₦airaland Forum

Kingsley34:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Qz8TcIO1Q?t=13

President Muhammad Buhari just arrived to Lagos from bauchi rally.
Buhari is actually in lagos to commission Lekki seaport.

The ladies marching in front of him can't even sync their marching! Nothing works well in this country.

Naijalarry:
Source- https://www.channelstv.com/2023/01/22/2023-south-east-cant-throw-away-24-year-investment-in-pdp-says-chidoka/

If PDP valued your investment, then no way should Atiku Abubakar be the PDP presidential candidate for 2023. It should be Peter Obi...!!!

Judah95:
How much monthly salary is good to earn in Lagos?
Abeg, matured responses only.

In Lagos, Abuja and PH, I would say a household income of N1.5mln net is required.

In most other cheaper cities like Ibadan, Abeokuta, Akure, Enugu, Calabar, Uyo, N1mln net will keep you quite comfortable. In these cities a 3bedroom house that will be N2.5mln in Lagos can be as cheap as N600k to N1mln. And food is cheaper too and you will spend less petrol moving around because traffic is much less.

[quote author=Lanrelagboi post=120303794]

FLASH: Today, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari will be in Lagos to commission the Fully Completed #LekkiDeepSeaPort … A Landmark Project in Lagos State. #LekkiPortCommissioning #PMBCommissionsLekkiPort #PMBinLagos pic.twitter.com/5PWU0IFifd

— Jubril A. Gawat (@Mr_JAGs) January 23, 2023

are containers to be evacuated from that Port into Lagos? I am very worried for the current dilapidated expressway from Abraham Adesanya to Eleko junction. For containers going to the east, the Eleko junction road to Epe is a newly constructed concrete road, so it should be fine. But many containers will come into Lagos as well. The road in the Ogombo, Sangotedo axis is horrible!!!

christistruth01:
In Nigeria as long as the Job is just done nobody cares

The fact the money for the project isn’t looted and the Project is completed is itself an accomplishment

To be fair to the Lagos state government, they have a pretty good track record with projects completion. That the Lagos state government starts a project and doesn't finish it is quite rare.

grandstar:
You were to quick to judge FreeStuffsNG

If solar power provided as much savings as you suggested, why haven't many companies adapted it? Why haven't solar farms been built to service industrial estates or even residential estates?

I am always a firm believer in research before jumping to conclusion. Solar may provide power but its quite pricey

The preferred go to for power generation are coal, gas, dams and even nuclear power. They generate power cheaply.

Solar power and wind are much more expensive and that's why many countries provide subsidies to make them competitive.

Solar power might make some sense in residential homes because the space density compared to the building is a lot. For a bungalow, if solar panels cover the roof, it may take up 30% of the building. Also energy use in a residential property is low.

But for a skyscraper, the solar panels will cover a much lower space compared to the size of the building. Also, energy consumption is very high with air-conditioning on during office hours for instance. We are yet to discuss the laptops, lifts, escalators, photocopy machines and so on. They are constantly on.

The issue needS to be research

How much does one need to invest in ones home to generate 1 kilowatt of power for instance compared to what you pay PHCN?

So you are smarter than every single person in Sterling Bank!? You think no one had done the analysis? Your think it wasn't properly specked and tendered?

TheKingIsHere:
Please stop speaking out of shear ignorance. Calm down had over 150m views long before Selena Gomez jumped on the board to do a remix. Calm down is international while buga is local but both are still wins

Which one be ignorance again!? If a song has 100m and Selena:s presence helps it to get to 500m ,didn't she still help it to blow globally!?

Na WA o!!

It's people like you that fight their reflection in the mirror!

Selena Gomez helped Calm Down to blow and get more reach than Buga.

Buga seems to have been more localized to Nigeria and Africa, while Calm Down went more global.

I was in Atlanta a few weeks back and Calm Down was played like 10 times in one day on Power FM 96.1

The only annoying part of it was they kept announcing it as Selena Gomez featuring Rema.

EnterpriseMan:
Girls don't send nudes to people they don't trust. I believe that should answer your question

Hook up and runs girls will share with any prospect.

habsydiamond:
No good girl will ever send her naked pix to u... a girl brought up in a good home will know that the human body is sacred and should be shared publicly except with one person ur husband or ur doctor for any treatment in that region or child bearing.

