DModeCntStopMe:


Under the nose of Mr integrity cum lifelessness and his stinking, breath-choking body language

The only virus we have in the country is buhariavirus and not the imaginary coronavirus

The third mainland is ever open to you whenever you are ready.

And there you go again, every post with a foolish n outrageously senseless comment as contribution.

WorkSmartEdu:
No sensible human gives a rat behind about AFeeeeeCeeeeee a regional party and her shenighanians. That contraption should be talking of total restructuring. It is evident that things can no longer hold. Keep playing politics... Mtchewww

Omihanifa:
No pun intended but the truth is that most northerners in public service are not intelligent an average Southerner can outshine them

The problem is the southerners appointed so far have shown very little in terms of performance that they are beta than the Northerners.

Example include Kemi Ngige Fowler Onyeama Fashola etc with little or nothing to show in the ministry they superintend.

This in turn justify the failure of the northerners since the southerners appointed also have very little or arguable success to talk about when appointed.

Your comment is funny because you allow foolish people that predicted Atiku's victory from both election n tribunal bother you. Watch out to see that none of those jubilating over the news never at no point in time supported APC.

They understand so long Oshobaba remain the chairman, they n their party of crooks are eternally dammed. This is not to say APC is any beta its just your enemy being excited you are beaten by another opponent.

In this case Osho led APC as beaten PDP to death n foolish PDP supporters are only excited over a fight BTW 2 of their enemies.

Judeerons32:
Either people are blinded by hate or are just plane daft. I am sure those who ran to the courts never realized that by the evening of yesterday a memo rectifying the appointment of Ajimobi and Bulama will surface. Lol. In the hierarchy Ajimobi or Bulama will call a Nec. Either one of them will become the acting Chair assuming the appeal Court does not grant a stay by Next week.
Even if a NEC is constituted the govs against Oshiomhole and Asiwaju are clearly in the minority of NEC. The party chairmen from non APC states are much and Oshiomhole has carried and supported them extensively.
What they just succeeded in doing is to embarrass Buhari who constituted a reconciliation committee.
It is amazing people think Oshiomhole who has briefed Buhari at every turn, Asiwaju the national leader will just role over for a few governors less than 10 in a party with 37 chapters.

Bro no kill me with laf abeg !

Biafra fought the world n you no be German.
Nobody in Europe Asia or America even know of a thing tagged Biafra nor a tribe labelled Igbo.

Bro go join social media make u de do comedy skit you too funny abeg. I take back all my rude comment over this your globe award wining joke.

enemybulldozer:
Point of correction, the Russia and Iran is just two countries. The case of the rebels Russia and Iran is fighting is different from that of biafra.

Biafra fought the world for three whole years with nothing. Your tribe couldn't even win dahomey pregnant women in a war during oyo empire let alone fighting a world war.

You are suppose to be beating very well with a sledgehammer for not understanding what it means to fight the world with nothing.

The Russia n Iran are still fighting against the rebels in Syria yet over 10 years they have not been conquered. Yet one foolish tribe that was beaten blue-black within less than 3 years with over 4-5 million death without achieving the independence it fought is celebrating it failure. Na sledge hammer dem suppose use flog your foolish head.

enemybulldozer:
You're a cursed and doomed soul. Definitely hell awaits you.

The British in particular won the civil war for your beloved contraption you should be ashamed of everybody that fought that war against the Great Igbos (including your father) for not doing it alone.

I am astonished as to how you can lie shamelessly, repeatedly n continously about the same Ogun I am presently in. I am tired of you sick PDP rnorons talking thrash out of sentiments bigotry n excessive foolishness.

Enwhen:

PDP in Ogun died in 2011, when Gbenga Daniel had issues with OBJ on PDP candidate...it has gotten worst since then...there was never opportunity for PDP I. Ogun despite the crisis in APC 2019, Gboyega Isiaka left....Oyo, Oshobaba backed Ajimobi stooges against the people's choice and they lose...Bauchi, they delivered for baba Buhari, and won all the Senatorial seat, but ganged against Oshobaba backed Gov Mohammed who sees himself as god, and the people kicked him out....u just started politics

You are a cursed soul.


