₦airaland Forum

magoo10:
You cannot be talking of cattle colony when you are yet to sentence murderous terrorist herdsmen to death.
The motive is very clear which is territorial expansion.

GavelSlam:
Nigeria to construct rail line to Niger Republic- Sambo

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.premiumtimesng.com/news/142554-nigeria-to-construct-rail-line-to-niger-republic-sambo.html/amp

GavelSlam:
True talk.

But please remember to point out how Jonathan approved the rail to Niger Republic.

deomelllo:
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Look at this lying crook.

You posted the rubbish claiming public and never mentioned PPP till I called you out.

At your old age, PPP and public funding have the sae meaning and interpretation?

Obviously, you lied and if not, you did not read the rubbish you posted .

Silly hypocrite trying to get away with fraudulent claim, you must think you are dealing with your co-illiterates..

Bottomline, your rubbish is PPP, not public.

sarrki:
You got it wrong Bro

Let's be constructive in our crititsm

deomelllo:
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STFU. The rubbish you posted as publicly funded is a PPP and cannot take off without private money.

This is even a proposal with zero funding on the table to carry it out.


Learn how to read and comprehend. I don't even think you read the rubbish you posted sef.

These ipob illiterates sef.

sarrki:
As if I know you will comment

Wailing as turned to a hubby to you

deomelllo:
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Private or public, what difference does it make as long as you are getting what you need?

Do you reject projects in your backyard based on private or public funding? Where is the sense in that?

Besides, there are more public funded projects in the south than the North, so either way, you still have zero point.


You ipobs come up with the lamest argument ...

deomelllo:
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Stop repeating the same rubbish, there are many ongoing power projects in other parts of the country.

The largest single power plant in Nigeria is going to be in Lagos and a Northerner is building it

The largest single refinery in the world is going to be in Lagos and a Northerner is building it.

The largest fertilizer plant in Africa is going to be in Lagos and a Northerner is building it

The largest gas plant in Africa is going to be in Lagos and a Northerner is building it

The largest petrochemical plant in Nigeria is going to be in Lagos and a Northerner is building it



Stop the hysteria, there are more FG and private projects in the south than in the north many times over.

deomelllo:
Stop the hysteria and bogus conspiracy theory, the NNPC/FG are investing in power projects all over the country, not just the North.

…As Niger Governor Applauds Baru’s Stewardship

The recently approved contract for the construction of Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline project, dubbed AKK Pipeline, has started yielding early benefits with the commitment by NNPC to build power generating plants with combined capacity of 4600 megawatts in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano States.

The NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, who disclosed this during a courtesy call on him by the Executive Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, Tuesday in Abuja, said the Corporation in partnership with private investors would build power generating plants to support the Federal Government’s effort to provide stable electricity in the Country.

“As part of the drive to establish power plants to augment the power supply to the nation, the Federal Executive Council has recently approved the AKK Gas Pipeline project to be financed through Public Private Partnership (PPP). The project comes with other auxiliary ones which include, 1350megawatts, 900megawatts and 2350megawatts of power generation plants in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano respectively,” Baru stated.

http://nnpcgroup.com/PublicRelations/NNPCinthenews/tabid/92/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/915/NNPC-to-Establish-4600MW-Power-Plants-in-FCT-Other-States.aspx

Railway Line To Niger Republic?

https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Railway.jpg

In his New Year Day broadcast to the nation, President Muhammadu Buhari, among other policy matters, outlined his plan for the development of the economy, the transportation sector, especially the railway network in Nigeria with a view to connecting the entire country.
Apart from displaying how cut off from political realities in Nigeria he was or still is, he exuded a certain poor grasp of priorities when he curiously said “negotiations are also advanced for the construction of other railway lines, firstly from Kano to Maradi in Niger Republic passing through Kazaure, Daura, Katsina, Jibia to Maradi.”

The questions that have been thrown up are: What is the rationale behind constructing a 55-kilometre rail line to Maradi, a city in Niger Republic? Has the Federal Government connected all cities and important towns in Nigeria to a railway network that serves the nation’s economy? Could this plan not be interpreted as part of the much-touted consolidation of a certain hegemonic tendency that is causing tension in the country? Of what economic benefit would the rail line be to Nigeria?

