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Fayose has forgotten that the major reason behind the postponement of the 2015 elections which was supposed to be held earlier in february 2015 was because of the ekitigate exposure by saharareporters. Many has forgotten by some of us remember so well.

Fayose, he who comes to equity must come with clean hands!

ddippset:
All of a sudden PDP supporters love sahara reporters. All of a sudden PDP supporters believe in sahara reporters. Its no longer an APC media house. lol.

that is how funny and hypocritical they are, I remember during Rivers elections pdp fans all over the social media were mad and almost begging saharareporters to publish the rivers senate house of reps and state assembly election results as they were being released at different polling stations, I said what? when did they start believing saharareporters?

They only hate saharareporters when they publish news against their party and their beloved GEJ but will immediately fall in love with them when they publish news against buratai and PMB. awon were party

The marketers are just looking for subsidy money again, how many people are even buying at 145, I saw a filling station before mile 2 this morning now selling petrol at 140 and diesel at 175. I just laughed, those planning to increase fuel price are just wasting their time, smart guys in lagos no de carry car go work again, na BRT and lag bus dem dey use now, cars are only for weekend paroles.

In this era of deregulation, price can only go up and come down again, the forces of demand will surely be at play, awon were marketers.

If PMB had allowed the jagaban's camp to handle the economy, the likes of ben bruce will not come up with this thrash. How come with all the recession, Lagos state is still implementing projects all over the place. PMB is not getting his politics right and these PDP goons are already taking advantage.

Honestly I don't blame Bruce, I blame the APC who can't keep their house together all because jagaban must be tamed. Already there is panic in edo state as APC is likely to loose hence the plan to postpone the guber elections.

Its high time PMB get his politics right but seriously we were making progress under Jonathan? chai its better to allow dasuki run the country then

This is why majority of the christian community in Nigeria prefer the thieving party called the PDP.

Its just so obvious its all about our yams. awon were oloshi

The kind of posts here so far are just too petty, is this thread about BBOG? I think envy is just the sickness of many folks smh.

Meanwhile the NPA boss needs to work harder as the maritime industry is one major way diversify our economy right now

waiting for those indomie generation fellows who will come and say 'who is ego buoyo'

Happy birthday Ego buoyo and thanks for gracing our tv screens way back

muyibaba222:
Olusola Oke is the only person that should be saying this. The delegate list was doctored for Abraham and Akeredolu.
I see Tinubu trying to rubbish Akeredolu and not supporting Oke because He jst decamped to APC.

Olusola oke was never an option. Lessons from saraki.

Something to cheer about from ekiti at last. Any Governor improving infrastructure should be commended. The fly over bridge may not look viable for now but Ado ekiti being a state capital will continue to expand and surely there will need for structure like this.

Let's leave politics for now and commend the Governor.

Anything that will aid transportation either by land, air or water is a welcome development by me especially in these days of recession.

Only lazy folks will complain again like they complained about the Kano light rail project.

Kudos to the cross river governor, and I hope other governors will wake up as well, no be to de pose de wear T shirt like Mark zuckerberg.

I just laugh here seeing comments about el rufai. There is a personal bond between el rufai and bakare. Its beyond politics and religion. El-rufai said during bakare's 60th birthday that when he was dead broke after leaving obj's Govt, only bakare was there for him all through even helping him sorting out his children's school fees. Of course its when you are in crisis you know who your friends are.

There will be nothing that Bakare will do in this life that El-rufai won't be involved. Those guys are pals for life.

MightySparrow:
I read such posts like yours often and see lack of understanding of history. The developed world took their source from the church. The church people today read more than the secular or academic. In school we read for certification but one drives a nation is what people read after school. And, this is lacking among African leaders. So, I don't mind the church building edifices and all that.

The impacts will soon follow. Think about Newton, Faraday, Galileo, Lord Rutherford.....
Da Vinci, Angelo..... The exotic church design of catholic cathedrals are all works of minds who wanted to give their Gods the best. These later translated to industrial revolution in Europe



The Beautiful Arabian architecture and great mosques are a testimonial to this fact. The great Arabian astronomers and mathematicians were mostly religious people. Churches and mosques should continue to spread and be creative and represent God well.

beautiful explanation, God bless you

sinaj:
serzly it's very deadly, they dan sama 3 of my lecturers with stroke

no be small thing o, I know one very young lecturer who just died suddenly recently, nothing be dey worry the guy at all. Until we hear say na NRC naim be like say dem kpa the guy o.

