₦airaland Forum

chrisooblog:
Democracy is not a tea party. Sometimes it takes heavy grinding and constant chipping away.

Besides countries are not built by saints so if you're waiting for one squeaky clean man to drop from heaven you'll wait forever.

[color=royalblue]I am waiting for a man with a clear cut plan to fix this country bit by bit.

Mere listening to them shows that they are just telling you what you want to hear.

Tell us the plan...

Nigeria's power generation is at XXXXXMW.

How do you intend to increase it?
If it require funds, how do you get those funds?

Have you seen any presidential candidate answer something like this?[/color]

chrisooblog:
Honestly I pray you change your mind and decide to vote if not for anything but to deepen the democratic process. Even if it's to protest against the failures of the current government your vote is the best way for your voice to be heard loud and clear.

[color=royalblue]Protest votes, Protest votes, and that was how we ended up with Buhari

Maybe we should start looking at what they really have to offer.

I have, and all of them are just deceitful. No man of integrity amongst them.

My opinion[/color]

Ellexy:
The matter that Simon Ekpa is working for APC.

[color=royalblue]So no proof, or even assumptions to back it up

Just recite and chant it like little children reciting memory verses in Sunday school

I really need to know how APC is sponsoring Ekpa[/color]

Ellexy:
Since you won't vote, the matter doesn't concern you.

[color=royalblue]What matter exactly?

The one that Ekpa is causing destruction in my region, or the one that you have him as an APC agent in your imagination?

Which matter, bros?[/color]

Ellexy:
Should questions be delegated? If yes, what type of questions? Personal questions or societal questions?

[color=royalblue]No question should be delegated, for an aspirant[/color]

Ellexy:
You've always claimed to be neutral but records have shown that nobody is actually neutral. As for the Simon Ekpa issue, every sign and action points towards him working for APC. Hopefully jungle will mature on his case.

[color=royalblue]I do not care what anybody thinks or what any records show. I will not vote in 2023, because I am not convinced any of them can make this country better.

What are the signs and action that points him working for APC?[/color]

[color=royalblue]Obi delegating that question to Prof should never be justified.

What is the big deal in answering that question? Even EmmanuelScott1 has answered it here, but the question pass our incoming president.

As for the BATifieds using this one to have hope? Odiegwu. The less said about Tinubu's current cluelessness, the better.

Person wey delegate him own personal health question no suppose dey even talk[/color]

Ellexy:
That Simon Ekpa is another APC agent. I hope my Igbo brothers see beyond his evil machinations that he's not one of them.

[color=royalblue]I hope you don't tag me a BATstard, but how is Ekpa an APC agent?[/color]

BlueRayDick:
You know all this , yet u argued with izzou over all day and night .

[color=royalblue]Anytime wey i wan argue, i must do well to mention him

The guy fit follow Fashola argue sef [/color]

Itsrm:
I no understand. You mean you guys pay 1500 everytime you pass through the toll gate?

[color=royalblue]I meant trailers oh

I think cars was 250
SUV was 350[/color]

Itsrm:
The bolded is a good point.

Where did you see 1500?

[color=royalblue]I used the estimate for Lekki Toll gate fee to assume[/color]

BlueRayDick:
I believe the original idea is to have rail lines joining the south and the north, that way heavy duty trucks populating the highways will be replaced with Cargo trains which will ferry goods from one far end of the country to the order. For example having cows transported from the core north to the southern parts of the country. All things being equal, it should make our roads more safer and the cost of maintaining roads too will reduce.

[color=royalblue]Maiduguri is in the North East. This is a region that has insecurity issues. So this rail is probably going to pass through regions of the NE.

So what is the traffic like, even in terms of Cargo?

If it was the NW, like Kano, i can see the economic benefits.

But Maiduguri? Damaturu?

Abeggg[/color]

chrisooblog:
Chief you for mention me direct no be beefing issue

Jokes apart I'm happy you put up Fashola's quote which corroborates what I've insisted all along that the bridge itself is completed but the access roads still need to be finished.

