₦airaland Forum

coogar: most babies can swim at 9 months - were they not swimming in their mother's belly before birth?

Blazay: Be quiet! You can only have security if YOU JOIN THEM TO PRODUCE A NORTHERN DICTATOR!
Is your 'region' less secure than other parts of Nigeria?
When last did any of you have your GRANDMAS OR GREATGRANDMAS kidnapped by OKIJA RUFFIANS?

Stoopid tins!

Ikanium: My name is Stephen Ikani i stay in
kaduna northern part of Nigeria am
from a family of 11 and am the
fourth born, my dad is old and has
no job, my mom is a trader she
trades on perishable goods which
are of little yield my three elder
sisters are all married to men who
somtimes even come to our homes
for food smh!! my siblings all
attend government schools and
they all depend on me for clothing,
food and shelter.... I work my
Bottom off daily doin mini jobs at
were ever i could find one. After a
day's job i give the returns to my
mom which she utilise for our
feeding, life is so hard that
sometimes i wish i was not here
hmmmm!! All along i depend on
God for He is up above us all there
watching. Sorry to bore you guys
with my unending tales, i had
struggled to complete my O' level
result and God in his mercy has
offered me admition into Kogi State
University.... But brethren i don't
have money for feeding, my family
directly depends on me i have
nothing, i have used my little
savings to print my admition letter
and do other things, but guys the
school fee which if not paid will be
closed by the 17th of this month is
the big problem here my heart is
beating very fast as i write this i
don't know what else to do as i
have run helter skelter, north to
south, east to west in search of
whom to help but i havn't found
any. God has created us all not
equal He has placed some in high
positions for we are all not equal as
our fingers are not... I am writing
this today with the mind that God
who has given me this admition is
still faithfull to give me the school
fee... Are you in any position to
help? Do u know that your 1000,
500 contribution can save lives?
God has bless you with what you
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yanni.:
General Electric said it will start assembling locomotives in Nigeria by next year.


If that happens, it could save Nigeria some huge foreign exchange usually used in acquiring locomotives from Brazil. It will help rejuvenate Nigeria’s dying competencies in the railway sector and in growing the sector faster.


Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) Mr. Seyi Sijuwade revealed at the weekend that the agreement the Federal Government signed with General Electric should come into force in 2013.

Mr. Sijuwade stated these to our correspondent during the NRC’s first senior management staff retreat and award night in Lagos.

President Goodluck Jonathan had said in his Democracy Day, May 29, address that government had signed an agreement with GE to assemble locomotives in Nigeria.

Jonathan said the project would enhance the sustainability of the rail sector and make Nigeria a major hub in West and Central Africa.

GE will be utilising NRCs existing workshops for the assembly plants.

Mr. Sijuwade said: “GE will have to use NRC workshops because the rail lines are connected to our workshops. If you assemble elsewhere, you will have a challenge transporting the locos to the tracks. Also, our workshops will be improved by GE to modern workshops.

“Why the assembly wouldn’t start just yet is that GE is also looking for investors and partners because they wouldn’t want to take all the risks alone.

He said: “By next year, am sure, GE should have commenced work on the assembly facilities. But first, they also want to conduct independent track integrity on the new tracks we are building so that they would be confident the locomotives they are assembling will be put to use.

“Nigeria’s commitment to GE is that, if they commence assembling the locomotives, we will buy at least 200 over the next 10 years. We need to make that commitment for GE to be assured of return on investment. It is a launch order.

“But, the fact that we are making that launch order of 200 locos in the next 10 years isn’t a guarantee for any kind of price to be given us, we will still get the best deal for the offer,” he added.

http://dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/business/183019-general-electric-to-begin-assembling-locomotives-in-nigeria

Sincere 9gerian: I thought these persons have all served their prison terms? Should ex-convicts now be barred from walking on certain roads or going to certain places? Are they now less human because they'r ex-convicts? Was the prison term not meant to CORRECT them and make them BETTER citizens once they'r out of prison? The SELF-RIGHTEOUS attitude of some Nigerians is disgusting.

