₦airaland Forum

There is a difference between Education and enlightenment and of course
many of these people are educated. Happy to belong to the same country
and appreciate their contribution, individually and collectively.

I[b]keyman00,

You see life? Me and you dey agree for one topic?

Anyway sha as far as I am concerned, this 48hour gimmick is a ruse , Why?

1) The Customs guys will ensure it does not work as it will greatly affect their pockets.
2) The clearing agents and importers are not honest enough to make declarations that tally with the duties to be levied.
3) Corruption is the cause of the delay, not the process.
4)All the shipping terminals are unable to deliver boxes as and when required to do so from stack to lorry bed.
5)examination and final delivery through the greasy palms of a myriad of agencies also slows down the process.

LET US NOT FOOL OURSELVES.


CONCESSIONING

WE are now reaping the results of our foolishness in concessioning. The terminal operators are sharing the same loading lanes with the oil tankers at IBAFON and Tin Can Island. TRansport costs for containers have risen because there is a backlog of empty containers that have not been evacuated to their ports of origin ( no export cargo). It is more economic to move a revenue yielding container.

All our big men wanted to be shareholders/sponsors of concessioning to MAERSK GRIMALDI & CO and never listened to reasonable people crying that it is too early in the day to do so. They were only seeing the cash flow in the business plans and their brains were working overtime on how to corner it into their pockets.

The reasonable thing to do then was to establish a deep sea facility on Snake Island/ BAdagry continuum and tell MAERSK and co to move there and establish their transhipment/distribution center . The old ports should have been turned into export processing centers. Imagine destroying a ware houe built when cement was 2 shillings per bag!!!! and replacing it with a hard quay at today"s prices. Ultimately you will still require warehousing space. Access to Snake Island should be through the flyover at KLT or Beach land Estate. Frankly, the country has lost ground to Sao Tome as the transhipment hub because of this development for the following reasons:-

1)Virgin and independent territory
2)Deep beach head with reasonable draught that can admit vessels drawing over 10 meter alongside
3) Availability of cash an investment friendly climate with the oil trade zone and no dominant corruptive influences.
4) Completely off shore location and equidistant to other destinations on the West/Central African coast.

It a shame , really that the greed of our leaders has once more manifested itself in vivid colours.

This is the bane of Nigeria, our albatross.

When you see all these halfbaked, unintelligent solutions people push out, you begin to wonder whether we have a shipping policy, shipping programme or SHITTING POLICY.

You are reducing rates on a terminal you have concessioned, meaning that you have no control over the business and have reduced yourself to a rent collector. What tariff are you using. The same NPA tarriff or have the concessinaires fashioned their own?Do you have control over shipping company charges, demurrage and terminal handling charges or haulage? EVen the customs duty collection is porous and every specialist is blowing hot air.

A beg , me I dey vex too much for this country as FELA say ---- BIG BLING COUNTRY with VAGABONDS IN POWER.[/b]

Very, very, pedestrian. What should we from UI,ABU ,Nsukka ,Unilag and others be celebrating.
It shows you how our values have appreciated

Products of the elite/ivy league universities , the scions of our elite have been nurtured by corruption and they are celebrating one of their own who has been made a commissioner whilst still on national service.

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@MCUsman


Plenty to add. All those morons who are afraid of their shadows and hide behind that phobia should shut up.
They should go home and ask their seniors where they were when things were happening.

Every day, northerner, northerner, now your brother has told you the home truth.

Where are all those guys,

PAT UTOMI IS THERE. LET US START THE RACE NOW.

Nigeria1, any sattelite data? Don't you dare pollute this space.

All those mushroom political parties should give way. ANPP is dead so it is either Labour ,AC or PPA.

@ Quota and ilk, if na other people now una go begin vibrate. So much for intelligence, in the negative direction.

[i]@MC

Don Allah kar ka bi halin mutanen nan. Its not good for the psyche [/i]

White traditional two piece gown - trouser and doguwar riga with white cap to match with brown leather palm slippers.

Underneath, white boxers and while singlet,

Honestly, I do not have any objection to this cancellation. Why do we wait for this type of event to
put our infrastructure in place.

If the private sector wants to foot the bill, no qualms. I do not see why Mr. Adenuga and co will dish out this amount of money tha will DEFINITELY end up in the pockets of civil servants---- NA TODAY ?[/color]

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Thank God for Nairaland. It is now possible for incurable pessimists and rabid tribalists who have refused to move with the
times to upload their venom on the rest of us. In doing so they energise our resolve to work harder to wards a better and
united country. I have always maintained that we are all hostages to each other and we are all chained by fate and this
bonding is further strengthened by our  daily activities in politics, commerce and demographic /social relations that are necessary
results of this interaction.

To those fellows, I ask, what do you want to achieve in your new republic that you cannot achieve in Nigeria toda? NOTHING
You cannot re-invent the wheel so continue to wallow in your "UTOPIA". We have no reason to deny your citizenship of this
country.

As somebody said elsewhere, opinions(I read prejudices) are common to all (like a, holes) but these guys have theirs on the forehead,
that is why they take pot shots at others from behind their tribal stockades. What are you afraid of? What is your problem? What have you achieved as an individual that others have not or do not have the potential?

A crime is a crime, anytime anywhere .We do not particularly envy Deepzone for his preference to
research this rather "infertile" northern zone for scandals. It only shows lack of resourcefulness.
When you continue to consult Michael West dictionary, you are not moving foward. Rather you are
condemned to living in the past, There are better and more sophisticated criminals elsewhere

and as a Nigerian , I am not proud of it. There is nothing to gloat about.

Deepzone is rather a shallow minded local champion who has refused to move with the times and it is pity. Look at the big picture, Fight from the middle of the ring.

Cleaner na job, to get sense na job, just lie fallow, doin nothin, ma body weak