₦airaland Forum

SalamRushdie:
I am sorry the law is very clear in this regard ...there is a reason why a person must take the presidential oath before being regarded as president, that oath is a sacrosanct part of being president in the first place.or do you think the word capture in the oath are there for play? Are you aware that president elect might get to his inauguration and not be okay with the oath and back down from being sworn in because of part of the oath he is not cool with? Are you also aware that if a president elect dies before his inauguration he is never regarded as president in any clime because he has not sworn to uphold the oath at that time ....do you know why the ceremony is called a swearing in at all? Please lets stop being sentimental and call a spade a spade ..

SalamRushdie:
We like fooling ourselves in this country jare...the mere fact you are assumed to have won a presidential election doesn't make you president ...the only time a person can be said to be a president is if they have been sworn in and both Abiola and Kingibe never even received a certificate of return talkless of being sworn in

hisexcellency34:
The same Buhari that failed to implement the 2014 national conference that GEJ labored to convene. What if another president wins in 2019 and reverses all this?

iAmucheemma:
So this is how BUHARI wins the southwest over again. Truely, THINGS HAVE FALLEN APART.

PassingShot:
If you are sad, take a free dive into the lagoon.

EOD!

Tokziby:
If OBUKO = He goat, what is Ewure??

opylas:
As a JSS part-time teacher around Agbara?

opylas:
Pick a day (a Monday, preferably), and comb the area. You could check out schools in Morogbo as well. What do/can you teach?

youngest85:
A lady of 34yrs in America still a virgin?

We know you are lying but continue

Nig47Greatness:
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If your vice president is an unknown entity,then you are an illiterate living in the village REMOTE CAVE ..#bigot#

Untainted007:
Let's wait till next year when PVCs will do justice to the rightful sections. Cheering is not heart winning and popularity.

presidency:
Nigeria Getting Back On Track With Rail Revolution

Just days before President Buhari met with President Trump at the White House, history was made in Washington, DC, with the signing of a landmark infrastructure agreement between the Nigerian Government and a consortium of multinational firms led by the American digital industrial giant, General Electric (GE). The implementation of that agreement, worth US$45 million in the first phase, will ensure that within the next 12 months, passenger travel by rail from Lagos to Kano will be faster and safer, while for the first time in over a decade, contracted and scheduled freight rail services can once again be offered.

This milestone project is the outcome of President Buhari’s single-minded determination to develop, upgrade and modernise Nigeria’s transport infrastructure, as well as the relentless push by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to fully deliver on the President’s vision.

Since Mr. Amaechi took office in November 2015, as Minister of Transportation, there has been a renaissance in Nigeria’s rail industry, in line with the President’s oft-stated vision. This planned revamp of the Narrow-Gauge Rail Network by the international consortium comprising General Electric, Transnet of South Africa, Sino Hydro of China and APM Terminals (part of the Danish Maersk Group) – after two years of meticulous planning, negotiating and contracting, offers strong proof of the seriousness with which the Buhari Administration is taking its railway modernisation ambitions.

Nigeria’s Narrow-Gauge Rail System was conceived in the 1890s and built between 1898 and 1926, with a total length of 3,500 kilometres. It consists of two primary lines – Lagos to Nguru and Port Harcourt to Maiduguri – with spur lines to Eleme, Baro, Kaura Namoda and other places.

These critical economic assets have since become decrepit, having suffered significant decline due to lack of investments in infrastructure maintenance. A few years ago, a previous administration commenced a rehabilitation programme, which saw the Lagos-Kano line come back to life. But that rehabilitation was not accompanied by corollary improvements in operations and engineering management capacity, thus failing to fully exploit the massive freight and passenger potential of the narrow-gauge network.

The Buhari administration, as part of its infrastructure development vision, has now finally taken the long overdue bold steps to modernise the rail network. On August 18, 2017, the Federal Executive Council, following a competitive procurement process, approved the concession of the Narrow-Gauge Rail System to the GE-led Consortium. The Government is advised by a multidisciplinary consortium led by the Africa Finance Corporation.

The initiation of that concession agreement is what has now finally taken effect following the signing in Washington, DC yesterday, ahead of President Buhari’s bilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday.

Sources within the GE Consortium have disclosed that the first set of 3 locomotives and sixty wagons (out of 10 locomotives and 200 wagons) are ready to be shipped to Nigeria.

The benefits of this intervention are immense: increased economic productivity, job creation, private sector investment, human capacity development and much-needed world class expertise. Worldwide, rail infrastructure has been proven to reduce costs and wastage of goods; increase economic trade between farmers/miners and industry and between traders and consumers; and grow business competitiveness and increase operational efficiency.

The Narrow-Gauge Concession with the GE-led Consortium is only one of many projects conceived in the sector. In July 2016, President Buhari commissioned the Abuja (Idu) to Kaduna (Rigasa) Standard-Gauge Rail Line, which runs two round trips daily between the two cities, creating an alternative for the over 20,000 motorists who ply the route.

Also, that month, Minister Amaechi signed a renegotiated agreement with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation that revised the cost – originally negotiated by his predecessors – of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Railway Project downwards by 800 million dollars.

Again, in March 2017, Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo flagged-off construction of the 156-kilometre Lagos-Ibadan Standard-Gauge Line, following the payment of the federal government’s 15 per cent counterpart funds about two hundred million dollars to the Chinese Export Import Bank. The project is expected to be completed within three years and it forms the second phase of the Lagos to Kano Standard Gauge Line, after the Abuja-Kaduna Line....

Ibeleme writes from Abuja

Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/05/18/nigeria-getting-back-on-track-with-rail-revolution/

Paperwhite:
So the TSA have been useless as long as remittance of revenue into government coffers is concerned Still affirming that the level of ongoing corruption in this APC government is monumental.

Elder001:
yansh loaded with only sheet... smh

EzendiEgo1:
stupidity

computer0810:
bcoz militant will take advantage of it and we all know lagos is home for all.....yoruba's are very accommodating