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[quote author=Iyke-D]You are behind, you need to pay attention. So one city (Detroit) goes bankrupt and that equates to the
cities going bankrupt?

If you want to discuss economy, the Russian economy is nothing compared to the US. China is having its
explosive growth, but no economy can continue to grow the way China has been growing for decades. The
domestic debt in China is about to pop, and when it does, it won't be pretty.

Like I said earlier, Russia is like a grumpy old man - they will complain and complain, but in the end
can't do much to affect any serious outcome. They like to talk tough and unless they are prepared for an
all out war, they won't move a muscle.

I hope war can be avoided but something tells me the US is about to use Syria to poke Russia in the eyes
just as Russia has been poking US lately with their non-cooperating attitudes on everything since Putin's
return. Basically, they will bomb the crap out of a Russia's ally and there is nothing they the Russians
will be able to do.[/quote]You forgot to include California that went bankrupt. The US may still be a financial power house, but the days of a sole superpower are over. Their debt's still extremely high, with a huge chunk of it owned by.....yep, potential adversary, the Peoples Republic of China (God help America if the Chinese decide to dump the dollar......it won't be pretty...at all). The Russians on the other hand never had it good after the fall of communism....then it all changed under Putin. Its economy experiences way more growth than the USA, hence its membership in tge BRICS. And it is the world's SOLE ENERGY SUPERPOWER with much of Europe under its influence. The west did try to limit its sphere of influence, and succeeded briefly. Then the Ossetian war happened, and everyone really knew the Russian bear was fully awake.

[quote author=Iyke-D]No, you got in all wrong. Russia probably have more nuclear warheads than the US, but its not about the number
of nuclear warheads that matters. What maters is how fast you can deliver them and what type of defense shield you
have which might enable you to bring down an incoming missiles. But then the only true way to test whose has the
best defense is for there to be an all out war which is not going to happen. Trust me, US can wipe out Russia if
they get to pull the launch switch first. What makes you think Russia ICBM can reach US and US can't reach Russia?
How many ways do you think the US have to possibly deliver nuclear weapons to Russia?

What troubles me is that some people are just anti-US no matter what. Lybia, see no evil, its all due to outside
forces. Egypt the same thing. Syria the same thing. No body seems to care about the ordinary people whose lives
are been wiped out simply because one individual feels they owned the country and will prefer their country go down
rather than step down. Its all the fault of outside forces.

Anyway, should the US and it allies decide to move into Syria, there is nothing Russia can do. They will once again
be barking like mad dogs while not really offering any solution to a complex issue - in fact they indirectly
encourage it by backing the dictator. At least with Egypt, when it was time to go, the US told Mubarak that it
can no longer support him and that was that.

Some of you were scared of the damage North Korea will do to the US few months ago? What happened? I will give you
a hint, the US flew in a couple of B-2 stealth bombers into their air space without their knowledge. Those bombers
could have easily be carrying nuclear warheads, but they did not this time around, because they wanted to send a
message to the fat boy. After that he regained his senses.[/quote]The Americans may own a number of cool delivery systems (B-2s,B-1 Lancers, B-52s stratofortress, etc), but so do the Russians. Is it boomers (nuc subs armed with ICBMs), bombers (Beavers,Backfires,etc)? Check. Keep in mind that the russians dont just have more nucs, but way more mobile delivery land delivery systems than the Americans. Oh, and dont forget those cute portable nuclear suitcases carried by Russian Spetznaz groups like Vympel. The Bear sure as hell doesnt play nice

With respect to the missile shield, if the system was soo good, how come the Bush administration balked after Putin ordered the repositioning of Russian Iskander missiles westwards? And please do tell everyone on this thread how the missile shield can intercept MULTIPLE WARHEADS from a single Russian missile (good luck with that).

InvertedHammer: /
Russia is just fuming unnecessarily.

If my boys decide to go in, Russia ain't gonna do squat.

They are lucky that it is not the Republicans in power. They would have mowed down Assad while giving Russia the middle finger that they rightly deserve.

I can't wait for Republicans to come back. Enough of this "small boys" provocation already!

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The Republicans were in power when the Russians trashed the shyte out of the American-backed Georgians during tge South-Ossentians. The Russians even went as far as reaching the gates of Tblisi, but what did the Americans do, 'xcept bitch and moan? Zilch, nothing, nada.

