₦airaland Forum

chrisooblog:
Not an expert at road construction but let me take a pop at your question.

1. Materials for road construction you will buy from multiple vendors that's money going to companies.

2. Road construction is labour intensive you need to hire many hands. Worker that was probably jobless now has change to take care of wife, kids, mother in the village and maybe mistress.

3. Workers will need to eat and drink something meaning mamaputs, eateries will spring up to cater to their needs. They'll probably also need medicare from work related hazards or injuries throw in doctors and nurses that will be needed to treat them.

4. For the industrial growth bit I produce goods in my little company getting it across town to my client is hell due to traffic, bad roads or lack of alternative route which leads to loss in man hours that ultimately affects the bottom line. Now an access road has been built that allows me to faster get my products to my customers this means I can take on more orders in a day, leading to bigger profits which means I can hire more people that will help reduce the unemployment market.

All this few points I mentioned you can imagine how it would be if we had multiple projects running around the country. If your average northerner knows he can earn go money working in some major project scattered all over his state why would he leave his comfort zone to come to Lagos where his chances of making are not 100% sure?

A place like Tinapa apart from providing work to the locals who were involved in its construction would have continued to provide job opportunities linked to tourism and entertainment but sadly the governments of the day both state and federal didn't leverage on it.

For example if the Lagos State government hadn't leveraged on the opportunities that LFTZ offered the place would have become another white elephant project.

A001:
For those that think once they learn science on Google and YouTube for a couple of hours, they know more than the experts that spent years studying it within the four walls of a classroom and lab:

DontBullshitMe:
All these promises for less than 4 billion dollars yearly budget for 30 million population?

I wish everybody involved well.

GloriousGbola:
By allowing pH to become a cesspool of violence and by condemning the state to endemic lung disease, there is no way any infrastructural development will attract any new investments in the state.

GloriousGbola:
Dangote is upgrading apapa oshodi expressway so his trucks will not be delayed.
A working functional road along an industrial axis means more accurate project planning.

I have been going on and on about the link bridge to orile. If that bridge is done, I can literally leave my home and be in vi in an hour. Maybe even 45 minutes. What does that do for productivity? Now multiply it

I am personally very particular about getting VALUE from anything I buy. I once had an extra car that sat in the house and was only used once in a blue moon. Everytime I started it, I would find rats had been playing in the engine. Eventually I sold it. It was just depreciating without adding any value


This is the problem of a lot of projects by governors.
They are not an optimal use of resources. Fayose built a fancy flyover in Ekiti. What is the vehiclar traffic that merits the expense?

Unless there is actually a strategic dubai type plan, you may find that the beautiful roads built in some states end up being used for racing and nothing more.

DontBullshitMe:
Highways, flyovers, railways etc should be strategic infrastructure designed to drive industrial growth. They are not the only factors needed but they are necessary. For a start, industrial 'estates' must have good roads for the movement and transport of raw materials and finished products. If the roads are good and dependable, company spends less on maintenance of trucks and trailers, fast delivery etc. Add these together and you get more profits, more taxes.

When companies make bigger profits, they think of expansion and when you expand, employment becomes a necessity. I am not saying strategic road and rail infrastructure are the only thing needed for rapid industrialization but of course they are one of the necessary factor. You still need quality technological education, security, productive population etc

DontBullshitMe:
Not defending Soludo but what is the metric used to determine he has failed? It looks to me that all the past and present Governors in Nigeria pretty much failed so I don't understand why you are singling him out?

Look at Wike for example, I read on this thread that despite the numerous projects execution, he still had to directly recruit 10k people into the state civil service to come and do practically nothing. So you begin to question how the numerous flyovers, bridges and highways constructed have not translated to industrial growth to atleast battle unemployment.

Majority of the roads and flyovers Governors build that make Nigerians to hail them as performers are not strategic infrastructure. Basically a PR necessity to shut up doubters/opponents and raise the Governor's ego.

sod09:
Elder people dan invade this thread sha

GloriousGbola:
Sanwo may not care, but someone down the line may take it seriously. Alternatively if sanwo is petty ( we really cannot tell) he will be vexed and his subordinates may do thier own thing.

I am sure that picture is flying around and they are trying to identify who it is.

Please note the following

I have no stand against the guy - I just think that if the guy was wearing an LP lapel, and if he was side eyeing sanwos wife, he is not wise.

No do like all those screenshot niggas abeg. You are a higher level of obidient

_{Even if you are misled}

GloriousGbola:
Do the pdp members wear pdp lapel like maga hat?

GloriousGbola:
Do not mix right and wise.

They are two different things.

I am in my right to wear all black in a cult dominated environment. It is however unwise for me to do so.

You are in your write to tell aggressive yorubas you voted for Peter obi. You however agree it is unwise to do so

Desmond is in his right to feel the endsars youths are foolish. I am sure that is how it went in all the internal meetings. He was however unwise to say this in public.

That is the emotional intelligence you are talking about

Theflint1:
Sanwo-Olu is not the guy's direct boss, LP got more votes than APC in Lagos, so it's even possible that in the guy's department, there are as many or even more LP supporters as there are APC supporters.

GloriousGbola:
Desmond is free to think of the youths as foolish. It is his perogative. His mistake was saying it in public. That is why I am likening the guy to desmond. There is a limit to how much of your beliefs and emotions you can wear on your sleeve if you want to coexist peacefully, and if you don't want controversy.

