₦airaland Forum

Idaytesj29:
Who copied who between Meatloaf and Celine Dion?

Bankowner:
This is a remix, I like the original version better.

naptu2:
Lets have a little clarity here.

1) The first auto assembly plant in Nigeria was built by General Motors (Bedford) in Lagos in 1959.

2) The Federal Military Government wanted Nigeria to be a producer of automobiles so it went into joint venture businesses with some foreign auto makers and state governments. The foreign auto makers were the technical partners, the state governments provided land and got around 20% shares in the business, while the Federal Government was the majority shareholder.

3) These assembly plants were:

a) Peugeot Automobiles of Nigeria (PAN), Kaduna.

b) Volkswagen of Nigeria (VON), Lagos

c) Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company (ANAMMCO), Enugu (they made Mercedes Benz trucks and buses)

d) National Truck Manufacturing Company (NTM), Kano (they made Fiat trucks and tractors)

e) Leyland Motor Company, Ibadan (they made Leyland trucks and buses)

f) Steyr Motors Nigeria, Bauchi (they made tractors and infantry vehicles for the Nigerian Army).



4) President Obasanjo sold Federal Government shares in these companies.

5) The state governments still have shares in these companies and they have been working hard to ensure that the companies return to full production.

6) Some of the companies that bought the Federal Government shares are not able to run these companies properly and so state governments have been working hard to ensure that other companies take over the plants. For example, Anambra and Enugu state governments have worked hard to ensure that Godwin Okeke (G.U. Okeke) and others take over ANAMMCO, while El Rufai is doing everything possible to ensure that Dangote takes over PAN. Fashola worked hard to ensure that Stallion Motors revived VON and that BRT buses were assembled there.

(Stallion Motors also took over Leyland Ibadan)

Buhari will commission this new Peugeot Assembly Plant in Kaduna to produce Peugeot 301, 508, 5008, 3008, 2008 and the pick-up models . Over 120 Kaduna youths will be employed here.

FaithBrain1994:
We should be happy when infrastructures like these are created, they do not just add color and beautiful to states and country at large, but also that jobs are created and many are lifted from poverty. Rufai has done a lot in a giving a face-lift anywhere he is priviledged to administer. He did a lot of great projects as the FCT Minister and he is replication same in Kaduna state. Let us leave bias and clap for him abeg

ebenice:
Nice one

But is it really true that the development and infrastructure are not evenly distributed in the state?

Many claimed that these goods are not done in the southern part of Kaduna.

Can you debunk that with proofs?

naptu2:
Kai! God bless you for reminding me. I didn't post the projects in Southern Kaduna! They will be in my next post. Some people (including a famous female politician) had predicted that President Buhari would be stoned in Kafanchan (Southern Kaduna), but surprisingly a massive crowd turned up to hail him when he commissioned projects there yesterday.

Buhari inaugurates three road projects in Kafanchan, Kaduna

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has commissioned three road projects in Kafanchan, the headquarters of Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State, under the Governor Nasir El-rufai’s Urban Renewal Program.

Commissioning the projects on Thursday, the President commended the State Governor for embarking on projects aimed making Kaduna great again.

He pledged the Federal Government’s resolve to continue to initiate programs that will impact on the ordinary Nigerians.

Earlier, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State said a total of 21 roads are to be constructed in Kafanchan under the first phase of the Kaduna State Urban Renewal program.

In his welcome address, the Emir of Jama’a, Muhammadu Isa Muhammadu, appealed to the President to use his exalted office in attracting more Federal Ppesence in Southern Kaduna, especially the reviving of the Kafanchan rail track and the siting of a permanent mobile base in Kafanchan.

ebenice:
Nice one

But is it really true that the development and infrastructure are not evenly distributed in the state?

Many claimed that these goods are not done in the southern part of Kaduna.

Can you debunk that with proofs?

Ihuomanice1:
What and what Has he done for Easterns
Using Religious to Rule a whole country is that one president?
Every day teaching One Nigerian when the deeds are not yet to be done in some various parts
Rubbish!!!
Be fooling Yourselves

naptu2:
Murtala Square (formerly known as Kaduna Race Course) is a public square in Kaduna. It was historically the venue of horse racing events and it is also the location of the Kaduna Polo Club ground, Kaduna State Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Indoor Sport Hall among others.

The square also hosts facilities like gymnasiums, an indoor sport hall, football fields, a hockey pitch, etc. Many public events are held at the square, such as the Kaduna Grand Durbar, Kaduna Centenary Celebrations, Nigeria's Independence Day parade, May Day, Inauguration Ceremony of Governors, Army Day, Human Rights Day, etc.


The square was in a bad shape and the administration of Governor Nasir El-Rufai decided to remodel, reconstruct and renovate it. The renovated Murtala Square was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari today. Here are pictures of the square.

naptu2:
Am I biased? How come I hate Park View Estate and yet I love Tafawa Balewa Square. I should hate both of them for the same reason, shouldn't I?


Well I guess that the difference is that Tafawa Balewa Square is still being used for public good and it still serves some of the purposes of the old Race Course, whereas Park View Estate simply represents the destruction of Ikoyi Park.



Race Course used to be a big open field in the centre of Lagos. People could watch horse races there on Saturdays (it was big business), cricket on Sundays and kids could play football there on week days evenings. It was like one huge park in the centre of Lagos. The Gowon Administration converted a large part of it into a concrete stadium/parade ground, another part of it into a remembrance arcade and the only part that was left in its original green state was the cricket oval.

Many people hate the conversion of the beautiful open green land into a concrete jungle.


Ikoyi Park was a large and beautiful park on the northern edge of Ikoyi, just beside the Lagoon. People had picnics there in the evenings and at weekends. Many relationships that blossomed into marriages began at the Ikoyi Park. You could see beautiful birds like cattle egrets and other such creatures at the park.

Then one day someone had an idea to build beautiful and expensive houses at the edge of the park. The houses overlooked the park and the idea was that people would pay extra for the beautiful view. And so they built more houses and even more houses until we had a Park View Estate and no park to view.


Pictures 1 and 2) Race Course.

Pictures 3 and 4) Ikoyi Park

naptu2:
Am I biased? How come I hate Park View Estate and yet I love Tafawa Balewa Square. I should hate both of them for the same reason, shouldn't I?


Well I guess that the difference is that Tafawa Balewa Square is still being used for public good and it still serves some of the purposes of the old Race Course, whereas Park View Estate simply represents the destruction of Ikoyi Park.



Race Course used to be a big open field in the centre of Lagos. People could watch horse races there on Saturdays (it was big business), cricket on Sundays and kids could play football there on week days evenings. It was like one huge park in the centre of Lagos. The Gowon Administration converted a large part of it into a concrete stadium/parade ground, another part of it into a remembrance arcade and the only part that was left in its original green state was the cricket oval.

Many people hate the conversion of the beautiful open green land into a concrete jungle.


Ikoyi Park was a large and beautiful park on the northern edge of Ikoyi, just beside the Lagoon. People had picnics there in the evenings and at weekends. Many relationships that blossomed into marriages began at the Ikoyi Park. You could see beautiful birds like cattle egrets and other such creatures at the park.

Then one day someone had an idea to build beautiful and expensive houses at the edge of the park. The houses overlooked the park and the idea was that people would pay extra for the beautiful view. And so they built more houses and even more houses until we had a Park View Estate and no park to view.


Pictures 1 and 2) Race Course.

Pictures 3 and 4) Ikoyi Park

xpressionx:
All the projects hitherto abandoned in abuja is now receiving attention,courtesy 2023 elections