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The real benefit of this railway though is when cargo can be exited from Apapa to dry port in Ibadan. In fact the SW governors really need to collaborate and see how else this train can bring about development. It should also be easier to have industry in Abeokuta and Ibadan axis if this train can get materials there quicker and cheaper and also finished products back to Lagos market and for export.

kay29000:
Yep! I have been waiting on this for years now. I can't wait to start using it.

I hope it will keep to departure and arrival schedules. Not the one that departure from Ibadan at 6am becomes 7am, yet you have a 9am meeting at Marina.

Jibsy203:
Give it two months and see how dirty cursed afonjas will dirty the train

I'm a yoruba person and to be brutally honest I agree that illiterate yoruba people can be particularly dirty. Particularly market and artisan type people. Both male and female

oyatz:
We need to let private sector transport managers manage,operate and maintain these trains

Thats my main worry for this thing. If it stays with government, I see it being messed up within 5years. Nigerians sef are not clean. Too many people have filthy hands touching things all over the place. I tell my kids they can walk around the house without using the wall to go round corners.

Back2Daura:
Agbaroji is not corrupt that is why they want him out. Nigerian host communities are too toxic

This was on my mind too. Nigeria is now a funny place where those who do the right thing are now castigated, while those who allow fraud, incompetence, nepotism, cronyism are hailed.

Buhari doesn't have the intellectual capabilities to solve any problem in Nigeria.

While he may have been an Army General, but otherwise he is an intellectual illiterate.

Buhari has no emotional intelligence, no economic intelligence, no academic intelligence, no diplomatic intelligence, no technological intelligence! Absolutely NOTHING!

For every problem in Nigeria, I can think of a clear cut solution split into the short term, medium term and long term, based on my mental and reasoning faculty. Buhari has none of that. Thats why Nigeria is getting worse and worse.

Buhari had a crude oil price crisis in 2016. You would have thought the guy would be prepared for the next one, yet the 2020 crisis caught Nigeria even worse prepared than the first one!!

Exchange rate is worse under 6 years of Buhari (200 to 470), compared to last 30years (1 to 200)

Excess crude account depletion is worse thN ever under Buhari.

Foreign debt has increased by the most under Buhari government. Yet I am struggling to see the projects we have used it to do other than railway and airport. And if we do not monetize these assets, the loans will never be paid back.

Buhari has no clue!!

faste:
Bro don't say so.What does the military have to offer nigeria?They are far more corrupt,nepotistic,selfish than the civilian.The military laid the foundation of our current struggle.

My comment is because politicians have also not offered Nigeria anything. Nigeria is really tiring and depressing.

codemaniacs:
Dangote plc, zenith, Gtb, Linda ikejis blog, Nairaland, sdk blog, lailasblog, Innoson, BUA, covenant university, Bowen university, access bank, Mr biggs, sweet sensation, mega chicken, tastee fried chicken, Private primary and secondary schools e.t.c

If you work in Zenith Bank/Access Bank and you work in Standard Chartered, only you will come and tell me the difference in terms of governance and mindset.

Covenant and Bowen compared to University of Pretoria?

Of all the food places mentioned, not sure anyone is really thriving. They have all gone down from their heights 10years ago. Partly economy ,but partly management.

As 'good' as some of our private schools are, let your kids school abroad for 3 years and you will likely see a big difference in confidence and extra curricular capabilities.

Dangote is only surviving because he brought in Indian COO. That was the smartest thing he ever did. If he had put his children there ,it would have been the endbof his business, particularly after him.

Keshinr0:
Just avoid Nigeria churches abroad

Why?

tstx:
The difference between Nigeria and SA is that the white men left our country.






We weren't able to maintain any because No Country run by black people can progress this is just the painful truth. Our illogical greed will always inhibit our growth ...
SA was built by the white and is still run the whites... They own the lands and all the juicy jobs, they run the mines, the wineries, they run everything including tourism...

Valid point! There really is something wrong with us blacks perhaps. Cos like I said in a different post almost everything nice about VI, Ikoyi, Lekki is done by Lebanese. Banana Island and Eko Atlantic are developed by foreigners. VI and Ikoyi that was left for us, we are slowly spoiling.

For fine dining cactus, shiro, hard rock, rsvp, ocean basket, craft by lou baker etc are all run by Lebanese. Where are Mr Biggs, tantaliser, sweet sensations today?