Where are the funds coming from? Is there any special consideration for those areas that produce the nation’s wealth in the railway plan? Who is advising Mr. President or to whom has he been listening in the last one year on all the issues crying for serious and statesman-like attention? Is there indeed a cabal that has taken hold of President Buhari and whose interest is at variance with the collective will?

Nigeria needs a modern and modernised rail network. In a sense, the country is still stuck to the selfish rail network pattern that the British colonialists created for their economic and political domination interests before they left in 1960. Nearly 60 years since their departure, different Nigerian governments have not taken the bull by the horn to radically transform the rail network.

There were some attempts in the second republic and during the Olusegun Obasanjo civilian administration to extend it in order to move steel products and by-products from one location to the other. But as a national project based on a sound vision, rail network seems, sadly, secondary priority to successive governments and has been relegated to the background, at best, or built into an avenue for corruption.

The benefits of an extended and modernised railway line cannot be over-emphasized. Apart from the capacity to move millions of people and tonnes of goods across geographical space and time, an efficient railway system will save the nation’s roads from quick wear and tear. Such a well-established rail system will create jobs for a multitude and have a multiplier effect that can transform the economy.

No modern society with Nigeria’s kind of huge population should neglect rail transport. A modernised rail system will also reduce the number of cars on the roads and make it possible for citizens to shuttle from suburbs to cities daily or weekly.

It is against this background that the Buhari administration should be commended for giving rail lines a practical attention and consideration at this time. In the broadcast, the President said he has approved construction and plans will be concluded this year for the rail line to Aba, Owerri, Umuahia, Enugu and other towns in the South east up to Damaturu.

Although he was vague about the ‘Coastal Rail’ through Ore, Benin, Agbor, Asaba and some towns to Calabar that will take place in ‘the next few years,’ there is hope that this would come to maturation some day. This plan may not be good enough but certainly better than nothing.

Priority, therefore, should be given to the internal rail network. Considerations for charity network or lines to other countries, especially ones of little economic value, but even grave security risk, to Nigeria should be only after the economy has been sufficiently boosted by a modernised rail system within Nigeria. Niger Republic may be home to many Nigerans’ kith and kin but Maradi is not a part of Nigeria and is of little, if any, economic importance to this country.


The President swore to an oath to be loyal to Nigeria, not a section of Nigeria. On this and in many other matters, some of his recent actions and inactions tend to suggest parochialism and a penchant for ethnic chauvinism. This is tragic, considering the massive national sentiment and support that brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power.

Hence there are too many people expressing regrets now that they may have judged candidate Buhari wrongly. This is the time for him to listen to the people who elected him.

Without mincing words, the idea of a railway line to Maradi at this time when the country is in economic difficulties shows that the President has not stayed true to the original spirit that brought him to power in 2015.

There are issues, including a rail network that serves the country in deed and in truth, calling for his attention ahead of an inexplicably self-serving one through Daura to another country.

The statesman in Buhari should come alive and, in appreciation of this, the president should re-appraise his actions and retrace his steps.

Cattle Colony? Perish The Thought

https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Audu-Ogbeh.jpg

Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh’s proposal to establish ‘cattle colony’ in each state to resolve the frequent and destructive clashes between farmers and itinerant herdsmen is strange and un-implementable. It is, an idea ‘dead on arrival’

As many commentators have rightly noted, there is only one place in the whole wide world Pakistan, where this unusual concept operates and even then, it is essentially a trading centre for cattle and cattle products. It is not a facility to rear cattle. So pray, how will this minister’s proposal solve a lingering socio-economic problem that is fast transmuting into a dangerous political problem?

Whereas the received –and informed- opinion is that Nigerian authorities should embrace modernity by establishing cattle ranches that have been proven, globally, to be more economically beneficial to both cattle owners and national economy, Ogbeh claims to have the approval of the Federal Government to immediately begin his project in 16 states that have volunteered five hectares with public money offered by President Muhammadu Buhari to support it. So quick an action indeed by a government not at all known for speedy response!

