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davidylan:
maybe those who want to wear burqas should stop emigrating to countries where burqas are considered odd pieces of clothing. You cant force your culture on others.

Isn't that what France is trying to do now? Force their culture on women who wear the burqa?

Although I don't have a drop of Yoruba in me, I think this is really cool!

@ bobolistic

Please visit this thread, it will really open your eyes about the realities of Malaysia.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-274074.0.html

@OP

Please provide a list of reasons why Nigerians should be positive.

Hmmmm, it's not like I was comparing their gross domestic products, my comparison is entirely valid. It's a fact that Nigeria's economy is ENTIRELY dependent on the price of one commodity.

So instead of whining and crying about it, accept the facts or provide a logical counterargument.

You would have to pay me to ever step foot into that country.

Why are those lazy South Africans so busy complaining about foreigners becoming successful, and not finding new ways to compete with them? It's like they're missing an entire segment of their brains.

Foreigners in South Africa should just leave, it's beyond me how they put up with these barbaric individuals for so long. . . . .

. . . .Out of control Xenophobia, one in four men are rapists, baby rapers, murders every 20 or so seconds, etcetera. Viva la South Africa!

/rant over

Why u dey vex? Tell me where I lied? If you're tyring to create a parallel between Nigeria's and Ghana's economy, Ghana's is MUCH better.

In Nigeria, our economy largely depends on the price of one commodity: oil (90%). While Ghana's economy is still around 50% dependent on agriculture, it's still many times more stable than Nigeria's.

This year alone, how many times did Nigeria have to revise it's national budget due to tanking oil prices?

Read this: http://allafrica.com/stories/200906190622.html

I doubt it has anything to do with fear, what country in the world doesn't want investors? Mark my words, Ghana is going to have an economic BOOM in the next few years.

It's economy grew 7.3% last year, after the recession it's expected to grow almost double that.

Old news, you're about a month and a half late. . .

Wow, are they keeping a tally on the debt they're racking up? What's the interest rate on these IMF loans again?

muhsin:
Source also told Daily Trust that the detained crewmen attempted to bribe the airport security operatives so as to be allowed to take off after refueling, but the operatives turned down the offer, which was said to be a substantial amount of money in hard currency.

Chai!

Naija go beta!

Buzz me when it hits 0.0 Bpd.

Source?

OgidiBoy:
It's really sad to see how the west dumps arms on Africa for use to kill ourselves. I guess the manufactures and sellers on these weapons don't care who gets killed as long as they making their profits.

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stamma:
mama africa.

Wtf? Obviously not a Nigerian, where in Nigeria will I find Khoisan people?

Typical Nigerian (actually more like African) culture of not keeping things maintained. . . . .

Sad, may thier souls rest in peace.

What I don't understand is how the cameraman was able to film all of this, and put the footage on the internet. Were the soldiers even aware of the camera?

Why is the blame being put on Emirates, as if it is their fault MMA is like that. . . . .

Frizy:
Nigeria is not the giant of Africa, and I doubt it has ever being. I think this word was just adopted by the founding fathers to create a sense of hope and objectivity to Nigerians who seek it.

To become a giant, you need to the powerful: militarily, economically, and politically. Nigeria's Military is not as powerful as many may think, they hardly have military theorists that have documented the ideal strategy of war, operational arts, military tactics, or otherwise. Meanwhile, Nigeria does not manufacture any military equipment/vehicles of it's own. Therefore, we have no might.

Economically: Nigeria fails to establish institutions that would generate revenue to expand its purpose across the globe, neither does it advocate any economic model that could challenge the failing free market capitalist system. The true masters in the Nigerian Economy are the banks, and they do not support industrialization, they only seek to frustrate the emerging entrepreneurs with "crude interest rates", which itself bankrupts an economy.

Political: Nigeria have succeeded in its political agenda in making it democratic, however, bureaucracy is the right definition for the political system in Nigeria, for one party emerges again as the true masters, oppositions are eloquent in their speeches, but most oppositions do not have a proper methodology in seeking to challenge the masters "PDP", what they often do after losing fate in the deluded democracy is either to join the ruling party known to be active participants in the "rigging" of elections, or withdraw from any political party to remain independent.