Msgamble: 2014 ke? Do u think there will b any sunni left in syria by then to vote him out of power with current sectarian cleansing going-on..u ppl are just 'hyping russian' they are diminishing powers lyk UK,FRANCE(living on past glories, with US missile sheild in EU to protect their civilian)..new power is rising in 'the East' n they are China n India..syria is 'ethnically n sectarianly complex' for US to get involved in unless it will become another vietnam or korean war

Your lack of the basic knowledge of geopolitics is quite obvious. Did you just call Russia a diminishing power? You do know you're refering to the world's sole energy superpower, right? And have you forgotten the Ossetian War when the American+Isreali trained and armed Georgians got trashed 6-ways-to-sunday by a third-rate Russian Army division? How about Ukraine were Russian influence led to the eviction of the western-backed govt from power? And then there's tge current Syrian conflict were tge Russians dared the west by supplying weapons to the Syrians, thus turning the tide in favour of the Assad regime, and silenced the west. Do you really think the Americans will dare launch any military action into Syria without the consent of Russia, especially when such action will put the Russian Naval base at Tarus at risk? Think again, homeboy.


Oh, one more thing.....the Indians dont even come CLOSE to the Russians military-wise, especially when the later relies on the former for weapons and training. The Russians own enough nucs weapons to turn the world (USA inclusive) into one radioactive glass wasteland 10times over.

you're sure 'bout that pumpkin? Reality's totally different from what you watch in the movies oh
[quote author=A-ZeD]America is responsible for the relative peace on earth today. Without them the world would have been back to the stone ages. Before you shout CNN brainwash, take a look at the middle East very well, the Saudis hate the Iranians and the Israelites and the feeling is mutual between those three countries. No America and world war 3 begins.[/quote]

ettybaba: With the exit of Hosni Mubarak is Egypt better?
With the exit of Gadhaffi is Libya safer?

Nope.

malele: So hitler that attacked russians and captured some countries was caused by america.
The crisis in egypt was caused by america
The problem in syria was caused by america,
Iran that is threaten isreal is also caused by america
If there is crisis in ur country come 2015, u will still point america.

if u don't know,if not for america most countries wont be existing by now

On Hitler/WW2: No, blame the Axis

On Egypt: Well, kind of. They did prop up Mubarak


On Syria: Yes. They propped up the rebels with weapons and training. Too bad the so-called rebels currently haave the butts whooped collectively by the Syrian Army.


On Iran: HELL YES. The Americans and British were responsible for overthrowing the then democratically elected Iranian leader Mousadek in the 1960s for. daring to nationalise the Iranian oil and gas sector and share the proceeds from this lucrative sector equitably. They then went ahead to impose the notorious Shah on the Iranian, till the Iranians had enough and kicked his sorry bum out during the Iranian revolution.


So yeah, the Americans are not saints.

Symphony007: was it you attempt to make a point or tell me that you're not so clueless about plane as taught because you suceeded in achieving none. Just admit you mistake and move on.

Yeah, I did make a mistake. And that was thinking you were a buttwipe. Now I know for a fact that you're not just that (buttwipe), but a douche extraordinaire and a air-head. Thanks for the correction a#&hole.

Symphony007: ha..ha..ha..ha..ha! You are telling me that plane that landed in enugu is an airbus A-360? For the love of God where did you see that? That is a boeing 737-800. Ethopia airline has no airbus A-360 in it's fleet, they only have two dreamliners and they can't land such expensive machines in this shanty. They are meant for the japanese routh. Lol.

Hey buttwipe, are you blind or something? Read the darn post again, dickhead. I CLEARLY said the A-340, NOT the A-360. Seriously, how the hell did you pass your English WAEC exams?


Anyway, I admit that the plane in the pic is the Boeing 737, not the four engine Airbus A-340, even though it looks more like the 900/900ER rather than the 800. But it still doesn't change the fact that Enugu airport can handle the 787 dreamliner. Afterall, the 737-800,900, and 900ER are equally a New Generation aircrafts.


As for the Airbus A-360, I reserve my comment 'cos I know only 2 airports that can handle that large aircraft. MMA and Uyo. Maybe PH can 'cos i've seen it handle the giant Antonov hauling oil rig equipment.

wow..I am impressed. This is clearly a stark contrast to the OBJ years were the BPE scraps the whole process, reverting the whole nation to square one. Great job Team GEJ.

Now, while you're still at it, could you pls privatize NITEL once and for all?

chronique: A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and little drops of water,makes a mighty ocean. The airport might not be fantastic in aesthetics and facilities but if followed through,can become well developed in no time. It's only fools that would condemn any little sign of development because it's not the standard of what is obtainable in America. At least,before we condemn what we have,let's find out how much it costs the developed nations in building the kind of airports they have,and then look at our budget and see how much was earmarked for capital projects. You don't compare apples with pineapples;you compare apples with apples.

