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![]() From June 2013 that Fashola promised to 2022 ![]() Fashola has never kept one promise in his life. Jonathan looks like a demi-god compared to these jokers |
Ana enwe obodo enwe ![]() Fake guy. You for stay for APC make we end your political career |
ChidiAlaigbo:Igbo are the vuvuzela for restructuring or outright independence. Stop deceiving yourself. |
How can such an extremely bigoted person and biased journalist be a good journalist ? |
BabaRamota1980:We are having an internal old eastern region discussion. Wetin carry you come here? |
12Monkeys:100% correct though |
Hmmm ODB this is the first time I don't agree with you. I am not a Zik fan but I disagree with some of the motives you ascribed to him. Make I enter church comot first 12Monkeys: |
If Obiano tries this crap his political career is gone |
Interesting piece of history here. Zik Senior served under Lugard when Nigeria's administrative capital was Zungeru. Same town where Zik was born. I have been to the site where Lugard's office was. The building is totally rotten, just the carcass remains and it is overrun with weeds. I doubt if it still standing till now.
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Omojuwa na real hypocrite. After campaigning for Buhari and calling Jonathan all sorts of names. Eye never clear them finish |
I can't wait for oil to finish. Let this Nigerian over-sharp, lazy thinking come to an end. My state has one of the best road networks, vibrant, commerce, technological base, security and many other selling points that can grow an economy over time. |
But EFCC allowed Timipre Sylva to enjoy his 48 houses. Sylva was a complete broke nobody before he became governor. Ekweremadu was a lecturer, Local Government Chairman, SSG then Senator but cannot own 22 even though the EFCC has not mentioned the fraud he committed. Ok na |
They have promised him the Ekweremadu treatment I am sure. |
iammo:You will live long in peace and prosperity |
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blazesam:So you are saying Igbo parents are the only ones who encourage their children to come first? That is a huge diss to other tribes ![]() |
blazesam:I agree with your post except the last part. The Igbo man is the least loyal to his kinsmen compared to all other tribes because of that rugged individualism but there is still that element of loyalty |
benben1000:I was in a warehouse at Isolo when some touts tried to storm the gate because a truck parked inside the compound passed them on the road without giving them money. They couldn't enter so they started throwing bottles into the compound while smoking weed at the gate. The owner called the police but they didn't give him any sensible answer. They only left when the man loaded his pump action and released few shots in the air close to the gate The taxing seems to be breeding more touts looking for easy money |
More perspective "In the twilight of General Yakubu Gowon’s administration in the mid-1970s, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) was battling with the problems of ports congestion as a result of massive cement importation. The government decided to build two new ports to ease the transaction costs associated with shipping and to ensure adequate facilities for Nigeria’s import and export needs. A feasibility study was carried out and the experts recommended the creation of two new ports; one in Lagos and another in Ibaka, in present day Akwa Ibom State. These projects were contained in the 3rd National Development Plan. The one in Lagos is the Tin-Can Island Port commissioned by the then Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, and deputy to then military Head of State, Genera Olusegun Obasanjo, now late Major-General Shehu Yar’Adua on 14th October, 1977. Ibaka Port was never constructed, purportedly on the advice of the then Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and current Chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) – Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. I heard Tukur’s argument was that instead of starting a new port from scratch, the same resources could be used to revive existing and nearby Calabar Port. Government bought his argument and a huge amount I’m still trying to find out was used to revive the port. The new Calabar Port Complex was commissioned on 9th June, 1979. I heard Alhaji Tukur has a wife from Calabar. Now I’m not sure if his wife influenced his decision or if his support for Calabar port made the community bless him with their daughter. But anyhow, it is clear that the decision is a wrong one because Calabar Port is still moribund. Fast forward to 2006 when Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’sson, the iconic Chief Adebayo Babatunde Sarumi, was in charge of the Nigerian Ports Authority. A princely sum of 56 million dollars (about N9 billion) was spent on dredging the Calabar Port channel. The dredging contract was awarded to two dredging firms: Messrs Jan de Nul and Van Oord. The federal government divided the entire length of the channel in Calabar Port between the two firms. While Van Oord was paid $26 million to dredge kilometre 0 to 46, Jan de Nul got $30 million to dredge kilometre 46 to 84. According to the scope of the contract, the two firms were to scoop out 25 million cubic metres of sand to achieve an overall draft of 8 metres to allow big vessels call at the port. Not one big ship has called at the port ever since because while the companies collected their monies and walked away, the channel remains as shallow as ever. Of course the appreciative Calabar community honoured Chief Sarumi with a chieftaincy title." http://shipsandports.com.ng/before-we-dredge-calabar-port-again/ |
