EXPOSE! you would be labelled detractors, bad belle, naysayers, Noise maker, and whatever other name they see fit ny their zombie supporters.



HECK, i'll rather be called those aforementioned names cos of that, than be a zombie and someone would be pissing down my back and telling me its raining. and reward them with chieftancy titles like Atunlese of ikejaland

KnowAll:

Give me 400 million and I would invest in enterprises looking to build and run Maglev system of transportation across Nigeria.  


What I am saying is all those things wey your people they call airport are just a take off and landing strip for a plane, they aint airpot. So what[b] I am emphasing here is these landing strips are not white elephant project they are more like white rat projects.[/b] Some houses in Ikoyi is more expensive than those strips your Governors are calling airport. That is why I said give me N100 million I build something better than those strip we have all over Niaja.


You cannot build Maglev with N400 Million Niara lai lai, or do you mean Dollars.  

whether elephant or Rat, so long it is WHITE, it is not welcome.

Kobojunkie:

Maybe I should! That way I would not be labelled enemy of PROGRESS by some of the blockheads out there!!

yes ke. we learn fast on NL.

Kobojunkie:

Give me 400 million and I would invest in enterprises looking to build and run Maglev system of transportation across Nigeria.

build a stadium across from another instead. you cant go wrong with that.

KnowAll:

Most of what we Nigerians call airpot are not airport, they are mere airfields, A typical airport in Naija has one long road called the run way and a few bungalows as terminal building. It is only MM and Abuja and maybe Port Harcourt that one can classify as a a proper airport. Give me N100 Million niara I will build those naija airports, the Governors of those states are only using the airport contract to siphon money out of the country. Imagine budgeting N2.5 billiob to build a long road that is wide enough to take a small plane and a few bungalows. I tell you I work in what you naijas we call an airport in England. Infact as I am typing this peice I can see abouy 7 private jets all bigger than boeing 737's parked on the run way. I work in RAF Northolt, it is classified as an airforce base but a lot of business men use it to avoid the press and all that commotion in Heathrow and Gatwick airport, celebrities also like using it, madonna uses it if she is in town and she dosent want people to know. If you see the terminal bulding you will call it an airport, but it is only an RAF Base. I visited Akure airport in Niaja, I said is this an airport you people dont know what an airport is. Even MM in lagos cannot take the new Air-bus plane. Most of those airfields in Naija that you people are calling airport cannot even take boeing 747 so what makes it an airport. I think when our people see a plane land on any piece of land they call that land an airport,
our smart Governors will now capitalise on our naivety, me I no kuku blame them. The cost of building some people's house in Naija is more than the cost of building some of those airfields we call airports. Within 20 miles radius of London city there are more than 30 airfields and 5 majour airports.

kNOWALL, you have totally lost me. are you saying that
1. we need to build new airports that meet world standards?
2. we need to refurbish/upgrade what we have to world standards?
3. we need not worry about building any airports and just make do with what we have?
4. we need to object to this airport building gold rush cos its simply to score points by these governors?
5. we need to expand the capacity of our major airports to accomodate the new Airbus jumbo jet?

cos at this point i no understand wetin u dey yarn again. as per the airbus u say cant land at MMA. i totally agree it cant land at MMA. it cant land at most of the airports we have in the world, heck JFK had to be upgraded to accomodate it cos it couldnt land there as well. so what really is ur argument?

the document isnt signed. the validity is suspect. the third document posted is though so we know that space wasnt just put there as sleeping space.

AjaraEwuro:

why not? @Biina - what will you do instead

i'll spend the money building a football stadium for my state. right next to an already existing one.

ElRazur:

I support this! At last we don't have to endure all those "Fat ninjas" in suit. All those who risk their lives wearing attire that look like "parachute"! May this be extended to those ladies with weird looking penciled eyebrown? You know those who shave off their eyebrow and put an inverted "C" in place instead.

Also those who use some sort of paint on their face, that their face literally looks different from their necks in terms of skin shade, Yeah let us include them as well, it comes under indecent dressing.

Lastly, extend the ban to guys who dress like they are in america in Naija, what da Bleep is that about? It is flipping hilarious.

Who's with me?

by the bolded, do you mean those of us that wear sweaters in june just cos we think it looks cool, or those of us that wear a winter hat all day everyday, those of us that wear bubble jackets in the hot sun?

reincarnation of the naysayer

KnowAll:

writing off startup cost to make an airport viable is an indication that it is not going to be viable. not to talk of that being cooking the books.