It is no sweet-saying, Nigeria can never be a Giant if it lacks leaders that truly aspire to use its resources for the development of the people and it's institution. What we have in Nigeria are "sick, money worshipping, deficient rulers" who have no true purpose on what achievement really means, they are all thinking the west determines who shapes the world, when who they look to, have no true resource of its own, but created money in order to keep the wage slave in line.

vigasimple:
whatever giant means, by whose definition?

As far as Iam concern Nigeria is NOT even giant of WEST AFRICA.

We should stop deceiving ourselves or allow those politicians to make us feel good while stealing and raping us on a daylight robbery.

Ask yourselves thses questions, How can Nigeria be a giant of Africa, If

1. has no electrcity
2. No good roads
3. No good hospital, schools
4. No railway
5. No national Airline
6. No National shipping line


Of course if the giant of Africa is measured i nthese terms below then we are the giant of the world

1. mentally deranged politicians
2. comedy legislature
3. Lieing leadership- emergency on power within 100 days, 700 days later nothing. a sick president who refuse to leave and seek medicl help
4. massive fraudulent politicians
5. Electoral frauds


Even without the above there are other measures of greatness, self denial is certainly not one of them as we Nigerians are used to doing. You have to admit your weaknesses and work on it. That is NOT Nigeria.

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Nice, I like how a lot of the newer residential buildings are relatively dense, good strategy for preserving land in the city.

@OmoNaija, do yourself a favor and just stfu now. This poster did you no harm, why are you so persistent on derailing this thread?

You are not the moderator, so just because you are naija and the other poster is not doesn't mean you have any authority over the situation. The only waste of space here are your posts.

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Now for once and for all, lets not feed the trolls anymore. . . . thanks for the great pictures again to our Kenyan brothers and sisters. This is why I love the travel section so much.

https://www.untwistedvortex.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dontfeedthetroll.jpg

Wow, so much jealousy in this thread. This is the travel forum, where does it say in the forum rules that people can't post pictures of places in the world? Where?

All of these negative comments are so unnecessary, if you don't like the thread, don't click on it. Simple as that. Some of you really need to grow the f.uck up, especially you OmoNaijaUK.

Please continue with the awesome pictures of this wonderful city.

^^ Yeah the other two guys weren't all that experienced, but it's a start. . .

asha 80:
@blackspade
I will be suprised to see any nigerian in naija doing this 'jerkin' because nigerians in naija do not have time for these type of things anymore unlike maybe people from 25yrs up who might have been influenced by american music.

In nigeria now it is naija music all the way.Just move around the steets of naija and see.

Thanks for the info, but in due time, it'll get there. Jerkin isn't music, it's a dance habit.

luck007:
@poster
who will think of doing this s***t?
who do u think will do this in naija?

sharrup hater!

UBA, Lagos Partner on Infrastructure Development

9 June 2009

Lagos -- The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has said it would partner with Lagos State government in its quest to upgrade and build modern infrastructure befitting the status of Lagos as a mega city.

Deputy managing director of UBA, South, Phillips Odooza, who stated the bank's readiness to partner Lagos during a courtesy visit to Fashola, said the management was most encouraged by the determination of the state government to turn the entire landscape of Lagos around and would be pleased to join hands with the state. Odooza who was accompanied on the visit by executives of the bank, noted that most significant of the recent development in Lagos is enhanced security and safety of persons and businesses who hitherto faced constant threat and attacks by criminals.

The deputy managing director also cited the on-going transformation of the Lekki-Epe expressway via public private partnership initiative as another testimony of the Fashola's administration, stressing that the bank would be exploring ways of partnering with the state to ensure more is achieved in area of infrastructural development and security.

The State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, however tasked banks in the country to exploit various investment opportunities in the state. The governor who listed ferry services, sports, tourism, mortgage financing among others as areas where banks can reap handsome reward from their investment, wondered why the financial institutions appear to be running away from putting their money in these areas.

Source: http://www.news.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=798:uba-lagos-partner-on-infrastructure-devt&catid=34:environment&Itemid=30

Bump!

How Lagos Was Transformed, By Fashola

Michael Simire

8 June 2009

The implementation of the innovative Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Lite System that ferries passengers in high-capacity buses on dedicated bus lanes has been a major accomplishment within the past couple of two years, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said.

He disclosed a week ago at Aluasa at a media session that the BRT scheme, which already over a year old, operates between CMS through Mile 12 to Ikorodu and has so far transported over 52 million passengers.

