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I don't know about you guys out there, but the machinery of Sanwo Olu's government seems to be at a standstill for whatever reason. For me, to get things moving and improving the lives of Lagosians, Sanwo Olu would do well to set up the following task forces :

1. TASK FORCE ON TRAFFIC CONGESTION
2. TASK FORCE ON STREET HAWKING AND BEGGING URCHINS
3. TASK FORCE ON STREET TRADING
4. TASK FORCE ON BLOCKED DRAINAGES
5. TASK FORCE ON BAD ROADS AND POT HOLES.
6. TASK FORCE ON ABANDONED VEHICLES
7. TASK FORCE ON INDISCIPLINE (way people wee on the roads, drop waste on the roads, cross roads when there are pedestrian bridges etc)

So someone in his right mind leaves his country and wants to come retire in Nigeria!!

The guy must be a criminal on the run cos he'll never get caught in Nigeria!!

Otherwise no normal person would make that decision.

This is bad news! I trust that the customs officials will gladly now start stopping people and basing their action on this press release.

ornicus:
You should ask Wike why he is awarding contracts to foreign companies. In the end any contract award is solely wikes discretion. It is ph. There is no way there will not be local firms with the capacity to execute. The answer therefore is that wike and the firms he engaged have perfected their system of kickbacks, much like PID.

Road construction is not particularly challenging. It however requires cash resources for materials , equipment and labour

Oga, let's be real. NO One does a road in Nigeria like JB. RCC o, HITECH o, PW O. Maybe there are better companies than JB abroad, but unfortunately not in Nigeria

LegoxMetahuman:
what is minimum wage in houston and nigeria?
how many people depends on wireless network in houston for their data needs?


you compare things with other african countries where minimum wage is similar etc.

The one in their houses are they not also paying for it? It's not free you know! Comcast or AT&T Internet to your house will still cost you like $45 - $80 depending on the speed

king406:
Will they also upgrade the engine and transmission

That one is even the easy part!!

So what exactly is the long-term strategy for this Nigerian rail service. Because anywhere in the world passenger traffic on rail lines actually is not profitable what makes rail lines profitable is the commercial transportation on it. carrying of goods and materials and I'm not seeing that in any of what we're doing. all we seem to be doing is trying to use the rail for passenger services and that can never be profitable. I'm not aware of any country in the world where passenger service on trains in itself is profitable without the extra income from companies who are transporting their goods from one part of the country to another

The woman must be a BASTARD for saying that! Who be fool! Honestly speaking if a had a proper American snipers rifle, I would take her and All her children out one by one!!

The only way to keep all the infrastructure that the current administration is doing such as airport rail lines etc in good condition is to concession them or privatize them. To be fair the Federal Government of Nigeria has no business trying to run Airport and trying to run train services across the country.

Beautyaddy:
It even looks smaller than the current MMIA.

How does this small sized International airport befits a Country with a population size of almost 200 million

I totally agree with you looks tiny. For the population of Lagos that airport should be at least five times bigger than that.

It's not bad but it's a pretty boring design. Would have been a bit nicer if they could have used the culture of the various locations of those airports and put a little bit of a twist on the design to make it a bit more appealing. It's kind of pity boring going around the country and seeing exactly the same thing.

Data in Nigeria is quite cheap! I don't know where we keep getting the idea that it's expensive here. I was in Houston last week and the cheapest I could get was Mint mobile at $15 for 3Gb (N5.4k).


Granted call and text are free, but we all know that now what we really pay for is data.

https://www.mintmobile.com/plans/

BuhariAdvocate:
That is very wrong.Government should know that the issue of community chasing away contractors that refuse to compensate them not just started today. Its a long tradition in our society. I'm expecting the contractor's to settle the community also government should wake up to their responsibility by providing job to the youth Because if they are living fine they will not ask contractors for money .

What stupid tradition is that!!

helinues:
Wike is probably back to projects....

Nice one

But wait oo,, where are the Nigeria engineers that 90% of road projects are awarded to foreigners?

We no sabi na! What technology have we invented? What existing technology have our universities improved? We can't even copy simple road construction techniques properly.

As far as I'm concerned this is a shallow article. What foreign airlines do is not to operate domestic routes, but rather to offer a route say PH to London and stop in Abuja to pick additional passengers as volume from only one city is usually not enough. The only city that can support direct flights out of Nigeria consistently is Lagos.

