₦airaland Forum

oz4real83:
no. Being a "Nigerian" is a better qualification. If we are talking about "local content", it means the local population should be given some advantage. NPDC took a large farmlands from indigenes without compensation. Isn't it injustice to give almost all jobs, not even specialised ones, to non-indigenes even when indigenes were willing to work? I witnessed a situation when an somebody brought a relative from south-east to become a cleaner, a job an indigene could have done.

contigiency:

madenigga: :

If u look at construction of lagos ibandan rail line. You would notice that most of the workers are blacks, mostly Yoruba's.

But come to the 2nd Niger bridge from what I have read they say they use labour force from other regions, north and west in particular. While the indegenes are in a minority. According to local content law it should not be so.

They are nor asking for what is not there's all they ask is the company do what is right.

Give us the ratio of Yoruba's working on that road and the number of Igbos working on the 2nd Niger bridge. Not they said.

Let me tell you, it will only amount to foolishness on the side of the Igbo's if that work is abandoned because of this selfish demands. This is a project that the whole world has been told how we Igbo's are being marginalized because succeeding governments have refused doing the project. So why will anyone in his right senses encourage what those locals are doing?

mmsen:

netpro: :
The 2 State Governors of Anambra and Delta along with the Ministry of Works should be swift on this. This project is far bigger than these communities.

Because of Nigeria factor, something should be given to the communities, but it should be treated as a gift not a demand. Left for me not even a Kobo.

They need to take a stand and give them NOTHING.

Don't concede to their shortsighted mumuness.

oz4real83:
I once worked on a federal govt project in Benin city, NPDC project to be precise. Non-indigenes/non-south-southerners made up over 80% of the workforce even when the indigenes were willing to work. They still allowed the project to go on but when it happens in other regions, all hell is let lose. Igbos won't allow non-indigenes, hausas/fulanis won't and yorubas won't also. But south-south will be assumed to belong to everybody, same way oil is treated. We must learn to use the same measure for everybody. What u don't allow for yourself,don't use for others.

KEVIND:
I know this lies & slandering will come up as long as it concerns development in the SE/SS region. What is happening to the Niger bridge is what is also happening to the Ogoni clean-up & the East West road etc. But when it concerns taking oil from the Niger delta by the parasitic regions,they will deploy all the military apparatus & might to destroy any uprising or dissenting voice. e.g Ken saro wiwa.

xamuel17:
let's all try to hear both sides of the story before concluding .... I'm very sure that there is a reason behind their actions

FarahAideed:
The person behind OMSL is the former Flag officer of the western naval command

fkj950ax:
Is OMSL a government agency? It is a private company doing business. Why should it remit to the government?
Is it in the contract with NPA to collect on behalf of government?

It's all about the DOLLARs. Amaechi and all the people in government wants to be the people collecting $1500/day will 2023.

Excuzeme:
But why is it that it is only in the South of Nigeria they see the greedy wolves to weed?
This one sided manner is not how to fight corruption, it just shows that the man is super-corrupt and cunning, using his corruption fight to decimate one part of the country, to the advantage of his own part.

Mind you, l am for a complete and impartial decimation of all these crooks, but l want it doen without this partiality that Buhari is operating.

Excuzeme:
Hmmm......this is certainly a racket by the Jonathan Administration. (2014) and it is benefitting someone from Edo State. Crooks

But make no mistake about it, if this beneficiary was one Northerner, no one would dare cancel the contract.

Remember that for years now, Gold is being mined in Zamfara State, with no accruement to the Fed. Treasury and no one is talking about it but when ordinary local boys in SS are trying to refine Crude oil in their backyard, for their small gain, Buhari will send the Navy, DSS and Army against them.
Even Ondo state cannot mine its Bitumen deposits which is reputed to be ablut the largets in the whole world, because the FEd Govt will not allow it.

You see why l say in this Nigeria, "Some Cows Animals are more equal than others"?
This systematic emasculation of Southerners has to stop. Buhri is a nepotistic tribalist.

fkj950ax:
It Bad move.
Even the US government IRS uses private security.
This is a case of someone else interested in that business arrangement, otherwise while will a new framework guide to guide SAA be coming online soon?
Just give Navy the duty. We don't need new framework
The SAA came about when Piracy was rife in the Gulf of Guinea. Pirates even blew the Atlas Cove Jetty.
Where was NNavy and NPA?

Vessels were hijacked in our waters and millions of dollars were paid as ransom.

Now someone did the maths of how much it has probably earned and wants to be the person earning that money.

This means that OMSL Limited, allegedly, owned by a prominent politician penciled to challenge Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket in 2020, on behalf of the Nigerian Navy, collects, averagely, $133.28 million (N47.98 billion) annually. It has been collecting this fee since 2014.