Writing off is part of good govenance and is practised in a lot of big business all over the world. You dont want to give a business to some to run by saying well we start with -$2million dollars now make me some money. What you do is write off the $2million dollars and tell the person you are starting with no debts make this airport profitable.

KnowAll abeg no kill me with ur postulations abeg. if you would build an airport, write off the cost u incure to build it and then hand over a debt free airport to someone to manage, then we could as well have giving the person the money to build the airport himself then.

a new stadium just got built for a team out here(its highly subsidized) i dont know the exact percentage but the tax payers bore the most of the burden. Guess what, they did not write that cost to tax payers off. the team had figured out how to bring in the revenue to help justify the huge subsidy even before they got approval. so you preaching write off to me is simply cooking the books in my opinion.

if only we knew that cost incurred by airlines would make airfares balloon into the sky when cost outruns revenue. writing off startup cost to make an airport viable is an indication that it is not going to be viable. not to talk of that being cooking the books.

walakolobo:

This is what we are saying, dont talk about Naija cos you know nothing about it - I have driven 140km/hr on Nigerian roads and nothing happened, big deal? You must think the roads are made of pot holes or what?

an accident waiting to happen. Thank God it didnt.

Kobojunkie:

I am glad someone picked up on that one ! roflmao!!!


Oh my!!

Kobojunkie, hope my comment didnt scare you.

Kobojunkie:

Well, the above is valid, so also is considering that demarcations will not work when the accidents occur in lanes going in the same direction.  

they work because it helps keep they in their lanes. although a whole lot of people dont keep to their lanes even when the roads are properly marked._{i still have nitemares from my third mainland bridge experience}

Aloy.Emeka:

It's true. There was a story of one airport in the middlebelt that gets used only when senior govt officials are coming into town besides that, it lies fallow. The economy of a city/zone contributes to the usage too. Nigeria looks big[land mass] when you compare it by tribes but relatively, it's small. I think one airport in every geo political zone should be enough as long as the connecting roads are okay.


Exactly. A 4 lane freeway will assure motorists a 30 minute drive from Ibadan to lagos at 120km/hr, how much less Abeokuta.

Kobojunkie:

If you have ever been in Abeokuta, you would think twice before making that comment. lol 120 Km/hr? And we blame the roads for all the accidents. A 4 lane freeway, plus 2 lane express lanes have yet to make commute to and fro downtown chicago during the day that short, talk less on abeokuta to Lagos with all the crazy drivers and the noise!! lol

i talk am say na us drivers dey cause accident for naija and not the roads. didnt I?

walakolobo:

No one is laughing.

wetin consign my fish with family planning?

funny thread this.

i dont love the port congestion anywhere. but i dont want an sparcely utilized port either.

its looks cool till they get crushed by a malfunctioning compactor.

soon every state in nigeria that has contact with a river or ocean would want to have a port as well.

i thot it was the end of the month they picked as the time they'll let the cat out of the bag.

let the showbiz begin.

ROFLMAO, if that is ur definition of a capitalist then it would be nice if the government, federal, state, local and all those in between become capitalists as well.

how can we not consider what the effects of dredging would be to the little villeges that depend on their little creeks for their livelihood?
how can we not consider what dredging might do to aquatic life?
how about its positive effect on transportation? even when you want to re-dredge an already dredged river you consider the effects on everybody both upstream and downstream.

Aloy.Emeka:

My own thing is why worry? They will soon get tired of it. Again, there are many types of CNN and what you pay depends on the package you advertise in. Some CNN na local while others na international.

lol so which one be this one wey wey dey see for Ghana and kuwait? local or international.

yicob:

C'mon gurl, slow and steady wins the race. They will get there. You cant compare foreign logistics with the way we do things in naija.

this is what happens when you dont want to pay ur due yet u want to roll with the big dogs.

yicob, these banks dont want to be slow and steady. they are thinking fast and furious although they av flipping scooter 2cycle engines.

another of the many human sacrifices we make as a nation.


the timeline in this story doesnt add up.

is it not the i must outshine/impress/oppress my rival mentality we nigerians have in our DNA

vanunu:

The greatest Nigerian alife today is no other person than Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,

for standing up against criminal gangs and the rogue government of General Gowon, that killed killed more than a hundred thousand ethnic Igbo's, in the 1966 ethnic cleansing

are there non-ethnic igbo's?

Aloy.Emeka:

Do pharmacies sell mosquito nets in Nigeria?

yes and the doctor/pharmacist would also instruct u on where to buy his own stack of nets.