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When will cornavirus do what we are praying for and deal with Buhari for us!?

That was Osibanjo can become president. We are tired of an incompetent, emotionless, unintelligent, unempathic leader like Buhari.

Osinbajo will be 100 times better.

Birdeyeview:
A good and effective maintenance culture needs to be put in place too if not 5 - 10 years from now they'll be nothing to write home about.

The best way to sustain rail in nigeria going forward will be to form a holding company to manage the tracks, while private companies run rail services. Same way airports belong to government and private airlines operate.

If we expect govt to run everything, trust me in 5years the entire investment would have gone down the drain.

Sagelegend:
Its expensive buh not classy and unique. I dont like that type of chair.

Buh it suit his taste...Enjoy sir

Exactly. I would not classify this is classy. Looks local and without the input of a proper interior designer.

Having the longest runway in Nigeria will by itself not make the air port to be viable. All the state governors devoting huge resources to building airports are just doing vanity projects and in most cases, its just an opportunity to steal money.

dives:
We are developing our rail systems. If i recall, one was recently name named after GEJ. There is Ibadan-Kano, Lagos-Ibadan and others under construction. Our roads are being constructed by the minute. Fashola and Amaechi have been working tirelessly in these regard. Various structures are also being put in place to develop our gas which would help boost electricity generation. You can check out NLNG train 7 project. There are projects going on in Nigeria. We have only chosen not to see them. And about our recession, we slipped into recession because we rely solely on oil and oil prices have been very volatile in recent years so it is only expected. When we were meant to save for rainy day, we did not. And that is why the govt is making conscious efforts to diversify the economy.

And are roads, bridges and railways thjngs we should just be doing in 2020?? Which effort to diversify which econony? Name one specific thing Buhari has done since 2015 that will deliver even 5% of what we currently make from oil as a means of diversification?

Crude prices crashed in 2015, and we spoke about diversification. Crude prices crashed again in 2020 and Nigeria was actually WORSE prepared than before!! Does that make any sense!? What were we doing since 2015? Exchange rate was $199 when Buhari took over, its now $470!! We've lost N270 in 5 years! More than we lost in 35years from 1980!!


And the Buhari we thought was not corrupt, see what is going on in his government as per NDDC and stuff as well as Oyo Ita.

Buhari is the most useless president we've ever had. Someone who had so much public support in 2015 and yet has bungled every thing up.

Nigerians will be mad to vote APC in 2023. The biggest mistake PDP made in 2019 was fielding Atiku who was tainted from Obasanjo tenure. But even at that i doubt Atiku could have been as bad as Buhari.I hope they won't make the same mistake in 2023. Even though APC and PDP are nor far from one another, we at least need to make the point that bad leadership will be punished.

Nigera needs a youngish, sharp minded, energetic President. Someone who understands basic economics, entrepreneurship, international relations, industry etc. Someone who has emotional intelligence. Someone who has specific ideas about what needs to be done, not high level stuff like we need to diversify, develop agriculture etc. HOW EXACTLY DO WE DO THESE THINGS. We need a President that will inspire us and get us believing again, cos very few people believe in nigeria at the moment, both within and outside Nigeria. Maybe a Peter Obi or Donald Duke can do that job.

favor914:
Nigeria a mockery? Only poor people say that, You are very ignorant, do you know what it is to have 200 million people in a region, Nigeria’s Population makes over half of West Africa, Obama chose to go to Ghana good luck to him, Lagos Economy alone, & GDP is bigger than Ghana’s.

This is exactly the shallow, arrogant thinking that the article is talking about!!

We spent billions of dollars on ECOMOG in the 80's and 90's, while our education, helathcare, infrastructure and economy languished. What strategic importance did we get from it. Do we have Nigerian companies dominating in Liberia and Sierra Leone and repatriating dollars back home the way American companies do in Middle East?

We call ourselves giant of Africa and all that yet we are now being bullied by Ghana. When last did Nigeria stamp its feet down in Africa on any issue?

