₦airaland Forum

Orikinla:
Simple elementary military intelligence is enough to separate the real terrorists from innocent villagers.

GJames:
Corruption or not Nigeria has to be in the top 5 of anything in Africa, CNN is just biased.

Anaskie:
$7.92bn?

Sometimes I wonder how they come up with these figures.

Anyways, I hope they included the N1,500 that one stupid policeman collected from me last month because I was strolling in the night.

And also the N200 that one lady at the Ministry of Justice demanded from me before she could stamp my documents.

roymary:
GEJ + Buhari + OBJ + Tinubu+ ATIKU + Ahmadu + the rest = Gerontocracy.

Don't you all have retirement plans

No10:
He's from Taraba state and the last time I looked at the map of Nigeria Taraba isn't situated in the Northeast.

Hilles:
could understand..he's from the northeast and aware of the current state of unrest his people are in..

Prodeegee:
Aliana...sounds more like Alingo

alphawg:
Propaganda. They ARE well funded but some top ranks are diverting the funds.

IKJ66:
STORY FOR THE gODS

Originalsly:
Reality check.....Apple has just designed a top of the line Iphone that will take 25 years to build ....when it hits the market in 2040 it will be the world class must have phone.

rodbel:
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5717556-146/story.csp

By Emmanuel Ogala
June 19, 2011 03:19PM

In the early hours of June 28 in Shanghai China, while Nigeria will still be sleeping, a Chinese high speed train will take off with passengers to Beijing, bringing the country's longest high speed railway service into commercial use.

The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway is a 1,318 kilometres network that connects two major economic zones in the People's Republic of China. It is the world's longest high-speed line ever constructed in a single phase.

Construction on the rail line began on April 18, 2008, two-and-a-half years after Nigeria's transport ministry signed an $8.3 billion contract with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) to reconstruct the 1,315 kilometre Lagos - Kano railway under the watch of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

A ceremony to mark the completion of track laying for the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway was held on November 15, 2010. It took the Chinese exactly two years and eight months to complete theirs. Nigeria's network is three kilometres shorter than the Chinese. It is also a relatively unsophisticated system, meant to carry basic speed locomotive trains. But it is far from finished, five years after the contract was signed.

The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway project cost the country about $32 billion. It has 24 stations, 22 tunnels and 244 bridges - including the 164-km long Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge which is the longest bridge in the world.

Designers of China's high-speed railway network say the trains will run at a speed of 350 km/h, with a maximum speed of up to 380 km/h which would cut the train travel time between Beijing and Shanghai from 10 hours to 4.8 hours.

"Its technology is advanced, its quality reliable and safety guaranteed," China's deputy rail minister, Hu Yadong, told reporters on Monday in Beijing. "The technical reliability of the line, as measured by international criteria, is world class!"

Comparatively, this network is a thousand times more sophisticated than the Lagos-Kano railway. But even though Nigeria's project is handled - now in part - by the Chinese, it will hardly be completed soon.




Come to think of it 25years to construct a 3,218km network while they built 1,318km network in 2years 8months.

firstEVA:
Why does this guy wear so many colours all the time?

She's hot.

TheRealCoolHunK:
Everyone is "stunning" on nairaland. SMH

Holywizard:
My father has worked as a civil servant for 35yrs & he still never buy 1 better jeep. God when will u bless my father?

kayciano:
I BLAME BOTH ORJI'S...dat have governed the state.
THE WORST IS UZOR,KALU ORJI, a young enterprising man, of which people expected so much from him, whom on leaving office ,installed a more FOOLISH FOOL in his place....
IMAGINE how 16 YEARS have been WASTED.
D CURRENT DEPUTY GOV. of Abia state is almost 90years...,still deputizing T.A. orji...
T.A. Orji chose him , so dat the OLD MAN will focus more on his OBITUARY than his constitutional role., of knowing how much is expended in ABIA.

samuelfemo:
JESUS TRIUMPH OVER THE ENEMY INCLUDING YOU AND FASHOLA....

nairalandist:
We as Nigerians should start asking ourselves why there are so many scammers around. Is it that the creative Nigerian youths are gainfully employed and just prefer scamming to working? Nigeria is the only country in the world where we don't diagnose our problems but only blame each other for what the so called leaders started. The politicians are looting the nation blind and the creative youths see scamming as an alternative to the hard life created by the corrupt system.

I mean, before we even start blaming anyone, go to government offices, starting from the Corporate Affairs Commission, try to register your company without going through a staff and see if you'll be able to register your company name.

Now go to the Nigerian Immigration Office and try to get a passport without witnessing corruption of the highest order. People have turned government offices to their personal pockets and we're surprised that we have fraudsters in our society? Really? What did we expect? That this same system will produce 100% saints?

I know some people will start quoting me and saying there's no excuse bla bla bla, but let's face the truth, so many people depend on scams for their daly living in Nigeria. The society doesn't offer much opportunites and I'm so sorry to say it has become a sort of addiction in our society.

Anyone here who lives in Nigeria and pretends not to know a scammer or two personally is a big liar and a hypocrite. Let us stop the name calling and hold our politicians responsible for what they have encouraged by their theft over the years. Imagine a country that can't even boast of stable electricity, no pipe borne water even in most parts of Lagos. Schools are getting delapitated by the day and you expect the youths to become pastors overnight?

I'm sure some of the hypocrites reading this are busy forging figures with their pens. . . Let he who is without sin be the first to cast the stone.

BigBelleControl:
Let us look inward and use local content. We can partner with Ankara or adire companies to make and sew our jersies. Shebi Na to wear clothes.

SmooshCHN:
This year has been a tough one for Nigeria and Nigerians. This is the least of our worries.. #NairaMustRegainValue

wasiudvd:
Even if its Pope that make this press release, I will still not believe.
so this people think we are this gullible?
so all the military hardware that this country have is in the north fighting Boko Haram, yet we are struggling to win.
Are we saying if Nigeria is attacked from South now, we will need to withdraw military hardware from north, to defend from South?
I don't even understand, what military hardware are we currently using on book haram that is needed for the training? AK 47? Tanks? RPG? jet fighter? what else? This is all we have? is this what they want to train the military on? In a sane country, this kind of statement will have consequence.
mtcheew!

condralbede:
Ok....Nice one for d Christians, because what is good for the Greece is a also good for the Uganda

chronique:
Only a fool will sit down at home behind a laptop or a smart phone,and decide who a boko haram member is,and who is not. If you had a relative who tried to escape from Borno in the heat of the crisis,and was arrested and taken into custody for interrogation,would you demand He should be killed(even when He's innocent) just because He was picked up as a suspect during a raid? Why is it that some of us always refuse to think with our heads? Why do some people always jump into conclusion even when they know nothing about an issue?