Its better to take things easy and not show yourself too much in Nigerian unis, no be small thing o

Reference:
Free yourself from the captivity of 'company'. What is a company. Is it not a collection of people with vision, drive and competencies. Seperate them and you will find out there are several Nigerians with expertise in rail construction. Get them to moon light or sabatical for the 'Kano Metroline Project'. Lease equipment on favourable terms and source all but the absolutely impossible materials from local manufacturers. There are a number of foundries in Nigeria that will look at that 1.8 billion dollar cake and absolutely drool at it. They will retool away from rebar to make rail lines in a heart beat. Has the government made this inquiry yet. Let's be honest. We are not serious in this country. With all the rail projects completed, underway and proposed through the length and breadth of Nigeria, government has not realized they can insist that these Chinese folks build steel factories and foundries in Nigeria? Or give them Ajaokuta free of charge.

you are not convincing and you are already sounding bias, I now understand where you are coming from. We deceive ourselves too much in Nigeria, we boast of how good our local engineers are but their shoddy work of very low quality are there for all to see. We are not there yet at all.

Reference:
The rule of development is that whatever you cannot make for yourself in times of hardship you shouldn't have. We have said it many times that we should diversify to develop. Why then the same old import driven dependency. Rail infrastructure is critical but there are other infrastructure we can build for ourselves in the now that can equally boost and diversify our economy. If agric is our primary way out then I suggest we throw our all into it for now. Get it going and then move on. An urban rail line reduces costs, it does not produce jack.

am sorry, you are not convincing at all, you say rail infrastructure is critical but because of recession we should not touch it and then you now say an urban rail line reduces cost. In your trying to over analyze which I pointed out earlier, you are already contradicting yourself.

I think your problem is the Chinese angle which is the forex issue but you are over looking the spiral effect into the economy, you already said it will reduce cost and not produce jack, what you forget is that transportation costs are factored into production and if cost of transportation reduces there will be tendencies to produce more, hence increase in productivity. You are looking at the short term which is typical of us as Nigerians but you forget preventing future economic crisis such as this is very key here.

Reference:
No one is saying they should not do anything. Of course you must invest to bring yourself out of a recession but do it in the most productive way possible. Did Buhari cancel the metro in favour of something else more productive, employment generating, no. He did so for political reasons because of the perceived independence of the states which is the fore runner to the problems we have today in Nigeria. This is a different matter. Pure economics. The question is whether 1.8 billion dollars is best served by that project at this snapshot of a time. And for your information it is better to debate and over analyse things than to gamble. Sit down with the people and interact with them. Government is a partnership not a one way gungho trip.

and where has all our debates and stakeholders' meeting over the years led us to? Guy if na debate dem de do for obodo oyinbo, we go de queue for their embassies? According to Raji Rasaki, action [asion governor in yoruba parlance] is what we need.

Even if PMB cancelled the Lagos rail project in the past for political reasons, is it a sin for him to make amends with the approval of all the rail projects so far?

aresa:
In economic down times, governments spends heavy on infrastructures, seek investments to generate jobs and boost economic activities, but on NL and according to lame, shallow and unintelligent people, economic down time is the time not to invest or seek investments and also not to create jobs..


Nigerian youths are so mentally warped, backward thinking and grossly shallow and it's sickening and disheartening..

egbon, the thing tire me, wetin person dey read on this thread fit make person get high bp o. Govt no spend, na wahala, Govt spend, na waste.

Its evident to all that this govt must fail to justify the failure of the previous govt. hence new projects no matter how sensible by this govt must be over analysed to make the govt look silly. No be small gbege o

Guyman02:
Give the job to a local reputable company and source the slippers from Ajaokuta Steel, it will make more economic sense.
A country in recession does not outsource jobs with scarce resources; build capital projects and infrstructure that most of the materials can be can be sourced locally so that the money circulates

which company in Nigeria can successfully construct rail tracks in Nigeria? is ajaokuta now fully operational?

