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meanwhile every time we host U17, NTA claim they buy modern digital OB van's, but they have never been able to show any Nigerian local football match. Yet now they want to digitalise again. How many times in 20 years There was U-21 Nigeria '99, then U-17 Nigeria '09, then Nations Cup '00, then All Africa games '05.

Where are all these OB vans and 'modern' equipment?

festacman:
With network of stations across Nigeria, Nigeria Television Authority should be a self-financing CASHCOW rather than a subvention-dependent sick cow. World class equipment and digitization would do little if the current NTA is not restructured. My suggestions:

- The first step in upgrading our good old NTA is to do a SWOT analysis of the Network and then articulate a self-sustaining business plan and matching business model, which stakeholders including NASS members should view and assess. Anything less than this means the loan money will be frittered away if approved. So, no PLAN or clear roadmap, no approval.

- Second step is to retain mainstream NTA News channel as public service station linking government to the people but with mandate to staff to be more dynamic rather than conservative.

- Third step is to create a number of Strategic Business Units (SBUs) out the existing network, which will service specific market segments as purely PROFIT CENTRES to be run by separate Managements and right staff size of dynamic professionals. Such SBUs all under NTA Board can be sports channel, entertainment and life style channel, live events channel, NTA television college, etc

If JAMB is now a revenue centre, what stops NTA from doing better?

I totally agree with you!! If Channels, TVC, Ebony Life are thriving, profitable outfits, I don't see why NTA cannot do same. Left to me give NTA a marching order to be self sufficient over a 3-5 year term, so much so that salaries will ONLY be paid from internal revenue and see people sit up.

We have a number of government agencies that should be self governing and self funding. All that is required is to give the Board and executive free hand to execute i.e no approvals from the Ministry. If they cannot pay their own salaries, then they have to let people go, simple!!

Nigerian Minting Company
Nigerian Postal Services etc are agencies/parastatals that should be funding their own operations. Let them go and market for business. Nigerian minting should be able to produce security documents for companies, cheques for banks etc and make money. The main thing that keeps these companies down is the control of their ministries. To spend N10mln for maintenance/upgrade, they need approval of FEC, which takes 3 months to come through. And even when approval is given, money is not released for another 6 months. How can any business run effectively that way?

Goldencheese:
Is this really true?.
The trekkers of today will become car snatchers tomorrow?
Not really
But many jobless, frustrated and angry youths today may be TEMPTED to become criminal lords tomorrow.
That sounds a bit realistic and true!

Everybody treks, whether from your house to your car, neighborhood store to buy provisions or attend CDA meetings or close by schools?

Not all trekkers will become car snatchers. Some have as much money to buy any cars of their choice.

I wonder why we have such a problem with walking. When I have visited London and Dubai, at times the distance between where I am staying and the nearest train station is a fair distance away and I would typically walk it. As a teen growing up in Ibadan in the 90's, I used to walk 2km+ to friends houses in Bodija to play ball and then we'd walk back again. Even now, sometimes for fitness purposes, I walk the entire length of inner marina from UBA head office to Nitel building and back.

If it's such a problem, Nigerians should use the phone more to transact business or the internet. Ideally, in this modern day and age, we should be working from home more - all you need is internet and your computer. But Nigerian businesses will not allow - they must be looking at you to believe you are working, not realizing that work is an activity, not a location.

While I do sympathize with some of the additional difficulty Lagosians are going through, all of this should just open our eyes to a few things:

1. Lagos is grossly overpopulated and this overpopulation is causing problems that are not easily solved
2. Lagos is extremely unplanned. If Lagos had been much better planned and Town Planning had been strict in enforcing laws and designs for like 20 years, we wouldn't be in this mess today.
3. Public mass transportation in Lagos is still grossly inadequate. Okada is not the solution - we need trains for longer distances and buses for smaller distances such as within yaba, within Surulere etc. Unfortunately the mass of personal cars in these areas caused by 1 & 2 above will not allow for free flow of traffic. But this is caused by us as well by converting residential to commercial. If govt wants to go hard and reconvert to residential, most of us will say no, yet that is also the major cause of our problems, so why are we complaining.