Where me and izzou differ is that he insists because some of the access roads are not ready then the bridge itself hasn't been completed. At least cars are now passing the 'uncompleted' bridge which is enough for me.

[color=royalblue]Your comments make me laugh, to be honest.

How do you say a bridge is complete, when the access road is not there?

So 3rd Mainland bridge is complete even when Iyana-Oworo is not there?

Eko bridge is complete, but the part at Apongbon is not there?

You really love to argue bro. I think you do.

Even the Minister has said it will be closed back again for completion, but you want to prove that it is complete.

Na wa [/color]

Itsrm:
I thought of it as well but I think people paying or not will depend on the amount being tolled. If its 500 or less, people will pay. Apart from the hold up on the headbridge, there used to be serious hold up around that Electronics market. You don't want to be caught in it. I don't know if that has changed sha.

There's also those who have contraband they are carrying and want to avoid the military guys at the old bridge.

Transport companies can also transfer the cost to their passengers so its none of their business.

[color=royalblue]The serious traffic at that Electronics market has changed. Since Willie expanded that road, it has been different

Also, the Old bridge experiences heavy traffic during festive periods; much expected because people from other parts of Nigeria are coming home. What of periods that the traffic is less? Would anyone leave a free way to go and pay 500 bucks on the 2nd one? I doubt that.

Also, the sit-at-home on Mondays automatically translates to next-to-nothing revenue for that bridge. That is also a problem

People from the West, going to PH hardly pass Onitsha anymore. They prefer to find their way from Delta, to the East/West road. And unfortunately, this category are those who are expected to use the 2nd Niger bridge too

Lastly, trailer drivers would rather use the old one than pay 1,500 for the new one (afterall, the company has provided diesel for the whole journey).

I just think the old one is a bad market for the new one. I mean, the divertion to the new one is on the road to the old one. So if i see that the road is free, i can decide to stick with the old one, rather than the new one[/color]

Amoto94:
Instead of using Lagos ports for businesses along that corridor they will use the Onne Port and other eastern ports for exportation and importation.

[color=royalblue]I am talking about a railway line, not a sea port

How will a Prt Harcourt - Maiduguri railway line, help eastern ports for exportation and importation?[/color]

BlueRayDick:
I saw the news of FG saying they will be unable to complete the train project along the eastern corridor which they had earlier promised will be delivered before Buhari leaves office.

I just dey wonder wetin Amaechi go tell him people say dem gain from his time as the Transport minister

[color=royalblue]He was just unfortunate that there was not enough loans to carry out the project.

Even sef, what is the economic advantage of having a rail from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri? I no too sabi those areas, but it sure looks like a project that will be recording losses from time to time.
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BlueRayDick:


They want to complete the completed project

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Baba just wan make sure say Buhari finish am in 8 years, even if it means arguing with facts.[/color]

BlueRayDick:
This one u no even bother drag that Ur friend about the completion of the bridge and it's access roads based On Fashola's own words below ; e be like say Ur tired is tired already

[color=royalblue]He just wanted to win the argument, so I left the trophy and tournament for him

Media links said it was not completed; he argued it

Even the 2nd driver to pass the bridge in the history of Nigeria said it was not completed; he argued it

Now the Minister of Works has said that the "completed bridge" would be shut down again so that it can be completed; I guess you know his next comment [/color]

[color=royalblue]Tolling the 2nd Niger bridge sounds like a very bad economic strategy, especially when the old one is free.

My condolences to the private partner hoping to recoup his investments, IMO[/color]

[color=royalblue]Can't we have Christmas discounts in this country?

Why must everything triple the price when we get to festive periods?

Lagos to PHCity is 24,000 by road.[/color]

EmmanuelScott1:
Yeah, my comment on tinubu's own, I was emphasizing that those questions asked him are important, that requires his own response.

