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nues aweso: @ Sincere,

Ur sarcasm is really unnecessary. If you have any issues, please spell it out so we can thrash it in details.

berem: cool! Mine has been purchased already.Badagry axis where I reside is a very good place to live and invest.

taharqa: GOOD. The FG, Lagos State Govt and the Private Investors concernd, shld mk dis a possibility as quickly as possible... The Badagry and Lekki Axes can be turnd into Real avenues for BIG time Business and Commerce in Lagos, Nigeria and d West/Central African region

Lekki port to earn N31.15trn
News Friday, April 5, 2013

By FRANKLIN ALLI & NKIRUKA NNOROM

Managing Director, Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise, Mr. Haresh Aswani, yesterday, said the Lekki port project is expected to contribute not less than N31.15 trillion ($20 billion) to the nation's economy.

Aswani gave the assurance during the visit of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State to the site to assess the level of work done so far.

The port, sitting on 90 hectares of land, is to become operational in third quarter of 2016, and it has Lagos State Government and Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, as shareholders in the project.

Fielding questions on the economic benefits of the port to the state and the country, Aswani said: "In addition to bridging the capacity deficit, Lekki Port will have significant positive macroeconomic impact estimated at USD 361 billion over the entire concession period.

"It is expected to contribute more than USD200 billion to the government purse, while also creating close to 163,000 new jobs in the economy.

"Furthermore, Lekki Port will spur the economic development around the Lekki sub-region and on a wider perspective, the whole of Lagos State through rapid industrialisation."

Aswani explained that the Lekki Port, conceptualised as a multi-product industrial and logistics hub, would spread across 90 hectre of land and would be built at an estimated cost of $1.55 billion.

He further said the deep-sea port, which would be located 65 km east of Lagos Mainland would become the gateway to West African region and would be one of the most efficient and modern maritime facilities that would cater to liquid and dry bulk cargo par international standards.

Lekki seaport and international airport on course -Fashola

by Sesan Olufowobi

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola says the construction of Lekki Seaport has begun while the design for the international airport is ready.

The governor said this on Thursday during the second Lagos Corporate Assembly, tagged, 'BRF Meets Business', held at Lekki Free Trade Zone complex.

Fashola, however, said paucity of fund was a major challenge to the speedy development of the seaport and the international airport, adding that availability of funds would determine when the project would be completed.

He said, "I cannot tell you the date the seaport will be finished but work has started at the port and the contractors are on site.

"There are still a few issues in terms of getting funding and commitment from the private sector because clearly both the management and the private sector own the zone. They are not government-owned but government has an enabling role to play in the regulation of the zone."

He said the state government was sourcing private funds to develop the international airport.

He noted that the airport would be of international standard, according to an approve plan.

He said the state was strategically positioned to utilise and benefit from the development of the airport.

The governor assured businesses and corporate entities that government remained truly committed to providing infrastructure needed to make the free trade zone functional as soon as possible.

He said the zone would drive not just the state economy, but the national economy.

Fashola also faulted the plan by the Federal Government to sell the National Theatre, stating that it was like wiping the country's national history.

He also said the transport plan for the trade zone was basically water-driven.

Fashola said, "The zone is a peninsula. That is why we are considering the need to transport our goods on the water. This is peninsula that sits so strategically that it has access to its own means of transport which is water.

"That was why we have decided to fast-track the plan of accessing the zone and evacuation of cargo by using the lagoon.

"This lagoon goes as far as Ondo State. Most logs come into the state through water. I do not know any country where industrial cargo is transported by road."

He said such a development was not sustainable, stressing that the roads would not last.

Fashola said the waterways would be the government's immediate and short-term focus.

"And before the end of the year, we would ensure the possibility of water transport in the zone," he said.

Symphony007: very funny because if i were PDP i'll be so relaxed and happy at the way things are. I'm facing a disfunctiional opposition that can't even come to an aggrement on what logo to used for their merged party, talk less of articulating a manifesto or pick a presidential candidate and this is just two years before the next election with PDP still the biggest, mist popular party is nigeria. Tinubu and his cronies are just where PDP wants them. His rethorics will lead to their reelection in 2015.

eldoradoxx: Shouldn't Tinubu even mind his business as suggested ? There are crisis in our great party because there is where democracy is practised fully. People are allowed to air their views, disagree and then reach consensus unlike ACN, where Tinubu's words are law and nobody, not even the Governor of a state as vital to Lagos dare object to his views. Our strength as a party comes from series of disputes we have that the oppositions don't. Is it not when you can manage a huge party as PDP for 14 now that you can say you are ready to manage the greatest Black democracy in the world _ Nigeria.

take dat: Is this not the same Metuh who appealed to journalists to help kill bad stories that concern the party? Is Tinubu responsible for the raging crises in the PDP? Is he the reason why all PDP constituents are mired in mutually assured destructive wars, where the party is pathetically dissolving into interest factions for less dignifying reasons. We all know of Tinubu's dictatorial tendencies but as a politician, he is only cashing in on a tumultuous and divided PDP where there are more Judases than Disciples!