If passengers get on a Lufthansa flight to London from PH and the plane stops in Abuja, the passengers do not get down. Only those onboarding from Abuja get On to the plane.

So this does not compete directly with local airlines. Agreed you could argue that if this was not the case, the guy in PH would have to fly domestic to Abuja to enter his international flight, but nigeria is certainly big enough not to concentrate international flights in 2 cities (Lagos and Abuja). In my mind the cities designated as international airports currently are ok (Lagos, Abuja, Kano, PH and ENUGU) are ok and ensure relative closeness to everyone. Not sure if Kaduna is still an international airport.

If our domestic economy is vibrant enough we will have more demand for local flights. There are enough business men, Bank audit staff, oil and gas staff etc travelling back and forth across Nigeria to keep local airlines busy. After all how many arik or Air peace flights have you seen empty.

Air france from Paris flys into almost 20 US destinations. For example I am in Houston writing this and I flew airfrance into Houston. On my return I fly air france from Houston to atlanta and then on to Paris before landing in lagos, yet Delta is not crying blue murder.

I hope the governor remembers to do drainage at the same time. The primary reason why these roads fail is water sorting on the road for long periods of time as well as mixing with sand on the road, which we have plenty of.

toprealman:
Water-82B
Education-48B

This is the comparison that weakened me as well.

OgboAto:
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So when are we going to get a documentary on female students who willingly want to fuxk/date their lecturers?

Good point! Cos there are also very daft girls who actively seek this out because they have no other hope of passing.

Nigerians too talk for phone sef. Funny enough my driver who is far lower than me in the economic ladder spends more time on the phone than me.

AroleOduduwa2:
The presidency or whatever they call themselves are too callous. The masses are crying, nothing is working in the country, yet they still roll out policies that will ensure they take from the masses, people that can’t afford a 3 square meal.

No be person we get car dey pay toll gate?
If you can't eat, how come your have a car??

TheDestroyer:
The ancient city of ibadan unfortunately was overtaken by Lagos as a commercial capital. It's gradually taking its place as companies are gradually leaving Lagos for ibadan.

Which companies have moved to Ibadan recently?

Can someone help me. So is this road going to be as asphalted over when it's done?

Jakasibo:
Chai so Kerosene that used to be sold N50 per litre has now skyrocketed to this outrageous price?
And its the poor that uses this product asides airlines.
In most countries, aside from planes kerosene is a waste product.

How can something planes use be a waste product

JasonScoolari:
Happening under the watchful eyes of "MR. INTEGRITY"

We are watching.

Report says 99%of the contracts were awarded between 2012 and 2012!! Just saying!!

Amudeneogu:
out of the eight persons, the north has 7persons the east has 1person haba.

Look at the names again and don't be stupid

Arsenella007:
Why can't the government recycle these heap of dirts?

What has he really done so far though?

Iwobi's shooting is terrible!!!

majamajic:
Nigeria is taking over in Africa basketball

Cos we've started using Nigerians playing in the NBA!! When we used to use primarily those playing in the local leagues, we'd be whitewashed by Angola!! Short cut to success! We have basically reaped where we have not sown.

Many of which have started going bad again!!!!

Emphasis is usually on quantity instead of quality.

orunmila144:
DR Fred Oladeinde is on the job. he is a technocrat. commissioner for transport

When were commissioners appointed that this Oladeinde is suddenly the reason why traffic is better. Chap, think!! Traffic is better at the moment because schools have been on long holiday. Wait another 2weeks for school to resume and see madness on our roads.

RemiOAjayi:
2/10... All he said there is extremely watery. What is difficult in freeing Lagos of blocked drainages? What is difficult in freeing Lagos of Kada? What is difficult in making laws to forbid citizens from littering the street? He has not impressed a bit, we wanted more but this man is not measuring up.

I totally agree. Sanwo Olu has not done much! I am disappointed

Why not create a holding company to manage the tracks and let private companies bring locomotives to operate services. Similar to an airport. Government has been proven to be incapable of running businesses, yet we insist on doing so. Check the list of failed Nigerian companies:

Nigerian Airways
National Salt company
Nigerian refineries
Nigerian Coal company
Ajaokuta
Government banks
Government hotels
Eleme petrochemical

Why then do we think we can manage this railway? In 5 years it will have fallen apart and all we will have will be debts to pay.