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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

obcpascal:
Poor State of major road behind Warri old airport, linking Water resources to Ugborikoko, Effurun. NDDC and Give. Okowa please help us

This is almost a good road by Nigerian standards.

But you people did road and left no space on either side for drainage?? This is your fault. As you lay your bed, so you lie in it.

AMvanquish:
Does Nollywood really pay that good

Ask me o! Only the babes are buying house and car?

Alejobs:
Nipost only needs to rebrand, they have the best reach for all logistics to every corner of Nigeria. I use them consistently for the last 5 years to deliver my laptop powerbank to customers everywhere in Nigeria. Needless i say that their price is the cheapest and i have not lost an item in those years. They always deliver!

They are the cheapest because they incur loses which government pays for. Which in turns means less money for infrastructure, education and health. Do we need 15k people to produce and sell stamps?? In this day and age of email, e signatures, scan etc?

If woodberry put the money in bitcoin, why can't the same woodberry be mandated to withdraw the money from same bitcoin?

After the owners of all bitcoin money have a way of getting their money out, otherwise why would they put it there.

Lara didn't smile or laugh in any picture

xjiggy:
Maybe u were too young to recall when MTN was claiming recharge cards could only be manufactured in S. Africa and they couldn't bill per second billing because it will cost them millions of Dollars to upgrade their systems. Then u had to pay #50 for a minute even if the call failed after 3sec. #20 for sms, minimum recharge card of #750 with one week validity and sim card for #34k. They even refuse interconnectivity with Econet in order to push their claim that they are "Every Where You Go".
Look at those prices compared to now and Factor in inflation and tell me that's not exploitation and that I'm lying. It was Glo that came all of a sudden and delivered per secon billing and #1 sim card (#10k sim card with #9,999 credit inclusive).

All what you said above doesn’t make them a monopoly. Was econet not also doing per minute billing at the time? It’s obvious your argument is just anti South Africa biased.

tomdon:
You're not thinking well.
It can be the lowest rate but if they don't bill on pay as you go basis, it becomes the highest.
If one subscribes 5k a month and only gets to sit watch for less than 100hrs in a month out of 720hrs, then it is cheating. Pay as you go is non negotiable

Spend your whole life watching tv then. In fact you can watch 1440hours of tv.

proeast:
I have been reading comments here and many of the posts are so annoying. You, just like several others who commented here, has a vested interest in DSTV. It is very apparent because you have strongly supported DSTV and giving all manner of support for them.

It is evident that Nigeria is probably the most football (precisely premiership) passionate country in Africa. DSTV even acknowledged that Nigeria is responsible for a good percentage of premiership subscribers in Africa but pays almost the same amount as the rest of Africa combined!

DSTV is a Shylock company that has reaped off Nigerians over the years, and they used marchiavelian ways to send competitors out of business.

SA does not have a football (premiership) "crazy" population like Nigeria. Even though they have higher GDP per capita, that advantage is definitely outstripped by Nigeria having a population that is about 4 times higher and a more passionate football following.

DSTV is so mean as a company that the margin of profit it allows dealers/agents selling their products is so little. Again, ask yourself, why would they increase their price astronomically at a time like this?

A company came all the way from SA to fleece us with reckless abandon yet we have Nigerians supporting them!?

Many of the comments here supporting DSTV with passion are from their employees, these ones are ready to sell their country just for the peanuts they are earning as salary. SMH!

Explain EXACTLY how we have been ripped off?

Population 4times as much doesn't amount to subscribers as you have seen the subscription stats on this thread already.

Explain exactly HOW we have been fleeced. Companies operate all over the world. Dstv have no reason why they cannot operate in Nigeria.

All sentiments in this post with no objective and transparent analysis.