If you should be praised for losing a war what should be done when you win one. Your father should be use as sacrificial lamb to celebrate the victory or what ?!

enemybulldozer:
What do you mean by we the great Igbos can't fight successfully for our own freedom??
We the great Igbos fought the world for 3yrs and that is something your tribe cannot do. Instead of you to hail and praise my tribe for job well done, you're here yapping out of hate and jealousy.

And where is this article or assessment from ?

mrvitalis:

This topic had absolutely nothing to do with Igbo's yet your hate brought Igbo to the topics

I'm Igbo we are successful ,a tribe u can't avoid in Africa ...just don't die early

Igbos are insignificant as sand in the Sahara.
You can be done away with n you can be avoided. I see foolish Igbos like yourself open thread on Lagos Tinubu Buhari Awolowo here everyday, the same right igbo as to do that is what I use to comment about Igbos too.

Now if you chose to commit suicide cos am in your face with the truth on how bigotry n hate as ruined your tribe be my guest.

Wrong!

My comment is filled with me quoting foolish Igbo with foolish n naseauting comment n paying them back in appropriate measure.

You won't see me start insulting Igbos out of the blues. I only quote foolish comment from your tribesmen n let them understand they are not the only one with bad mouth or insulting comments.

mrvitalis:

Only one tribe hate yet look at your comment full of hate for a tribe that has never done anything wrong to u ...smh

KingAzari:
Not like he bought the house with his money. T&C's still apply to this audio house that will be paid for a period of 20 years.

Do you even own a plot of land ?
OK let's wait till you are of Nini n see if you can afford a flat to live in talk less of gifting out a house for whatever reason.

If you can't comprehend your complain of RUGA as an extention of the Fulanis hegemony, same Fulanis who are predominantly Muslim then am sorry I shouldn't even be having a conversation with you.

juniior:

Common sense isn't so common after all, what those RUGA got to do with this

All liars sha perish including you.
Waiting on where you got Ethiopia growth of 10.5. Keep the other tale to yourself.

PHijo:

Between 2010 and 2019, Ethopia has maintained a growth rate between 7.7 percent and 10.5 percent. Ethopia is not resource rich, meaning Nigeria could even grow much faster with her resources. If you talk about instability, Ethopia has her fair share. The Oromo and Somali areas have had their issues with the Ethopian state, there was an attempted coup not long ago. There have been 3 changes in leadership in less than 10 years. So the underlying fact is that Buhari is the problem.

If he couldn't sustain growth he is the problem. Jonathan sustained growth within the 6 to 10 percent range despite having had to face Boko Haram insurgency.

When you understand the Nigerian economy and her ethnic complexities, making the economy function is not too hard.

eedimo:
Which way Naija

If I blasphem your prophet ...how does that hurt you?
Can't your god fight for his prophet?

Religion is killing this Country slowly.
Religious intolerance only in a shithole.

Why are u now fighting over RUGA is your god crippled that he can't fight for himself ?!

Expectations were high when the Lagos State Government signed an agreement with Interinfra, a consortium of 19 French firms, in the early eighties for the construction of a metro line.

Indeed, Nigeria was said to be heading on a path that would successfully address the chaotic traffic already being experienced then in Lagos.

Interestingly, the Lagos metro project commenced almost at a period similar rail projects were being developed in other major African cities including Cairo in Egypt.

The Lagos metro project initiated by the Lateef Jakande administration under the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria-led by the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, at a total cost of N700m, was to be completed in two years.

Ironically, the contract was terminated in 1985, the year the rail project was meant to be delivered and the nation paid a heavy fine for this.