Lg is owned and run by Lebanese and they are still standing. SIMS on the other hand is a shadow of itself.

Kia and Hyundai ,Stallion motors, Honda place, Porsche place are all foreign owned. The one we know how to do is to be parking cars on sidewalks or under power lines and say we are selling cars.

There is very little in that VI that is owned and run by Nigerians that is run well.

So it seems we are just not capable of complicated reasoning and management by ourselves.

samdunzo:
Take it back.... if it requires force, then so be it. We are already approaching failed state status, so I guess it wont even be all too bad. We cannot continue like this for crying out loud. My grandparents complained about Nigeria, my parents are currently complaining, will I have to complain about the same issues after all this time? In the span of 60 years, other countries like Indonesia, India, China, and even Ghana have left us in the dust, while we can't even rise above stupid tribal sentiments to make a country we will ALL benefit from.

Well said, but easier said than done. Left to me a coup in Nigeria is not a bad idea. Nigeria can't get much worse with a coup than it currently is.

What happened to helicopters, drones, surveillance etc. There are military drones that can stay in the air for 36hours.

While it may be impossible to fully police a border ,but it definitely shouldn't be this loose.

samdunzo:
Okay then. Then lets stop fucking around and get to it. These men are on their fucking last legs. After that, they're all gone. We can still make something out of this country if we are serious about it. India was a gigantic shithole not too long ago. Today, it has a bigger economy than that of its coloniser, and is expected to be a world power for years to come. Same with China. In fact China will probably take over the world at the rate they're going. If they played the blame game, would they be where they are? No!

The issue is how do we "get to it"? I always say Nigerias problems, as big as they are, can be fixed reasonably quickly with a leader with a clear vision and political will. Give me 20years and Nigeria will be far better than it is today.

But we are led by useless people and the system makes it almost IMPOSSIBLE for sensible people to assume leadership.

Renegade23:
South Africa is where it is because of the long presence of white people...even though apartheid killed them, they benefitted a lot, especially in infrastructure....Just look at how their football league is well organized for starters

This is valid. I also wonder at times that perhaps our independence came too early. But still it's not an excuse for us going backwards. Are we all daft to do basic things? Estates in the South West that the white guys left for us are far better than any estate that we have done since then. Check Ikoyi and Agodi Gra Ibadan and old Bodija. Even with more modern technology, we can organise ourselves like we were under colonial rule.

Funny enough, South Africa was also my first trip outside Nigeria in 2007, and it was an awakening for me too. I had always thought Everywhere in Africa was the same, but ol boy I was so tripped with Jo bourg and Pretoria. I went to University of Pretoria and I felt like going back to school again. See better environment!

Nigeria problems are many, but it all boils down to leadership. How can a nation this diverse,blessed, educated be led my mostly illiterates from inception to now. I put all military leaders into that bucket because even though you can argue that they had military education, but when it comes to what you need to run a country, they are illiterate. However, I am really beginning to think that Nigeria fared better under military rule than this democratic nonsense we are doing. The quality of Ministers under Babangida and Abacha are far better than what we have had since 1999. This democracy has just become an avenue for hundreds of thousands of corrupt politicians to fleece us. At least then it was few military rulers that had the guts to be brazenly corrupt.

From federal to state to local government, Nigeria is ruled by the worst of us, instead of the best of us. The best of us are in oil companies, banks or mostly abroad because they cannot cope with the madness of being ruled by illiterate incompetent buffoons. They'd rather go where things work.

I also blame the North a lot more for where we are. I think a Yoruba nation would have developed much more than where we are now. The North just want power and wealth and do nothing with it, otherwise their area wouldn't be so poverty stricken to the extent that it is now a problem for the whole country. And the corrupt tendencies of the north has pervaded the entire country and now it will take a miracle for Nigeria to come out of the dungeons we have been put. Now pretty much EVERY Nigerian is corrupt.

Nigeria of today is unable to get BASIC things right. Traffic, security drainage, relatively basic infrastructure, roads. None of these things are rocket science. We are still talking of Benin Shagamu road, Lagos Ibadan, port Harcourt enugu, owerri onitsha. We are still talking of Apapa Road, we have no process for fixing pot goes in Lagos, for repairing drainage etc. We have no structure for policing and responding to citizens call. The whole system and country is just a MESS.