I did a little research on google and found out that the estimated construction cost for the enugu airport is about 2.5 billion euros. How do we compare that to the hong-kong international airport constructed with over 20 billion dollars? The new enugu terminal has a construction cost of 81 million dollars(13.3 billion naira). The jet blue terminal at the jfk int'l airport which was constructed in 2004 costs over 850 million dollars. The london heathrow terminal 5 from conception to construction costs £4 billion british pounds. Yet,people would bring up pictures of these airports and compare with ours and expect same result. Question is; can we afford to spend that amount on our airports now? The jet blue terminal of the jfk airport costs over 10.5 times what was spent on the new int'l terminal at the enugu airport;how can we achieve almost same thing. It would be stupid for anybody to even compare any of our airports with the heathrow airport cos the construction cost alone is something else. People should learn to compare costs before opening mouths to criticize the govt.

God bless you, my brother. May you live long. Excellent post. Honestly, I wonder why we still argue with those idiotas. let the still stew in their hatred or hug a damn power tranformer down their street.

bobosydney: To reply scumbags people like you , I will show you the picture of my house . It's not that i'm bragging but just to shut your mouth up and let you Know that me and you are not in the same category and i'm not a uncivilized like you .

Hehe yeah right .

Symphony007: my dear, what sort of lie is this now? Is it as lie or you don't know the meaning of dreamliner? Out of ethopian airline 60 fleets airplanes only 2 are dreamliners and the third will be deliverered this year, and non of them fly on the african continent, they are mainly meant for the japanese routh. Better watch your mouth.

The same crowds are in other airport were planes fly and take off within minutes of each other, what do you expect? This one, one plane lands and passanger squeeze in cue like sadines. This is an international airport? What happens when three flights land? The roof will be used as a make shift terminal? Ha..ha..ha hopeless.

If the hi-tech Ethiopian airline owned Airbus A-340 can land at Enugu as clearly demonstrated in those pics, why can't the relatively smaller Boeing 787 dreamliner? Do you really think the whole upgrade job was only restrricted to the terminal buildings and didnt include the runway and taxiways?

plaindealer: All they have is their hate, their ignorance, their insults and their inbred crudity and vulgarity.

- Fani Kayode


^^^

I was expecting you jokers to come up with something to counter my point, but you came up short because you know deep down in your hearts that your incompetent GEJ has nothing to do with this thread and you can not defend it..

Instead, you insult and spew the usual garbage.

smh....

Buttwipe, I asked you a simple question. why are you trying to dodge it?

Symphony007: you see how stupid you are, you are comparing two story amtrack trains with this nigerian locomotives. Are you okay? Show me any amtrack. Chinese or tibet train pic that is like this nigerian human cargo train.

Hold on....is this the best you can come up with to counter the points raised by me? That the AMTRAK is double-decked? ........good Lord, i've been arguing with an immature kid all this while. Pls dont even bother posting a reply, it's past your bedtime. Leave the thread for the adults.

agbameta: Utter rubbish. There's a clear difference between OBJ and GEJ. One is competent and the other is very incompetent regardless of what political party they belong to.

OBJ initiated the project and he awarded the contract and the contractors did what they were paid to do so what's this got to do with GEJ? Nothing.


You do have attention deficit disorder because instead of staying on topic or dispute my assertion, you are doing babalawo figuring out who is agbameta and ekoile... What's this got to do with the topic or is this how you prove that GeJ awarded the contract and it was his vision to revive the railway..?


You people have no shame and credibility..

And another ignoramus steps in. So, if OBJ was that "competent", how come he failed to overhaul our rail network after EIGHT DAMN YEARS, yet "incompetent" GEJ was able to deliver in THREE YEARS? if thats what "incompetency" stands for these days, then I sure as hell will go for it.

Symphony007: ignorant you. So after all the billions are spent on this lomotives whoes life span is very short, futher billions will now be spent in the future to re-upgrade them to semi high speed. When everything could have been done now at a fixed lower price and save time. I suspect your thinking faculty is what the jonathan government works with.

See this clown. It's thinking like yours that led to this nation's stagnation (at least until now). Care to tell us the life-span/cycle of the current locomotive trains used in Nigeria? And do you also know that the NRC also procured new locomotive engines recently from China? All across the world, there are countries that use way older systems. A clear example is India that has a rail system over 100years old and still running. The Chinese equally run locomotive train system up Tibet 'cos of its reliability. 'same story in Northern America were the Canadians and Americans (AMTRAK) equally use locomotive systems to haul tonnes of cargo. So pls if you have anything sensible to say, just do us a favour and zip it.

Calabar unsafe?!! Who's the clown at the British Foreign office that came up with that useless travel advisory?

