₦airaland Forum

shyna01:
are u trying to mock urself/gej... y cant he do what u are saying the previous govts ignored? or has gej invested in education? becos that doesn't explain waec/neco results bringing back shameful results. students result are getting poorer at a geometric rate, no justice, corruption on a geometric increase, unemployment, underemployment, poor working conditions, health sector responding to d emergency of 170million people is on strike and d federal govt ignores it, 20bn missing and it seems illegal to investigate, should I go on? I would have been happier if we donated that money to Ukraine, we would have solved the hostility in the region.
guy no quote me again if u gonna yarn rubbish.

Your answer below. . . The guy I just quoted has an apt answer for you.

Bubewilson:
I think before those countries began to use such high tech trains, they were once at our level and latter developed the techonology of high tech trains, such that they even have un-maned trains now.
The Nig railway sector has been mouribound for years now, but GEJ has been able to revive it and at least we have track worthy trains today. I don't see the rationality in importing trains whose technology are far away from us when we know we are yet to develope the technical know how to assume full responsibility over them. Or are you not going to complain when govt brings in many expatriate workers to man the trains. Neither does it make sense to import electric trains when we are in the puberty stage of resurrecting the electricity sector. How many Nigs will deem it safe to board a self driven train if the Govt brings them in overnight.
It is out of sheer sentiment that you choose to compare and contrast our railway sector with those of countries that are technologically ahead of us. Why didn't you make this comparision few years back when no attention was paid to the railway sector? Now that something is being done, rather than find fulfilment in govts project, you choose to ridicule your nation. I mean no insult sir.

If previous governments had invested in this sector, do you think we'll still be at this stage? All these countries you're mentioning, don't you think it is the private sector that is making them boom? Tell me, if as an investor, you want to invest in the transportation sector of the economy, will you do so when the sector has been moribund for years and previous governments have not paid attention to it? Now, the present government has seen the need in resurrecting a dead sector for transportation so that investors can have confidence and you're here yapping about how fast Japanese trains are. Have you checked the cost of building one? So in your myopic mind, we should leave the previous tracks constructed by the colonial masters and lay new ones because we want to catch up to the advanced nations (of which various people here have posted different pictures and also differentiated between a tram and train). So you think it's just about importing high speed trains? You should probably do more research on the cost and maintenance and what it takes to have those.

Then again, you would be happier if your government donates the money meant for this sector to Ukrainian government; the above shows your kind of person. Congrats also on shifting the goal posts.

The day Nigerians will understand that every profession needs the other. . . .

Cortana is quite ok. I enjoyed the conversation with her... Especially the boyfriend part...

I can only hope they improve

Who here has updated to Lumia denim?

That's part of the features that come with it. Able to merge certain applications into a folder.

Mutaino7:
Bros Oam4j do the needful.. Many gats to learn something new.. Lets have a broad discuss

No offence but I don't think this should be done now. If done, it would derail its purpose of a meaningful discuss by fanatics from 'You know who' talking about going to hell fire and what not.

crackhaus:
Indeed the Bible does cover a whole lot of subject matter, it takes an open mind with the spiritual guidance of the holy spirit to discern and uncover its many secrets and wisdom - precepts upon precepts it is, as Obadiah777 would say during his active days on this section.

Where's this guy? Haven't seen his contribution in a long while.

TunjiMsp:
The bible also said the earth is flat, now we know better

Where in the bible was this said because I recall, in the book of Job, he said something about a circular horizon which people took to mean a circular earth. . . I hope you're not hinging on what the ancient church meant about the geocentric nature of the universe?

Let me tag certain people:
Davidylan, noetic16, dare2think, 1godfather, deepsight, thehomer, plaetton, martian, evilbrain, mizmycoli, xcapist, ihedinobi2 etc. (I hope y'all don't mind the tagging and contributing here)

2buff:
This is how the brain of a typical Nairaland male works upon stumbling on a comment:

if(author.hasGenderSignMatching("(f)" ))
{
pic=stalkProfile(author).getPic();

if(pic.isFine OR (pic.notExist AND author.hasYangaAttitude))
{
doAction("FOLLOW", author)
doAction("run through comments for", author ).likeAllOFThem()
doAction("Switch off brain, abolish own personal opinions and agree with", author )
doAction("Throw excessive compliments at ", author )

loopUntil(response= positive)
{
response= sendPM(author)
}

}

if(pic.isUgly)
{
ABORT()
}

}

This somewhat summaries it.