I don't expect people to waste their time arguing with you. I know you very well to be an ACN apologist and an ethnic jingoist.

Rossikk: You don't need to tell us your name or address. Simply state the nature of your business. We are waiting. And no. I will not (and I advice nobody else to) ''meet up with you'' before we can know your business. Ole!

Rossikk: What stops you from announcing your business here? You were happy enough to post a full picture plus life history of your favourite African above. You really expect me to meet up with a peabrain like you? Joke of the century.

Rossikk: You've no clue what I am doing. What are YOU doing for Africa apart from coming here daily to kiss white assss?

The only indigenous vehicle manufacturing firm on the entire African continent was established by a Nigerian who never schooled for a single day abroad. HE represents the future of Africa much more than your western-trained coffee exporter.

Rossikk: Can you see what I'm talking about?

The same fixation with foreign trained, foreign based people. ''University of London trained'' blah blah blah is the only route to success in Africa. Meanwhile this DOLT forgets that the Nigerian GDP approaching $400 billion is down to the hardwork of millions of indigenous, everyday Nigerians, none of whom has ever stepped foot in Harvard or Cambridge. YOU Mr Man are the sort we need to get rid of in Africa.

The gentleman above is no more a contributor to African development than a labourer working his butt off in the hot Nigerian sun. Take your adulation of all things foreign and stick it up your backside.

eldoradoxx: In the end, Africans will be the people to find home made solutions to our problem in Africa and not the pretentious British and American neo colonialists. Do you think that Britain cares if corruption destroys Nigeria where it favours its economy? Is there any present or former political office holder in Nigeria who doesn't owe a property in excess of a million pound in Uk and America? Have u heard their government complain? Do you think America cares about millitancy and oil theft in Niger Delta if it does not affect its economy? Nobody hates the whites as suggested by many posters but my generation of Nigerians seem to have become wiser than our parents in taking supporting and help from America and Britain because of these contradictions. Same people who seem to be more interested in fighting corruption in your country are same people who sell arms to insurgents, same people who frustrate any attempt to develop your economy through IMF policies that ask government to increase taxes and remove subsidies. They are same people who own refineries that refine our stolen crude. They give you 500millionn dollars aid per year but steal 20 billion dollars through fraud from your economy. The truth is that the economy of western capitalist nations would collapse the day there is end to corruption in third world and they will never see it happen. So any fight against corruption in Africa by them should not be celebrated.

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Festival of Ideas: Andrew Rugasira - A Good African Story
Please note: this event took place in Feb 2013
Africa has received over $500 billion in aid over the last 50 years and yet despite this the continent remains mired in poverty, disease, and systemic corruption. A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand is a manifesto for a change in the way the West sees, and deals with, Africa. Using his experiences in running the Good African Coffee Company, Andrew Rugasira sets out the arguments for building a sustainable trade framework, reducing Africa's reliance on aid handouts and discusses the barriers that currently prevent fair and equal trade between Africa with the rest of the world. He argues that Africa should take its destiny in its own hands and dictate the future that it wants and deserves: more trade and less aid. Infused with optimism and belief in what Africa's future could be, Rusagira tells the story of thousands of African farmers who have, through the Good African Coffee model, been able to earn a decent living, send their children to school and get out of a spiral of debt and dependence.

Andrew Rugasira is the Founder and CEO of Good African Coffee, an African-based social enterprise that brings quality coffees to the global market. He grew up in Kampala during the terrors of Idi Amin's reign in the 1970s. A graduate in Law and Economics from the University of London, he has written numerous papers and articles and was a research fellow at the Centre for Basic Research, Kampala. In 2007, he was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has won several awards, including the Legatum Pioneers for Prosperity award, and in 2010 was nominated for a Financial Times/ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business award. He is Uganda's Country Chairman of the Eastern African Fine Coffees Association and a Member of Uganda's Presidential Investor Roundtable.

django1: There are lots of beautification projects going on as well.
You can check the state's website for more pics.

Bontee: True but is this how urban development is discussed in sites like skyscrapercity or what is the use of creating threads for each project and in the same thread abuse other governors or the president. We have all been on nairaland for a while and clearly know that most threads created here are for propaganda purposes.



Why would you encourage a state governor to do more? if he is tired of doing it then he should leave the post for others to come in and play their part.

