codemaniacs:


because they are not in control of lagos.

its one of the reasons they started a civil war to try and take control of all the regions in Nigeria even though they were doing okay in their own region...

its also the behavior some humans have towards others they feel are doing better than them

exactly why we have failed to grow, always burying the truth. am Igbo and I don't really buy into ethnic politics, but truth is, I once saw a Yoruba man teaching children how to hate Igbo ppl, honestly I felt bad, because he was feeding them with lies, I thank God that I got along with the some of the children, who already mingled with both ppl, but posts like this always tries to twist history....no wonder it was removed from the school curriculum. our common problems are not u and I, but the greedy older generation that are forcing us to make the same mistakes that they made, will u allow them?

Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way!
Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way!

*JANUARY 8, 2018*
By Ochereome Nnanna

For some reasons unknown to me, Nigerians are no longer paying attention to things that matter about the way they are being ruled. They no longer pay attention to some of the things their rulers say. Otherwise, a strange item in President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Day speech should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in angry protests.

When first I listened to the President making that speech I could not believe my ears. So I had to wait until the mainstream media published the full text of the speech, and there it was in cold print: “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”.

Maradi is the third largest city in Niger Republic with a predominant Hausa/Fulani population. It is about an hour’s drive through a bumpy road from Jibia, the border town near Buhari’s hometown, Daura, in Katsina State. When I went to cover the 2007 presidential election in which Buhari ran on the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, in 2007 and the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I had joined a team of journalists that went to Daura to visit Buhari for an interview. We also monitored the election in Jibia, which is a border town with Niger.

I realised how easy it was for people from the two countries to cross the rickety border post manned by a man dressed virtually in rags. He only smiled when we decided to set foot on Niger Republic soil. Indeed, it may interest Nigerians to know that Daura Emirate stretches deep into Maradi and Zinder Departments in Niger Republic. During the 2015 election, there were reports of thousands of people from Niger Republic crossing the porous borders to vote in an election that was none of the business of their country. In the far North Nigerian electoral officials hardly ask questions about the eligibility of voters. That is why you see millions of under-aged voters voting, and at the end the polls are declared “free and fair”.

Once Buhari achieved his life’s ambition of matching Olusegun Obasanjo’s feat as a former military ruler who became an elected President of Nigeria, his visit to Niger Republic became the first of the 22 foreign trips he made within 11 months before he was slowed down by ill-health. He was received by the President and people of Niger like a triumphant son back from the battlefield. Niger Republic President, Mahamadou Issoufou, gave him a white horse and a golden sword. In fact, Issoufou, in 2016, emblazoned Buhari’s photograph beside his own on vehicles during political campaigns.

I went into all this to let you know that the planned new Nigerian railway network from Kano through Daura and Jibia to Maradi in Niger Republic is a selfish project that has nothing to do with other Nigerians like you and me. Even though a president’s oath of office indicates: “….that I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conducts or my official decisions…”, Nigerian presidents and governors brazenly disregard their oaths of office and oaths of allegiance and divert the state’s or nation’s resources to their pockets, and after that, to massively develop the infrastructures of their hometowns no matter how remote such places are.

For me, if Buhari had merely sought to connect his hometown, Daura, and even Jibia to the new national railway network, I would not have minded it too much, though it violates the principle of economic viability and bankability, which the largely borrowed funds will emphasise in order that we repay the debts in good time. The same logic that led the British colonialists to pass the Eastern rail line through Eha Amufu in today’s Enugu State and terminate it at Nguru in today’s Yobe State and pass the Western line through Kaura Namoda in today’s Zamfara State can also be adduced to extend the new rail network through Daura to Jibia, even if a president did not hail from there.

The offensive aspect is extending the railway 55 kilometres into a foreign land just because the President considers the region as part of his hometown.

When the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, was called upon by critics of this unviable extension of our railway to defend it, his response was vacuous and of very little use as a justification. By the way, the proposed new rail addition from Kano through Kazaure, Daura and Jibia to Maradi covers a whopping distance of 806 kilometres, which is more than the distance from Lagos to Abuja (779km) and Lagos to Calabar (770km). It is important for Nigerians to know the scale of the rail line and the amount of borrowed and oil money we are going to dump on this aspect of the project just to gratify the personal whims of the President.

Hear the Minister: “We realised that we had competitors for our landlocked neighbours, competitors like Ghana, Togo and even Benin Republic. Our landlocked neighbours are importing through these countries because we don’t have rail lines that go to them. So, to address the situation Mr President approved a rail line that will go to Maradi in Niger. But that rail line which will come from Kano to Maradi in Niger must pass through some cities. So the rail line passes through Kazaure, and then Daura before proceeding to Jibia and then Maradi”.

