₦airaland Forum

nextstep:
Because Nigerians don't heed any nonsense markings. Haven't you seen 5 lanes of cars on a two lane road?

But seriously many roads have them, but with traffic, age, rains, sand and dust, etc, the markings fade very early.

True. The elements that work against road markings (like you mentioned above) makes the few roads that are marked to fade quickly. Also a lot of the roads are marked with normal paint, whereas it should be done with a paint/resin combination. The paint /resin combination is the one that is thick and last longer. Only the bigger constructions companies with standards like JB use it and even at that I'm not convinced they use it in all cases in Nigeria.

Funny thing though is that it's relatively easy to do. If LASG buys just one road marking vehicle and puts it to work judiciously on a daily basis, there would be a noticeable improvement in Lagos in 3mo this. The entire Lekki epe expressway from toll gate to Novare mall can be done in 2 nights. The vehicle just drives slowly and automatically paints as it goes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joWkGyaF-AI

vankaid:
97% of all tarred roads in Anambra is marked

That's impossible!!!

Seedung:
There are a lot of assets that has been seized by the FG over time from corrupt individuals, this is the right time to auction them out and use the money judiciously.

They won't want to do that because top dogs in government would be eying buying those properties at very cheap prices.

Ideally, there should be a rule that any property forfeited need to be sold within 365days.

Kingseex1:
The southern states lockdown their churches During Easter when cases were not upto 500 and we where forced to celebrate easter at home. Now cases is over 5k but i bet u that all Northern states will lift lockdown on mosques so as to celebrate salah

That's the product of Northern illeteracy. Very unfortunate!

mrvitalis:
Lol I'm just wondering how dangote would compete with andorama port Harcourt

Refining of crude is not a every profitable venture at all ...unless u vertically integrate ...refine n sale at your own filling stations ...outside that it's not profitable at all

Petrochemical is where the real money is ...and we have a giant there already ...eleme Petro chemicals run by Indians ....unless government kills eleme dangote won't see Jack in this industry

Dangote has never done well in any industry he has competition at all

Maybe he would use government to get crude below cost price ...but that's not sustainable

That's not quite correct. There were cement companies in Nigeria before Dangote. The main issue is most of them were government owned and collapsed due to bad management.

The private one owned by wapco/lafarge refused to increase capacity for years in order to keep supply low and prices high. Unfortunately by the time Obajana came on stream with like triple their capacity and Dangote also bought BCC, lafarge could no longer compete effectively and were now playing catch up. As any economist would know, economies of scale play a big role in industry.

As for sugar, we never had any proper sugar refinery in Nigeria before Dangote. That's why we used to have more of cube sugar which was imported compared to granulated. Now granulated is all over the place because of dangote sugar refinery.

As for flour, we also have flour mills of nigeria, which is a big player. So I don't know where all this talk of monopoly comes in. Also for Dangote's new refinery and petrochemical. While there is no competition for refinery, there is large competition in petrochemical and fertiliser from Eleme petrochemical and indorama, which have first mover advantage of many years. However, if dangote is building a plant with say triple indorama capacity, then economies of scale will come in again and dangote may have the upper hand.

Bottom line, this talk of monopoly is overrated and is more akin to beer parlour gist for uninformed minds.

Most so called Nigerian business men prefer easy money. Setting up large scale industry takes a lot of effort and work which most of them don't want to do. They rather do easy government contract, hammer N10bln and keep it in treasury bills to be earning hundreds of millions a year in interest and be making noise all over Nigeria.

Dangote should be hailed for all the industry he has set up and jobs created, both skilled and unskilled. All the thousands of trucks he has, at least people are driving them and earning something.

Abagworo:
While most of us may be sober at the moment as a result of challenges from Covid-19 pandemic but there is definitely a cause to rejoice for natives of Amaruru in Imo State and Ezinifite in Anambra State as the colonial bridge linking the 2 communities which collapsed in May 2018 has been completely reconstructed by the Federal Government through FERMA. It made front page here that year

https://www.nairaland.com/4482699/bridge-linking-anambra-imo-state

Good job for re-constructing the bridge! But looking closely at the bridge, it doesn't seem to have any openings to drain water off the bridge, either via openings by the pedestrian walk way or iron gratings on the road itself by the sides.

Nigerian engineers sef!!!

Bitchlover:
MKO or OBJ what is the difference between the two? Las las the Yoruba's got what they wanted, but did Nigeria get what it needed?

