₦airaland Forum

Feraz:
Please, explain it to them. They think it's just about setting it up and using at once. Correct me if I'm wrong but I do not think our budget can handle those kinda trains.

LRNZH:
Na so we dey see am.
Look at what other countries achieve with their funds
https://www.nairaland.com/2067016/photos-unreleased-pwc-audit-report-what

Sycophants are jumping here.

akpanakwaibom:
from iddo to ijoko is how much by bus.how many hours is it with the bus.also from iddo to ijoko is how much with the train and how many hours.cos me i dnt use train within lagos but interstate Lagos to kwara state and back

ahaika23:
Oh, I just found this. http://www.nrc-ng.org/services&w=passenger-train-schedule

nora544:
The so-called OPEC President is actually only the President of the Ministerial Conference and appointed as such only to chair the meeting at which he was elected . He reserves the office until the next meeting of the Conference of Ministers ( the statutes according held every six months )

Ogbeche77:
I'm always dazed when I read the profiles of these mofos in power, realizing that most of them had good and quality education from the best unis in the world.. Are they all retarded or just intentionally stupid?
I woke up to the news that the FG wanna spend 51,977,424.00 USD on stoves... Them dey mad ni?

ahaika23:
Some factors affected travel time

Stopping at different train stations along the rail to pick and drop passengers

Driver noticed an unsafe rod coupled to the track. Had to stop, loosen and discard it.

Noticed youths busy on the track, had to confirm they were working for the maintenance company

Wait for cars to pass over the track (not all the time only cars wait for the train)

At residential areas it slows down for safety reasons (people are not all aware of it being in operation)

At bends and curves it moves even slower in order to navigate perfectly

But the speed is amazingly fast. It's a nice experience.

Omooba77:
At least Channels tv is not biased ,I just watched Enugu-PortHarcourt rail line flagging off by V.P. Sabo..God bless Nigeria....

luvinhubby:
More pix.
My joy is the quantity of loads taken off our roads.
Kudos to whoever is behind this.

LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPERS: No Increase In Electricity Tariff For Residential Consumers Till June – NERC
Agency Report
— Jan 6, 2015 |

The Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi, has said that the commission has not increased energy tariff for residential buildings.

Amadi made the explanation in Abuja on Tuesday at a news conference.

NERC on Dec. 23, 2014 approved the review of the Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) 2.1 regime with take-off date of Jan. 1 for commercial consumers.

He said the review was not expected to bring about any increase in tariff to residential customers on R2, who formed 80 per cent of electricity consumers, till June.

“Let me state upfront for the sake of clarity that NERC has not increased tariff for residential consumers for now.

“While the scheduled increase will apply to other classes of consumers from Jan. 1, it will not affect residential consumers until June 2015,”he said.

Amadi said the decision to begin the implementation of the residential tariff in June was to balance the legitimate demand for adequate electricity supply with new charges. http://leadership.ng/business/400022/no-increase-electricity-tariff-residential-consumers-till-june-nerc.

charles009:
sharrap u fit buy the wheels of that car..

Mondisweets:
there are busy forming shakara on NL like shymex and 50 calibre and when their kpeckus cannot even perform for more than 2mins they start looking for young girls to deceive with marriage

davitogreat:
Thanks.

I had to step up and post because this is not the first time I have seen Nairlanders belittle the present rehabilitation of the railways because they see bullet trains in China or Japan. The ignorance I see on this forum is really outstanding.

Punch Newspapers: On Nigerian trains, passengers are like refugees (2)

In spite of the much touted successes of the Federal Government in reviving the hitherto ailing Nigeria Railway Corporation, the majority of the passenger coaches are old, giving travellers little or no comfort.

Investigations by our correspondent revealed that some of the coaches in use are actually decades old. In fact, the first-class coach which this journalist boarded from Lagos to Ilorin, Kwara State, on February 7, was the one previously used to ply the Omi-Adio to Bodija intra-city mass transit in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the early ’90s.

NRC Assistant Director, Public Relations, Mr. David Ndakotsu, corroborates our correspondent’s findings as he notes that some of the coaches are indeed as old as 20 years.

