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The road doesn't look like much! I thought I'd look better. Hope it lasts though.

Austema:
That means they usually gain over N16.5m everyday? Airline industry is another lucrative biz

Revenue not profit

Knowing Nigeria, they will now say drilling of borehole is banned nationwide! yet the stupid government does not provide pipe born water!!

So how are people supposed to get water? The government will typically not think of that first before banning boreholes. Just wait and see.

Looked acted in my opinion. I mean the guy was smiling at some poiint while saying "I'm addicted to pornography..""

Who smiles when he has just been caught watching porn in church. The guy didn't look embarrassed at all.

I must confess that Nigeria is the most incompetent country in the world!!

The stupidity of our leaders is on an uncharted scale!! Why would a minister launch something as significant as a national carrier a few months ago only to announce now that it's been suspended.

I have always had hope for this country, but to be honest I am on the verge of giving up on this country. Middle class are now checking out to Canada in droves and I cant blame them.

Maybe my feeling this way is because I'm currently in Dubai and seeing what has been done with oil money and seeing structure and purpose in place, it just makes you angry!! From airport, to roads, to organised driving, to neat taxi's with meters, to organised city layout, to stable electricity, to working metro....!!! Just name it!!

Yet in Nigeria, we are not smart enough to clean our own gutters, clear drains, properly patch our roads, design our own city, get danfo drivers organised, get tanker drivers off the roads etc. Why are we so useless!!?? And to be honest, as bad as the government is, we ourselves have a problem. When you travel elsewhere, you just realize how much of a filthy people we are. Who born you to drop coke bottle for floor, or eat gala and drop wrapper for bus stop floor for dubai? Or to just be weeing on the side of the road anywhere. In Dubai since you know you cant wee anywhere, you make a note of weeing before leaving where you are to ensure you can get to your destination safe. But here a man leaves his house and in 10mins he's weeing on the road. I know we have multiple excuses (no public toilets, no this, no that), but even at times when govt has tried to provide, have we used it?

I once saw a woman driving an IX35 (so you would suppose she's a bit educated and learned) wind down the back window of her car while driving on Aba road in PH, for her kids who had bought takeaway from an eatery to throw out the foam pack with left over rice, chicken bone, coke bottle out on the road. If anyone had challenged her, she would even argue with you that wettin concern you and most passer by would even support her. That's the kind of people we have become.

Nigeria needs a military style of discipline and reorientation walahi!! With serious koboko for like 5 years so that we start to behave ourselves again. We had it before the first coup, started loosing our sanity during military era, was on the verge of gaining it back during Idiagbon, but unfortunately lost it for good. Now so many generations have been born without basic decency and civility that to go back to basic manners is almost impossible.

That's why I often tell people that this Democracy we are practicing cannot take us anywhere in like 100 years! We need a benevolent military leader to cause us to make progress swiftly by manhandling us into shape for some time. Unfortunately the same brutal power to change things immediately that we'd need this person to have, would likely corrupt him and he'd become a despot, unless God just wan help us. How can Kigali which was war torn like 10 - 15 years ago be a better organised, cleaner city than Lagos!!! What have we been doing since!!! Where is our own common sense to do things!!! Soon Monrovia and Freetown will be better organised than Lagos.

Why are we just an overall useless nation!!!!!

While CBN has probably not as effective as it should be, one of the main reasons why new notes are scarce is because bank managers keep them for their friends and also sell to dealers for parties. Where do riff rafs who sell new notes at parties get them from?

I used to be one of the key custodians of a bank vault and my head of operations who had the other key would warn me not to touch the mint in the vault. She used to use it to settle her friends and feel important that she could supply mint.

How much for this beauty? Also can we see inside and engine bay please.

Nigerian bank MDs are notorious for treating staff like shit.

Not that big a deal. We all know we have plenty of Tin left in the ground in Jos from when we abandoned other minerals for oil.

What we should be looking for is cobalt though. It is a valuable mineral for making rechargeable batteries for electric cars and solar farms. the world supply is limited and almost all in Congo and the price has almost doubled in recent years as electric car firms scramble for available supplies (law of demand and supply).