Consider the following areas that were designed as residential, but have become commercial with roads that were designed for residential"

Lekki - particularly Admiralty
Victoria Island
Surulere
Yaba
Ikoyi is also becoming more and more commercial

Lagos is becoming or already is an unsolvable problem. With the high population density, poverty of its people and relatively low state budget (N1trl Lagos budget is just $2.7bln, meanwhile Texas 2019 budget was $250bln), there is not a whole lot that can be done to effectively solve the problem. So quite simply, the problem will only get worse!!

El Rufai has one of the most modern brains of all the 36 Governors in Nigeria. more so than even Sanwo olu and Makinde in my view.

He typically does things properly, unlike most of his peers who just sign contracts but do not have the wherewithal to ensure that roads and other infrastructure are designed and executed properly.

Putting the word 'Nigeria' in front of the airline is a big mistake. Unfortunately any such named entity dies sooner rather than later.

Nigerian electricity power authority
Nigerian telecommunications
Nigerian national shipping line
Nigeria Airways
Nigerian television authority
Nigeria railways
Nigerian coal company
Nigerian refineries

Need I go on...!

adioolayi:
Traffic not a resultant of more numbers of cars...NO... Traffic because of ongoing construction on major roads and intersection..

e.g... Rehabilitation of Ojota road: backlog of traffic on Ikorodu road, Lagos-Ibadan expressway inward Ojota, 7up axis because of slow navigation into FRSC Ikeja axis....


Reconstruction of Allen roundabout....heavy traffic on Alausa -Ikeja Under bridge, Allen-Opebi and sometimes toA gidingbi.

Summarily, Lagos is a small state ...little obstruction results into massive traffic everywhere

It's a combination of both. There is also maintenence work going on at falomo Bridge that's causing serious traffic in ikoyi.

seanwilliam:
Like if you support the ban, share if you dont

And from this small poll, the people havr spoken emphatically!!

chriskosherbal:
I think the ban on Nigeria by USA has started to generate result, having a database for the citizens of a country cannot be overemphasized. The federal government should find a way of synchronizing NIN, NIMC,TIN, BVN, VOTERS CARD into one for the effectiveness of the result they seek as well as making it easy for citizens .

But why e b say we go don collect b4 we get sense as a nation ..

Unfortunately foreigners can just walk in and obtain all of these. When you want to get Nigerian passport, what really proves that anyone is Nigerian and not Ghanaian.

kellight:
Please am just asking to know.

How many other suicide bombers have been interrogated like this to get info from them

How many fulani herdsmen have been
interrogated like this to get info from them

How many bokoharam militant caught have been interrogated like this to get info from them

Why is this one so special

Or is it because it was staged act to paint Christians black

I must confess that at first glance it seems that way. Seems like a lot of effort was made to make it clear that he is a Christian.

BuhariAdvocate:
Street hawkers is the next

As well as abandoned vehicles on our streets

And when they said we were a shithole country, you people were arguing!!?

The also need to replace all the stolen manholes in Marina and Ikoyi. And to end the practice there needs to be undercover police paroling those areas to make it much less easy for criminals to steal them in the first place.

This comment from Fashola smacks of a lack of innovation and willingness to do something radical to solve our problems. Let me provide my own solution to this problem.

1. Raise a road infrastructure bond of say N250bln and $694mln. This totals N500bln. The essence of this mixed fund strategy is to reduce the borrowing cost. If Naira is 13% and USD is 6%, weighted average cost of borrowing comes to about 9%.

2. Use the funds to reconstruct the highways in question.

3. Toll the highways. Get a private company to manage the collection of the tolls in exchange for 10% of the take. This company will also be responsible for the maintenance of the roads. Since they will not want to be spending too much of their 10% on the maintenance, they will quickly fix any small pot hole before it becomes bigger and eats into their money. The remaining 90% of the funds should be deposited into a sinking fund dedicated towards repayment of the loan facility.