AFONJACOW:
If I get enough money, just one house is enough for me and my family, the rest I will give it back to humanity... What's the need of building choice houses everywhere when u can only sleep in one for a night... Oyimbo get sense pass blacks

Its because costbof owning house here is next to nothing. If you ask Judy to pay common N50k ground rent per year now, he will go to social media and complain. Meanwhile if you have this house in America, your property tax won't be less than $5k per annum.

Islie:
https://punchng.com/nigeria-close-to-becoming-a-failed-state-says-financial-times/

I do not see a single lie in this article. Everything is the truth!

Interesting why development of a new port in Akwa Ibom makes more sense than expanding Calabar port. Calabar port has been agitating for dredging and deepening of their water way to allow for bigger ships to berth. This was supposed to be one of the issues restricting the proper take off of Tinapa.

Anyway, maybe the issue is with the Governor. Akwa Ibom governor may have a bigger and better vision for his state than Ayade. Since Duke left Calabar, Tinapa has been left abandoned. Now the Ayade government is talking about CalasVegas when Tinapa, which was a world class construction by JB, is wasting away.

God, who we offend for Nigeria!?

jarawa:
https://dailytrust.com/reps-to-fg-release-n3bn-for-local-production-of-firearms

We like this grammar of "abundant human and natural resources"! As far as I'm concerned our human resources are actually very poor and not abundant at all, especially in modern tech. If we have no experience is weapons manufacture, then we just dont have it.

I wonder why we don't buy from Eastern Europe or Asia though. I would imagine that China and Russia would have no qualms selling us machine guns, bullets, grenades and other small level weaponry we need to fight Boko Haram. After all, we ain't fighting a sophisticated enemy.

iaamxavier:
Wow, seems the okoyes have a very nice taste in houses

They all have exquisitive houses with amazing interiors

Unlike our regular Nigerian boring pattern of houses with a very Long Triangular Stone coated roof

Well said. This is a classy, modern design. I just hope he doesn't spoil the interior with these silly 'gold' rimmed chairs that our Igbo brothers like to use (not sure where that taste in design came from). I recall seeing one of the twins interiors in 2019 or so and it was classy. Same for Timaya...his interior decor i saw in 18 or 19 was on point. Not the nonsense MC Oluomo did or E-Money in his Anambra house.

In as much as using Nigerian ports continues to be a tragedy, imports will always come in through the land borders because it it is so much easier (and cheaper i hear) to import through Benin Republic and use lorry to drive it into Lagos through Seme.

I was in Cotonou recently and drove past the marina area where their port is on the way to my hotel which was near by. Oh boy!!! See how neat the access road was. A few trucks on the road, but they were in no way impeding traffic flow. However, majority of the trucks were inside the premises or further away and they only come when they have specific load to carry. Compare that to Apapa/TinCan access roads.

This country is just a nightmare!!!

ijustdey:
•Security situation worrisome, Kaigama



https://www.sunnewsonline.com/army-police-fight-over-rescue-of-fresh-abducted-students-in-katsina/

Sign of a country that is poorly run and managed!!! in all likelihood, it was neither of them sef.

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/allow-us-fix-refineries-oil-marketers-tell-fg/

If the marketers are so convinced that there is value in those refineries, then should buy it.

Johnnyessence:
Arrival of New Buses(GSM Bus) to Oyo State by Governor Seyi Makinde!!
"Makinde nSe Bebe" O Por Yeye. Seyi e da in Ibadan people's voice. ���



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fllnsZ1T8Ls

We have seen this type of thing before. In the early 90’s there was TCTC which faded away pretty quickly. I think another governor also brought something similar about 12 years ago. The point is in as much as it remain in government hands, it will fall apart in just a few years. As we all know, nothing that the government runs is successful. Government is synonymous with failure to manage things.

When did PH Aba road become 8 lane?? The video he showed suggests it’s a 4 lane road I.e dual lane both ways!! Abi is there service lane that we didn’t see.

2cribz:
Abegi,what nonsense. Not even leather or automobile production,na one useless tissue paper. What nonsense.

Production is production. Jobs is jobs. Revenue is revenue. There are those who pack shit that have more money than you.

Na last 5 minutes arsenal know say dem go play ball!! Useless!

2 points from the last 21!!!

Arsenal really might be relegated this season.

Cos with the way they are playing, I can't see them beating the Crystal Palace, West Brom, Sheffield of this world.

If they could lose to Burnley then that says it all.

COdeGenesis:
These players are gone past their best moments. They are a shadow of themselves

Nah! These are still solid players in the right team. Na coach.!