Then again OP, it depends on how you put up yourself here in this forum. Read the topic on this section 'Why do some guys make themselves so cheap?' and you may get a broader understanding on why certain ladies here think that way.

anonimi:
What light are you expecting from me?
Do I look like the SINator or representaTHIEF you sent from your constituency to go and REPRESENT your needs & concern in Abuja

deji68:
and guess who sitting on "New railway act " that is suppose reform the Railway in Nigeria ....The Legislators........... u can have 100 Buharis as manager of the railway if we still have the archaic laws the result will not be better than now .......

checkout excerp below
HB. 110987 A BILL
FOR
AN ACT TO AMEND THE NIGERIAN RAILWAY CORPORATIONACT,
CAP. N129 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, 2004 TO PROVIDE
FOR STATES OF THE FEDERATIONAND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO BE INVOLVED
IN THE PROVISIONAND OPERATIONOF RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION
IN NIGERIA AND FOR RELATED MATTERS
Sponsored by HON. ABIKE DABlRI-EREWA
[ 1 Commencement.
BE IT ENACTED by the National Assemhly of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria as follows-
1. The Nigerian Railway Corporation Act, Cap. N 129 Laws of lhe
2 Federation of Nigeria, 2004 (in this Bill referred to as "the Principal Act" is
J amended as set out in this Bill.
Amcudrueut
of Ihe
Principal Au.
4 2. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting for the Ameudmeut
of section 29.
5 existing section 29 a new section "(29)":
6 "( I) Construction and operation of railway transportation for the public
7 carriage of passengers or goods within Nigeria may he carried out by the
II Nigerian Railway Corporation or any State of the Federation or Private
I) Sector Operator who is licensed under subsection (2) of this section.
10 (2) The Minister may licence any other operator other than the Nigerian
It Railway Corporation to construct and carryon the business of railway
12 transportation in any part of Nigeria".
IJ 3. Section 58 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting for the Amendment
of section 58.
14 existing subsection (2) a new subsection "(2)":
15 "(2) A breach of any Bye-laws made under this section shall be an offence
16 punishable with payment of fine not exceeding N40,000.00 or in the case a
17 Bye-law regulating the carriage of offensive goods, NlOO,OOO.OO".
18 4. Section 63 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (6) by deleting Amendment

Oh... You can imagine. There's been something like this since when again? 2004... Yet, they haven't done anything. And from what I can read there, it also said any other body apart from the Nigerian railway cooperation. Sitting on a law that will change something positively and usher in private investors for ten years. That shows the kinda leaders we have. Yet, Nigerians never bothered checking. They blame the president for everything including the ones that is supposed to be handled by the state and local governments. Let us not even go into the PIB which I heard is still pending in the NASS.

Where's anonimi? Can you throw more light on the above act?

shyna01:
its all crapy compared to others...
...I mean, its like a natural disaster for Japanese high speed trains to experience a 5sec delay. we need to flog the minister of works or which one dey in charge self...

Does Japan import their trains or build their trains themselves? If your previous governments had invested in education and this sector of transportation, are we going to be here? What is the cost of building these trains used by Japan?

LRNZH:
Let me educate you.

The Eurostar trains are controlled electronically with intelligent network grids. They don't depend much on the view of the train driver as they're electric.

The Nigerian and Ghanaian trains (unlike South African and Moroccan trains) are manually controlled with the driver pushing all the levers and looking at his front for obstacles or condition s of the track. All he does with the station is to communicate the train location and status to by radio. The train drivers line of sight and area of view is a safety concern in this case.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

CosmoFab:
Eurostar is owned by Eurostar International Limited which is made of 3 countries/railway companies.

France SNCF - 55%
UK's EUKL a subsidiary of LCR - 40%
Belgium's SNCB/NMBS - 5%

Just like Thalys International is owned by

France's SNCF - 62%
Belgium's SNCB/NMBS - 28%
Germany's Deutsche Bahn - 10%

France National Train is SNCF/TGV

Where's that guy that was talking about wider windscreen? This and Ghana, which is wider?

kenex4ever:
what made nigeria so rich? Other con3s are producing cars, aircrafts, phones etc n u r saying a con3 dat depends on selling oil is so rich. Get education my dear

How many Nigerians understand this? Of course, they'll compare us with other oil producing nations. Most never understand is the engineering and science sectors of a country that makes them rich.

