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As much as I like Amaechi and the work he does, I and many others who are into Urban development can tell you that a Monorail is the worst form of public transit a city can have. Not only is it extremely expensive, but the amount of passengers it carries is very small and limited. And because of that the cost to ride a monorail system is more expensive, meaning many people may not be able to afford it.

Just to clarify the Chart below, A MRT [Mass rapid Transit] are modes of transportation like Subways, above ground rail, commuter rail, etc. What Lagos is building, EKO RAIL, is a MRT system and not a light rail. As you can see there are options, such as a light rail [LRT] and a mass Rapid Transit [MRT], that Port harcourt could have gone with that is cheaper and can move more passengers to their destination. This Monorail is very questionable and I'm very skeptical about its future.

In reality if he wanted they could have gone with an elevated Light Rail [LRT] which will still be cheaper or about the same cost as a monorail but carry alot more passengers.
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The UN Building is insured and most of the damages are paid for. So what is the FG doing proposing N5.2 Billion to rebuilding it. Even if the building was not insured N5.2 Billion is even WAAAAAY to much to fix the damaged parts of the UN building. You can pretty much build a new UN Building with that kind of money, talk less of fixing an existing one.

4 years of Obama means nothing for Africa. Those who think a president of a different country, 3000 miles away, on a different continent, will help them are delusional. The true question is what will 4 more years of GEJ and other African leader mean for Africa. Its time Africans tasked their leaders and hold them accountable for their actions, Instead of watching them loot from the sidelines.

Wow the amount of narcissistic people on this site is Unbelievable. The US army is recruiting them so they can be translators. Whether it be a future war theater, a wire tapping operation, investigations etc. Its not because they are "smart" or "warriors" like some Gullible people have said. Its so they have the right people to translate in a giving scenario, that's what all modern military do.

What possible reason justifies you having 12 deliveries and possibly 14 children. Dont these people have anything better to do than to fill Nigeria with more impoverish children. As far as I'm concerned these are just selfish parent who only think of them selves and not whats best of their children. Tell me, with what money will she use to take care of all here kids? Even someone who earns 15 million naira a year will have a hard financial time taking care of '14' children, talk-less of a villager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdUMS7CAv0

So what about algeria, In reality the list goes...

Modern style military
1. South Africa
2. Egypt
3. Algeria
4. Morocco
8. Tunisia

Not modern
5. Libya
6. Nigeria
7. Kenya
9. Tanzania
10. Ethiopia


Having mass numbers means absolutely nothing if you do not have the modern technology to back it up!!!
A group of 1,000 special trained operatives with modern tech can easily take down 100,000 "african" non modern soldiers

I personally believe that a smart person is one who is good at making hard, tasking decisions and A brilliant person is one who is very intelligent and has vast amount of knowledge.

Businessmen like billionaire Donald trump are smart but not intelligent ( though they could be).donald trump is Good at making business decisions but give him a complex physics problem and he will crack. On the other hand you have people who are very intelligent but constantly make bad decisions.

So the smart student makes the right decision to study so he can do well in school but the brilliant student actually learns the materials so he personally knows the material. The brilliant student does not care about doing well in school. They care about learning the material. And thus good grades come them naturally

This is just my opinion on what those two words mean, mind you that many people are both.

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The title is misleading because they never took off. Even if they did a plane can still fly with only 1 engine working, so they weren't in any real danger. This type of things happened to me on british airways on a flight from london to New York. 2 of the 4 engines would not start so we had to disembark the plane in and orderly fashion. No body panic nor screamed. Once they fixed the problem we were on our way on the same plane.

the name Biafra comes from the bright of Biafra which was named by the Europeans during their early African expeditions. The Europeans, especially the Portuguese named almost every geographical feature in west africa. It has nothing to do with the Igbo language.

Congrats to the guy who made the wind turbine.

But the word "invent" is wrong, the writer should have said creates or builds indigenous wind....

asha 80: please how do lgas in america generate revenue?

Taxes

This is just ludicrous. Were will the funds to run and manage these additional 27 LGAs (57 LGAs in total) come from? The current LGAs have no power or enforcement and pretty much do nothing for the people because they are always broke. Adding an additional 27 to that small state is suicide!!!! The LGA that I live in in america is larger in size than Osun state and has a Larger Fiscal budge than the state. Put that in perspective.

Now this is a leader, hopefully this thread will make it to the front page.

I think it was a misquote, I think he meant to say commence construction by 2012. I just dont see how its possible to build an international airport from virgin land in just 4 months.

Dont get me wrong but how is this an Anti-Islam campaign. All it says it support Israel, defeat Jihad. I think some people are just to sensitive, move on with your lives.

It could be a birth defect but I high doubt she gave birth to a horse, Might be a hoax...to get more members/free publicity.

Also this reminds me of a Japanese commercial


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmoNL0H-mYo

Another welfare driven family created by pure ignorance. In the USA it cost about $200,000 - $250,000 to raise one child from birth to the age of 18. This includes food, clothes, education etc that a child needs through their first 18 years. What makes these people think that they have enough money to raise 5 kids properly, not even 9. Its times like these that I question the sanity of some Nigerians. Who buys something or in this case produce something they cant even afford, why bring so many kids into this world to just suffer from malnutrition and diseases.

seedord247: Since the govt were not to be blamed why does chinese govt authorized one child policy?

How is the government to blame for what someone does in their personal life? that make no sense what so ever. The USA doesn't have a child policy but they have an average of 2.5 children per house hold and many European countries have an average of 2 children per house hold without having a child policy. Its not the governments responsibility, its the people responsibility. But if the people are to stup.id and ignorant to recognize that they are hurting themselves by given birth to too many kids then the government has no choice but to step in, which was the case with china.

Good on paper but bad in practice. Any state institution that makes an unofficial language of the nation mandatory in a public institution is just wrong. Its like California saying its mandatory to speak Spanish to get into any California university just because their is a large Spanish population, even though the offical language of the USA is English. What will happen if other state start this, you'll have to speak edo to go to UniBen or Yoruba to go to UniLag evn though the official language of the nation is english? Its just a bad policy to implement because a public institution is meant to serve the entire populace not just a specific group.

there is no such thing as love at first sight but there is lust at first sight.

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