“We ultimately paid a heavy penalty, which could have been used to handle a substantial portion of the project,” said a professor of political science, Femi Otubanjo.

Dr Abimbola Ogunkelu, a former minister, in an interview with our correspondent, said the metro-line project was disrupted when the Muhammadu Buhari-led military regime came to power on December 31, 1983, adding, “Movement in Lagos would have been much better and ease the difficulty of transportation in Lagos State.”

According to Otubanjo, the general impression was that the cancellation was political and that the Buhari regime was said to be “unsympathetic to the UPN government, which was the party in power in Lagos that initiated the project.

“The other side, which the Buhari group tends to promote, is that Nigeria was already heavily indebted and that the country could not afford the indebtedness that would arise from th
The civilian government that preceded the Buhari-led military administration was also said to be culpable as it was accused of laying the foundation for the eventual cancellation of the contract.

The Shehu Shagari-led Federal Government under the defunct National Party of Nigeria was said to be unenthusiastic about granting the required guarantee for the project.

It also reportedly delayed the approval of the 10 per cent first payment, amounting to N70m, to commence work.

Jakande’s successor, Air Commodore Gbolahan Mudashiru, who was favourably disposed to the project after the committees he set up to review it had recommended its continuation, became helpless when a more superior power ordered its cancellation.


The man at the centre of the project, Jakande, said many years later, “Reflecting on the metro-line project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

In a later interview, he bluntly blamed Shagari and his successor, Buhari, for the failed project.

He said, “President Shagari was angry for two reasons. First, I did not congratulate him on his re-election in 1983. Second, he stopped the funds because I was not his party member.”

He added, “I later approached him and explained the problem facing the execution of the project and that the CBN had refused to release the N70m reserved for its take-off.

“President Shagari said it was because there was fuel crisis. He said the CBN governor would visit him that evening and that he would get back to me after talking to him on the metro-line project fund. But the CBN governor said the funds could not be released at once. He asked me to withdraw as many times as possible, citing bad economy and increasing fuel crisis at the period as reasons.”

The former governor explained that he had resolved to withdraw the money in line with the advice of the CBN governor, “but the military coup of General Buhari stopped the process.”

Many have thus held Buhari responsible for the cancellation and this his political opponents used to taunt him, especially during electioneering.

But Buhari said the decision to cancel the contract was to avert plunging the nation into deeper financial mess of taking more loans, adding that it was unfair to continue to tag him as an enemy of Lagos for taking an action he considered was in the national interest.

He said, “Then, we didn’t know how much debt was (hanging) on us as a nation and we felt that we should not add another N100m to it.”

A former Minister of Petroleum Resources and diplomat, Philip Asiodu, also confirmed that the state doled out so much to settle the contractors without constructing a kilometre of rail.

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority also said, “The metro-line project was scrapped in 1985 by Muhammadu Buhari at a loss of over $78m to the Lagos taxpayers.”

This was more than the amount required for phase one of the project, which the CBN failed to release. Investigation showed that as of the time of signing the metro-line contract, a naira was equivalent to about $1.5.

The metro line was designed to have 30 trains, each running 28.5km on raised concrete tracks from Marina to Agege. The 30 trains were expected to carry 88,000 passengers per hour to and fro.

Its execution was meant to be in two phases: the first from the Marina to Yaba; the second, from Agege to Yaba through Oregun and Ikorodu road. The two sections were to have 19 stations with two platforms.

While the Lagos metro was abandoned, Egypt and Ethiopia were reportedly making progress on their rail projects. They have not only been completed but continually improved upon for the benefit of their respective citizens.

Sadly, the traffic congestion the metro project was meant to address has defied several other measures introduced by the state government as more people continue to troop to Lagos, the nation’s commercial capital, in search of decent means of livelihood.

Gridlock has remained a horrible daily experience on major Lagos roads. Several studies have indicated that motorists and other road users lose huge amount to the perennial Lagos traffic.