The questions the President and the Minister should answer are: Did “our competitors” like Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic build rail lines into Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali and thus stole the “competition” from Nigeria? The answer, obviously, is no. Secondly, why don’t we also extend the favour to Chad and Burkina Faso if indeed we need their patronage? Thirdly, what “competition” is Amaechi referring to? How much do Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic make from imports that our landlocked neighbours route through their countries that makes it enviable which Nigeria should scramble to snatch?

It would be a different ball game if Nigeria and Niger Republic signed a memorandum of understanding to share the cost of the rail line, each country taking the financial responsibility to build the lines that run through their respective territorial jurisdictions.

One thing Nigerians must never forget is that we are borrowing heavily from China, Europe and the Breton-Wood institutions to build our standard gauge railway network. Repayment for the loans which outlay is not available to me at this moment will span decades. Most of us will be gone from the surface of the earth while the repayment will devolve to our children and possibly their children.

This is why we must never keep silent when the ruling party and leaders so brazenly violate the nation’s interests and abuse their offices by throwing projects from these loans into unviable remote hamlets, including hamlets in a foreign country that happens to be a part of their hometown.

I am very sure that our National Assembly, especially the very responsive Senate, will thoroughly examine this railway plan and its funding and protect the interests of all Nigerians, including those of their future generations. Sanitising the implementation of this railway plan will be a prime opportunity to prove that this country belongs to all of us. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to take what belongs to all of us for himself and his kinsmen alone.

We are in a democracy, not a military autocracy. Even if we must accommodate Daura and Jibia to make Buhari happy, the rail line must NEVER be extended an inch into a foreign soil.

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Ever heard of Kaita? Its a border town with Niger Republic its where the NNPC recently announced that International Oil Companies have chosen to donate 21 billion Naira to build a hospital, it is also coincidentally the community where staff housing for the proposed refinery will be situated. It is 3 km to the Nigeria Niger Border.
Ever heard of Agadem, it is an oil field in Niger Republic from which the Nigerian authorities intend to source the crude oil for the proposed refinery.
Ever head of Mashi, it is a community near Kaita, also close to the Niger Republic. It is the location for the refinery being build by the Buhari govt Katsina.
If you didn't know, for the past five years, by an executive order from Abuja, Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt I and II refineries have been shut down. Not because something got spoilt, or pipeline got broken, for no justifiable reason, all the refineries were made redundant,. Yet the timeline to complete the Mashi refinery is 2021.
Remember Ibe Kachikwu the then Min of State for Petroleum wrote an open letter that the acting President Yemi Osinbojo and himself were being sidelined by the late Abba Kyari in collaboration with the late Maikanti Baru as they were taking memo's directly to Buhari in his sick bed in London for approvals after officially handing over the reins of government to the VP, when they feared that he was going to late.
It was approvals for the AKK gas pipeline project. To convey gas from Escravos through Ajaokuta to Abuja Kaduna and Kano. The project has been reviewed to take a detour through Katsina to Niger Republic Border.
Ever heard of Idi Umoru, he is Fulani from Niger Republic, in 1984, he contested against Aja Nwachukwu an Ibo from Nigeria for the position of Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity. Guess what? against pleading from Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Jomo Kenyatta, Buhari voted against his country Nigeria for the man from Niger Republic.
Yesterday, there was an outrage at the announcement that a contract for the sum on $1.9 billion had been awarded for the construction of a Rail line from Kano, through Katsina, to the Nigerian/ Niger Republic border.
Do i still need to connect the dots, or are you now able to read between the lines.
Is Look We Dey

