₦airaland Forum

LASG didn't think there was an issue though when they allowed Eko Atlantic to spring up? Neither Banana Island, Oworonshoki sand fill, Ilubirin sand fill and Orange Island!!

When they are doing their own, they will tell you there is no issue. But they are complaining about something the FG (or British Government more appropriately) did in 1912!!!

I rest my case.

dre11:
•Says VIP escorts’ll be banned from terminals

•As Netherlands evacuates 71 citizens



https://www.sunnewsonline.com/fg-rolls-out-tough-guidelines-for-passengers-ahead-flight-resumption/

They will talk with one side of their mouth and conduct themselves with the other side. I've always wondered why MMIA has sooooo many people inside and outside the terminal building. More than 50% of whom are not going anywhere.

I don't see why everything in this country is rocket science! is it so hard to enforce rules of loitering?? What's the big deal there? Give me the job and the place will be sane in 1 month. If people do not stay away, then they will simply be arrested.

However, that is not to say that there is any harm in family members coming to see people off. It's usually a big deal in Nigeria because the space in the terminal is so small for the many airlines. But it's those who just hang around for hours on end doing nothing I'm referring to that have no business there.

I hope those flocking around her to monetize her success will allow her to concentrate on her tennis.

Once she starts to get into too many endorsements, publicity appearances, photo shoots, attending to the 'gram', if she is not careful, it may be the beginning of her derailment from the top of the game.

This is all the more important because she is still quite young.

KINGreignn:
They're not in same class and do not serve same market audience.

The Camry is targeted as a mid class family sedan or mid sized fleet sedan.

While the 508 is targeted as a full sized executive sedan or large family sedan. It's the premium flagship product for Peugeot.

It ranks with Mercedes Benz, Lexus LS500, A8, etc

Nope! It competes with 5 series, A6, E Class and LexusGS

Thetruthalways:
I guess you haven't seen the new international terminal...

Unfortunately come back in 5 years and look at this terminal. It would already have started to fall apart.

We lack maintenance culture and processes here. Best thing is to privatise it. MM2 Is still looking good after all these years, with some upgrades even.

Lipscomb:
When are we gonna have a modern day railway. I'm tired of seeing this local railway.

Calm down! There is nothing wrong with the railway at are building. We need what works for us instead of trying to compete with bullet trains.

Countries with bullet trains are probably not more than 20 in the world. Even America doesn't have them. If the train can do 140km per hour, whats bad about that? The Virgin rail Pendolino train service which is the most advanced in UK operates at 200km per hour, so what's the fuss?

There was a thread on Nairaland like a week ago on street markings.

This is why our street marking fade very quickly in Nigeria! Cos they using regular paint!!!!!!


This is how it should be done. And it should be with Thermoplastics and not regular household paint!!!!

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

So why doesn't CBN sell them the amount of forex they need, when they need it!! Who in his right mind buys something for 450 of ours available for 380??

Guys, not quite as simple as dividing 623m by 1200. There would obviously be a profit mark up on the contract amount. Let's assume it's 20%. That means actual purchase will be N519mln.

Simplistically, divide that by 1200 and you get N432k. There are many computers at that price, admittedly higher end ones.

Besides our didn't say 1200 computers. It also mentioned printers et Al.

If many people on Nairaland who are into It got that contract, they wouldn't complain. Point is that 95‰ of those complaining here are just as corrupt.

You only really know a man when he's tempted. Most people here who think they have integrity have not really been tempted yet.

Sweeet Car! A bit pricey though!!

If FAAN is a goverment agency, shouldn't their salaries be coming directly from the Federal Government?

Zico5:
The earlier the better these people allow everyone to go back to their normal business. Whether we like it or not covid-19 is already in our midst and the only way out is for everyone to take to all the preventive measures stated by NCDC. We can't shut Nigerians out. They must hustle for their daily survival.

They must hustle, yes, but must it be at night!!??