We call ourselves oil giant, but because everybody is finding new oil, we are now irrelevant to US and UK. Besides Angola is nipping at our heels to become Africa's largest producer and Mozambique and Tanzania have found huge gas and will soon have LNG plants to rival NLNG, meanwhile we never accelerated other LNG projects to corner the market when we could have.

We have 200m people, majority of whom are illiterate, have extremely low purchasing power and are not adding to a modern economy.

Lest you forget, Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world. Nigeria has more people in abject poverty than India, yet India has 5TIMES our population. Does that add up?

You should be very worried about the future of this country.

topboss:
IT IS NOT A MATTER OF DEPORTING NIGERIANS AND GHANA WILL CONTINUE TO ENJOY OUR GENEROCITY.


IT IS NOT THE CASE OF REMOVING NIGERIANS FROM THEIR PLACE OF WORK IN GHANA AND GHANIANS WILL CONTINUE TO WORK FREELY IN NIGERIA.


IT IS NOT THE CASE OF DEMOLISHING OUR EMBASSY AND GHANIANS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE EMBASSY IN NIGERIA.


IT IS A MATTER OF GHANIANS IN THE SAME SPIRIT REMOVING THEMSELVES FROM NIGERIA OR NIGERIA COMPLIMENT GHANA BY DOING SAME TO GHANIANS AND GHANA INTEREST IN NIGERIA.



THIS IS MATTER HERE.

How many Ghanaians are in Nigeria? I haven't met a Ghanaian in lagos in a very long time. Yet when I gonto Accra, Nigerians full there.

Audacious19:
Messi can't be a leader, someone who could retire for losing a final even as the team captain can never be a leader.
The guy nah dictator spoiling Barca without them knowing, he wants all the glory, dicttes who to buy, who to play, who to even pass to during matches like gurizeman, and coutinho. I wonder if this was Ronaldo the internet would have been on fire but Ronaldo has a perfect God who responds to his critics in special moments.
How can messi give up everytime they are losing, Roma, liverpool, Juventus and now Bayern no fighting spirit. No motivation mtcheew this one nah lizard goat abeg

I agree with you. As wonderful a player as Messi is,and in my mind he is probably the best of all time, but he is also perhaps their biggest problem in terms of power he weilds, the dependence on him even as he's waning and the distraction he causes on the pitch by getting the ball at times when sometimes the better pass was over the top to find someone who made a run. I've never thought Messi was a good captain anyway. Body language has always been flat when things aren't going their way in big matches.

Messi is the reason why Greizman, Coutinho, Dembele and a few others cannot fulfill their own potential. Setting up the team for his playing benefit has also caused Barca to lose their shape and balance.

That said its not just about him, as the leadership have not been able to buy the right quality of players to fill certain positions.

exsodus:
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Is the bridge single lane both ways? The road i saw they were walking on seemed pretty narrow.

So in the 21st century, out port was not operating 24 hours?? Especially a port that is even not big enough to efficiently handle the volume that passes through it.

You would have thought this was a no brainer like 10 years ago.

From where will they find the DNA of 200million Nigerians? National Identity Number as a priority over the physical card makes sense. DNA on the other hand makes no sense, cos we have no easy way of getting that information, considering how scattered, unplanned and disconnected every system in this country is.

omowolewa:
at last the building would be commissioned



You are wrong sir, Bullet Construction, Datata & Sawoe, and host of other have designed & built solid structures

Did you read what the guy wrote

Tiny organisation like NCDMB is using this massive office!! What then will bigger organisations use. We just over employ in most of these government agencies and parastatals.

Nchenches:
Buhari is making the same Kaduna Refinery mistake today.

Buhari is laying gas pipeline from the Nigerdelta to northern egion to build two huge gas processing plants in northern Nigeria, then huge pipeline to transport the gas to Arab North Africa.

This is one of the reasons Mallam Daura still wants presidency to remain in the north after Buhari.

