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Burob:
It would be run by someone experienced in Administration, the permanent secretary & Directors of the ministry, are the technocrats.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg


Pete Buttigieg serves as the 19th Secretary of Transportation, having been sworn in on February 3, 2021.

His focus as Secretary is to deliver the world’s leading transportation system for the American people and economy. He has worked to achieve organizational excellence in the department’s operations, and to focus the department on five policy goals: safety, jobs, equity, climate, and innovation. In his first year at the Department, he prioritized supporting the development and passage of President Biden’s signature Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Since the law’s passage, Secretary Buttigieg and his team have focused on effectively delivering the investments provided by this legislation, enabling the most significant improvements in U.S. transportation infrastructure in over half a century.

The Secretary has also focused on intervening to support American supply chains dealing with shockwaves from the pandemic, including measures to help cut in half the long-dwelling container congestion at America’s largest ports. Other major initiatives in his early tenure have included a comprehensive national roadway safety strategy to reduce deaths and serious injuries; delivery of emergency COVID-19 relief funds to transit agencies across America; and awards of over $9.5 billion in discretionary funding to enhance transportation through over 800 projects in communities across America.

The first openly gay person confirmed to serve in a president’s Cabinet, Secretary Buttigieg previously served two terms as mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Indiana, where he worked across the aisle to transform the city’s future. Household income grew, poverty fell, and unemployment was cut in half. His work on transportation as mayor was nationally recognized, including an award for innovative streetscape design from the U.S. Department of Transportation where he now serves.

He also served for seven years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, taking a leave of absence from the mayor’s office for a deployment to Afghanistan in 2014.

The son of Joseph Buttigieg, who immigrated to the United States from Malta, and Jennifer Anne Montgomery, a fifth-generation Hoosier, Secretary Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard University and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and completed a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He lives with his husband Chasten, their two children, Gus and Penelope, and their dog

You made reference to a system that works not ours, I am norlt against them putting whoever they want, but don't tell us you want to bring technocrats and end up bringing same old cycles.

Burob:
Nigeria Airport Authority under the aviation ministry must be run by an aeronautic engineer or pilot is that what you are implying?

Should be run by someone who has experience in that field not a novice, aviation parastatal are interwoven, working with one gives an idea of what others entail, and it takes years to learn this. If the government is true to itself about making changes and improving the country, they know what to do. Why not get a mechanical engineer to run health, since most hospitals use generators.

Burob:
Minister of Aviation is about administration, not engineering or fixing of aircrafts.

Obviously you've not been in this field, this is the same mistake past administrations have made, Buhari brought an expert but at some point when the minister did wrongs, nepotism wouldn't allow him to be changed.

thesicilian:
Ministerial appointments are mostly administrative positions. While technical knowledge is important, it is not a deal breaker. Being a good manager is "importanter."

Why not give ministry of health to an accountant, since its all about who can manage, they way some of you defend wrongs is appalling

Flier:
Almost! Give him another 2 term and PH would have turned to California.

And how many terms should we give him in FCT?

Flier:
Wike deserves it,he was the best governor Nigeria has ever produced even thought i don’t like his blood sucking politics
He could make Abuja to look like California if he has access to enough fund.

Did he make Port Harcourt California?

Latakia:
Yes that was 42 years ago. That person was the late Peter Obi father who was brutally murdered by his fellow drug dealers.

Definitely effects of drug on you

RIP

Peppysco:
Yet, there are many members of the church who are either homeless or with accomodation problems. According to the late legend, Fela Kuti, 'pastors house na hin dey fine pass, my people dey stay for poor surroundings'

How many people in your neighborhood have you helped oga chief judge. Do your own help too

BloomingDale:
She also works, so her job workload and household chores might be too much for her. Taking care of 2 children alone can sap someone’s energy, talk more of adding cooking and house chores to it.

Tell her to split some bills with you and then you can help out with the cooking and the house chores and also looking after the children to give her a break.



Her heavy workload might also be leading to a low sex drive. An exhausted wife is an unhappy and angry wife.

Read where he said they have a house help as well

ggood:
Nigeria is lawless country the aero company can't tell me that the plane didn't show signal of fault engine or what ever. But Nigerian mentally in them will keep whispering into their ears to continue using it till the gather enough money for new parts

Watch aircraft investigation videos and you will understand aviation isn't like driving a car, some faults my have been there for years unnoticed or small human errors. Just pray for safety wherever you are. There are still countless aircrafts issues worldwide. Those Pilots have families they wish to return to.

Godoverevery:
The turn out in the south is too low compared to the north.