That's an unnecessary generalization. Like a few people have said, girls can sometimes love body and soul, especially if it's early in life like in 200level of university or so. And at that age they might do such.

It's also a bit myopic that the guys expect it to be okay to be sexually active and expect the girls to be virgins. Who then are all the guys sleeping with!? It's fine that a guy of 25 had slept with 30 girls, but if a 25 year old girl has had 3 boyfriend through university that she was serious with and slept with, she's considered loose, like this one saying the human body is sacred!! It's not sacred for the boys abi!?
Rubbish!

omonnakoda:
This is the real function of FRSC
HOW do we assess their effectiveness?
Instead they are looking for how to carry firearms

Exactly my point. They should be on patrol ith speed guns to measure speed and anyone caught will be chased down, booked and pay a fine on the spot. Thank God for ATM cards and internet banking. No one can say he has to go to bank to withdraw money to pay fine. Just log onto the FRSC fines portal and pay your fine. Very simple solution. But is usual no one in government is thinking.

WannaHowzit:
It's complex. In SA you usually call the ambulance and police, especially when you don't know what happened. It's a criminal matter. They'll come and do forensics on the crime scene and attend to the injured.

See how South Africa police is sophisticated enough to properly cordon of the area. And see how South African citizens are sensible enough to not crowded the place.


If it had been in Nigeria....

In reality, we are not as educated and knowledgeable and sophisticated as we like to believe.

When you go abroad and see how people behave while driving alone,respect for other vehicles, people go at intersections as they arrived there and no one tries to go ahead of the other. That's when you realize we are all just mad in Nigeria.

pocom35:
All of the mention above doesn't stop Tesla from mining and processing lithium locally same way it didn't stop them from selling their starlink in Nigeria

Despite all your mention Nigeria is the biggest partner to the US in the whole of Africa same with it friends in all other continents this warranting freedom for any of it companies to invest here at their calculated own risk.

The only reason why Nigeria is the largest trading partner in Africa for many western countries is oil. Take oil out and you will see that the western world doesn't do a lot in Nigeria compared to other African countries. The size of oil masks a lot of indices.

P&G invested a huge amount of money in Nigeria like 5 years ago to produce diapers and pads. Due to frustration from Nigerian agencies they shut it down in like 3 years and took a hit on their books. The list of companies who have shut down in Nigeria in 20 years is far more than those that have come in. Let me list some of those who have exited for you

Michelin
Dunlop
Bata
Lennards
ShopRite
Exide battery
PEP
Woolworths
Game
And many more I can't remember

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjuuMCc9sb8AhUeRKQEHVviAGwQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanguardngr.com%2F2009%2F07%2F820-manufacturing-companies-close-down-in-9-years-man%2Famp%2F&usg=AOvVaw0dzk2EM32I3T3_5jeh6KJc


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjuuMCc9sb8AhUeRKQEHVviAGwQFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpunchng.com%2Fover-50-companies-shut-down-over-forex-power-crises-investigation%2F%3Famp&usg=AOvVaw0hWxzNI08P5ZhPKA5B9hqf

pocom35:
They have been better help to Nigeria than the Americans

An American company called Tesla was supposed to be the one to be given the license to mine.. guess what ..they were only interested in taking the resources and not building the factory to process it..

Here you have a Chinese company willing to mine and process locally yet you no know trust them..

Nigerians are confused

Most American companies will struggle to do business in Nigeria because of the restrictions their governments put in for how they conduct business in fantastically corrupt countries like Nigeria.

The Chinese on the other hand have no issues with settling. Reality is even me as a Nigerian I will struggle to choose Nigeria over Rwanda,SA, Namibia,Botswana etc for a plant. Nigeria issues are just too many. Let me lost them for your:

Massive bureaucracy.
Inefficient ports
Corrupt police
Bad roads
Organized crime
Incompetent government
Policy flip flop
Poor workforce
Low productivity
And many more

ShaqFu:
This is beyond awesome. Nigeria is truly blessed. Let's hope we won't waste this resource like we are wasting crude oil.