The about 22 million people residing in Lagos rely on road transportation, which is said to account for more than 90 per cent of all intra-city movements.

Meanwhile, the abandoned metro line has metamorphosed into a light rail project being developed by LAMATA on behalf of the state government.

The state government in the early 2000s under Bola Tinubu felt a compelling need to revive the rail project. It came up with the light rail network as a major component of a Strategic Transport Master Plan.

According to LAMATA, the STMP is a 30-year plan put together after a series of intensive researches on the future transportation demand of Lagos as one of the world’s fastest growing mega cities.

It stated, “The new rail network covers seven major corridors of high commuter traffic demand within and beyond the metropolitan Lagos, extending to border areas of Ogun and Oyo states.”

The initial $135m proposal was part of the Lagos Urban Transportation Project to be implemented by LAMATA.

The new rail project is designed to cover the entire state under a seven-line network code-named Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, Brown and Orange lines.

Real financial commitment for the project came under Babatunde Fashola as Lagos governor in 2008, with the state government approving N70bn for the construction of the Blue Line.

LAMATA started with the Blue Line, a stretch of 27km rail line, connecting Okokomaiko to Marina, with an estimated completion date of 2011.

But the contract awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation has suffered many delays, which LAMATA attributes to paucity of funds among other challenges.

Fashola’s successor, Akinwunmi Ambode, also showed some commitment for the project before passing the leadership baton to Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

The Blue Line, a 27km railroad, is undergoing construction. It is also in the middle of Lagos-Badagry Expressway, which government is currently redeveloping into a 10-lane international gateway.

The Lagos State Governor, Sanwo-Olu, in December 2019 announced that the Blue Line would be fully ready at the end of this year and commercial operations to commence on the line in 2021.

He said, “We are committed to delivering this project next year and ensuring its operation starts in 2021.”

Apart from the Blue Line, the governor disclosed that his administration would be starting the construction of the Red Line (rail) project from Agbado to Marina, adding that advertisement had been made inviting investors for the construction of four other rail lines under a Design, Build, Operate, Maintain and Transfer model of Public-Private-Partnership arrangement.

Details of the first light rail line provided by LAMATA show that the proposed trains for the Blue Line are Electric Multiple Units, which are emission-free and not expected to pose environmental pollution problems usually associated with diesel locomotives.

It stated, “Initially, the Blue Line will carry 400,000 passengers daily with capacity increased to 700,000 passengers daily when the rail route becomes fully operational.

“To incorporate the use of the EMUs, a depot including power generating plant has been proposed for construction at the final station, Okokomaiko. The depot will serve as train maintenance and repair yard, sidings, final train destination, office complex and power station.

“The selected concessionaire will be responsible for providing rolling stock, operations and maintenance for a 25-year period.’’

Although no dates have been announced for the other five lines, there are fears that they may also suffer the same long-delay fate experienced by the Blue Line.

Otubanjo and Ogunkelu said funding for the other rail projects should not pose any problem.

They contended that rail project in a city like Lagos remained a viable business that could pay for itself, adding that that both international lenders and private investors would be willing to invest.

“Lagos is such a massive economy where those in the private sector would be willing to invest,” said Otubanjo.

Ogunkelu warned that government should only regulate the business and not control it if it must succeed.

He said, “With many millions of people moving on the train everyday paying about N100 per trip, there are financial institutions that will be willing to fund the project, provided that it is not government-run or dominated.”


PUNCH.

Only a soul from a particular tribe can make this comment. Bro are you Igbo ?

Make I even die instantly if you are not.
I know of only one tribe that hate for no reason across the globe. The tribe that segregated a clan of it own "Osu" to be hated.

ODB2:
The only reason this current Governor of Kwara is to the point of obsession trying to erase not only Bukola Saraki's name and legacy but also that of the late senior Saraki is because as far as Kwara goes, their two families have been in competition and political wars since the early 70's. The Saraki family has always come out tops.