Eko Atlantic#:
06 Dec 2012
Gboyega Akinsanmi

The Lagos State Government has unveiled a two-way road newly constructed to serve as an alternative route to Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe-Eti-Osa Expressway, which is being developed by Lekki Concession Company (LCC).

The state government also said the road was designed as an alternative for those who might not want to use the plaza.

This came Wednesday as the LCC, concessionaire of the Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe-Eti-Osa expressway, announced that it had set December 16 to start toll collection on the second toll plaza (otherwise known as Conversation Plaza) constructed along the Lekki-Epe corridor, which covers a distance of 49.36 kilometres.

But Special Adviser on Public Private Partnership (PPP), Mr. Ayo Gbeleyi, while inspecting the alternative road alongside other state government officials, explained that the road was not just an alternative route for motorists who are not willing to pay toll at Conservation Plaza, a second toll plaza built about 10 kilometres away from Admiralty Plaza.

Gbeleye, while inspecting the route which starts from Chevron Drive and ends at Oluwanisola Estate, alongside the Managing Director of Metropolitan Construction Company, Mr. Carlos Franji and an Executive, Mr. Tony Fagbuaro among others, assured the people along the Lekki-Epe corridor that the state government would not force toll payment on them, a reason he linked to the administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola’s commitment to completing the alternative road before toll collection commences.

He added that the alternative route was newly designed to accommodate such infrastructure as street lights, comprehensive drainage system, dual side walk as well as detailed road signs, which the special adviser, said were put in place to ensure safety and security of lives and properties along the route.

Aside from facilities designed with the road, the special adviser noted that the state government would deploy both security and traffic operatives “to constantly patrol the road in order to ensure that motorist do not encounter any difficulty while driving because the road is sited in an area with good vegetation area.”

“As the uptake in population growth, the road will get busy. The opening is a temporary opening. But by next Sunday, every construction work on the road would have been completed. At that time, the road will no longer be lonely as motorist would ply the road constantly. Before now, there was no access to the community.

“But the managing director added that was constructed not only to provide alternative route for motorist, but also “to provide accessible road for residents of the community within the axis where the toll plaza were constructed. We have designed the road to be the alternative road for the second toll plaza,” he said.

He gave details of the alternative road, which he said, was constructed the road “to have a 90 degree angle. This angle would aid easy maneuvring of vehicles on the road including turning. We have constructed drainage and walkways, streetlights to aid visibility at night and suit the required standard of the state government.”

According to him, the road was design to serve the residents for at least 30 years. It is a very good road constructed with the intention of giving residents of the state easy movement in and around the axis. The route was constructed for motorist who may not want to pass through the toll plaza. It will serve as a bypass.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-unveils-alternative-road-for-lekki-epe-toll-plaza/132696/

Eko Ile: The concessioned road belongs to the people of Lagos state, it's called indirect taxation. If they ask you to pay taxes to build that road, you wont pay, so you are paying for it right now, but the road is all yours free after the concession.

Obinnanze: Nigerian. We want top class facilities but we r not ready to make the sacrifices. Cities lk London and NY (which we call developed ) all practice the same BOT and toll system. That is how they developed so fast. We shld appreciate the vision of the Lagos state Gov. Pls.

Now that the alternative route is ready. no one has reason to complain.

skyfall: To you Fashola sycophants, abeg shut up jare. You cannot love him more than his wife. We all know he's a good administrator. The Lekki road project is seriously fvcked up. He knows this at the back of his mind, he just can't say NO to Tinubu who designed the road project around his personal gain.

The "alternative routes" are a huge joke. If you don't live on the Lekki-Ajah axis, forget it, you can't understand.

comm: its good to lay off, but have you asked where the conserved money will go to? or what the few left in government will do to put food on the table of those laid off. There's more to development than cutting down workforce, it begins in prudent management of available resources, not in waking up to discover more resources can be conserved by laying off workers only to have xcess money for those in position to loot in surplus

That is the point!