Guy e be like say you don't know how backward we are in obodo naija.

Dollyak:
Okay, maybe the comparison was a bit of a stretch. However, Kano need a solid economic drive rather than a rail project IMO. I hope I am wrong and this rail project serves as a Up kick in Kano's economic drive.

Now you are talking, I do appreciate your honest concerns, we must start from somewhere, we pray other states come up with their infrastructure drive to kick up economic drive as you have said. I will support rail project in any state in Nigeria than airports.

Reference:
Timing. I know the value of infrastructure but I also know the value of resource management and when things are this critical you have got to consider your options properly and prioritise. Do you know the value of the dollar next year or the price of oil. If you can't then you should eject sentiments from your psyche and spend cautiously. That's all.

This is the excuse PMB gave when he cancelled the Lagos rail project when he was military head of state back in the 80s. So many are yet to forgive him on that. Something tells me he is trying to redeem himself from that shameful error with the various rail projects he has been approving since he became President last year.

All you are saying is grammar, if nothing is done you guys will come up here to say the govt has no direction and is a failure.

Sometimes as Nigerians we over criticize and over analyze with nothing to show which is why we are where we are today.

Geniro:
Haven't your folks suffered enough. Didn't you hear the FG blame the recent NBS stats on recession to vandalism and sabotage in the oil sector.

Tell him to go and ahead and bomb the region, let's see how many barrels of oil you can sell.

Na today our suffering start? Your blackmail is no longer working, what are the militants waiting for, na mouth dem get when we thought they will face the army one on one.

Reference:
I don't think it is beef or any other meat product but simple reality. A project that can be fundamentally important still has a question of timing because we face a situation of either or and you will have to view this in the national context or national interest since Kano state does not generate forex independently. The Federal government throguh the CBN may consider it unviable at this point in time. But what Government should be doing is not just to focus on cost saving signature projects like these only but give equal if not more emphasis on production, mass employment, export oriented projects at this point in time. Afterall 1.8 billion dollars is a heck of a lot of money in naira terms these days.

The value a rail project brings is un-quantifiable, your argument does not hold water. Its like saying a road project in an hamlet or village is not viable. Very funny

Dollyak:
This isn't about being an economist nor it is about being sentimental as you are now. Anyone can build a rail project if it is being funded by the federal government. I suppose the question is whether they are viable in the said states, which is something that needs to be debate. Will you justify such rail project if Ekiti states was to build one? because this project isn't anymore viable in Kano than it is in Ekiti or other states. There is simply little or no argument for it, at least so far.

you are definitely biased especially from your Ekiti angle, its laughable you know . Rail projects are viable anywhere, it opens up villages and towns that you think are not viable. What a funny response from you.

CSTR2:
Seriously? This is supposed to be an intelligent response?
Kano state alone contributes so much food that would warrant such massive mega federal spending and yet Nigeria spent billions of dollars in food imports yearly? What then does the other northern states contributes?
Billions of dollars generated from oil, some of which was explored from two south eastern states and customs levied from south eastern importers and exporters.

so we produce no food in Nigeria abi? do you know how many we are in this country? if you say our local production cannot meet our local demand, yes I agree. The Problem is that you guys have been made to believe that they do nothing in the north hence you are bitter when you hear projects like this. its like saying because we import majority of the fish we consumed, then there is no fishing going on in all our water bodies in Nigeria.

EazyMoh:
goke7 9jii yomz1e
First of all you can't claim Kano more than me. My dad was a true Bakano, though I now use Jigawa state. I presently permanently live in Kano. So my comment is out of love I have for the state.
Am not saying the rail system is a bad idea, what am saying it's a misplaced priority. FYI the rail is only gonna move within Kano metropolis, so it's not gonna affect movement of products as some of you claim.
With the newly built flyovers in the city, there's almost nowhere you can spend up to 10minutes in a traffic hold up, and the transport fare is also cheap. I can get from Yan Kaba to BUK New site with just N200 and within a short time. Compare that with last year's tomato glut when a full basket you can't lift sold for as low as N400, imagine if provision for processing was established how much the economy of the farmers and the state would have improved.
It's like the proverbial your house is on fire and you are chasing rats.

must Kano be congested before they can have light rail? haba is rail the only thing the state govt will do?