Beside the unusualness –we would not even dignify it as unique – of the Ogbeh ‘colony’ idea, there are both denotative and emotional meanings of the word that trigger suspicion and other negative hints. And anyone with a sense of history – of Nigeria and elsewhere – will appreciate the real and the implied harms of a colony to the colonised.

Cattle herding is, like poultry rearing, piggery and cocoa or cassava farming private business and we should think that, even with due regard to an entitlement to government assistance, must remain wholly the business of its proprietor.

It is a shame that Nigeria is arguably the only country in the world which in this 21st century, has to contend with marauding cattle herders at all, not to talk of persistent acts of murders, kidnapping, rape and destruction of farmlands in the supposed name of grazing and defending herds of animals.


While Ogbeh did not disclosed which states are ceding portions of their precious land for the purpose of a private cattle business supported with public money, it is known by the pronouncements of their governors, that Kogi and Imo states are in this league of ‘land ceders.’ These governors need be reminded, however, that the extant Land Use Act reposes the ownership of land in their states in the governor only as a trust. The Act vest ‘all land comprised in the territory in each state (except land vested in the Federal Government or its agencies) solely in the governor who would hold such land in trust for the people…’ It is reasonable to assume that a governor worthy of such trust will do nothing whatsoever, to alienate the people of the state from their land except, of course, with prior consultation, and the agreement of the people. This is a key ingredient of leadership. There is no evidence that the governors of Kogi and Imo states did any such thing. Indeed, the Igala people and the Yoruba –speaking Okun people of Kogi state have registered their objection to the offer by their governors. On the other hand, several others, including Benue have rejected the idea outright.


Ranching is not a new concept in Nigeria, As far back as the first republic, there have been ranches in Obudu, Mokwa, and Akunnu. The Ahmadu Bello University’s College of Agriculture in Kabba, Kogi State use to run a thriving ranch until, with time, it went the way of all things “Nigerian’.

Land is universally considered the mother of all property and the most enduring source as well as store of wealth’. Which explains that people, societies, and nations go to war and sacrifice lives to seize or to defend it. A Federal Government that has no inherent land of its own -except as magnanimously given by the constituting states- cannot, under the current constitutional democracy, establish a ranch by fiat. And we should think that a state governor cannot, in turn expropriate a people’s ancestral land for any but such purpose as serves beyond any reasonable doubt, the public interest. To do otherwise is a mere display of an arrogance of, we must remind, ephemeral power.

The Federal Government under Buhari should stop confusing itself –and the populace- with obfuscating semantics and it should stop dancing around a settled matter. The modern, global best practice keep cattle in ranches around which associated industries are conveniently built. This is the way to go. Unless there is another motive for a different course of action.

Blue3k2:
We all this is a plan by him to side step Niger delta militants . I don't trust NNPC refineries management skills. I think Niger Republics refiners run well. ND still waiting on those modular refineries from private sector.

The threat by Niger Delta Avengers
The Niger Delta Avengers has threatened to unleash violence on the nation’s oil facilities. This they said is in reaction to the killing of innocent people by herdsmen across the country.
The group then went ahead to reiterate its demand for restructuring the country, because in their words ‘anybody who is against restructuring is an enemy of this country’. It is sad that by design or by default, the country is sliding into anarchy.

The lackadaisical response of the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency to sensitive issues of national concern is, no doubt, fueling deep tension in the country.

This newspaper does not subscribe to or endorse violence as a means of redressing perceived problems in the country. But these are fluid, dangerous times. This militant group has the capacity to inflict pain on the Nigerian economy and the Federal Government knows this. It has largely been held in check by the intervention of elders in the region.

But the plan of the Federal government to commit one billion US dollars to the North east while the oil-bearing zone is in distress is an insult to the collective intelligence of the Nigerian people. This has been compounded by the inability and outright refusal of the Federal Government to listen to the cries of the people who voted it to power.