What it needed was MKO

The sooner the better! How we allowed Almajiri to go on this long, I don't know.

This sounds nice and all, but the truth is that tax payers money is not to be used so frivolously. Radhidi earned a decent amount when he was a player. More in a year than most of us will make in 20years. Perhaps he was not educated enough to use it wisely, but still!

If I loose my job, does the government send me in anyway? Why then must it give money to Yekini's mother. If it were to Radhidi himself in his old age, I might even understand. What have they done for Dosu Joseph or Karl Ikheme?

jakD:
On top wetin?


If Buhari was Trump that received the middle finger from that lady that time, that lady might have been killed on that spot or eventually sentenced to death by cutting her hands and body parts.
Jonathan received much more, nothing happened to anyone!

Not sure you are aware, but that lady was fired from her job and struggled to get another one. Not sure how she ended up though

yaki84:
Why is work still going on in dangote refinery?
Why has dangote not stop work and use the money to feed people?
The difference between a poor man and a rich man is the way they think, reason.
For ur info, that aircraft was acquired since last year.
Aircraft purchase is not the same as buying fufu or indoor in the kiosk

Dangote is a private individual dude. He was not 'voted' in and has no legal responsibility to the PEOPLE!

Governor of Akwa Ibom on the other hand is meant to operate solely in the interest of the people of Akwa Ibom

mtinfx:
Meanwhile the 21 storey headquarters for international oil companies is 95 percent complete

#ibomambassador
#uyosights

Night and day view

Lala do the needful

I don't get. Is it an IOC building it?? Or AKSG is building it in the hope that an IOC will move in their?? The main IOC in Akwa Ibom is Exxon. Has Exxon told anybody it's moving there?? Hope it's not a vanity project?

There is never a good time for severance!!

At any time FG brings it up, NLC will find a reason in the times why it is 'insensitive'.

Nigerian government is overstaffed. That's the reality. More money on salaries, means less for projects and development.

Selfless and modest does not help this economy. We need to hear words like competent, delivery oriented, creative, innovative.

I don't think IMF is asking us to do things we don't know already. This situation has been forced upon the FG by extremely low crude prices and attendant revenue shortfall.
Have we Nigerians not known before now that petrol subsidies are just a rip off and only mainly benefit the middle class with cars? Think about the schools, roads, hospitals and other infrastructure that could have been built with the trillions of Naira that we have spent on petrol subsidies over the last 20 years
Are we not aware as Nigerians that an electricity tariff that is not cost reflective does not augur well for the electricity sector? Yet we say stable electricity is a significant ingredient for economic growth. Where will the stable electricity come from if DISCO's cannot make a profit?
How many people reading this who are business men sell what they bought for N50 to Nigerians for N45?
Have we not know for years that our civil service is grossly overstaffed

I've always said that as a country, we need to make decisions for our tomorrow based on where we are today, not where we 'ought' to have been today. Reality is that Nigeria is an extremely poor country. Even with our crude oil. Like I tell people Nigeria has been producing about 2mln barrels of oil for about 30 years. If in 1980 crude was $50, that amounts to $100mln a day. In 2020 oil is $30 and that amounts to $60mln. However due to inflation, 1$ in 1980 is worth $3.13 of todays money. Therefore the $60mln is actually worth $19mln. Consider also that Nigeria's population in 1980 was about 73mln. Today its 200mln+!! Point is, the money available to get things done is getting less and less.

For anyone who is reasonably well educated in economic matters, things are likely to get worse before they get better. Petrol will get more expensive as subsidies go away - especially when crude prices recover, electricity will get more expensive as a cost reflective tarrif is put in place and so on and so forth. And civil service jobs will likely go - especially if govt really has liver to implement that Orasanye report. Best thing to do is to consider alternatives. When kerosene was deregulated and the price went up, I notice even people you would call 'local' have migrated to cooking gas. If electricity is more expensive, consider an inverter or solar power or both.

Unfortunately most Nigerians and even those commenting here don't know enough about these things to argue properly. If you want to get the pysche of the 'average' Nigerian, just look at the scenes witnessed yesterday of people rushing buses, banks etc!! No social distancing, everybody breathing in what 20 people around them breathed out.....in this current corona virus pandemic situation!!?? And many people in those groups will tell you they went to university and have degree. If with education, the best rationale for people was to be rushing in a crowd of 1000 people, then it shows our education is of no good, because we cannot think rationally.

praise010:
We can never do well as a nation when we are ruled by party affiliation and sentiments.