Shameful facilities

“Yes, we have coaches that are about 20 years old. But we don’t have any coach that is older than that,” Ndakotsu tells our correspondent.

As expected, the majority of the factory-fitted facilities on many of the coaches have broken down, leaving the corporation with no options other than to improvise.

For instance, the air conditioner, which is the only luxury available to passengers on the first-class coach this journalist travelled in, could not be enjoyed. It has packed up; while the two make-shift split ACs hung on the walls of the coach adjacent to each other only blew raw air without any cooling effect.

“The Nigeria Railway Corporation could do better than this, though. It is already over one year since it began the inter-city rail transport operations but things don’t seem to have progressed,” Sunday Oyeniran, a passenger on the first class coach, laments.

Oyeniran, who was travelling from the Iddo Terminus in Lagos to Inisha, Osun State, regrets paying an extra 60 per cent over the regular N560 fare for the economy class.

“I haven’t enjoyed the extra N340 I paid for this first-class ride. The coach is as good as not having an air conditioner,” he laments as he wipes off the sweat on his face.

A visit to the seven other coaches on the train, which was economy class, also reveals the harrowing experience of the second-rated travellers.

The population of passengers on each of the economy class coaches far outweighs those on the first-class facility. While the single class coach seats only 60 passengers, each of the seven economy coaches has 90 seats.

But the economy facilities are usually crowded, as they are the coaches where railway officials cramp travellers whenever they carry passengers more than the train’s sitting capacity.

Apart from the overcrowding the majority of the overhead fans were not functional.

Harvest of dust

On one of the economy coaches, only two of the fans were working, forcing travellers to throw open the windows of the coaches to forestall suffocation.

But the travellers’ self-help discretion also comes with its disadvantages. As the Ilorin-bound train covered distances, specks of dust from the countryside soon took over the coaches, with many passengers forced to cover their noses in a bid to stave off the dust.

Frequent travellers came prepared for the challenge, as a handful of them were seen putting on face masks. However, the first timers were at the mercy of the dust.

“I wear face mask not only for preventing dust but to also contain the offensive odour emanating from toilets,” a middle-aged man who declines to give his name says.

The state of many of the toilets and bathrooms on the coaches are nauseating, to say the least. Apart from their dirty state, some of them have their doors damaged, depriving users any form of privacy.

Even the booking terminal at the Offa Station was in a derelict state, as it lacks basic aesthetics. The majority of th­e stations also have no loudspeakers to communicate with passengers, while some of the stations are usually thrown into darkness at night as they have long been disconnected from the national grid.

Suffering and smiling

Mrs. Esther Ademola joins the train at the Abeokuta Station en route Osogbo, the Osun State capital — one of the stopovers on the Lagos-Ilorin route.

The woman in her 50s and her aged husband were returning home after a visit to one of their children in Abeokuta.

The coaches were filled to the brim, as the train, which took off at the Iddo Terminus, Lagos, had picked up extra passengers at the Agege and Ijoko stations before getting to Abeokuta.

Ademola was boxed in the far right corner of the small compartment in-between the first class and the seventh economy class coach. She sat on her luggage.

“We were lucky that my aged husband was able to get a seat. A Good Samaritan gave up his seat for him. At least, I was also able to get this space to rest my legs,” Ademola says.

One of her regrets, though, is the intensive itching she experiences on her skin as a result of the overcrowding.

She says, “As you can see, the windows are always open because of heat, while the glass covering of the entrance is damaged. This makes dust and other elements such as dry leaves to find their way into the coaches.

“Sometimes, the wind blows the devil’s bean plant into the coach. When this happens, passengers virtually run berserk, as they are forced to scratch their bodies due to the burning effects of the devil bean plant!”

An Associate Professor of Economics, University of Lagos, Dr. Olufemi Saibu, in a chat with our correspondent, wonders if any member of the Federal Executive Council would be willing to travel by rail, considering the unflattering state of facilities and services.

Saibu, whose research interests are in the area of urban transport, public finance and economic development, says it is imperative for the government to increase expenditure towards the total overhaul of the railway system.