Poster, honestly answer me this.... If past administrations have consistently taken our railways serious, will this present administration be providing us with this? Also, have you factored in the cost of getting bullet and electric trains not to even talk about MAGLEVS? If yes, do you think Nigeria can afford some of these trains? Correct me if I'm wrong but the trains provided by this administration will be used for inter state transportation as obtainable in other countries unlike the electric and bullet trains which is for intra state transportation.

Then again, aren't most trains being uploaded here owned by the private investors in the various countries? Someone enlighten me please... Thanks

imsuboi:
Foolish shameless womanizer. You opened a thread to toast one chick. And you're spinning another one on the same thread


You no get packaging one bit!

Bros, please, calm down!

Romance section...

ikeonyeka:
Mr. Enwegbara is a sharp guy,
Using 20 naira reynold biro, 20 leaves exercise book and 10mb MTN data to make 115million naira.
This is wat my GNLD guys will call SMARTWORK.

Spoken like the Igbo man that you are.

MizMyColi:
Touche!

*there's dust in my eyes hence why it is teary*

I'm afraid cos the person will not reciprocate it.

God, I laughed real hard after reading this. The committee been dey form bad guys wee dey grounded. I recall the minister finding it difficult to answer some and I was like - 'wow. This guy must be good' not knowing the real ish.

Shameful that they have refused to honor their agreement with the man and now, everyone knows how 'intelligent' they are.

dytbabe:
I am a typical lagosian
I am not here to compare but to plead
Maybe I didn't put it in a better way
They shld pls come to our aid

I have lived here all my life and it wasn't like this, we had beautiful tarred roads, street lights bt since he started his phase 1 and 11 contruction projects, this place has been a mess

This is why that road along Princess and Aroloya not leaving Idumagbo is like this.

pyyxxaro:
Wetin make this lin babe punish this grab guy now

Na so Ekosodin be. . . Person wee you go fit beat on a normal day go dey deride you anyhow based on say in get backing.

pweetyz:
heard that there are lots of robbery cases there

Who said? There aren't. At least, compared to Osasogie, it is quite safe.

obowunmi:
Quote me on this, Fayemi didn't pay staff salaries either.

August, September, October salaries were not paid.

Oh he didn't pay? Wow...

berem:
Hahahahahaha!!! Fayose scamming Ekiti civil servants like no man's business
Na dis one funny me pass! LMAO!

Na here den go find you.

Zaikon:
ur name sound familiar bro

He is Uchiha Madara, second sage of the six paths!! One who has transcended the realm, thought pattern and emotions of men to that of a god.

mspee:
You're talking to an introvert

Oh. . . That explains it. Yet, you're a tiger here. . .

Lilimax:
BDPA is opposite Uniben as is very serene during my days in Uniben except it's being basterdised.

BDPA is still very ok.

Nigerians and stripping people naked. Why must that be the first thing in our thoughts? Even though it is not, why do we do something like this? It's sickening!!!

mspee:
My dear, I'm under room arrest... Sleeping.

lol... You should visit places. . .

mspee:
I'm serious o, osasogie and armed robbers tho even ghosts from UBTH

I'm fine dear. How is the celebration going?

Just there. . . Normal having visitors over. . . Yours?

mspee:
How are you?

No, I'm not a uniben student but I spent about half of my school days at Benin, Osasogie precisely.

Are you serious? Wow!! Interesting. . .

I'm fine BTW. You?

anonimi:
Don't worry. I probably know quite a lot already

I guess you now see the bigger picture. . .

mspee:

I never would have imagined. .

anonimi:
This is beyond terrible! It is pathetic!
Are we breeding ANIMALS that are mistakenly categorized as humans

Unfortunately, that's the kind of environment one finds himself in. Even stepping on someone mistakenly or arguing about something can bring you stories that touch.

Do more research on Benin city.

mspee:
Ekosodin, a really crazy place.
I rep pevico hostel, osasogie.

You're a student in the University of Benin?