I have said many times I live in festac where Tinubu is hated. The other day my kids taekwondo coach went off on a rant - Tinubu is a drug baron etc etc. I just look the man.

Even on this platform every other day someone calls me out - I thought you were a smart guy, I thought you had sense. But I can see you are a stupid guy supporting a drug dealer who pees on himself.

If I make mistake put apc sticker on my car, there is every possibility I may meet a broken windshield if I park in some places.

GloriousGbola:
I think the oga at the top of one of my clients is a greedy, incompetent, dangerous person who will destroy the company. He is already doing so with different decisions he takes. Do you think I will show that in any way if I meet him?

Incidentally I have a friend I trained who could not hide his contempt for the ceo of his new company. The guy should have been head engineering as he was one of the first employees there, but instead he is now out and on his own. We worked together on a different project and he wound up fighting everyone - the other partner, the client, architect.

That is what you are seeing. A person who cannot compartmentalise.

GloriousGbola:
Lasbca, laspps, lastma, lawma, lasepa, lassa, the new parking agency parking, the waterways people - all of them are agencies created by laws passed and signed by different apc administrations

The operating budgets for these agencies are also dependent on the administration

Anyone employed by or providing services to these agencies is a beneficiary of AC/ACN/APC

Ambode had well documented beef with fashola and he sacked several heads of agencies because he considered them loyal to fashola. This was a double blow - the state had spent money on foreign trainiing and upskilling of alot of these guys and there was a loss of institutional knowledge.

We have discussed this before. Look at oceanic bank. How many employees survived the ecobank takeover? Same for diamond and access

For me this on na doing poo poo where you eat, especially with how charged the polity is right now.

Theflint1:
You guy's just imagine the worst and run with it...when GRV was asked about people under the Lagos state employ, what he said was he thinks they're underpaid, undertrained and underappreciated, and when he comes into power, those are things he'd look into.

In an election cycle where we're having people incinerating humans and people's businesses in the name of their favourite politicians, wearing an LP lapel is a pretty mild thing, being under the employ of the Lagos State government shouldn't stop anybody from having independent political opinions.

GloriousGbola:
My point exactly.

You are a lagos state government worker, and you are wearing an LP badge.

In this climate, and quite possibly within an agency that came into being from laws passed by the apc administration.

Your oga at the top is appointed by the governor and you are brandishing a symbol of the opposition.

I even wanted to assume he wore the badge in the hospital.

If he is carrying it around, That is the hallmark of a fanatic.

Ready and willing to invite animosity from his Co workers. Grv is already saying he will change a, b, c, d. This means people laid off. Ambode who was a member of apc gutted the civil service. What would a new inexperienced administration do? Your colleagues are all sweating and wondering about the security of their livelihood and you are aggressively pushing the symbol of thier worry in their faces.

GloriousGbola:
If the army could actually do their job, maybe we can put up with all that nonsense. If the bully is the one who can be relied on in a fight, everyone will unsee his antics.

But throw all these soldiers into the Bush with boko haram and they will start flooding your Instagram. We don't have weapons, we have not been paid, this is what we are eating.

Just a bunch of entitled wimps who cannot handle a gang of illiterates on motorcycles

sod09:
They can't stay alone because of attacks so they will rather stay where they have the majority numbers

afrodoc2:
The Army has what seems to be an unofficial rule. They almost always allow the boys to vent and get their revenge.
Possibly because you don’t want to go to a battlefield with boys that are beefing you because you didn’t allow them to avenge the infringement of a “bloody” civilian.

GloriousGbola:
I don't listen to portables music, but my thinking is that the hood is still his core market. And as a very sharp guy he is retaining ties to it.

He has not fully upscaled like dem ice cube and Dr dre who have moved to a whole new level and don't even do music as their main hustle anymore

sod09:
Normally police get right pass army but they sold their birthright and respect for roger
Another war looming and na police go still suffer am pass

sod09:
He can't it's in the blood
You wan make he go lekki they relate with normal people 🤣🤣

seankafor:
blood was flowing in the policeman face, that means it was the military guy that first injured him..

So I think the policeman is and was right to seek revenge as it's hot..


Nothing will happen after the incident, they re the same force, even in the police barracks sef..

Nothing much will happen, na man vs man fight.. nothing much

seankafor:
Dayo

Oasis

Come and carry una kwon3

https://twitter.com/chude__/status/1634247669072666626?t=WpNd0jAmlNsI-xUy5VIojQ&s=19[/quote]The person behind the camera running commentary is one of the problems of this country .

People dey try calm things down by holding the policeman, yet the cameraman kept telling them to leave him. When they eventually left the policeman , na the same cameraman still dey talk say “Kingsley relax! Kingsley relax !!” knowing fully well it won’t end well if Kingsley eventually beat the miltary guy .

Now Kingsley don headbutt the military guy; I doubt that will be the end of the film . So many innocent policemen for that axis go surely collect on behalf of Kingsley and the cameraman in the coming days .

sod09:
Make them no kill this guy for us

Shegzdave:
Portable won’t kee someone, I started liking the dude after that pastor suleiman saga and noticed the dude is kinda interesting and intelligent even with his razz attitude😂

The part that off Me in that video was ”Akotileta don beat superstar”😂

afrodoc2:
He is too unintelligent and emotional to be in that position. If the gods want to be fair he should be kicked out.