like you. However, India's level of development is way above yours and so is also India's infrastructural development.

[quote author=Adura_ngba]NEW RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE

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• Federal Government has approved new railway plans for the standard gauge
• $8.3bn estimated for the project. $2bn is obtained as a soft loan from the Chinese government
• 3 longitudinal lines: Lagos – North; Warri – North; and Port Harcourt – North
• 4 Latitudinal lines, with extension lines to cover all State capitals and major commercial cities

ELECTRICITY PATHETIC PAST

• 1986-1999: No major overhaul carried out on existing plants
• 1990-1999: No new power stations built
• 1999: Only 19 out of 79 generating units in operation, with actual daily generation averaging 1800MW
• The last transmission line built in 1987

ELECTRICITY SINCE 1999
Major Infrastructural Expansion

• Geregu Plant, Kogi State: completed and commissioned February 2007
• Omotosho Plant, Ondo State: completed and commissioned May 2007
• Papalanto Plant, Ogun State: On going
• Alaoji Plant, Abia State: On going
• Egbema Plant, Imo State: On going
• Omoku Plant, Rivers State: State complted, Federal On going
• Calabar Plant, Cross River State: On going
• Gbarain Plant, Bayelsa State: On going
• Ihovbor Plant, Edo State: On going

MAMBILLA HYDRO PLANT: 2000MW: Contract signed and civil works have begun.
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WHAT has CHANGED?
• Energy generation increased from 1,800MW in 1998 to about 2700MW in 2004

• Funding increased from about $50m in 1999 to about $380m in 2005

• 19 new power stations under construction to generate 4,500MW of power

• 7,000km of transmission lines nationwide and 22,000 transformers to be installed

• Over 600 project sites nationwide to bring electricity to about 1000 rural communities. The entire project will involve about 20,000 shipments comprising:
• - 200km of gas pipeline
• - 10,000 tons of material for power station equipment
• - 67,500 tons of transmission tower materials
• - 15,000km of distribution conductors
• - 25,000 distribution transformers



INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SINCE 1999

Market Liberalization
International Recognition
Telecommunications Sector Reform
Communications Infrastructure Development

• State Accelerated Broadband Initiative (SABI Project)
• Wire Nigeria Project (WiN)
• Internet Service Exchange (IXP)
• Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF)

Unprecedented Impact in Socio-Economic Development

Phenomenal Industry Growth (connected mobile line grew at about 100% annually)

Improved Tele-density (tele-density increased from a mere 0.45 lines per 100 persons in 1999 to 25 lines per 100 persons as at January 2007)

Nigeria was adjudged the fastest growing telecoms market in Africa and one of the fastest in the world by 2006

Private investment rose from $50m in year 1999 to $9.5b in 2007. This was also influenced by the revolution in the telecommunications

Over 34million connected lines

Massive employment generation

Two major projects initiated to provide rural telephony in 108 local governments spread across the country

Massive rural telephony project launched two weeks ago by Mr. President

NIPOST now a world class postal institution


HEART OF AFRICA PROJECT
A cohesive information programme for Nigeria's image management and economic progression.

Arguably the most ambitious marketing and ethical blueprint designed by any Nigerian government to tell the Nigerian story.

Ensured the right kind of information is received about Nigeria, both locally and internationally.

Repositioned Nigeria to serve as Africa's preferred destination for political, business, social and cultural events.

Embraced a value orientation programme involving attitudinal and behavioral change tagged PRIDE - Patriotism Resourcefulness Integrity Distinction Enterprise.

Hosting of the largest colloquium of Nigerian mothers - “Mother's Summit”. The summit became the plank for the implementation of PRIDE - The internal component of the project.

Nigerian brands marketed abroad through bus, escalator and tube branding.[/quote]