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The service was relaunched last month after improvements costing $166m. Nigeria’s railways, started in 1898, have deteriorated in the past 20 years owing to those old engines of decay, corruption and mismanagement. Nigerians’ domestic travel options are limited. Most cannot afford to go by air, so take to the roads. Overfilled lorries, usually packed with dozens of passengers sitting on cargo, precariously negotiate crater-sized potholes. One stretch of road, nicknamed “Bauchi or Death”, after a northern state, is littered with overturned lorries and cars.

All what he listed above was what lead to the death of the trains and it is the same thing experienced by that brother on his train ride, nothing has changed. How do you spend so much money and what you get is a crap service that will ultimately lead to the death of the trains?

We talk of continuous improvement. If service today is similar to what obtained before the death of the trains in the late 1990s, then I'm afraid, that which killed it in the late 1990s will ultimately kill it today. I expect reasonable people to see his story as a first step in problem-solving as he has identified a problem and then work towards finding solutions and improving quality of service. However, what we have are people looking for who wants "to bring them down", pathetic!

And that is why I say privatize the trains and let the NRC focus on maintaining and building the rail tracks. Take the NRC away from the Ministry of Transport, let it run independently of that 'Alhaji Minister'. Let it run like a business, driving quality and continuous improvement of service. Quality should be at the center of everything within the NRC. It should be a language and there should be a 'taken-for-grantedness'.

Come on Phil Jones, you know what to do.

Anichebe O

aieromon: *packs spit,loads it and fires it back at spitter

Yeye

I will send Giggs the in-law slapping skipper to your house.

BodyKiss: Your only solution is a gun. You know what to do with it.

I will have to hand one to the old Fergie. He knows what to do with it. Like he did to Becks with the boot, this time it will be to that ugly wh0re seeking boy called Rooney

Henry120: You are a miserable worthless dog. you want to know what is happening, I have told you to go to mali and see for yourself. Your tiny incoherent brain cannot piece that simple suggestion together abi?

Muhehehe, I will get better sources to tell me what is truly going on and not the photos from your imbecilic brain. So get out of here, I don't need a worthless human like you to force your clap-trap down my throat. You can take your photos and shove it into that place, I careless.

I hate m*n u, can't stand them winning

*spits on thread*

Henry120: Now I know you are extremely stupi.D. I have presented photos, if you doubt any of the photos, pick up your bag and head to mali, so you can verify for your self. You silly imbec.i.l.e. Photos have been shown, artillery seen and you still doubt.

Is it difficult for your tiny brain to understand your miserable photos are not enough? Is basic English a problem for you? We have read of Chadian and French soldiers advancing, what of Nigerian soldiers?

Don't be daft, don't force your miserable photos on us, we are not buying it. We were in Liberia, we watched, heard and read of the impact of Nigerian Soldiers. This time around everything has gone so numb, what is happening?

My friend GTFOH, animal.

Henry120: Nigerian soldeir on an oto melara palmaria 155mm self-propelled howitzer in mali

Mr man don't be foolish. Is that a Soldier in the front line? Sitting idly on an amoured tank. What the OP has asked for is what role are the Nigerian troops playing in Mali. And rightly so, we have seen and read about the French advance. We have read the Chadian forces also moving, we have read and seen photos of the tuareg rebels also helping in the fight, what of our own troops? At least when they were in Liberia, we saw videos of their activities. What is happening this time around? Are they just manning checkpoints?

My responsibility to Nigeria is to expose fraudsters like Fraudulent Nigerian, Omokri aka Losthope, Tararqa and the other foot soldiers of the fraudulent leadership.

Such people bent on selling the soul of Nigeria for a bowl of nkwobi have no place in a progressive society. That I am doing and will continue to do to make my nation great.


You see what Fraudulent Nigerian talks about is "change". If change was such an easy process where everyone just starts acting the "right way" overnight, then we won't have to study implementing and managing change. We will just sit and assume everyone will start acting right overnight.

Leaders drive change, leaders implement change, leaders take ultimate responsibility for change and leaders manage change as change is a part of leadership. Read books on change to have a better understanding of how the process works, it is not a 'bolekaja' process. Read Julia Balogun's book on change in a business context. Read Fernandez and Rainey's work in a public policy context.