We are not sure of those who will manage the 'freed up money' arising from all these money conserving theories; remove subsidy to free money, reduce unproductive and over bloated civil service workforce to save money, reduce number of political appointees to save money, reduce pay package of political office holders to save money, etc, etc, etc.

and i repeat - WHO WILL MANAGE THESE FREE UP MONEY.

are we talking about these same politicians, who can not manage the available resources properly, that will automatically transform to be good managers of bigger money? is it these politicians that have now acquire a high taste for private jets that will manage the freed up money? is it these politicians with 10 presidential jets - and still counting - who will manage the money? is it these same politicians who will eat over 1 billion naira food, in a 2 billion naira new banquet hall, that will manage the free up money, is it the politicians demolishing fully built up estates in abuja to reallocate the plots to themselves that, that will manage the money? these case questions can go on and on endlessly with nigerian politician who, unfortunately, are the custodians of the national wealth, and they decides who gets what. they have proven over and over and over that they are not willing and able to put the resources of this country to proper use for the benefit of the citizenry. they have proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that they can not manage the national wealth. the Bible states clearly in Luke 6:10 http:///l9SEg that "If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities".

So in as much as money may be freed up from the much speculated policy postulations, i strongly doubt the resulting impact on the generality of Nigerian citizens. i mean the impact in business, infrastructure, creation of employment, education, health, better governance, etc.

doctokwus: Anoda populist,poorly thought out move.Where will d funding for offsetting d balance to d institutions come from,or wi he now b owing salaries or cutting subventions?As long as he hasn't elaborated how to improve funding or @worst maintain d present funding,I don't think anyone shd b applauding him

ochallo: I don't believe this couple are going to have sex , the whole night would be sent praying and thanking GOd.

warrior01: sincerely speaking, the amount is reasonable. Fyi, taking care of dogs cost a lot

naturality: only a foolish man will do this. even if na my pikin nko? everybody has a duty to play and this is definitely not my own part

Mynd_44: That's great for Dangote, Edo state and Nigeria

ocelot2006: Of all people, definitely NOT Pastor Kumuyi. That's the most modest GO I've seen.

Okija_juju: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT IS WEAK God have mercy on us.. Next is the Yorubas. The South-South group got theirs, the Northern group is about to get theirs, Next is the Western group.

Akshow: Na wa o. Oma ga o. So she was pregnant around nine. When she start meses gan gan Na self? The world is truly coming to an end.

acidosis™:
It's because the old men knows what young Nigerian girls want - money.

Shaw007: See a foreigner optimistic and hopeful about this country.this is someone who sees the potential the supposed sons of the soil do Not see. . .This is what i kp teLLing Pp. . The change wud not just occur. . .it starts with One step. . .
And The earlier we accept this and take actIons the beta 4 us

. . .If not,Nigeria(ppl) wiLL simply be the architect of her own doom if we continue dis way.

#GodblessNigeria

Godson.Ade:
If faced with that situation, which would you choose. The contract job is for a period of one year renewable based on perfomance. State reasons for your choice pls.

Turbocharged: Against the backdrop of President Goodluck Jonathan’s yet-to-be announced re-election bid, a Lagos-based social critic, Prince Kayode Olowu, has said that the president would be his own greatest inhibition, as there is a dearth of trustworthy opposition across the political spectrum.

Olowu regretted that Jonathan had left the masses after riding on their popular support to power, saying, however, that he still has a chance to “return to the people through honest performance.”

According to Olowu, a former chairman of Lagos State Property Development Corporation, “There is no credible opposition now. Those in the PDP are merely ‘People Deceiving People’, and outside PDP, the opposition elements cannot be trusted. For now, those calling themselves opposition are not credible people. President Jonathan still has the chance to do it in such a way that Nigerians will just tell him to carry on.

“He should stop telling us he is not our problem. After all, what did he promise? Did he not promise that those not having shoes would be given to wear? “He should reorder his priorities to make the common people the target of his political agenda and development programmes. He still has time.”

Olowu said it was unfortunate that the federal government was finding it difficult to prosecute erring fuel marketers.
He stressed that instead of wasting public resources on such prosecutions that have little prospect of really punishing thieving marketers, to serve as a deterrent to others, government should device other ways of recovering the stolen funds.