CSTR2:
Don't feign ignorance with me. I have no patience with such.
Is it a habit of Yoruba people to change discourse when the issues become too intellectual.? You said northern governors are leveraging on buhari to get unequal federal govt spending to their region, and I agree that a precedence has being set.
A future SE/SS president would see such precedence honoured with probably greater ferocity which would be deserved anyway. So what is all this talk of OBJ and shitt?
Can OBJ stop the SE/SS from ever becoming president?

You see, that is where you guys always shoot over the bar, disparaging others to project your point and that's how you started with the topic of this thread. If this topic was 10 people die in kano, how wonderful it would have been, but then kano is doing a project and you suddenly remember that they are not productive enough to warrant such abi.

You guys have suddenly forgotten how easy it was for ss and se states to access funds under GEJ such as the ecological funds when other states from other parts of the country could not. It was not a sin then and no visible project is there to see even in the ss and se with all those funds. You guys are just bias simple, as far as you are concerned, others can go to hell if you are ok.

Dollyak:
It has the worst PMI (purchasing managers' index ) out of the major states in Nigeria, which pretty much settles it. Let's not talk about IGR or growth outlook shall we.

Madam economist, na you get time, you can ask your governor to start his rail project and we will commend him too, ok?

CSTR2:
Google? Seriously.
I don't need google to check south eastern contribution to Nigeria. It is felt by every man and woman and child in Nigeria . I don't need to google to see aba and Nnewi products. I don't need google to know south eastern leadership in education and productivity.
And kano state gets more from the FG than the south east and you want me to check google for their own contribution to Nigeria.

why are you lying? most of the food you dey chop, where do you think they are from? From Mars abi

When Okorocha de tell una home truth, una say im be okorohausa abi? Honestly you guys preferred to be lied to

CSTR2:
I am not discussing jonathan . I am discussing a precedent.
The SS and SE governors should hijack aso-rock when they get the presidency again. That is exactly what you are saying and I concur, atleast with respect to Nigerián politics.

oga, nobody fit hijack aso rock o, na elections dem dey win go there. I wish them good luck in their hijacking

it took Obj to get GEJ there but when I see my ss and se brothers abusing Obj, I laugh in spanish.

CSTR2:
What is their productivity in terms of ?
Is it in manufacturing? Skilled Human resources? Education? What exactly? That would justify their humongous federal resources even more than the southern eastern region that accounts probably for 30-40% of Nigeria's industrial and productive population.
What does kano state contribute to Nigeria that correlates with their enormous federal funding?

Google is your friend, go and learn more, we are too lazy to read in Nigeria, nairaland is too small to be source of information you hear.

You are just bitter against Kano simple, if its anambra, it won't be a problem at all bruv

Dollyak:
Most state in Nigeria are unproductive but some more than others. For being such a major state with many 'unfair' historical capital funding, it's really unproductive. Relative to States like Lagos, River and even Kaduna to an extent.

Do you know many international business transactions are in Kano, you think it has an international airport for nothing? in terms of agriculture, do you know how productive kano is? Please get more information, google is your friend.

CSTR2:
Take advantage of a president to improve infrastructure at the expense of others in an economy under recession?. Now that is an interesting angle you brought up.
Atleast a precedent has been set. If a SE or SS president emerges tomorrow, he is expected to leverage on his position to overspend on his domain beyond the realms of common sense and equality. He is not expected to check the most ample position for increased national productivity and invest therein devoid of ethnic sentiments.
Jonathan must be a stark moronn then for not diverting half Nigerias's budget to the Niger-delta for the total transformation of that place instead of building almajiri schools and solving northern age-long issues meant for their governors.

You think Jonathan meant well for the north? He only did what he did for the north cos of his intention for re-election, reason the northerners were not fooled. You think if Jonathan had won second term, he will care for the north? Jonathan was never nationalistic, if you think so, ask the sw governors.

Abegi, carry your sentiments go one side, the northern governors are the ones trying to up their game and leveraging on PMB's power which the SS governors fail to do. Its not Jonathan's fault but the SS governors palaver. ok?