Symphony007: rome was not built in a day and it was'nt built in a century either. While your government is busy rehabilitating colonial railways, others are building high speed, semi high speed rails. Maybe it will take nigeria a billion years to get there since rome was not built in a day.

oh please zip it! So you'd prefer we totally abandon the old rail network for new high speed rails? Does that sound logical to you? And did you even bother to consider the cost implication? The Americans, British, Indians, and Chinese all built on/upgraded old existing rail lines, and we're basically towing the same line. The TGVs/MAGLEV/Bullet trains will come later.

Truman155: How will this change the price of garr1. This is just bad news for papa ogaga that just got a job with dangote. And what is that clueless sheep(gej) doing about ASUU strike...until then i save my praise

it will have an effect on the price of garri, thanks to the low rail haulage cost (and the absence of checkpoints were road truckers are forced to pay bribes to corrupt cops).


Great job Team GEJ.

Fresh air....breath in, breath out

Abagworo: @bolded. You seem to have made your judgement from the internet. Umuahia does not have bad roads and is probably one of the few cities in Nigeria where 99.9% of roads are tarred and free from pot holes. Thanks to its manageable size and population. The Enugu-PHC Road is even bad and hence deserves no commendation. We need videos of a ride within Aba area as that will give a clearer view of state of things than pictures which can be selective.

My brother, my statement was drawn from my own experience within the state. Abia state tends to serve as a transit point for me during my trips from Taraba to PHC/Uyo, or trips trips from Uyo to PHC via Etim Ekpo. For the later, I finally opted to travel to PHC via Ikot Abasi, as I have absolutely no intentions of damaging the shock-absorbers of my car due to the Abia's bad roads and LG tax men exthort money from motorists for "radio tax".

Honestly, I'm actually concerned about Abia state 'cos it is a MAJOR COMMERCIAL HUB. But Orji has done that state a great disservice. Even small rural Ebonyi state has better roads than Abia.

I'm an Akwa Ibomite, but I'll this: Abia state, especially under Thoedore Orji is a TOTAL DISASTER and a disgrace to the SE. Now I know some of my Igbo brother will be pissed with me, but pls let's be honest. The whole state's one big mess with pothole-infested roads, especially that large latrine called Aba. The only good thing about the state is the Umuahia-Aba-PHC FG-owned road. Only God knows how Orji won a second term. That man is a disgrace to the PDP.

[quote author=IGBO-SON]But i thought Dangote doesn't like having any factory/industry/plant in the South East (and South South as well, if my memory serves me right)......so how come he's now interested in some of the power plants located in the region?

I think he should focus his interest on the South West and Northern regions!

Some people think they're clever! You don't trust my region enough to locate any of your businesses, bult when there's easy pickings on offer, you elbow your way to the front of the queue![/quote]Diversification of his business portfolio?

'm happy for Aisha Sesay. A product of Cambridge University, that's one brilliant lady.

Ikengawo: observe the level of human WAHALA become of 1 overpass bridge.
You would have thought that Nigeria built a bridge to the US


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5XVwmoaQWY
There's no less than 4000 people in attendance. A news crew, traffic jam, etc because of a road.

Heehee so true . The RVS givt built a number of overpasses in PHC, yet no fanfare. AKS govt built world class overpasses and bypasses in and around Uyo, yet no party or fanfare. BUT ACN's Oyo built a short bypass, and it was party time in ibadan with so many pics posted on niraland. Same story when Fshola launched streetlight for A SINGLE DAMN ROAD! These clowns will never cease to amuse me.

[quote author=t-something]Again as always you're speaking rubbish ! How many years will it take to complete a few KM of road, not even a dual carriage way! Even if they were to be working at night alone they would have completed it since!

Aka road to Nung Udoe road in uyo is a major road people use in going to Eket which is the oil city, hence you will appreciate it's importance was completed in less than the target 18 months, (Arc Nemadi Sambo testified to this since he was the one that did the ground breaking and final commissioning). The road is a 23km world class dual carriage way complete with street lights, covered drains , walkways and even landscaped lawns on each side of the road. And guess what, not only is it toll free but it was constructed by the Chinese.

To show you that isn't a rare feat, just March this year, Julius Berger started the construction of Uyo - Ikot ekpene highway and this is a major road because not only is it the gateway into Uyo , it links Ikot Ekpene with the capital city. Its about 45Km and of course a dual carriage way to world class standard because that's what Akwa Ibomites are now used to. As I speak to today, one lane has been completed for over 60 percent of the journey and the target completion is still 2014. And this a FG road done quietly without blackmailing the FG

Early this year when Akpabio attended 2face traditional marriage he was disappointted about the Eket - Ibeno road and jokingly promised to transform it before 2face returns to dedicate his new child . As a promise keeper , he immediately wrestled the project from NDDC and contracted it to our Chinese friends, so with that you can go to sleep waking up to see a world class road.