"The BRT innovation has introduced a culture of better understanding among social classes on our roads as people of low, medium and high social classes ride on the same faster, safer, predictable, relatively cheaper and more comfortable buses from one destination to the other," he said, adding that a considerable number of people now prefer to park their private cars and travel on the buses.

"The fewer number of vehicles on the roads help to reduce travel time even on non-BRT lanes, save precious man hours and also reduce pollution. The BRT system has been strengthened with the introduction of LAGBUS, which currently runs 335 high capacity buses and 195 Daewoo air-conditioned buses along 21 operational routes as the largest Bus Intra-state Transport Operator in West Africa."

The scheme is being expanded to cover Yaba, Oyingbo, Iddo, Oshodi to Mile 2, Apapa to CMS and ultimately the Iyana-Ipaja-Igando-Ikotun corridor.

Fashola stressed that steps have been taken to maximise the state's water transportation potential in order to facilitate more efficient movement of goods, people and services, create employment and boost economic growth.

He disclosed, "Already, we have facilitated the operation of two companies, City Link Limited and Metro Ferry, which are offering Ferry services between Badore to Marina and Ikorodu to Marina respectively through Public-Private-Partnerships.

"To further strengthen our water transportation network, we have constructed jetties at Agboyi in Agboyi Ketu LCDA and Ijegun Egba in Ori-Ade LCDA while our standard type and ultra modern Jetties are at advanced stages of construction in Ikorodu, Osborne and Badore.

"We have equally completed work on the dredging of water transportation routes from Tolu-Ajegunle Canal-Tincan Water Front; Mile 2 - Oke-Afa and Tincan Water Front to Liverpool Bridge while work is on-going on Osborne-Ikorodu; Badore-Osborne and Ikorodu-Ijede-Badore routes."

On rail transportation, he said that government was committed to delivering two of the planned seven-rail road network, which are the Red Line from Agbado to Marina and the Blue Line from Okokomaiko to Marina.

According to him, the ongoing construction and modernisation of roads and bridges as well as the provision of street lights will impact positively on efficiency of transportation and enhanced property values, while improving safety and security and better economic productivity.

"Some of the major road projects complete with modern facilities such as street lights, pipe ducts, drainage channels and beautification of medians, which we have delivered to the public include the Ago Palace Way Extension and Okota Link Bridge in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government; the second phase of the Adetokunbo Ademola Road on Victoria Island; the Bourdillion-Alexander-Gerald roads in Ikoyi; the Montgommery Road, Aje Road and Commercial Avenue all in Yaba," he emphasised.

He went further, "Scores of other on-going road construction projects throughout the nooks and crannies of the state include the construction of Ariyo-Ira-Muwo-Tedi-Abule Oshun Road and bridge in Ojo Local Government; the Okota-Itire over head link bridge and road works, the Ajibulu Road and bridge in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area; the ongoing expansion and modernisation of the 46km Lekki-Epe Expressway; the virtually completed LASU-IBA and Ajah-Badore roads, the Murtala Muhammed Way from Yaba to Iddo; Herbert Macaulay Way on Lagos Mainland and the dualisation of Mobil Road and Wilmer Crescent in Apapa Local Government Area."

Fashola disclosed that the contractor has been mobilised for the immediate commencement of work on the transformation of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway into a 10-lane international high way complete with BRT routes, pedestrian walkways and light rail mass transit routes, adding that the project would revolutionise the corridor's landscape while elevating the state's economy to new heights.

He contended that massive infrastructure renewal and expansion across diverse sectors is a key opportunity of "virtually constructing our way out of poverty."

"Thus, we are constructing and equipping thousands of new classrooms, libraries and laboratories in our public schools; we are constructing at least 200 new magistrate court rooms; we are constructing massive new markets and shopping malls in Oyingbo, Oshodi, Tejuosho and Adeniran Ogunsanya.'

The governor stated that the state government's release of counterpart fund for the development of the Lekki Free Trade Zone accelerate the growth of the axis as a major commercial, tourist, business and real estate zone in Africa, while enhancing the state's prosperity generating and poverty alleviating capacity.

He expressed appreciation over the improvement of the quality of the state's environment, saying that government utilised aggressive beautification and greening of open spaces to uplift the environment's aesthetic appeal, and create jobs and alleviate poverty.