4. Eventually when the loans are repaid, say in 15years, then the 90% take from the plazas revert back to consolidated revenue fund for sharing or whatever.

What are the benefits of this model?

1. Nigerians get good, well maintained roads for the next 15years
2. Government can use funds for other purposes.
3. Internal trade and travel is enhanced by the improved road infrastructure.

Left to me, I would deploy this model for the following roads:

1. Lagos - Ibadan - Ilorin - Abuja expressway
2. Abuja - Kaduna - Zaria - Kano expressway
3. Port Harcourt - Aba - Enugu expressway
4. Enugu - Onitsha expressway
5. Lagos - Shagamu - Benin - Onitsha expressway
6. Uyo - Port harcourt - Warri - Benin expressway

I came across this informative infographic and i thought to share.

For as long as I can remember since 1999, the power generation capacity of Nigeria has always hovered at circa 4000Mw. Of recent, we are hearing that generation capacity is now around 7000-8000Mw.

However, the attached graph shows the annual addition of just WIND POWER to America's power generation capacity. Granted America is the richest country in the world and their electricity is deregulated, but if America can increase just WIND capacity by 61,600Mw in 8 years, why is Nigeria in almost 20 years of democracy unable to increase it's TOTAL generation by say 5000 or 10000Mw


This just shows how unserious we are as a country! Other countries we should be closing the gap on are even increasing the gap further.

I rate Sanwo Olu pretty low. On a scale of 1-10, I'd rate him a 4.

First of all there are a few things which he met on ground which have deteriorated under him.

1. One of these is street lights. Ambode had a light up lagos program and under that program most highways were lit up. I noticed that not long after BOS came into government, most of the street light started going down.

2. State of roads worsened in the immediate aftermath of the BOS governorship. However, i will admit that some efforts have gone into roads in the last 2-3 months. However, if he does not use initiative now to clear drainage before the rains start to ensure free flow of rain, we will be right back where we started from.

There were also many simple things that he promised that he has not delivered.

1. Smart traffic lights: he mentioned during the debate that he would replace traffic lights in Lagos because they control traffic the same way in the morning and evening despite the fact that the flow of traffic is different.

2. Environment: Lagos is in chaos. Filth everywhere, markets and stalls everywhere, street urchins everywhere, abandoned vehicles everywhere etc

3. Traffic management: Bos spoke boldly about traffic, but not much has changed in that space. While they are removing roundabouts on the lekki axis, and that would improve the situation marginally, my view is that there are still too many bottlenecks on our roads that have not been dealt with. Some of these are bad roads, Danfo's blocking junction to pick passengers, non enforcement of traffic rules etc

I hope FGN has a well thought out strategy for this rail development. I say so because so far the development of the rail sector appears to be geared towards human traffic, when the heavier focus should be on cargo and freight traffic.

There are very few countries whose railway is self sustaining on passenger traffic alone. I agree that while there are high level plans to use the Lagos Ibadan rail line to evacuate containers to dry port in Ibadan, i am not really hearing much about this, so i wonder if this will really come to pass.

Also to further the development of the rail sector, the government should transform the NRC into a holding company responsible for the build-out, management and maintenance of the tracks and railway stations, while a separate company set up to own the locomotives and operate the rail services itself. This company will pay for the rights to use the tracks and stations similar to how private airlines pay to use the airports. In this way, private sector efficiency, capital and innovation will flow into the sector.

If this is not done, I can tell you that within 5-10 years, the multi billion dollar investment in the rail sector will come to nothing as the tracks will have fallen to disrepair and rail services would have stopped. And Nigeria will be paying back liabilities for assets that have deteriorated. How do i know this? What infrastructure remains 100% in the hands of the government and is well maintained? Is it our refineries, ports, stadiums, airports, roads?

So all we know is that LASG has raised N100bln. However, WHAT EXACTLY is the money earmarked for?? No one in LASG has been able to tell us specifically.