You guys just sit in Lagos and worship this Fashola like an idol and believe any rubbish excuses he gives to you guys for his incompetentence. Yea, you heard me well, I said incompetence!

How else do you explain this! Lagos owes over 610 billion , takes decades to complete few KM of roads , or any other infrastructure for that matter , enjoys so much support from private firms in Lagos, yet still collect tolls and heavy taxes from this huge population of Lagosians.

Akwa Ibom owes just 80 billion , has completed more KM of world class roads in 6 years, than the last 14years of Lagos , renovated and equipped more schools and hospitals than your Lagos , built and completed an airport, is building a seaport, building a world class stadium, completed a modern flood control project (the pipe jacking system - 1st of its kind in Africa )yet the roads are toll free , education is free even for non-indigenes (unlike some who deport Nigerians), he even stole money to buy a jet.

Before you shout oil money , note Akwa Ibom budget is 470billion , Lagos is 499billion, meaning Lagos still has more money to spend than Akwa Ibom.

I recommend you travel out of this your glorious Lagos and see how others are building world class cities quietly[/quote]Mbok tell them oh . Bros, you even forgot to mention the new Abak-Uyo road by Julius Berger that bypasses Abak into Oku-Abak and on to Ikot Abasi/Port Harcourt. Apart from the brridge at the end of the road whose construction is complete, the road's now fully in use with cables being drawn by Julius Berger for its streetlights. This is why I tell these clown to travel outside the boundaries of their beloved Lagos and see what's happening in other states, particularly Akwa Ibom. In short, forget Uyo, just take a trip to Calabar, Cross River state, and let's see if you won't plan to relocate immediately.

agbameta: Even sef, we are talking about diplomats and better people and this joker is talking about some nameless and invisible delegates. ....

Deligates ko, delegation ni. Who dey visit that crook in akwa ibom? Must you people lie all the time.

Aaaand baboon number 2 strolls in. Officials from various countries high commissions/embassies tend to visit states across the federation, even the most underdeveloped, yet you don't see these states brag about these visit. It's on the news for a few mins and that's it. Yet it's only Lagos that this happens and the propaganda team blows its horn as if something mighty has happened. Kinda reminds me of Fashola's street light commissioning that was blown out of proportion by the A.C. N lapdogs on nairaland with so much fanfare, even though same facilities are enjoyed by residents and idigenes of Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers, Enugu, Gombe, and even piss-poor Taraba (Jalingo) with little or no noise from their respective state govts.

Kairoseki77: Forget GEJ for a moment.

Why didn't they visit Akwa Ibom to see the uncommon transformation?
What about Onitsha to see the hard working men and women selling Chinese auto parts?
Did they even leave the SW region?

I forgot...there is an international travel advisory against visiting that area, so their Governments would not have allowed them to go anyway.

See this demented bboon on the loose. Pls show the travel advisory on Akwa Ibom. We've hosted delegates from the EU, the United States, the United Kingdom, the AU, etc, yet you don't see the AKS govt and AkwaIbomites brag about these visits. You think we have the time for the type of propaganda/noisemaking you A.C.N lots are used to?

Ola Johnson: Which road do you take when going to Uyo, is it not the Aba-PH Expressway? If she is visiting PH from the airport and heading towards GRA, she would take Ikwerre Road, and then Abacha Road. If it is the Old GRA, she would drive straight to Fly Over, then Nnamdi Azikiwe Road to Forces Avenue. There is no the traffic jam she causes will affect you, all things being equal. If on the other hand she decides to land in Airforce Base, it won't affect your lane much because she will be taking the other leading to Fly Over.

Yes I used Aba-PHc road. And you're right about her possible routes to Old GRA. However, I can assure you that there were no security-induced gridlocks on both Ikwerre and Aba roads. I live at Ada-George, and have to cut through Ikwerre road into GRA via Tombia extension, and then into Aba road via Presidential, and I can categorically say that traffic was unusually light for a Monday on Ikwerre road. Not so much for Aba road though, as the traffic picked up abit. But there were no advance security detail stationed on either roads to co-ordinate, and possibly cordon off, traffic. Just the usual traffic cops.

Garri the 1st: Ok Ph people, get ready for "The LockDown".....

I just left PHC for Uyo this morning, and I can tell you that there wasn't any form of lockdown. Just the usual Monday traffic that was kinda light.