One big rubbish I continue to read is "leaders are a reflection of the people". Nigerians are super good people, better than most of the he-goats called their leaders. They organise their communities, buy and maintain their transformers for electricity, provide their water, employ people to secure their environments, build health centers, contribute to building their schools whilst their leaders smile to the bank. They serve their country in the harshest condition in the name of NYSC.

It is a big fallacy to say they cannot produce leaders better than the rubbish they have at the moment. Where did the likes of Awolowo come from? Was Awo at the same level of thought as the ordinary man? He had a vision and he drove his people towards that vision, he made his people see through his lenses and he raised many more leaders. I may not agree with everything about him but I cannot deny his leadership qualities.

And there are many more Awo's out there. What we need to do is to get them in the right places.

Again what happened to Quincy Owusu?

It was believed that boy was going to be as good as Thiery Henry , little did they know he was a Pius Ikedia in disguise

BTW what happened to Quinsy Owusu Abeyi.

Conquistador: You peoples hatred 4 Ghana/Ghanaians knows no bounds,huh?I guess taribo,tayo taiwo n all those fugly nigerian players were also Ghanaians,huh?

We chased them all out of our team, they were just too ugly

Besides Taribo had Oliseh to neutralize his ugliness.

These Ghanaians are the ugliest set of footballers I've seen

What a lot of people do not realise is in a normal situation, do you think I will consider guys like Buhari, Fashola or El-Rufai as leaders.

However, the situation PDP has put Nigeria is an abnormal one. PDP is a complete fraud milking the country away. Like I said to continue with the PDP is the biggest crime against humanity. A party that loots trillions of naira with nothing to show for it is a gathering of vampires. I witnessed years of Odilli in Rivers, I know what these men are made of, they have no conscience.

Okupe is a fraudster, expect nothing from a man fired by OBJ in 2001 for stealing estacodes and went on to defraud 2 states of Nigeria.

This is the spokesman of a Zona regime, a fraudulent regime. So understand where he is coming from, he has no soul.

Na so, election done dey reach, refinery done dey work again. Another Zona magic.

Was Warri refinery not said to be producing before Jona's rigged 2011 election? What happened after the election, we begin talk subsidy, no subsidy again.

It is a fraudulent government and so expect lies and deceits to show they are working. A government that still talks 'megawatts', gigawatts story on electricity even with the trillions spent is a fraud.

obi2012: a phd in IT security does not add value from a company's point of view..

a bachelors degree with a ccnp or cissp or a bunch of other certs is worth more than a phd..

You dont go into a phd for money, you go into a phd because you love research or love the field enough to teach in it but not for money.. In certain cases a phd might even limit your employment opportunities..

There are only certain fields where a phd translates to higher pay : economics, healthcare and certain types of engineering.. definitely not IT

If there is any area where you find a lot of PhD's it is in the IT industry. From Apple, to Google, to twitter, to Intel, you find loads of PhD's contributing, redesigning and re-engineering processes and products in these companies.

These are organisations that know their worth and not those your "IT companies" at Otigba street Ikeja.

hercules07: The thing tire me o, we spend billions and we get excuses that our rail is narrow guage, make the bloody thing wide guage nau, why should we spend Ferrari money to get beetle.

You see, a problem has been found, you move in, you find solutions, that is problem-solving, it is continuous improvement, it is leadership behaviour, that is how nations develop.

But what we have here are people looking for those who want to "bring the government down". Rubbish!!!

Was GEJ present when the train tracks were reconstructed? Did he sit at the site with workers to ensure completion? But then he takes the glory as one off his so-called "achievements".

Now there are issues with operations, there seems to be no defined strategy, the trains are run in a typical 'bolekaja' manner. Yet you say "is he the one selling the tickets?". Did he also construct the train tracks?

Absolute rubbish, leaders take responsibility. There is no way you can be present at each point controls are being implemented, however, it is called cascading a culture. You set a tone at the top and cascade that same tone through out your organisation. That is leadership behaviour and not the behaviour of a mediocre which you all think should be.