Of course we will! It's what we do in this country! To get someone with brains into government is an impossibility because the mob that vote people like Tinubu, Buhari and Atiku are in the majority, and democracy and elections is simply a game of numbers right?

ijustdey:
https://leadership.ng/lithium-is-the-new-oil-govt-must-control-its-exploitation-malami/

It's only to be setting up funds and agencies that they know!! Why not just set up a Lithium desk or department in the Ministry of Solid Mines!?

Why must everything be a fund or agency??

SmartPolician:
Nigerian telcos are really trying to keep us at par with the rest of the world.

I hope they know how much 5G-enabled smartphones cost though.

4G is good. I don't know why the world is in a hurry to get into 5G.

I wonder myself. Even in America 5G is overrated. I saw a report that 4G is even giving more consistently fast speeds than 5G as the full rollout won't be completed till like 2025. So what's the fuss about!

Kobonaire234:
At 300 naira it is even still cheaper than all our African brethren except Algeria and Angola.

Also, seems apc has admitted in essence that 40 naira petrol was a lie.

Only fools ever believed that!

OEPHIUS:
Enugu’s oil producing status: My biggest joy is that my successor will excel - Gov. Ugwuanyi

…Recounts challenges in office despite successes

…Congratulates Enugu-born UTME’s second runner-up in Nigeria



https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02SvMW9FpYYXMbgxDDDs6c8LcNigDi4HrfYWoLFt52J2rXP9dPYUikQ5SSMUrcSwz7l&id=100044234839321&mibextid=Nif5oz

Lazy governor's!! All looking for how they can be declared oil producing state so that they can sit back, do nothing and just spend money.

Igboslayer:
Interesting development, but eyes only cannot tell the true age of some people oooo

What Igbos and OBI people won’t tell you about OBI. He gave them laptops and crease their tuition fee to collect the money back hundred folds.

Many of them that passed Waec that year are all drop out selling Okrika and gala in Lagos traffic because they couldn’t afford to pay for university education because OBI increased their school fee by almost 200%.

Igbos won’t tell you that Awka is the worst state capital in Nigeria. Under OBI, he never develop their road network, even though Anambra is the second smallest state in Nigeria.

You better go and strategize for more income. Be there expecting school fees to remain the same as 10years ago after 3 huge devaluation and 15% inflation per year. Yet you also expect quality education.

Bubu4Sea:
Second Niger Bridge was budgeted to be N117billion, with train tracks on both sides of the bridge but Buhari cancelled it and reawarded the contract for N400billion without train tracks, then added toll gate.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa00DjlXkAE_0Ni.jpg

Yet Benue Bridge that is longer than Second Niger Bridge has no toll gate

Probably due to naira devaluation with the passage of time. If GEJ had been sincere and actually executed the contract at the initial award,maybe we would have completed it for about N150bln.

It's shocking that Nigerians do not think critically enough. A 3 year delay in execution can have drastic impact on contract values. Recall that naira devalued from 200 to 365 like 9 months after Buhari took over, due to crash in crude oil prices. Also steel prices could have doubled in that time depending on the economic cycle in the West. During economic boom, commodities such as aluminium, iron ore, steel etc escalate in price due to high levels of economic activity globally. Not to mention what cement prices had increased to by then.

You should go do a course in project management.

160km\hr Houston to Atlanta

Not a single pothole on almost 1600km of expressway. That's like driving Lagos to Kaduna I guess. Took 11.5 hours with zero traffic hold up.

omonnakoda:
We know it has been there for decades. Your point?

Point is,if that road expansion is completed it also helps. If I were to be going to Ibadan, Ijebu or east from Lekki ideally I should be going that way. But you try it and see!! The whole Sangotedo,Ogombo axis is a nightmare. A government that cannot execute that, the regional road or the rail line in good time is trying to execute a complex bridge over water!?