For key Trunk A roads in Nigeria such as Lagos-Ibadan; Port Harcourt -Enugu; Abuja-Kaduna; Shagamu-Benin etc the best solution is two fold:

Take out a $3bln bond for these road re constructions, put the money in a dedicated project account in CBN for the swift disbursement based on milestone accomplishment, so that the work does not start/stop based on delay in budget approval and release of allocation. Once the roads are ready, concession the management and maintenance to private firms of strict maintenance service level agreements who will then build toll gates and take 10% of the toll as service fee, while the 90% goes to a sinking fund to liquidate the loan. The 90% then reverts to federation account once the loan is extinguished.

Alternatively, simply concession the roads to credible private investors who will use their own capital/debt to effect the repairs and build toll gates. In this scenario since the private sector sourced the funds, 80% should then go to them, while 20% goes to FG. Since their money is at stake, the private sector will do all it can to ensure the road doesn't go bad. They will fix pot holes the size of a football because if they don't and it becomes the size of a football field, the repair will still come from their pocket. In this way, the citizens will enjoy good roads for a longer period of time.

It has become clear to me that the only way anything can work in this country is if it is in private hands. Military govt tried running business, now civilian govt has tried. The result is still the same! Monumental failure!!!!

The incompetence in this country is legendary! I have not understood why drivers license, voters card, international passport, national id card etc are such a big deal.

Yet banks are able to give you mastercard with your name printed on it and activated on the spot!!

The interior of the plane looks a bit dated. Also the article doesn’t mention premium economy, but the seats after the economy seats picture are look like premium economy. Business class doesn’t typical have a 3 configuration in the middle.

And suddenly being an actress in nollywood makes this much money?

ednut1:
Nigeria to SA is less dan 120k. Mushroom article

I was going to say where on earth did the Op get his prices from? They are nowhere near that high.

We keep creating new agencies that week end up doing nothing. Just paying salaries and adding no value to the country.

Our politicians are unable to take tough decisions. If I'm president, civil service will have to reduce manpower by at least 30 to 50%. We have people doing nothing.

Also promotion based on time spent will stop (or being DUE) It will be based on evidence of delivering on clear deliverables in a efficient and value adding way.

I know this is just 4 pictures and there are probably more aspects of the airport not shown, but my first response was its this the best that we can come up with??

And the country no get oil o! We have wasted our oil wealth for over 50 years now. Nigerian infrastructure should be far better than it is now.

Woke doesn't look very interested

This one is "fake news". I'm not sure anyone in government fears Osinbajo. Not even sure anyone fears Buhari himself, with the way his Ministers and appointees behave. Otherwise IGP would not have dodged going to Benue state when ordered to do so.

If kerosene is really that expensive and people are still using it, isn't something wrong with them?? Shouldn't they know that they should switch to gas?

I don't think simple camp gas burner with small cylinder will cost more than N7k. Why burn N300 per litre of kerosene?

How much are they selling it?

How much for them? Particularly the 2017 one?

Thumbs up bro! Una try! God bless your hustle!!

I could really consider this car if my money had been ready, but not just yet....

And if the price were cheaper

So how come planet projects are the only construction company in lagos

Thesijames:
You are really good with your calculations but the auction price of the vehicle was more than $20k. And factory repairs made was over $10k got receipt to prove..

Ok o! Anyway I salute whoever did the repair cos it looks pretty sharp. I'd love to see the engine compartment though.

This is one of the cars on my list on my "change my car in Q1 2019" project. That's why i know a bit about these things. Plenty research!!!

We are not very serious in this country. What value have all the other research institutes delivered in the past 30 years. At the end of the day all they will do is draw salaries and lobby to go abroad in the name of research and training so as to collect estacode and do little or no research.

This is a good proxy

https://www.copart.com/lot/37348458

Cos play oya tell us how much this car was sold na. Let's see how right our wrong I am?

Another thing exposing this does though is that it helps the public to negotiate better. There is no way this should be N20m. Probably in the N12m to N15m range.

N20m divided by 360 is $55k. Its not likely this would have auctioned for more than $20k which is N7. 2m. Add $5k for repairs - N1. 8, shipping $1. 5k - N540k, customs duty N5mln max. Cost of this car would be in the N13mln range. And this is being generous. It could very well have auctioned for $15k if he was lucky.

I totally agree. While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with people buying such cars, repairing and reselling provided they are certified road worthy and fully functional.

The main issue is that Nigerian dealers will never tell you the former status off the car and will try to pass it off as unaccidented.

That's a serious country!!

Nigeria isn't serious at all!! Common 2nd Niger Bridge has been on the drawing board for 2 decades. Make no mistakes, with these types of politicians Nigeria has no long term future.