I do not even need Bola Tinubu to speak for me. To continue with a fraudster like Goodluck Jonathan and his PDP gang after 2015 is the worst anyone can do to his nation. To continue with a PDP that has spent over $30 billion on a power project yet we still talk "megawatts", "gigawatts" since 1999 is a big crime on humanity. To continue with a PDP that has spent over 10 years rehabilitating the Benin-Ore road is a ra.pe on every living thing in Nigeria.

I will mobilise more as I am already mobilising against this gang of fraudsters.

They want to be like China and UK yet they don't want to invest in their PhD programmes. They will rather spend on Namadi Sambos guest house.

Deluded people.

I have read some rubbish about "slow and steady" on this forum and I laugh. A nation in a socio-economic crisis talks about "slow and steady", rubbish.

There is no "slow and steady" change in a crisis but rather a 'bigbang' approach to change.

Privatise this rubbish now and stop wasting our money on crap. Any transport project not aimed at reducing journey time and increasing safety in this century is a complete waste.

Privatise it! You can retain ownership and maintenance of the train tracks but let Private operators run the train. They pay a licensing fee, they pay rent for the use of the tracks and stations too and we can focus on building other tracks.

Win win everyone is happy. Instead of spending billions on a 21 hour journey from Lagos to Illorin.

Hahaha funny war. France waiting for African led mission to take over in April. Hahaha, Oga eme ha vum nanya.

Truth is nobody really wants to fight this war, everybody dey rack sense. Money no dey, nations are trying to conserve what they have.

Jona is a known fraud. A man who lied stupidly on the $67 billion reserves, what do you expect again.

Back then in Lagos early 2000s, I used to get close to 18 hrs power supply daily and so I find it strange that the same level of supply is called "improvement" by Jona and his gang.

There is no improvement if it does not go round. Nigeria's population is increasing and it still seems at the same level per capita as it was in the 1980s. Improvement?

All these to make us forget the N5 trillion wey Jona carry run?

Abati we done see this tactics before.

CFCfan: "Meanwhile Jona don carry N5 trillion run".

Meanwhile MAULUTH pikin dem no see toilet use O

I done go sleep Jona matter done tire me. Na one week one fraud.

*singing*

Come and see O, come and see
Come and see O, come and see
Come and see O, come and see
Come and see what Jonathan do
Come and see what Jonathan do.

N5 trillion plus N1.4 trillion plus another $67 billion, going, going gooooonnneee

taharqa: Bunch of Noisemaking Ijiots.... So again, what is a 'Mission House'? It is certainly not a Residential House (any body who blives that is a certified ijiot). B4 I condemn a thing I must know what I am condemning....

again....

naja2: God punish you! The reason i dont take it lightly with you guys anylonger is because you guys are unrepentetant criminals, getting paid to destroy your country cos of pecuniary gains, there shall be no space for you guys any longer its fire for fire as we approach 2015. The kingdom og God suffereth violence and the violent taketh it by force. Is ur silly -ss telling Nigerian that there is nothing bad with building a "mission" house for the first lady for what? so that who will not due? How many hospitals has the Gej administration spent 4billion on since assuming office once again God purnish u again. This country must be free by all means from evil brigands like u and ur boss like i said watch out the battle has started, you all send ur kids abroad yet you wont invest 1b naira into education but spend 4b on a useless mission house amadioha fire ur mouth once again.

MUHEHEHEHE

Oooooooo another fraudulent project by President Jonafraud, GCFR, Grand Criminal of the Federal Republic.

You see it, this is the most criminal government in history.

Labaran Maku is what you get when you take a man who should be milking cows in Birin Kebbi and you make him Minister of Information. He will become 'Minister of Misinformation'. Okupe on the other hand is a known fraudster. Okupe was quietly fired by OBJ in 2001 for stealing estacodes, today he is the mouth piece of a fraudulent administration.


You have to understand how fiscal policies impact on reserves. Understand the basics of stabilization, compensatory finance and the real effective exchange rate to fully grasp what Oby was talking about. Like I said in another thread, it is not about the reserves going down, it is about what was achieved with the fall in reserves. Absolutely nothing!

Spent on Namadi Sambo's guest house for his girl friends and private jet for Bi-chop Ayo Orisha-gear-four while Jona, Oronto Douglas and the 40 laptop gang upgrade from ogogoro to ciroc. Animals!!!