₦airaland Forum

omohayek:
The question isn't whether trains are "cheap to run or maintain", the question is whether the likely traffic in the Kaduna-Abuja corridor was such as to ever justify sinking so much money into it, especially when there were other parts of the country where the same investment would almost certainly have brought greater returns, and the answer to this question is quite clear from Amaechi's statement and the reaction to it: the money spent on the Kaduna-Abuja commuter railway will never be recouped, and even with this price increase, the line will always need massive subsidies to keep running.

Even if the original price of N900 had been kept to, the line would still be requiring N5 in subsidy for every N3 in revenue, and that's even on the highly doubtful assumption that demand to travel on this line is totally inelastic (or, in plain English, that it would have had the same number of customers at N900/ticket as at N600/ticket). Given how loudly people are already howling, why should we believe that enough passengers would remain at N3,600 or whatever needed to be charged to reflect the true cost of the line?

The brute fact about long-distance commuter trains in developed countries is that those who ride them pay far more on a monthly basis than the total disposable income of even upper-middle class Nigerians. As the fixed costs involved don't automatically become cheaper just because such lines are built in poor countries like Nigeria, only in the very wealthiest corners of such countries does it even begin to make sense, and even then only as an add-on to the main business of carrying freight at business rates. Nowhere in northern Nigeria meets such criteria.

Eliza and her husband got united , but Lenox insisted on having a DNA test just to be sure.

omohayek:
All Amaechi is really doing here is admitting what I've always suspected: that the Kaduna to Abuja railway line makes no economic sense, especially as currently managed, which is why it is running at a deficit of more than 250% of revenues.

Given the distribution of population and economic activity within Nigeria, the stretch of railways which ought to have been the highest priority is the Lagos-Ibadan portion, followed by the next stretch to Ilorin, and even there, the priority ought to have been on freight traffic rather than passengers, as that would do far more to support farmers, manufacturers and others who have heavy, time-sensitive goods to get to market. In addition, moving heavy freight off the roads onto the railways would reduce the wear and tear on said roads, which would mean fewer potholes for the same amount of maintenance - not to mention fewer accidents involving heavy trailers and the like.

The only reason I can think of for prioritizing a Kaduna-Abuja line which has never made economic sense is the same one why a (now non-functioning) oil refinery was built in Kaduna so long ago - the old Nigerian vice of ethnic favoritism, playing to northerners desire to have "development" matching the south, even when said "development" has no prospect of being self-sustaining, and must therefore be subsidized in perpetuity.

OneCorner:
igbo justification that the civil war was Nigeria's fault 100%.
Igbos were on dere own jeje, and Nigeria soldiers started killing them.
in fact, Biafra soldiers didn't shoot anyone dead. it's only Nigerian army dat did

5thElement:
Don't be silly Mr.

I've got a right to my opinion. You surely can make your point without being a d1ck, can't you? Or are you one of those teenagers running amok here on Nairaland.

I maintain my opinion. You can hold on to yours. Understood?

5thElement:
Nigerians don't know how wrong that question is as a form of greeting until they leave the shores off their country and are forced to learn by... well, force.

Listic1:
There is a growing but troubling trend in Nigeria. When your neighbours see you in the morning, they exchange the normal pleasantries: 'Good morning'. Immediately after that they go forcefully: 'How was your night?'. The (reluctant) response most times is: 'Fine'. But is this correct? Hold it for a second. Is the question even proper in the first place? Let us see.

When people sleep, they practically die. They are unaware of their environment and so, cannot truthfully answer any question relating to that episode. On those occasions when they did not really sleep, do we expect them to relay their activities to their interrogator? How do we expect a married person, for instance, to bare out their nightly activities with their partner to a neighbour? This cannot be right. To put it in very plain terms, it is inappropriate!

Well, how can we go around this faux pas? It is pretty straightforward. Instead of asking: 'How was your night?', we could say: 'I hope you had a good night's rest?' or 'I hope you slept well!' or something along those lines. In that case, the one being asked can truthfully say: 'Yes, thank you'. However, if the respondent's experience was unpalatable, they could, at their discretion, explain why that was so.

As a rule of thumb, in conversing with friends, acquaintances and even strangers it is best to concentrate on or limit oneself only to what is before the parties: the person! There is actually no point asking very personal and private questions. It does not show that one truly cares. As we take these suggestions on board, we introduce decorum into our conversations.

@ODNEsq; Listic1

ClintonEmex:
Looking like Adesua will now make this one a celeb. But the girl is pretty, very pretty.

miketayo:
its not about being a fanatic.. what is wrong is wrong

Omeokachie:
This man is learning from MURIC.


Never go the way of MURIC. They have since lost any relevance they may think they have.

SternProphet:
How old are you?
Where are you from?