When Lai Mohammed supported the incumbent governor to oust the PDP and also see to Saraki not getting re-elected back to the senate, same Lai Mohammed thought he had arrived in politics as a king maker. Lai will then begin to address himself as the head of the APC in Kwara to the anger of the current Governor. Normally a Governor is the leader of the party in his state and not an appointed minister!

Lai Mohammed was then reminded by the governor to know not only his place in the APC but also Kwara and was reminded of his lowly background and wretched lineage.

Today, Lai dare not talk in Kwara.

Moral of the story: Be careful of what you wish for. In pulling down Saraki, Lai forgot he was installing a governor that was proud, arrogant and quick to remind Lai of his lowly status.

Your parent n grand parent perished off hating on those who never gave a dam about them. You are threading the same path, you should save your laugh for your unborn generation that will thread the path you carved in life n end up like u, your parent n grandparent.

A household of shameless haters
I weep for your soul.

NextD18:
Mr Errand!

This man can run errand for Buhari than a Calabar housemaid.

I appreciate this your Igbotic analysis of pure raw foolishness but is this theorem applicable to when Okonjo Iweala rebased the economy for Nigeria to become the biggest economy in Africa ?

DZTech:
point of correction:

u guys didn't overtake south Africa; their economy FELL, dts y ur in front!

now, answer dis analogy-
man 1 earns 100k, has 5 children and owes 30k he used to complete his children's school fees

man 2 earns 80k, has 2 children and owes 10k he used to buy pure water and drinks to sell

who's richer?
which of d two do u think is Nigeria?
qed

OK I understand you n do wish for the same thing but all I am asking is all these things you claim Nigeria lacks that can propel it to double digit economic growth since it is not only Nigeria that lack such please give us one name of any economy that lack suck n is growing at the double digit you believe Nigeria can grow at or you expect us to accept your deluded nightmare as a reality we must or can achieve with boko Haram, militancy banditry plaguing the country ?!

That is all I ask not another tales of woes or delusion as to how Nigeria can grow at triple digit because someone just woke up from Utopia.

PHijo:
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So for your mind Nigeria na 'world economy '?

How man percent of global GDP does Nigeria account for?
Do you know South Africa and Egypt have much larger capital markets in comparison with Nigeria's?

Do you know South Africa, Morocco and Egypt all have banking sectors that are much larger than Nigeria's?

They all have functional aviation hubs, Nigeria doesn't.

What this means is that even based on African standards Nigeria is backwards. Since Nigeria is backwards, there is room for double digit growth if those in charge embark on the right reforms and support the process with fiscal stimulus.

My people from yonder go wan commit suicide today.

I will reply to you only once.

You think I do not understood what I did is wrong
? Well I do but will I stop ? No, I won't.

Why ?

because out of bigotry laced with foolishness you read what your igbo compatriot wrote bragging n insulting everyone from page 1 of this post till the last page but I went through your post for today, I am yet to see you caution anyone with bigger bigotry induced comment from the Igbos but you foolishly as the effrontery to quote n advice what am doing is wrong.

In your delusion n foolishness do you mean only foolish igbos should have the right to make insulting n bigoted remarks on NL ? Do your father own NL or you think others are not hurt when your cursed tribesmen make such remarks ? Yet, you can only caution those paying them back in their own coin.

Did I start bigoted remarks on this page or I was replying a foolish n bigoted Igbo who you refuse to caution ? It is Amadioha that will fire your soul for the audacity to caution me while you ignore Igbos with more bigoted comment. I for include your entire household n unborn generation for the curse but make I just leave u for now.

Ausrichie:

I am igbo bro why must you talk like this it isn't fair man. If this was quora you would have been reported. This is a bad thing to do honestly. If we must move forward in this country we must stop this bigotry.

Na mouth dem de use propel GDP growth.
Which world economy is growing at over 10% ?