I feel that question directed is not important, the man's head don full

[color=royalblue]Unimportant questions are not assigned to anybody. They are answered right on the spot.

I find it sad that we are just repeating the same pattern that brought Buhari in:..

When your MCM goofs, you defend
When the others goof, you amplify and attack.

Pay attention, my brother. That guy is not coming to save this country[/color]

EmmanuelScott1:
Egbon, I want to know the question directed to P.O that he delegated to the prof.

Tinubu's own was important question concerning what the country was facing.

[color=royalblue]So there are questions that a president needs to direct to others, baa?[/color]

nihilistjnr:
I do not believe it.

There's no way an uncommon politician, Saint motherfücking Obi did this.

Macaroni must make skit about this. I need to watch it.

[color=royalblue]Prof....This one pass me.

SMH[/color]

GloriousGbola:
An agency that is deploying agents to monitor sales in petrol stations (Las Las another operational tax) is an agency that knows what it is doing?

What is the function of dpr or nasdra or whatever they call themselves now?

Same way they were capping nonsense about ordering nnpc to release fuel into the market.

Let me stop before I post something tribalist

[color=royalblue]I haven't seen any reason why the case should be taken lightly.
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Emaprince:
This is a very serious accusation that shouldn't be taken lightly. I suspect there is a hint of truth in all the mans been accused of. He can easily come out to debunk them and institute a libel case against his accusers.

[color=royalblue]I don't know if it is true or not.

Na autopilot we dey for this country[/color]

GloriousGbola:
The word alleged.

What possible ties does emifiele have to terrorism?

This is the same way they were trying to smear Sanusi when he fell out with GEJ. At least Sanusi is a Northen Muslim so you can try to claim he is sympathetic to bh.

Who is Emefiele aligning with?
Ugm/ipob?
Mend?
BH?

Doesn't make sense to me

[color=royalblue]Are you saying you know better than the DSS, sir? [/color]

GloriousGbola:
One of the biggest indictments of Buhari is Nigeria turning into a police state where all agencies are acting outside their jurisdiction. Wetin concern DSS with Emeifele diverting funds? That is financial crime and that is efcc? Same way DSS were actually monitoring petrol stations.

You have to wonder exactly what kind of clowns are running these operations.

[color=royalblue]It was alleged that the funds were used to fund terrorism.

That's enough for the DSS to step in[/color]

Olowunl01:
Would you kindly elaborate on these traits or criteria? Out of the 4 Top contenders am guessing you consider Tinubu to possess more of these traits?

I would also want to know if based on these criterias you consider Buhari a good leader? Becos I can still recall pic with satchet of milk, and I dont any politician nears Buhari in forming common man.

I still maintain all 4 are more than qualified (Naija standards) to become Naija president, and I believe each imho would represent a step up from Buhari

Also when you say Tinubu is not loved across Nigeria, are you indirectly saying he is not going to win fair n square? I would rather believe each candidate is loved within their own demographics; as it is without rigging and inducement; 2023 will be a close contest.

[color=royalblue]How exactly would any be a step up from Buhari?

The Nigeria of today is worse than it was in 2015

Security is worse
133 million are in poverty; the highest number we have had since 1914
We have fallen from 46 to 26 in the most corrupt country index

So what exactly have they said, that makes them a step up?
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[color=royalblue]Why is Osibanjo at the back?

Is it because he's a VP? Because the guy is short, and shouldn't be at the back.[/color]

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[color=royalblue]I'll appreciate if i get less mentions, please

The doctor said i need a lot of rest

Please, put me in your prayers. Thank you[/color]

Tataffo:
But PDP had Obasanjo in 2003 and they didn't listen to and vote their son Ojukwu in Apga...

[color=royalblue]Good.

And since 2003, PDP has been winning the SE.

So if they don't listen to any politician, how come it is only one state that Ojukwu their son has a stronghold till date?

How come PDP still has the highest number of governors, senators, HoR, LGA chairmen and even councillors in the SE till now?[/color]