The north vote will be times 3 compared to the south.

This guys are doing average of 600 voter per PU while the south is doing 200 per PU......our destiny is in there hands with this.

I doubt this with the results seen so far. Let's wait for official results.

ekolobaba:
Premature celebration by Obi urchins.

There are 176k polling units in Nigeria and 13k in Lagos. The number of polling units on this thread is less than 100.

How can you claim you’re winning by winning less than 70 polling units out of 176k polling units?
Obi urchins are dumb. Chai.

Why are you concerned?

abuhusna1:
All these 1 + 1 megabytes reault you dey give obi. Wait for the rel terabytes results for apc and PDP from the north

Why wait for the north? I thought you guys said he can't get anything from the south?

My unit Rupkokwu Port Harcourt
32-15-14-027

LP 180
APC 7
PDP 7

Next unit
LP 142
ApC 4
PDP 7

Softmirror:
TOO MANY TO MENTION. DURING THE DAYS OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN. YOU WILL HAVE TO THINK A MILLION TIMES BEFORE GOING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY OR MOSQUE, OR THE MOTOR PARK OR THE MARKET FOR THE FEAR OF BOMB BLAST.

Mention few. The train attacks and Owo massacre happened during Jonathan I guess.

Olodo24:
You sure we still have virgin lands in Igwuruta? I heard they're selling 5m and higher. Na for people wey get money sha

They are rare but available, this one happens to be a virgin land, was above my budget though so had to get elsewhere in the same igwuruta for 2.5m, was this cheap because of the bad access road, luckily Wike awarded the contract and it was done, it's around 3.5m now, some sell more.

TheBTCinvestor:
Salvation ministry permanent site...that's almost at the airport

Yes sir.

TheBTCinvestor:
Igwurita is far o almost close to the airport...but that 3m is cheap o

I saw recently opposite Salvation Ministries Cathedral/Besides brookstone for 4.5m

TheBTCinvestor:
Bro na true o the land I just got at Eliozu PH is 15.5m alone..all i spent including agency,bush entry fee , lawyer etc will be about 17m everytin..where did u get ur land for 4m? Na omagwa side u go? Cos I know ordinary rupokwu is 10m

Igwuruta is about 3m up, Rupkokwu depends on where.

ufotty2001:
very cheap.. who did this to us in rivers state. Before u will get a good location like urs just budget N10m for land only. I budget a land here N4m.. am budgeting 15m for the building excluding land cost. 4 bedroom flat

Depends on where you want a land in Port Harcourt, things a very expensive now though, but if you can supervise well, would be less.

Kriely:
Make una dey write una headline well, see as I fear say na the man die. Kmt

Thought I was the only one that felt this.

johnfem321:
Most of those criticising this man can’t face a crowd of 100people without fear griping them.. I believe it was just a slip of tongue and a slight deliberate and entertaining joke.. of course he knows what a PVC is

And that's why they are not contesting. It's expected that a competent person should be the one to lead a nation. Btw how many more slip of tongues should we expect?

lhordspy:
New technology.

Seen thanks, was quite a close one but definitely if it was the other way round they wouldn't have raised this

Like Qatar like Nigeria

Disallow this one lol

FIFA wayo, show us the replay slowly and how it's an offiside

frankson1:
That he said he had one wristwatch and his children don't have car(s) and use public transport?

Prove this one he said

frankson1:
Just as you said that you had only one wristwatch and your children jump from one 'keke' to another

Why not prove him wrong with facts and proofs?

Lannister360:
Buhari is the one who sent these unknown gun men to the East so he can use it as an opportunity to blame ipob and distabilize Biafra agitation.

This is the same trick he used during the end SARS protest, he introduced thugs into the protest and used them to loot and break out prisoners so he can use that as an excuse to kill protesters claiming that the protest is violent.

We know his trick, he is not fooling anybody. BASTARD TALL GIRAFFE WITH A BLACK HEART.

Read what you just typed again, stop defending evil.

Yet they won't to borrow more

mrmayoh:
We will keep borrowing as long as we subsidized fuel, education, electricity, health etc.

Imagine paying N6.72trn for fuel subsidy, that's stupidity.

Students pay N30,000 per session as fees in Federal Universities and you expect Nigerian University to be great. The cheapest university in South Africa is above 1 million naira.

Let's tell ourselves the truth.

Also tell us how much people in South Africa earn as minimum wage and tell us if their leaders are greedy like ours, also tell us if they have leaders that are selective, tell us their cost of governance, find out if they use billions to cut grasses