I hope they will proactively apply the funds towards completing legacy projects such as the Mobolaji Johnson stadium, onikan, The bus interchange at Oshodi, the cultural center beside Mobolaji Johnson Stadium, as wll as improving the road network before the rains start. I really hate to see projects being abandoned.

SoftP:
Nice one ‘

That’s a short term approach though.

Subject all Nationals to thorough Medical check before entering the country.

Ooh’ I forgot , the meaningless visa on arrival policy.

That doesn't change anything. Whether Visa from departure point or visa on arrival, anybody arriving in Nigeria period, will be scanned for the virus.

The bitch in white is obviously dressed for Ned or any of his friends to "come Bleep me"

Its not YOUR security vote!!!!
It's OUR money!!!!!

I disagree with the award!!

I use FBN, StanChart and GTB and i wouldn't rate FBN the best of the 3.

The one I've never understood is ibadan tiny taxis carrying two people in front.

Even from the time I started working and before I bought my car, I always sit in front and pay for two because it is so damned uncomfortable sharing with someone else. If its along trip, my leg would have frozen by the time I get to my destination. And then you see the driver struggling to engage gears.

lalasticlala:
President Buhari met with Nigerians living in the United Kingdom today in London and Anthony Joshua was in attendance.

Anthony Joshua greeted President Buhari in a special way by prostrating for him and also took a selfie with him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGp4JeT_nS8

Bashir Ahmad shared the pictures and videos on his Twitter Page.

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That one is for television and the gram

uruba23:
I am surprised the story is really true.I thought they where at the LSE some few days ago.... no due diligence. ...Anyway if they need to raise $200million they should go talk to Mr Koko . book smart not street smart embrassing us again on a global scale.

Who is this Mr Koko

Anaedo1:
E money runs RORO Expertise,a section of the Apapa Wharf..Emoney owns five star Music Label,E money is into oil and gas..Emoney rakes in an average of 50m naira daily..

No i don't require a customized electronics/microcontroller device..
Thank you..

Help us define"into oil and gas". That's how it was said that NOSPETCO was "into oil and gas" and we know how that ended.

And if you don't know the specifics of what e money does in oil and gas, please say so and don't assume on his behalf.

See where the best of our police are? Guarding private individuals! Meanwhile they leave the skinny, hungry, tattered looking police men on the streets to be harassing the rest of us.

Mikecold:
No beefing though, there is a reason i love adenuga, dangote, elumelu

Matured legit billionaires but hardly battle to convince people they are rich.

E-money is just in-mature showing off his bedroom to toilet, ayiri has stopped this childliness long ago, you dont see shina peller displaying his privacy (shina too is a young flexing guy)

I guess is an igbo thing sha same with cubana, where your money stop people dey whey their own start there

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What really makes Adenuga and Elumelu legit. We never really knew how they started. Suddenly we heard Adenuga owned consolidated oil and Elumelu owned crystal, standard trust bank and then uba! Only Dangote built his empire slowly and surely from the late 70s and even he has had major help from the government.

They need to extend this to Lekki and Ajah before focusing on the mainland.

Abandoned vehicles on the streets from mechanic workshops are a major nuisance.

Street traders converting road islands to markets are a problem.

Street urchins begging for money with their mother's at the junctions in Lekki are a eyesore.

Conversion of residential properties all over Lekki is a problem.

Slums and illegal settlements all over Lekki are a problem.

Builders pouring sand and gravel on the roads and not fully using them up and abandoning the remains on the road to eventually spoil the road is a problem.

FutureFocus:
This is a good one , HITV would had survived if this law was in place and even TSTV

Did TSTV ever even start?

I hope he is paying the proper amount of income tax and ground rent tax? And all his cars have the appropriate level of vehicle license?

If I were to be in charge of revenue mobilisation for the tax authorities, walahi all I have to do is be active on social media to see people flaunt money and go after them, instead of harassing the masses.

People like this should be paying luxury taxes.

Unfortunately any benefit will be marginal at best. The volume of cars is just too much, especially with slow systems. In as much as it requires a barrier to go up and down, it will never be fast enough.