NPA argued that the patrol boat, NNS Dorina P101, as mother vessel, and the interceptor vessels, NNS Agede P258 and NNS Torie P259, were all purchased by it for the Nigerian Navy to patrol the anchorage and not to be designated for use at a facility that has no relationship with it.

zombieHUNTER:
Are you aware that Lagos IGR is greater than that of Rwanda... While Kigali is more developed than Lagos..

My point.. Stop celebrating mediocrity
Lagos is not where it's supposed to be

Dollyak:
Simpleton, no one's IQ is out of this world - Not even people like Isaac Newton's and Galileo. Play the game and not the man.

A lot of you guys in Nigeria are easily impressed so I understand your perspective.

Btw, in addition to low IQ you guys are also ignorant.

VillageHead:
Oya enjoy this for ya lunch!

EgunMogaji2:
My farm is directly across from the station at Omi Adio.

In my layman’s opinion, they are moving at very good speed.

Based on my construction experience I knew the December dates that Amechi was giving early in the year was unfeasible.

The first paying passenger train from Ibadan to Lagos won’t be until December 2020. At least. And I’m good with that.

Ikem11:
Why can't u guys order a design like this? Must u always go for this old catapillar trains design that was used for world War 11

Dollyak:
Africans on aggregate has the lowest IQ, partly down to the never ending assault on intellectualism.

Can you imagine this man grinning from ear to ear because of a substandard refurbished rubbish from China

24kmagic:
Nice move.
But such things are not the problem of average Nigerians. Average Nigerians need four things.

Jobs
Electricity
Good roads and
Security.

I didn't include health care because our traditional herb is still doing the magic.

I can say over 70% of Nigerians don't use train to travel.

But all the same, it's a commendable thing

DonroxyII:
Why can't they subcontract some of these coaches to our Engineers .....

Will we ever start building our train from inception till end .... Ministry of Science and Technology over to you !

Cousin9999:
China's entire manufacturing industry was handed to them on a silver platter by oyinbos. Most of Asia's manufacturing industry was handed to them by European countries and the US. They're glorified servants. Whites love working with Asians because when no one else will be their slave, an Asian will.

WTF are you talking about?

ZombieDestroyer:
But Buhari has the moral right to drill oil from south south and Southeast (including tax the people of these region) and use the proceeds to finance the projects in the north and southwest abi?!!

fineboynl:
built or refurbished??

Sukueponmalu:

LadySarah: :
Dayum!

Amaechi 'Onyeoma',remember the southoo.Se and ss needs some of them.Not only the north.
No matter what you do for them,they will never value you.If i'm lying ask Jonathan.

I hope one will be given out for the Aba-ph route.The present one is a moving coffin.Theres no week it isnt being serviced,only to develop fault soon after.

Do i talk of the constant collission of the coaches.
The Relic will just be quarreling with itself.

You people have no moral right to ask for anything.
The north and southwest voted for Buhari. Let them enjoy Buhari in peace.

LadySarah:
Dayum!

Amaechi 'Onyeoma',remember the southoo. Se and ss needs some of them.Not only the north.
No matter what you do for them,they will never value you.If i'm lying ask Jonathan.

I hope one will be given out for the Aba-ph route.The present one is a moving coffin.Theres no week it isnt being serviced,only to develop fault soon after.

Do i talk of the constant collission of the coaches.
The Relic will just be quarreling with itself.

Commentor:

Donald95: :
When Western and Asia world is busy Testing and exporting sophisticated Tech, Nigeria is busy exporting sophisticated morons.

Issorite, You can only give what you have. After all nigerians will say" We are just 59 years old while they are 1000 years old. we should be pampered. Bia ññu Ara ooh. "

Talk about self-entitlement.

While Nigeria is bla bla bla crew.

What have you ever invented or added to the body of knowledge since you were born?

Always expecting someone else to do it.

pharmagba:
They should have made it compulsory in the agreement that those locomotives be assembled here in Nigeria, this will definitely create jobs, boost local industry that fabricates steel , and also ensure we have a ready service centre that can repair any fault that may occur both on short term and long term and we won't have to be running to China at every issue

VillageHead:
Master no vex!

I meant Bode George and not Bode Thomas.

VillageHead:
Bode Thomas attacking Osinbanjo could be likened to Blackface attacking Tuface.

Commentor:

carzola: :
Politics....

Because ur a former legend u use that to impose ur child on the national team..

Which club side is he playing? ?
Who know am?
How did this even become news??

I can mention more than 20 under 17 players in Africa and his name doesn't come out...

Captain of Real Mallorca U-17 team.

What more do you want from him?

Oma307:
approval without work.

Mutemenot:
Kemi, is that you making this lovely and sensible tweet ?