He notes that an efficient and effective railway system will help in opening up communities, reducing cost of doing business, increasing the profit margin of entrepreneurs, thereby creating new jobs, expanding existing businesses and helping in better urban management.

He says the government can liberalise the railways with a view to bringing about efficiency in the system.

“We have to change our current use of the old locomotives and coaches by switching over to new technology. We cannot continue to use the old technology that has been rejected by those who invented them.

“Government needs to increase its expenditure on railway infrastructure and encourage the private sector to come into the business,” he adds.

ANBAKO:
.... I have been to the HIV clinic in LUTH and it is not filled with HIV infected people but people coming for HIV test. You mean 1 million people go to HIV clinic for treatment and counseling in Lagos? where? which hospita? not even half of them, not even one-tenth......
Why dont you answer the simple question that was in my post? That is simple statistic and not your Complex epidemiological process that cannot show the simple way data was collected.

This is not a debate but my personal view, if you like fly with it, if not , you have your own mind.

rebranded:
last min panic to deceive the simple minded.

After 6years, we hear all these contracts 2 months to elections

danvery2k6:
Lets not panic Nigeria. The UK did it once but today, the pound sterling is the strongest everywhere.

A devaluation occurs in a fixed exchange rate. A depreciation occurs in a floating exchange rate system. Both mean a fall in the value of the currency.

Effects of a devaluation

1. Exports cheaper. A devaluation of the exchange rate will make exports more competitive and appear cheaper to foreigners. This will increase demand for exports

2. Imports more expensive. A devaluation means imports will become more expensive. This will reduce demand for imports. (I am personally happy with this one. Maybe its because am Igbo: More demand for Aba made. )

3. Increased AD. A devaluation could cause higher economic growth. Part of AD is (X-M) therefore higher exports and lower imports should increase AD (assuming demand is relatively elastic). Higher AD is likely to cause higher Real GDP and inflation.

4. Inflation is likely to occur because:

i. Imports are more expensive causing cost push inflation.
ii. AD is increasing causing demand pull inflation
iii. With exports becoming cheaper manufacturers may have less incentive to cut costs and become more efficient. Therefore over time, costs may increase.

5. Improvement in the current account. With exports more competitive and imports more expensive, we should see higher exports and lower imports, which will reduce the current account deficit.

Overall, The CBN made a wise decision if our leaders are prudent and push a little harder.

barcanista:
Now this is someone talking. We have the resources, A serious government would have fixed all our existing Refineries and add one or two new ones. With that done, we will not be exporting our crude abroad to be refined only to import the refined product back, spending and wasting trillions on Imports, Exports and Subsidy. We will also be in position of exporting refined Product which will increase our revenue. Millions of Jobs will be created, support industry will spring up, it makes it easier to develop the manufacturing, Tourism, Agric sectors and infrastructure. Bros, a serious government only need 3 Years to put Nigeria back to the pedastal. Corruption, greed, Over-bloated cost of government, lack of vision and political will is what is killing us....Not forgeting illiteracy

barcanista:
In January 2012 the President and his team told us that the existing 4 Refineries will be fixed before the end of that year. They Promised to Build 3 New Refineries- Each in Kogi, Bayelsa and Lagos States. I saw lots of sense in it and I had faith in them(that was after the N97 pump price was announced). We are barely a month into 2015 and the situation is worse than it was. Nothing was fixed, nothing was built. This is an example of insincerity!!! Idealy, fall in oil price should lead to Jubilation, sadly, whether we like it or not the Oil Price cannot be exorbitant forever, not when the United States is set to be an exporter. We need to act fast

chemali:
The naira never appreciates in time of high oil prices but very quick to depreciate when the oil price falls. Apart from the mono economy which is a problem, the increased earnings is being looted and not reinvested in our future. This for me is sufficient reason to kick pdp out from the centre. When oil prices recover or exceeds previous highs, it is certain that 168 will become the new normal in readiness for the next price crash.

stagger:
But make no mistake: HAULAGE BUSINESS IS GOOD BUSINESS, despite the challenges. There is no business without risk. I think a business that can give me between N30,000 to N300,000 per trip and more is every inch worth risking some capital for.