“These oil marketers are holding everybody to ransom because the president has boxed himself into their hands. The masses were with him, but he left the people.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/2015-jonathan-has-no-credible-opposition/129597/

okunboy: Conspiracy Theory:[/b]The general was killed by the JTF. The man has been marked by the security operatives as one of the sponsors of Boko-haram sect. He has been under security survaillance and profilling all this while. He was not killed by boko haram........... A friend told me this from maiduguri and I was a kind of shock! But I think this is sounding like the truth!

take dat: Should we then discredit this report based on your post? Let us know where you stand.

SlyIg: Who is this Mohammed for goodness sake!

chosen04: Members of Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad also known as Boko Haram have said they are now willing to seize fire and stop all atrocities being perpetrated by their group and work against other existing groups if the State and Federal Government will truly heed to their demands.

The acclaimed spokesman of the group, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who doubles as the second-in-command (Amir) to their leader Imam Abubakar Shekau revealed this in a tele-conference with journalists in Maiduguri on Thursday stating that if the state and the federal government want the group to seize fire completely, then former Borno state governo,r Ali Modu Sheriff must be arrested and prosecuted according to the law of the land.

He also said that apart from the arrest of Senator Ali Sheriff, government should compensate the group and rebuild their places of worship which were destroyed during 2009 uprising.

Abu Abdulazeez further stressed that, all their members who were arrested and are under the custody of security agencies must be released with immediate effect, and all their wives who were displaced following the crises as well as their children must be rehabilitated into the society to create room for a fruitful dialogue with the Federal Government.

He pointed out that for a dialogue to take place, it must be through the following elders namely: Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, Former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari, former Yobe State Governor, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Ambassador Gaji Galtimari and Barr Aisha Alkali Wakil and her husband, Barr, Alkali Wakil, insisting that the dialogue must not take place in Nigeria but Saudi Arabia, as according to him, the government of Nigeria is not sincere for dialogue due to its betrayal in the past.

Abu Abdulazeez also said that the group has mandated five members who are to mediate on their behalf; they include himself (Abu Mohammed Abdulazeez), Abu Abbas, Sheikh Ibrahim Yusuf, Sheikh Sani Kontogora and Mamman Nur

While speaking on the series of killings and unwantom destruction of property that took over Maiduguri recently, Abu Abdulazeez disassociated the group from such act, pointing out that such attacks were politically motivated by those seeking for power in the Borno Emirate council, government or otherwise, but not in line with the ideology of the sect who are fighting for the cause of Allah.

He also said that,the burning of old and newly constructed primary schools witnessed across the state were not masterminded by the sect, insisting that the burning of such places were carried out by aggrieved politicians who were denied contracts from the state government.

http://dailypost.com.ng/2012/11/01/we-will-seize-fire-government-arrests-sheriff-compensate-us-boko-haram/

Billyonaire: Boko Haram should Dialogue with JTF at Borno

maxi-t:
see Gen. Ironsi's head.

Lanreclassic: President Goodluck Jonathan has felicitated with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his appointment as the Country Representative for Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust.
This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by Dr Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.
Abati said that the President in a congratulatory letter, expressed confidence in Obasanjo on the “new honorific position”.
The President said that Obasanjo would ensure that the trust generated the resources required to fund legacy projects in the name of Queen Elizabeth through his wide network of contacts across the Commonwealth.
Jonathan said he considered the appointment, not only a personal honour to the former President, but also to Nigeria as a country.
He wished the former President success in his new endeavour. (NAN)

Billyonaire: My friend, Akwa Ibom State is rich enough to buy a private jet for her Governor, Stop this ranting.

Billyonaire: GEJ, if you fly a Governor abroad for Treatment, I will be upset, I hate it when politicians capitalize on mishaps to score cheap political points. The Governor can not afford to build hospitals but can afford to spend millions of dollars on a farmer's plane ?

Torch1: Are those two people on uniform not mobile police?
I dont think they are doing anything illegal.

Kamsy10: Nigerias charity begins abroad