The money may have been better spent completing the aforementioned projects and doing the version of the blue and red rail to serve Lekki, onwards to FTZ ,which I think is either the green or yellow line.

omonnakoda:
. Are you from Lagos State?
I do not think so.otherwise you won't write this rubbish
Have you ever been to Baiyeku?
So the people of Ikorodu are not people?Their benefit does not count?
Lagos is a lagoon state . The bridge will benefit Ikorodu.Sagamu and others
Many of you come to our state from wherever you come and start spouting stupidity about how we should run OUR state.
Once the Lekki FTZ takes off there will be a need for several alternative routes out of Lekki
Unlike the other major bridges this one is not from Lagos Island and it demonstrates the possibilities of other bridges e.g Egbin to Ikorodu as well as possibilities of more marinas and waterfront development in Ikorodu

Calm down. I live in Ologolo, Lekki. There is an existing route from Eleko junction to Epe and ijebu ode junction. From there you can go left on Benin shagamu expressway to join Lagos Ibadan expressway or go right towards Ore, Benin and the east. Case closed!

dahmie2013:
I will suggest Portharcourt. Its almost like Lagos, it has vibes...

Ph isn't very safe.

eteebanky1:
You better don't mind them, my fellow countrymen that will rather buy common Bluetooth speaker on international market instead of patronising the nearest gadgets store

If not for all this policies, we'll be exchanging a dollar to #2000 by now....I don't want to talk much

Didn't the gadget store also buy from abroad? If I know I am travelling and can buybit myself for $100 why should I buy it locally for $250 equivalent?

That why I pity those who sell stuff locally. People why actually have the money to buy them buy it themselves either when traveling or when colleagues and friends are travelling. That's why you go to gadget shops and see the sames thing on their shelves for months .

Only electronic I have bought locally in like 10 years is a TV, washing machine etc as those can't be brought into the country easily. But smaller stuff like phones, speakers, earbuds, Chromecast etc are all when I travel.

yomexp:
Why good things dey always vex una why y y y y.....!

It's not a matter of vex. It's a matter of critical thinking. Where is the traffic analysis that was done on vehicles on third mainland to see where they end up?

You should now by now that Nigerian government likes to throw money at issues without critical thinking and proper analysis. It's only in Nigeria you hear gas power plants were built without proper analysis of where the gas will come from. Just because they hear that Nigeria has more gas than oil they went to build them, forgetting you need to drill gas wells, build gas processing plants and pipelines to deliver the gas and all these cost money. As if the gas were just sitting somewhere waiting to be used to generate electricity!

donbrowser:
Marina just got a rail...

The blue rail is from festac to Marina. Does it really help third mainland? Maybe a little bit. But On a good day if I were driving to Marina from festac, I would go through orile to contain and then eko bridge to Marina.

The red line may help third mainland traffic more than blue line when eventually finished.

9jaRealist:
So you’re saying that taking all those highlighted folks away from the TMB “will not reduce any congestion” on TMB?!
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How often are they traveling compared to those who go to work or market everyday? The make up like 5% of the volume

This bridge is overrated and will not reduce any congestion on third mainland bridge. 95% of the daily traffic on third mainland are those going to work in Marina and vi or markets on Lagos Island. The only people it might help are those in Lekki around Chevron, vgc, badore, ajah etc who are going to Ibadan. So for those, instead of going to the Lekki corridor to vi,ikoyi and on to third mainland, they can take the new bridge. But if I'm living in Lekki ph1 or oniru, I might as well take third mainland.

dre11:
https://punchng.com/senate-proposes-376-new-agencies-shuns-oronsaye-report/?amp

Most of these are in the North. Typical abokis. That's all they know how to do. Create new agencies and fill it with their quarter educated people. Na abokis full public sector, yet they are nowhere to be found in private sector.

ahiboilandgas:
Almost all workers are complaining in the UK and everbody is on strike on wage issue from trainr drivers to ambulance to teachers to nurses to university on strike They are complaining of poor pay debt and leaving the job . But Nigerians that are well paid are also leaving on student visa to join the strike in the .UK or cannot see the cost of living crisis in the UK . Is there something else

Many Nigerians are on poorer pay here that cannot deliver the quality of life they want.

Inflation and high cost of living is an issue pretty much everywhere right now, but the UK own is worse due to highly inflated energy prices this winter that is making it like 3 to 4 times more expensive to heat homes this winter. imagine earning £2500 a month and your gas bill goes from £120 to £480. Wettin remain to live on.

However higher paid professionals like doctors, finance guys, tech people etc will still find it easier to cope than teachers, taxi drivers,brain drivers etc.

Besides, a lot of Nigerians are going to school, so maybe it's not so bad for them.