PHijo:


What is the 'good news' ? Until Nigeria grows between 7-12 percent the news is not good!

Our population is growing by 3 percent per annum.

2 percent growth is way below our population growth figures.

What annoying is that our growth rate is not strong because of Buhari's gross incompetence. If we had competent hands in charge, 6 percent would have been realistic for last year, 9-11 percent for this year and then we try to sustain growth in the 10 percent range for at least a decade. We need double digit growth for at least a decade to reduce poverty in Nigeria to the barest minimum.

IronGalaxy:
How are we lazy but then build roads, ports , build new hospitals, power plants etc? Your people hop to South Africa daily to enjoy these fruits of labour of the very same "lazy people". And what does Xenophobia got to do with this?

You waste your time replying stupid n retarded Nigerians that knows only to denigrate others while their own cities are rotten to the core.

[quote author=IronGalaxy post=87156816][/quote] It matters little what anyone wish, South Africa should just get it economy out of recession n keep it development rate so it continue to be the envy of many of us that understand what development is all about.

You should worry less about nitwit here in Nigeria that compare development in both countries. If Nigeria was that great multitude won't be flocking to SA like they flock to Europe.

Great igbo that can't fight successfully for it own freedom something black Sudan, Eritrea and many other smaller country did. Your entire tribe need to commit suicide out of shame instead of boasting or bragging over failure.

Igbo hating Buhari is no news considering your forefathers inherited sorrow of wail from claim by the same igbo that you are hated by Ikwerre Hausa Kanuri Fulani Yoruba South Africans Malaysian Singaporeans Indians Arabs Chinese Mongolian Ghanaian Togolese n several others.

A common trait among Igbo is being nurtured from the womb by bigoted parents with irredeemable hate, acute bigotry n extreme foolishness so no surprises from where you are coming from.

enemybulldozer:
From what I observed, you need the services of a psychiatrist to examine what you have inside of your skull.

Why should you expect kanu to conduct a referendum, is he the zoogerian president??
If your brain is not damaged you should know why your god buhari is being hated by the great Igbos.

Durban Petroria Port Elizabeth Limpopo Polokwane Springbok East London Bloemfontein

In fact the entirety of Northern Western n Eastern cape NW, Free state, KwaZulu-Natal. Just name it be it city or province is beta than both Abuja n Lagos. Do you even know dem no de pack shit for SA, there cities is well planned to that extent

wordlord:



That may be true for places like Cape town and Jo'borg but kindly mention other places.

I have been to SA.

Is Kanu your foolish god not capable of conducting it own referendum ? Why should my oga who clearly is against anything referendum be the one to conduct what you or your oga wants ? Is your brain that damaged that you do not understand someone you insult n hate so much won't do your bidding ? Why have you chosen to be eternally foolish ?

enemybulldozer:
OH yes, Biafra owns the oil that makes nigger-area what it is today.

The days of divide and rule is over. As the days of Niger delta and SS is over just like the days of bendel is over. What we have now is Biafra forget about what those hungry abuja paid groups are saying ohaneze ndi Igbo included.

If you are in doubt of what am saying, tell your Oga at the top to conduct a referendum let's see who wants to be a nigger-arean.

I don't know what your point is but every state in South Africa is beta developed in terms anything or everything development compare to Abuja or Lagos. It's ludicrous comparing any state in SA to our best be it Abuja or Lagos.

Nonetheless this is a positive news not worthy of celebration but a good one. That aside SA beat Nigeria in every other indices of human existence.

wordlord:

South Korea won is worth 0.35 Naira.
Does that mean our economic is better than South Korea?

Can you mention five cities in South Africa that can be compared to Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Abuja just to mention a few?

What is the South Africa economy dependent on?

Do remember that some of the south Africa Companies are heavily stress, Mining, ESKOM, South Africa Airline etc.

We do have our problem and indices. (let start with corruption and heavy disdain for the country achievement) but Nigeria is way ahead of the countries.