My sister in Houston lives in a 3 bedroom house and it costs $1,850 per month, which is N740k at 400! Rent in Bodija, Ibadan for similar house will be like N1mln a year. So 2 months of rent in Houston will pay a full year rent in Ibadan.

Her Car insurance is $95 a month which is about N456k. Here it costs you much less.

So it's not appropriate to convert salaries and compare!

emmasege:
Trust me, the figure before IPPIS wasn't better. The only news deduction after introducing IPPIS is NHF which is just about 10k. Add that to the current net income under IPPIS, that's about #350k.

Now, I put the question to you, is #350k a befitting salary for a professor in Nigeria?

Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana among other African nations pay their professors much higher.

But Nigerian petrol is also the cheapest. Petrol in Ghana is about N280 per litre. Rent is also 'cheap' in Nigeria outside of Lagos, Abuja and PH.

So while I do agree that professors should be better paid, perhaps double of that, comparing ditectly to other countries is not accurate.

seunmsg:
An auditor is not a whistle blower. At my level, I can only record my findings and make recommendations to my supervisor and the public accounts committee of the National Assembly (if it will go that far).

My office doesn’t report to the EFCC or ICPC. We can collaborate if need be but we don’t share audit report with them except a special request is made.

Then perhaps you are one of the problems of this country. You are basically saying it doesn't concern you. How about anonymously packaging the findings for EFCC and/or icpc. If you go that far and nothing happens, then I will agree you have domlbe your best.

MOGPRAISE:
This will attract international investors and most of the oil companies with head offices outside the state will relocate back to Akwa Ibom sharply.


God bless Akwa Ibomites & Nigerians at large

If you really believe that on the strength of the building alone then.........

Which nonsense manifesto. Manifesto means nothing to the man on the street. Just nice words that politicians use to confuse us about what they will do, which they never will.

Call it manifesto, strategy document, business plan, operating model or whatever, if you are not committed to operating it properly, its just words on paper.

The babe sabi take picture sha!! Always hiding her fat thighs. If you look at her full frontal, she doesn't look as sexy, but she always uses poses that hides her fat thighs and accentuates her curves!

This is to tell anyone thinking of modelling that striking the right pose makes awhile lot of difference.

Tundem88:
Disappointed in you Sir

Very disappointed truly!!

TallPck1:
Governor paid a condolence visit and I hope he do the needful and replace the post with any of the dead relative. Wayo wayo government.

Well may he rest in peace of he meant well for the country and if it's the other side. Let him face judgement.

What silly needful is this? Are we running a family business or monarchy here??

Are they really working in that office? With the crash in government revenue of expect to have heard a lot more about what they are doing in conjunction with ministry of finance on the budget.

There are too many agencies and parastatals who are not making enough of an impact on this country, but are taking from it by way of salaries and overhead costs.

Exc2000:



as the economic situation is going, with crude oil price droping, I doubt they would even have money for allowance not to think of cars


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Is it Nigerian politicians you are using to joke!?

If this country has only $1mln of revenue, they will still steal it.

sarrki:
Nigeria hostess in 1973, Nigeria leaders are among the best in the world. They have turned Nigeria airways to a super intercontinental carrier with 1500 destination across the globe, generating 150 billion naira yearly and providing jobs to 10,000 Nigerians, Kenya and Ethiopia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates have indicated interest in learning the magic industrious Nigerians, now the towering pride of the black world.

The picture I know is real because I have seen it before. The quote above it on the other hand looks like a fake right up!

Sent aside emotions for a bit and THINK!! How many planes did we have then to be able to do 1500 destinations!! Are there even 1500 desired destinations in the world!? Newyork, London, Paris, Houston, Washington, Los Angeles, frankfurt, Johannesburg, Madrid, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Moscow and even every capital of the world won't get you over 250! So where is the 1500destinations coming from?

Also an annual profit of N150bln? In those days naira had parity with dollar, so that like saying $150bln!! Really!! Obviously a fake!!!

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.