Delafruita: what is your obsession with the wrong things the british did? perhaps you need to be reminded that just a decades ago,blacks were segregated in the united states.yes,the almighty united states of america,the best and most interesting democracy in the world,the freest nation on earth once segregated based on skin colour.in just 50years after johnson signed the civil rights act and other legislation,a blackman is the president of that same nation.its not about what went wrong in the past,its about how we ensure the wrongs of yesterday get corrected so we can have a better future.

the british has invaded almost every nation on earth and we are almost all in agreement that they did so for their own selfish reasons.but we cant deny the fact that if the british didnt come here,we night still be as divided and backwards as we were pre-amalgamation.i do not intend to play advocate in favour of whether amalgamation was for our own good or not.however,the british did the roads,gave us railway and many other amenities.and judging by the lack of progress we have made since 1960,its safe to say we would have been better off putting of independence for a few more decades.look at south africa for example.most of the development in that nation was courtesy of the colonialists.mandela was in prison for 27years and many of them were killed in the struggle against apartheid,however,i believe they are the better for it because if they had been self-governing since 1960,they probably might be even worse than nigeria.

the issue here is the brazen disregard for bayelsans as shown by the man they entrusted their affairs to.he decided to filter away their collective patrimony and he was caught in the UK with monies not belonging to him but to bayelsans.he jumped bail,disguised and fled and you are here quoting supposed british attrocities.

kofoshi: Okay, I see that you are clearly a fan of Alams.

Shame!

I'm out!

I'm 100 percent certain that Alams did 100 times more for that region he governed than any British govt did when they ruled the place.

Rossikk: You are a Slave to the British. They have no right to talk rubbish about corruption in Nigeria when their own record with regard to Nigeria stinks to high heaven. That is the point. Even without checking, I'm 100 percent certain that Alams did 100 times more for that region he governed than any British govt did when they ruled the place.

texazzpete: Thanks for the history lesson, slave, but Alams STOLE from his people. Millions of poor, marginalized Bayelsans. he stole more than N50 billion...
Alams stole money that could have sunk 5,000 boreholes
Alams stole money that could have build 10 hospitals
Alams stole money that could have powered tens of communities.
Alams stole money that could have brought about sustainable development.

Unlike your fascination with old history, all this happened less than a decade ago.

STFU about colonialism and ask yourself why - if this was about Nigeria's development - you are happy with the pardon of a man who stole from poor people who adored him and called him their 'Governor-General'.

Rossikk: Only to a rotten slave like you will it make no sense to ask the British what they did with the resources they exported out of Nigeria from 1914 to 1960 , leaving the country without a single proper university, not one dual carriage road, and a literary rate of 7 percent. Thank your lucky stars their rule ended in 1960. Otherwise you would have been an illiterate like your peasant forebears, not an educated by Nigerian govt, lousy, self hating ingrate more adept at sucking colonial c.ock than using his brains. Fuc.k you and your slavery to colonial rulers. Nigeria is 10000 times better and more developed today than it ever was under British rule, Thanks to indigenous rule. You have a problem with that Uncle Tom, go jump in the River Thames Stu.pid slave.

Rossikk: Oh please shut up with you slave mentality. Britain is the world capital of looters' bank deposits, second only to the Swiss. If Britain were to investigate all the looted wealth sitting in her country she'd go bankrupt. What about the billions stolen by the British colonial govt themselves in Nigeria? They ruled this land for 63 years with near zero infrastructure at the end, after exporting resources worth countless billions in today's money. What happened to all that loot? What about Tony Blair? Why is he still walking free in Britain after leading that nation to slaughter millions of Iraqis based on lies, in order to steal their oil? And then you want to tell me that in this litany of gross criminality, it is Alams that they've seen to persecute? Sorry, but You are the one who is not thinking. You and the other slaves here who can't see you're being shafted by the world's biggest looters and hypocrites - Britain.

Pukkah: Many people say the leadership in Nigeria is the problem.

But from some covertly pro-corruption comments here, isn't it obvious that the followership is as much of a problem?

How can anyone justify the pardon just because the loot or hotel was retrieved? Eh? Where is the deterrent then? Is this how to build a just, stable and safe society?

The more they try to justify the needless and shameful pardon, the more they reflect their innate corrupt tendencies.

Riroeire: I don't know if u read the full report on the FB page but I don't think it's a question of not engaging the Chinese but we need to do it with caution and some intelligence to avoid the same mistakes our forefathers committed with the europeans. A lot of our african leaders are going into long term agreements whils giving away a huge amount of our resources and do not really pass on the knowledge. Sanusi's piece in the Financial Times attests to this so have a few other ppl.There is a Cyberwar going on at the moment in the world and Nigeria hasn't got a clue what's going on

We should learn to play the game, so we are happy partners in any union, instead of whining and playing victim always.

Michaeljones36: Read the full article here:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201303260338.html?aa_source=acrdn-f0

Mr Murdah: Africa must recognize that China is not in Africa for African interests.”

Bontee: Why should a state government be praised for building a flyover bridge?