"The transformation of Oshodi is undeniably the flag ship of our efforts in this regard," said, adding that apart from a smooth flow of traffic, the entire area is being renewed into a serene and appealing environment.

He described the new Simpson Transfer Loading Station as the first of a series of such stations to be located across the state to compact wastes into smaller volumes for faster and more efficient evacuation to dump sites with fewer trucks.

The Olusosun dumpsite along the entry point to Lagos near Ojota, he said, has transformed from a smoke-belching dumpsite to an environmentally-friendly site covered in lush green grass in accordance with emerging global trends.

Fashola added that on-going major drainage and channel construction works continue in Mushin-Cele through Mushin, Idi-Araba and Itire; the first phase of the lining and dredging of System 5 Channel passing through Apapa, Amukoko and Sari-Iganmu; and the first phase of the dredging and lining of System 2 Channel (Shomolu Canal) running through Shomolu, Bajulaiye, Akoka, Gbagada and Iwaya, and other parts of the sate to channel rain and storm water to their final draining points which are the lagoons, rivers and the sea.

He went on, "The cleaning of our environment and aggressive tree planting campaign and enforcement of our physical planning laws are meant to preserve lives and property and show intellectual leadership in tackling the menace of climate change in Nigeria. We have established the future character of our environment by setting up Climate Change Clubs in our schools to get our future leaders involved early. We successfully hosted this year the first Lagos State International Climate Change Summit which came up with a pro active action plan to contain the challenge in Lagos State and Nigeria.

"Our new Model City legislation, which was recently signed into law, has enabled the creation of a State Model Development City Authority that will ensure the orderly and lawful development of model city areas of the state such as Victoria Island/Ikoyi, Alimosho, Badagry, Lagos Mainland Central, Epe, Agege-Ifako-Ijaiye, Apapa, Ikeja and Ikorodu.'

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200906080255.html

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Very good read. Governor Fashola is changing the face of Lagos on a monumental level, other governors should take note.

LOL, notice his attempt to "dumb down" his grammar.

stan talka:
governor amaechi has always been a good strategist but who knows what he's up to this time around to dissolve his cabinet? maybe he's got some good plans for the state and he's working with some good political machines to move rivers state ahead.

stan talka:
i am governor amaechi
of coz u no amaechi will have nothing doing here.
but i'm so sure that guy is really gonna change things in rivers state coz he's already startd it.

sorry i no mean to gossip mr.crac

C'River To Cultivate 250,000 Tonnes Of Rice Yearly

By Bassey Inyang , Correspondent, Calabar

Cross River State government has adopted some economic measures that would boost production and milling of 250,000 tonnes of rice in the state yearly.

To achieve this, the state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an indigenous company, Notore Chemicals Industries Limited, on the cultivation and milling of rice of the expected quantity in the state.

Imoke, who spoke after signing of the agreement, explained that the project falls within the State's Economic Blue Print and the Seven-point Agenda of his administration.

Imoke said implementation of the project would also result in massive job creation through agriculture.

According to him, local rice farmers would benefit further from the project, as they would be exposed to new farming technology and methods.

Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Sam Oju, said the project would involve 20,000 hectares of mechanised rice farming and milling.

Oju described the MoU as symbolic in the state's desire at positioning itself as a food basket of the nation and indeed West Africa.

He explained that the first phase of the programme would cover the rice belts in Yala, Ogoja and Bekwara local government areas of the state.

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Notore Chemical Industries Limited, Mr. Onajite Paul Okoloko, said the project is viable, as Nigerians currently import N2 billion rice annually and consume five million tonnes yearly at a period the country produces two million tonnes locally per annum.

Okoloko said the proposed rice project would at inception create 15,000 jobs, while describing the initiative as a great partnership in line with the Seven-point Agenda of President Umaru Yar'Adua's programme on food security, creation of wealth and jobs.

According to him, the proposed project is designed to meet globally approved standards.

Okoloko commended Cross River State government's effort to achieve sustainability in food production especially in the area of rice cultivation and milling, which he said, was a good beginning of things to happen.

Oju and the state's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Edward Ogon, signed on behalf of the state, while Okoloko signed on behalf of Notore Chemical Industries Limited.

Source: http://www.independentngonline.com/news/nide/article01