The issue of restructuring the country has to be addressed now in order to guarantee the nation’s stability and the corporate survival of Nigeria. It beats the imagination why the President is so intransigent and stuck in his anti-restructuring stance?

What the people of the Niger Delta have experienced is the worst of oppression. Gas flaring goes on unabated. The Federal Government does not have the will to compel the oil-exploring companies to stop this degradation and pollution of the environment. The headquarters of the oil majors have not been relocated in spite of the Presidential directive last year.

The government has paid lip-service to developing the region. The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and the Ministry of the Niger Delta have been reduced to mere bureaucracies. At no time has the Federal Government committed the kind of funds it is planning to deploy to the north east to the Niger Delta which produces the wealth.

The Niger Delta Avengers also alleges that over one thousand of their men are in detention while the Federal Government recently released captured Boko Haram fighters. If this is true, then the government is open to accusations of maintaining double standards. The impunity of the herdsmen and the acquiescence of the Federal Government therefore supports the narrative of parochialism and clannishness

What this means is that the Niger Delta Avengers and the people of the Niger Delta have enough reasons to be disenchanted and angry with the antics of the Federal Government. Sadly, the presidency is sending out discordant tunes..

It is important to remind Nigerians that when Professor Yemi Osinbajo as Acting President stepped into the Niger Delta crisis, tempers cooled down. Such intervention has not come from the president when it is most needed now. States go to the Federal Capital monthly to share oil proceeds.

The Federal Constitution enshrines seven-hundred and seventy-four local governments in its provisions. In spite of the lopsided and unfair distribution, the Federal Government has refused to take any action.

Top leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, who once went ahead to create extra development councils areas in Lagos State during the Obasanjo administration have suddenly gone silent over true federalism. In saner climes, with their party now in power the necessary change in the constitutional provisions would have been changed.

The letter and spirit of federalism do not promote a strong centre to the detriment of the federating units. Federalism does not support the practice of dictating to the states how their resources should be spent or how they should be governed. Each constituent part is expected to generate internal revenues and pay a percentage to the Federal government in the form of tax.

This was the practice when the nation gained independence in 1960. It was the military juntas that ruined the true federal arrangement that had been put in place in the First Republic. What Nigeria practices now is the unitary command-and-obey culture which the military put in place during their years of misadventure in power. The regular breach of security will be curtailed with the creation of State Police as part of the restructuring process.

The Federal Government should therefore ensure that hostilities do not return in the Niger Delta. No effort should be spared to redress the acts of injustice now being perpetrated by the government. A restructured Nigeria with well-defined rules of engagement will serve all sections of the country better than what currently obtains.

deomelllo:
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Oga SPECULATION, what do you have to say about the death trap and abomination bridge in your anambra village?

How's the bricklayer patch patch maintenance coming along?

Blue3k2:
These were also your comments. If you felt it's propaganda project I doubt you were for it. It's stil weird you felt writer was bias when they gave every side of story. I remember two opposing hyper links. Then other reasons this could fall apart.

Does this author's tone makes everything more viable? It's weird you read you read same thing and have 2 different opinions. This author told you less information funny enough.

Blue3k2:
What made u change your mind. This is same transaqua project you were staunchly opposed to. Oh a fun fact I learned researching project. If this project happens it would be biggest water transfer project ever assuming they're planning on diverting 2% of Congo river.

To me it could be an attempt at brainwashing the neutral minority northerners into supporting Buhari in 2019. The reasons given were carefully woven around the success of Buhari 2019 re-election bid.
Will the dam be more beneficial to us than if the govt invest in refineries the size of Dangote's (650,000 bpd) ?
I will never trust the northerners they are too sheepish and docile. Take into account the proximity of the volatile northeast to this project.

deomelllo:
Coming from a village square illiterate with a poor and lousy understanding of the word SPECULATION.


Wonders shall never end..

ipob loser...

Ahmeduana:
ALL THE SOUP INGREDIENTS WERE PAID FOR BY THE ELECTORATE, SO THEY HAVE TO PAY AGAIN TO EAT FROM THE SOUP?