I want to restrain myself as I type this. I know Nigerian youths are very annoying so I will be restrained and very elementary.

Nigeria = plenty of youths (demographically speaking)
Youths = need a future, jobs, get married to whom they love,
have kids
Ajaokuta = Steel plant. They call it a basic industry.

Ajaokuta Steel Plant = liquid Steel + 30 very useful products and
gases

Ajaokuta can produce raw materials for 30 other industries.

Ajaokuta can produce enough Steel to 100x the current Nigerian rail capacity.

Trump is protecting US Steel and Aluminium. I don't like Trump but he struggles not to be a fool. Here he may have succeeded.

Why should Nigeria be foolish and not complete Ajaokuta

When a young man comes on Nairaland to vomit timidly what global Steel makers and their agents want to do to make us dependent, it means generational curses are at work. You showing off stupidly.

The stupidest idea running on the Internet is suggesting that Nigeria cannot run a steel plant.

They are not insulting Buhari they are insulting young Nigerian Engineers.

Ethiopia and Egypt and S. Africa are running Steel plants.

It is even sad that some of our brothers from the S.East have joined the crowd...you know showing off over nothing.

If Ajaokuta was sited in Enugu , won't it have been running since 1979?.

Please I like you but please think deep about issues before jumping in. Don't be mentally timid, running with other people's ideas.

Ajaokuta is a challenge. Nigeria will run it and develop other basic industries, defence industries, foundries and more sophisticated stuff from it. We shall become an exporter .

It can run, WITH or WITHOUT government. Ethiopian and Egyptian plants are not privately owned.

GavelSlam:
Justice done.

Israeljones:
u mean more like staying brain washed

Israeljones:
Well, I still wonder why Me, The instrumentalists and Cameramen or media men dont fall under the anointing when every other person is somersaulting and doing back flip...

luvinhubby:
My Zombie friend, how are you? Where did you escape to?

deomelo:
Opinions are supposed to be sane, rational, logical and appropriate, but all you people do is spew hate, venom, bigotry and engage in crude, crass
and jungle behavior.

SarkinYarki:
And who told him he has money ...All these Lagos IT start up owners finessing investors funds and pretending it's theirs

debaj10:
so u agree wit him?
well, it seems you, him and your paymasters are of the same mind with Nazis who thought anyone with a different opinion or race was subhuman.
thank God, the true nature of you and your ilk is slowly being revealed.

NaijaMutant:
Bitter soul

eph12:
He has apologized for calling you animal, stop complaining

TonyeBarcanista:
Na service to humanity and Nigeria

TonyeBarcanista:
The attention of Peoples Democratic Party National Youth League has been drawn to a purported list of "corrupt" political leaders parading across various social media platforms allegedly emanating from our great party.

After conducting our investigation, we wish to state that the report in question does not emanate from our great party, PDP and it does not represent the views of the leadership and entire PDP members.

We state without iota of doubt that our great party is a responsible party that respects sanity and rule of law. PDP will never emulate the lawless ruling All Progressive Congress led federal government to defame and shame citizens of Nigeria as that is the job of the judiciary. in facr, media trials is alien to PDP culture and policy.

We suspect that the jittery APC cooked up the said list so as to send a subtle false narrative that it was PDP officials, including His Excellency, Governor Darius Ishaku, our hardworking and popular Governor of Taraba State, that destroyed the country between 1999 and 2015, a narrative that is highly discredited and proven to be far from the truth.

We state therefore that the federal government should desist from playing to the gallery and take up the challenge to publish names of convicted corrupt officials and those with pending files with the Economic Financial Crimes Commission as the so-called list earlier released by the Alhaji Lai Muhammed, the discredited misinformation minister is but a ruse.

We advice members of the public and media organisation to disregard the lists flying round.



Signed
Inioribo Tamunotonye
National Coordinator,
PDP National Youth League

Obascoetubi:
Matthew 5:17-32 New International
Version (NIV)
The Fulfillment of the Law
17 “Do not think that I have come to
abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have
not come to abolish them but to fulfill
them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven
and earth disappear, not the smallest
letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will
by any means disappear from the Law
until everything is accomplished. 19
Therefore anyone who sets aside one of
the least of these commands and
teaches others accordingly will be called
least in the kingdom of heaven, but
whoever practices and teaches these
commands will be called great in the
kingdom of heaven.

Colossians 2:14
having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross

Heb 7:18
For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

Heb 8:13
By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

misano:
APC stop feeding on PDP's success and rebuking them for their errors. As far democracy is concerned no project can be completed.

However, it could be recorded as completed the moment D infrastructure is being used by the masses. If D masses have started receiving treatment from a 1-room clinic built by a government, even if it small but has been inaugurated, it is regarded as a complete project and successive governments can improve on that, know problem.