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Ever heard of Kaita? Its a border town with Niger Republic its where the NNPC recently announced that International Oil Companies have chosen to donate 21 billion Naira to build a hospital, it is also coincidentally the community where staff housing for the proposed refinery will be situated. It is 3 km to the Nigeria Niger Border.
Ever heard of Agadem, it is an oil field in Niger Republic from which the Nigerian authorities intend to source the crude oil for the proposed refinery.
Ever head of Mashi, it is a community near Kaita, also close to the Niger Republic. It is the location for the refinery being build by the Buhari govt Katsina.
If you didn't know, for the past five years, by an executive order from Abuja, Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt I and II refineries have been shut down. Not because something got spoilt, or pipeline got broken, for no justifiable reason, all the refineries were made redundant,. Yet the timeline to complete the Mashi refinery is 2021.
Remember Ibe Kachikwu the then Min of State for Petroleum wrote an open letter that the acting President Yemi Osinbojo and himself were being sidelined by the late Abba Kyari in collaboration with the late Maikanti Baru as they were taking memo's directly to Buhari in his sick bed in London for approvals after officially handing over the reins of government to the VP, when they feared that he was going to late.
It was approvals for the AKK gas pipeline project. To convey gas from Escravos through Ajaokuta to Abuja Kaduna and Kano. The project has been reviewed to take a detour through Katsina to Niger Republic Border.
Ever heard of Idi Umoru, he is Fulani from Niger Republic, in 1984, he contested against Aja Nwachukwu an Ibo from Nigeria for the position of Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity. Guess what? against pleading from Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Jomo Kenyatta, Buhari voted against his country Nigeria for the man from Niger Republic.
Yesterday, there was an outrage at the announcement that a contract for the sum on $1.9 billion had been awarded for the construction of a Rail line from Kano, through Katsina, to the Nigerian/ Niger Republic border.
Do i still need to connect the dots, or are you now able to read between the lines.
Is Look We De.
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please what's the estimate of lodging there for few days? am planning on having my honeymoon at this serene place.

and did they tell u of numerous containers that are being packed opposite the place now, that area will soon look like Old ojo road. The govt is only interested in making money from the land

KAHBOOM:
Ozos distraction caused his eviction.

Its so obvious that bb wants laycon to win.Always making him win task he is good at and always paring him with potential task winners.

I feel peoples vote don't count.

can you just stop....the guy get fans, look at his Instagram followers....if u are talking about why he's getting fans, it's a different but trying to rubbish the show? you are just being stingy with the truth

WonderWoman5775:
Anything is possible na because of corrupt people like you

I na-añu omo?

PDP don't rejoice yet, this is Nigeria where anything is possible

sorry to say, but the level of hypocrisy in this country is alarming

People condemning those watching and trending on BBN, is this the kind news you want to be listening to? Things that can take away your sanity if you have conscience

And Nigerians want something good from EFCC when the appointment is political? This country is a joke

-British named them Burma.They rejected it, restructured & renamed themselves Myanmar.
-British named them Upper Volta, but they rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Burkina Faso-Land of Incorruptible People.
-British named them Gold Coast, they rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Ghana.
-British named them Southern Rhodesia.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Zimbabwe.
-Brits named them Northern Rhodesia.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Zambia.
-Brits named them Tanganyika.They rejected it restructured & renamed themselves Tanzania.
-Germans named them colony of South West Africa.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves.Namibia.
-France named them Dahomey.They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Benin.
-Belgium named them Zaire.However, they rejected it, restructured & renamed themselves Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC).
-Britain named a bunch of people-Nigeria.They rather kill to preserve it than restructure and give themselves a befitting name.
"It is only an animal that bears the name that is given to it by its enemy" (Proverb).

Ppl sef, whether new or second hand, ppl that only got boxers and bra for birthday, reminding others wen Toyota stopped venza production.... well done ndi calculators

Imagine if Maguire were a black footballer....the outcry would have been unprecedented

Call it what it is..... Nigerians are damn cowards!!! Docility is a virtue.
If u try to raise the awareness about govt high-handed attitude, the ppl will turn it into tribal, ethnic or religious war. They will now forget who is the real enemy and tag you a wailer. And btw it's not going to get better, because we are not ready for it.
Obasanjo called for the youths to take back their country, which youths? The ones campaigning for old men in Edo? The ones praising the service chiefs for great work done in security? These politicians have got us where they want us.

Dogogo1900:
These Biafra people like to dream a lot,do you seriously think that an Igbo man will ever come close to being the president of Nigeria?
Or are you just plain stupid?
Yes Amaechi can be president but he is not Igbo and we just had our turn in Goodluck Jonathan. I believe you are dreaming of Kalu as the president of Biafra not Nigeria, even Biafra is impossible. You guys are cursed , Hahahaha.

The cursed person here is Nigeria....are u not seeing how low it has sunk after you lots have ruled for years, and believe me, it's not getting any better....that's if u are bold enough to accept the hard truth

U might hear in the news " Buhari shocked over the continued border closure"
Anything is possible in this country

Once....in a waec exam hall, an external invigilator entered the exam hall and in panick sbd flunged his textbook towards my seat, I knew I wasn't going to use it because it was Agricultural sci exam...but I couldn't risk being implicated so I hid the book under my locker. The supervisor left almost immediately, the girl directly behind me now started asking for the book, I told her that it's not her own, she started calling me names, I stood up and took her omr obj paper...wrong move....she slapped me, and wanted to slap a second one, I held her and she was so light like feather....I nearly gave her a commensurate slap, but I just restrained myself...the guys in the hall were urging me and shouting that I should beat her up. I just left her and concentrated on my exam.... afterwards, she came and apologized and me too. She invited me over to her lodge as the exams wore on...the rest they say is history

Nonsense talk, when did Cristiano go ballistic? If Messi talks, ppl will call him arrogant that he chooses the team, that he determines who goes and who comes. This Barcelona team has been living on borrowed time for three years now, it can only get worse, u sold Neymar a big time performer to buy Dembele, that's laughable...and it's not going to get better unless they restructure and overhaul that squad....