I myself wonder about the viability of the AKK pipeline. How many industries are in Abuja and Kano that will take advantage of it, compared to Aba, Lagos and Ogun states? And while it could potentially extend to Europe through North Africa, we do not have any long term supply contracts yet, so pipeline can't be built till then.

More likely than not, it is simply an ethnic oriented vanity project and not a commercial one.

prettyangel10:
This Veno's Nigeria go survive song then was really nice then, as in.... Andrew no check out, stay and build your country, Nigeria go survive.
Nigeria go survive, Africa go survive
Our people go survive o,
Nigeria go survive. They all really made impact.
Time dey fly sha.

And is Nigeria really surviving? Compare the average 'Andrew' that checked out in 1985 to the ' Andrew' that didn't and see where they are today.

I hope corruption and fraud won't be the end of him, like few MP's of Nigerian origin in the UK.

Seems some of our negative attitudes run skin deep, despite environment and privilege.

NGpatriot:
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I hope they intend to grass the surroundings of this building, and not leave it all sandy.

Nigerians don't like greenery and beauty sha. Almost all houses I go to are fully interlocked. No space for natural grass and flowers anywhere.

See the sad looking ram meat set. Plenty bone and offals.

I have received better quality ram may than this, so not sure what her fuss is about.

Looking at her face from the videos convinced me that she isn’t really that pretty. We shouldn’t be fooled by the touched up, glammed up, slimmed up version of her we see in photos. Her facial structure in this video isn’t quite as good as in still pictures, meaning it’s touched up.

Indirectly marketing herself it seems!!

mrvitalis:
Osibanjo is not a saint ...is a man without integrity that has been proven time and time again

Even if it was the turn of South West no body would vote him

Why do most south west leaders have bad history
From tinubu to gbajami ...what ever his name to their Lagos speaker to Lagos governor to fayemi...I can go n on and on ...why na

What exactly are you on about? The article doesn't even mention Osibanjo, yet you say he isn't a Saint?

emmy512:
This is a business, where profit should be made, they've explained why they are increasing the fare.
How much do you pay by road from abj to kaduna, how much comfort do you get on road, whats the security like compared to the coaches.
If they don't increase the price while adhering to social distance would you have any train to use again.
Airlines that doubled fares are y'all complaining. It's just like saying government should pay half your flight ticket. It's not everything we should be complaining about

Well said. Its important that the train service can meet its own operating costs, otherwise the service will fall apart and in no distant time, the train service will stop all together.

This is a model that should be applied to many other government agencies, so that they can sustain and improve services.

SmartPolician:
It's worth it. If you don't like it, try buses or airplanes.

While Amaechi is working hard to impress other regions, he should know that charity begins at home.

You must make your people feel government impact.

Rivers people may not like Amaechi because he is a troublemaker, but not one of them can deny the great job Amaechi did as governor, especially in education.

Not just education. Amaechi dualised like 10 key roads in his time as governor. If he hadn't done that, moving around in PH today would be a bigger challenge than it is. And good quality too. Every single one of them had underground drainage to evacuate water quickly. As a result those roads will last longer with just a bit of maintenance.

We hope we will see the equipment 1year from now. I recall a few years ago, Lagos State government announced with much fanfare the acquisition of an automatic interlock brick laying machine.

Till today I have never seen in Lagos where the machine has been used. Probably ended up in a private construction company owned by someone in government. Maybe Planet Projects!!

kikero:
The funds are meaningless if you cannot cite how much it costs to actually repair and maintain and upgrade a refinery

Plus, oil subsidy means that NNPC cannot make the kind of profit to keep refinereis up to date.

Then there is sabotage, which happens because regardless of whether NNPC makes a profit or not, as a private company, it earns money from government subvention

Privatise NNPC, allow marketers to control the price of fuel they sell, and there would be hefty profits to run the oil sector.



UAE has eleven million people compared to Nigeria's 200 million

Two men earn N200000 naira monthly. One man has 2 children and one wife. The other man has ten children and several dependents. Who is going to look richer?