For those who need perspective and details on what is wrong with the Eastern Ports Operator’s perspective: The Managing Director of Ports & Terminal Operators (Nigeria) Limited, the concessionaire to the premier seaport in Port-Harcourt, Mrs Lizzie Ovbude enumerated some of the constraints the concessionaires are grappling with. She said, “I know that when NPA was still the master sea dock, to improve traffic in the eastern flank, NPA had to give about 30 percent discount. That was some years back, before the concessioning. They gave about 30 percent discount to vessels that are willing to come to the eastern ports. That was a kind of encouragement to enable vessels to come to this part of the country. But after the concessioning, there has been no such encouragement.” She alleged that there is a conspiracy by ship owners to stifle the operations of the ports in Port-Harcourt. Her words: ”For Port HarcourtPort, I don’t know whether it is a kind of conspiracy from ship owners; you know that the shipping industry is dominated by foreigners. They own the vessels. I do know that we have done a lot of marketing campaigns from Port Harcourt Ports here. We have been to clients at Enugu, Aba, Onitsha, Nnewi, that is the eastern flank who import through Lagos and made them know that we are actually back. They have shown a lot of interest but one issue we have always had is the vessels to bring such cargo, that is, containerized vessels. “Before now, we had reached an agreement with two shipping lines who agreed to come and as we were doing the marketing campaign, they suddenly withdrew their vessels. And you know, when you have been to a client once, twice and they are showing interest and suddenly everything goes that way, they will not take you seriously anymore. That is what the shipping companies have made us look like. And up until now, we still have clients that have been calling, making enquires on vessels that could come… Containerised vessels They are all foreign ship owners and if they say they are not coming, we cannot force them to come. And that is why you see a lot of importers go to Lagos and begin to truck their cargo down.” Although Mrs Ovbude agreed that the channels in Port-Harcourt Port 1 are not big enough for containerized vessels to berth, he listed efforts made by her company to expand the draught to enable moderately bi vessels to come in. He was pissed by the fact that the Federal Government is not doing anything to dredge the port to pave the way for containerized vessels to come to the oldest seaport in the eastern part of the country. “They complain about channels but I want to say that even though ships have grown bigger and they want to take comparative advantage of bigger vessels because your cost on a bigger vessel is the same as your cost on a smaller vessel. If you have a bigger vessel that will bring much cargo, you will spread your cost and it becomes lower than when you take a smaller vessel that will bring small cargo, small tonnage; your cost goes higher when you spread it on small tonnage cargo. That is an issue, the non-dredging of the channels, the non-dredging of the ports. That is why I said from the beginning that I may not be able to tell you all the constraints because I will talk from the perspective of a port operator but freight forwarders will have their own issue. If you go into the terminal, you will see the extensions we did to be able to achieve a deeper draught to allow for at least moderately sized vessels to come.. At a point, the facilities became very dilapidated and operations went down. We have also been marketing, telling our clients that the port is no longer what it used to be. We have made it operational once again. When the facilities went down, there were no plants. Today, we have bought kalmar container handling equipment and so the equipment to operate efficiently are there. Deeper level draught The stacking area is there, the berths have been improved because we have extended into the water to achieve some deeper level of draught. Government will need to do something and what government needs to do is, the type of encouragement they gave to shipping companies a few years back, they need to bring it once again,” she canvassed. Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/eastern-ports-lying-fallow/ |
horsepower101:Their eye don dey clear. I remember when they wanted to curse Jonathan to death when he said he would decongest Lagos. Now they are begging for it
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Oildichotomy:Abeg don't waste your time with that one who thinks Kaduna Dry Port was built by El-Rufai ![]() |