Which law applies to only Muslims? How many times have it been reported of Muslim youths killing a Christian in Kano especially or north owing to religious related "offences"....mind you these ppl burnt down the house of the accused, still threatened to kill anyone who dares protest, I believe his family is also at risk....these guys are more animals than the ones in the bush

Lala, I now understand why LALA wanted to enlist into the Brazilian Navy, just to get close to the Snake Island

The story has finished?

You opened a thread because of this nonsense? I bet because u are financially ok u thought the lady would be all over you but u got disappointed, and though she pinned it on your height, u felt ur money could have done it, if not how could you propose to sbd that doesn't know your height before just like that? BTW, stuffs like this should not bother u, am same height and I have dated way taller ladies, maybe u need to up your vibes to go beyond money. No offense

eni4real:
Nairaland and bad news!!

ok a crocodile just went inside water, it didn't touch anybody.....does this statement sound newsworthy to u? actually news is 70% bad news, that's why they attract attention

LoveToRead:



Thanks for your interest. You can get the PDF by sending N200 glo recharge pin number to lovetoread604@gmail.com

send the Glo number to my mail, I will credit the 200airtym then get the complete story.... donemeka123@gmail.com

a single post that shows the southeast in good light, some people are still pained and angry.

why are Nigerians accusing the gf of sitting on another man's d*** so because her bf died she won't move on? she's probably the mother of the girl which means she owns 10mil(2+. and what's your business what she's doing months after the death of bf, she's not the cause of the death, none of went through the emotional trauma with her.

And Messi just had one of his worst seasons ever, never ever raise your standard too high, it may work against you

if u follow naija mentality, clubs like Norwich, Portsmouth, Wigan, Brighton etc won't have fans. football support is not all about cups, allow her be, there are fans out there with season tickets whose clubs never won a dime, yet they stick with them through thick and thin...

I thought Buhari actually spoke on the issue, not until I saw "the statement released by the spokesman shehu Usman"

LoveToRead:
I raked my brain, wondering about a little thing I could buy her. I finally decided on one little thing. I called the office assistant and asked him to buy two thousand naira worth of air time from MTN, Airtel, Etisalat and Glo. I then asked the guy to give them to her.

   Few minutes to four, I decided to close a bit earlier since I would still be going to the estate agency office to collect the key to my new apartment.

   'You're lucky, man,' Mr. Bashorun, the head of the agency, said as soon as I entered his office.'

   'Lucky? How?'

  The man shook my hand. 'You're the first person madam would give a flat and will go ahead and furnish it. Just like that!

  I was pleasantly surprised. So, madam did that? Marvelous. God bless her.

   After getting the keys, I decided to go to the flat and see things for myself. Just as Mr. Bashorun had said, there were furniture in the sitting-room, bed and matrass in one of the bed-rooms; and cooking gas and some pots in the kitchen.

There were even about a dozen of plates and some cutleries there in the kitchen too.

   Oh, what a wonderful woman Madam Bimpe was. I went down on my knees to thank God for bringing Madam B to my life.

   I called Enny that we already had a home waiting for us, so we just had to start planning for our wedding. I was excited as I talked on the phone.

   'God will bless this my madam o,' I went on. 'She really did wonderfully well.'

   'Hmn,' Enny said. She was rather cool about it. I thought she should be happy for me.

   'I would be moving there on Saturday,' I continued. 'It's also at Ketu.'  I went on to give her the address.

She lived off Demurin Road, so we were not too far from each other.

   After I had disconnected the line, I was a bit unsettled by Enny's response. It was just too cool. This was not the vivacious Enny that I knew. Ever since Madam B came into my life, Enny's behavior had changed.

   Couldn't she believe that I remained faithful to her? Of course, with all Enny had done for me in the past, I would very much want her to be part of my 'better life' now. She that had labored must reap the fruits, I reasoned.

   But then, I shrugged it off.

just give me a way to get the full story, this okadabooks stuff is too complicated abeg