Well, that's the problem with resource dependent countries....which is why if you understand my post, you would see I advocate for industrialization.
A resource dependent country is not a developed country. It does not matter how much money we made from oil....we were using it to import stuff. Again, repairing the refinereis is not possible, because we forced NNPC to sell fuel below the production cost, and as a result, there were no profits in the sector...to repair the refineries.


Well, we Nigerians refuse to develop an industrial scoeity. You think we have enough money to plan for everyone? We don't. To have enough for everyone, we need oil at $140 per barrel. (Breakeven price...google it).
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Well, we can get there.



Ha. Dangote refienry costs $9 billion. $3 billion came from his pocket...the rest $6 billion came from loans granted to him by international banks, and the African development bank.

Meanwhile, we need more than 4 new refienreis, plus upgrading of the exisitng ones. That would cost more than our current budget to achieve.

That's why we have to deregulate. Once we deregulate, while it would cost you N300 to buy one liter of fuel, there would be enough profit to fix refinereis, plus more people would come in and build refinery. Government need not spend a kobo.

Petrol won't even be up to N300. After all diesel is deregulated and is N190. Everywhere I've gone in the world, diesel is slightly more expensive than petrol. So worst case in Nigeria deregulated petrol at the.moment should be like N180.

Gracealone:
Protection of certain interests ensured that the privatisation of the refineries was reversed. That remains one major thing which, I believe, Yaradua got wrong.

I totally agree. If Yar Adua had allowed the sale by obasanjo to stand, we wouldn't be where we are today.

Equal2DeTask:



Very unfortunate....Most of this so called Federal roads are "ROADs TO NO WHERE"



Ministry of works gat alot of work to do..
Which I see them not doing anytime soon.


I don't want spit out what I saw @South-East especially Abia state

If you ask either the SUV guy or truck guy if they would pay N500 for a tolled but smooth road, they will shout from now to kingdom come over the N500, yet is that not better than going through this?

I know I will be roasted because people will say this is what government is meant to provide. Agreed! But even aside corruption, let's be honest, Nigeria is pretty poor at the moment. Asides crude oil, the only way to raise revenue in short term is taxes and if govt does so, same people will make noise again.

ikorodureporta:
https://thenationonlineng.net/nerc-electricity-tariff-hike-wont-affect-poor/

Its a very simple thing to do, to increase the tariff and still protect the poor.

Just stagger the tariff:

0-199 units per month = old rate
200-499 units per month = old rate *1.4
500+ per month = whatever rate NERC wants to charge

This way, the 'rich' will actually be subsidizing the poor by paying the difference to keep the first 199 units of the month low. If anyone has appliances that causes him to use over 200 units a month, then perhaps he's not poor.

Not saying it has to be 199 units, but whatever research suggests is a good level to peg it in order to protect the poor who use very little electricity. it might be 99 units or it might be 299 units.

However, among the people we call 'poor' are those doing welding job and hairdresser etc that use quite a lot of electricity, in many cases stolen electricity.

And bele don show in 2 weeks

Revamp in 2020, falls apart in 2024, then revamped in 2028, then falls apart in 2032!!!

Meanwhile hotels in anybpartbofbthebdeveloped World have been functioning non stop for 50years.

HisSexcellency:
This is nothing but conspiracy on the part of some people in high places with sinister motives. How do you explain fire of this magnitude in such a place in broad daylight.
Are there no fire extinguishers in such a place to help contain the spread before fire service arrives.
Or is there a fuel station located on one of the top floors to warrant such fire.

Don't be over dramatic. When a few skyscrapers in dubai caught fire in the space of a few months a few years ago, was that also a conspiracy.

Nigeria is more likely to have fires because of the way electricity supply comes and goes multiple times a day. Not to talk of low quality electrical components as well.

punisha:


R u sure it is not devil blowing out smokes through his nostrils. That could be the location of hellfire na?
Macjebs pls check well if u will see some red monkeys with spears there guarding the south entrance.

Lol! This is the funniest thing I've read today