lionness:You wouldn't be able to understand this issue even if Bill Gates connected your brain to a Microsoft server database. Bye |
We all know of Governor Ambode's recent cry for Eastern Ports to be fixed to save Lagos from choking under the pressure of having the only functional deep port in Nigeria. Finally, Lagos is bursting as a victim of its own success. From Apapa to Surulere, Mile 2 to Orile, the city is overgrown with trucks. Truck queues that grow daily like wild legumes. Human traffic. Vehicular traffic. Refuse. People are gathering fungus sitting hours in their cars. Sweating inside buses and scratching itchy hairs. Dying of trucks. Wild, smoky trucks—they are headed to Apapa, “to load” goods and distribute across the vastness of Nigeria’s container economy. Toothpick containers. Toothpaste. Electronics. Goods and frivolities produced by foreign wisdom, needed by populous nations that create little. The trucks wait in queue for weeks, sometimes months, delayed by ditches, logistics, and corruption. Lagosians therefore stew in their cars in faraway Ojuelegba, waiting for trucks to load in Apapa and move an inch. The truck drivers lay mats under their vehicles to lounge, wake up to piss by the roadside, and drink more gin to replace the discharged liquid. Lords they are, these truck drivers, feared by the government and by all other motorists. Their trucks are parked atop weakening overhead bridges in defiance to regulations and Ambode’s serial ultimatums. They know he cannot tow away over 5,000 trucks, nor does he have a place to park them if he does. They know the government cannot do anything to them because the situation has moved from being a problem to becoming an impossible complication, just like Nigeria. So the trouble can only deepen rather than ameliorate. But in the final analysis, truck drivers are not the problem. That politics of exclusion, that deliberate bottleneck inserted by politics to make Aba or Onitsha importers use the Lagos port instead of the ones close to them. That politics that resists the proposal of a full Eastern port, fearing current economic independence and future secession. Those two-lane roads around Apapa built by colonial power and hardly ever expanded ever since, now bearing the tonnage of transportation for over 170 million people. With the current complication, fixing the roads is now such a task. Lagos—center of excellence and fulcrum of the Nigerian dystopia. With poor state economies across the nation, Lagos became a major magnet for mindless urbanization, deepening wear and tear on its infrastructure. Huge budgets but, broken down per capita, Lagos spends around N8,000 per Lagosian in a year! It is a state in need of multiple, tolled overhead bridges to be built by public- private partnerships. Yet a state that, in less than a decade, will be completely overwhelmed by people, more trucks, more money but little real value. It will worsen because of the politics that resists ports deregulation. It is time to leave. Time to leave or stay and die under the impending rubble. This Lagos, e no go work. |
Buhari has failed woefully. A weak president who is only good at using powers and institutions of state to fight political enemies. His General rank is just by quota Our last budget for defence was N465 Billion and Buhari borrowed 1 Billion Dollars (360 Billion naira) total of 805 Billion Naira but not paying soldiers risking their lives for us. Not equipping them for goodness sake ![]() Buhari where did the money go?
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sarrki:Something that Jonathan had almost completed before Buhari came with his bad luck and destroyer spirit ![]() |
proffemi:For years yorubas have been uploading pictures of dead or dying Igbo children on this site in the name of trolling. That one is not fanning the embers of hate? Is this not the same NL that yorubas were uploading pictures of Igbo boys being drowned in the mud by soldiers for fun? OP mind yourself |
Greyworld:You are making sense my brother. If this young generation misses it then this country is finally finished The likes of Buhari and Danjuma inherited their own hate and tribalism from the likes of Ahmadu Bello. The generation of Buhari were in charge when the bigotry and hate developed into lawlessness and violence with militias and Boko haram. I cant imagine what this younger generation can do if they also inherit the hate |
Iblad0994:There is a school of thought that believes that the non-stop violence, refugee crisis, Boko Haram, poverty, disease, illiteracy, Boko Haram/ISIS, Militias, herdsmen rampage and the associated crisis that has caused rivers of blood to flow and has claimed tens of thousands of lives from the North-West, North Central and North-East is a direct repercussion for the evil committed by the northerners. If they had carried out revenge by arresting the coup plotters, trying them and executing it would have been different. But they didn't they went after civilians, women and children and you think God is asleep?? |
nurshah:Apparently they are more comfortable with us listening to nonsense. Tupac makes us think and they obviously don't want that |
I no fit laugh ![]()
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