Subsidy was not removed by any body, rather the price of fuel is so low that there is no need to pay subsidy for now.

There is nothing to celebrate until there is rise in price and it sells over N150 in Nigeria, it is then we will know if subsidy will be removed or not.

Mind you, our refinaries are still on quarantine despite the billions expanded in their maintenance.

Time will tell where this country is heading to.

No need to wait for any time again! It's already confirmed! The country is going nowhere!

Rochasewele:
Can this be true?

You still dey doubt am For this Nigeria!?

Let's see if Buhari has the will to get this done!

Ordinarily I would have said he'd chicken out, but perhaps because he has no second term to think about, he just might be growing some balls!!

Lets see what NLC has to say about this.

In fact Buhari should be using this crisis to execute a number of things. The opportunity to do this was there in 2015, but he was was too politically scared to do them, perhaps because of second term.

Full deregulation of petrol prices: As far as I'm concerned the modulation policy credited to NNPC MD still leaves an entry point for FG. It should be fully deregulated like diesel

Implementation of Orasanye report. Nigeria has too many unproductive civil servants.

Reducing the budget of National Assembly: I still don't understand how the NASS has more budget than many states in Nigeria.

Privatization of more government companies: There are still many government assets that would benefit from privatisation, such as NTA, airports, sea ports and even roads. That frees up FG from having to make allocations and pay salaries.

Reducing the salaries AND ALLOWANCES of Nigerian political appointees, the president and his vice president.

brainhgeek:
What of those of us using prepaid meter?
In fact, they have increased the tarrif sef. I now consume an extra three-quarter of my monthly consumption.

Am increased tariff shows up in your bill and not your consumption. Your are probably consuming more because of the stay at home.

COdeGenesis:
These guys are idiots. If you want to do something why don't you do it at once? Why the to and fro arguments. Empty drums always making loud noises. This is what happens when the government controls the house of rep. How much is 100 billion naira biko? Cant they use part of the donations?

PART OF DONATIONS!! Is the entire covid 19 donation up to N100bln.?

If they can implement this, then it will be a step in the right direction. The number of people in the civil service is just too many. And they are extremely unproductive. Just go to federal civil service complexes in the states and see civil servants lounging around doing nothing.

If we are being honest with ourselves, an extremely efficient and productive computer based civil service does not need more than half of the current staff strength.

I thought Ganduje said he was not receiving any attention from FG! Now he's saying FG is giving home too much attention!

Its about time that Nigerian Universities start to tap the benefits of the online space to deepen interaction with students and improve service delivery - from an administrative and educational point of view.

By now ALL universities in Nigeria should have an online platform where students can log on with their matric number and chosen password to register for courses per semester, interact with lecturers and students on the courses, view their results, submit assignments and essays etc.

Also by now, Nigerian universities should have entered into partnerships with some foreign universities to use some of their video lecture material locally or for uni's in Lagos, Abuja, PH and other cities where there may be fast fibre optic internet service available (like 50-100Mbps minimum and steady - upload and download), there should even be agreements to, on occasion, hold joint lectures with students abroad. Particularly in the sciences, where our body of research is outdated.

I went to Olabisi Onabanjo uni in 2017 to collect my transcript and notices and results and all manner of communication between faculty and students were still being pasted on the walls on paper!! Really!!? In this century!!?

No doubt we are such a stubborn animalistic set of people.

hubcruz:
interior pics

Lovely looking car

oweniwe:
WW2 plane

Our does look that way I must confess

KingAzubuike:
Sorry, get Cutlass or stick and defend yourself.. afterall what are you a man for?

That's like saying you should just lay back and lay me Bleep you.... after all what are you a woman for?

sammyj:
This is height of irresponsibility displayed by the former Sinator!!

There is nothing irresponsible about it. They are very likely in the US and as you should know it is very legal to own guns in the US. Besides even if they don't own the guns, they could very well be at a shooting range where they use the guns there to practice.

Also what exchange rate are customs using at the moment? This one naira has been devalued to 380

ProtectMyMoney:
Mileage matters as well.

If your mileage is less than 3000, you'll pay 35 % duty, 35%levy, vat,

Wow! Okay good information to know.

Maybe now they will pay some attention to health