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This is one of the reason why some of us still believe in the managerial acumen of el rufai, even with his shortcoming. Bala Muhammed deserves to be called the Sycophant-in-chief.

Eight Public Facilities That Have Gone Extinct In Abuja


Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, is deteriorating and the meagre infrastructure are going extinct.By Emmanuel Ogala

Since 2009 when infrastructural development peaked in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, the city has witnessed continued decline in public infrastructure development and an extinction of existing ones.

These facilities were meant to make the Nigerian capital comparable to capital cities worldwide, and also enable residents enjoy the benefits of living in modern city. However, many of them are now defunct.

Here is a list of eight public facilities that no longer exist in the city of Abuja.

CT Call centre (09-4603600-9)
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Abuja city had a call centre that responded to enquiries, listened to complaints and took down suggestions. Although the call centre office still exists, with Jumai Ahmadu as head, they no longer take calls. The call centre infrastructure is now dysfunctional.

Public Wi-Fi
In 2006, the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) and Suburban Broadband Limited (b2) entered a $5 million partnership to develop a city-wide Wi-Fi service in Abuja.

The pilot phase of the project deployed six hot spots in the city, at – Millennium Park; FCDA (Federal Capital Development Authority) Secretariat in Area 1; Model Secondary School, Maitama; National Children’s Park and Zoo, Asokoro; Kadanya Street, Life Camp; and Old Federal Secretariat, Garki, Area 1. Up till 2009, you could still access free wireless internet services at the Millennium Park. The project did not continue and the services have been shut down.

Traffic lights
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A larger proportion of the robots installed to control traffic in Abuja have broken down. They are neither replaced nor maintained.

Nowadays, traffic wardens (police, beggars or concerned Nigerians) control traffic at major junctions on the streets of Abuja. In some instances the wardens are absent and drivers use their discretion to safely navigate junctions.

Road signs and directions
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Abuja is fondly described as the fastest growing city in Africa by its officials; however the city is practically un-navigable by untrained minds.

The city, unlike others around the world, lacks user friendly road signs. In the few areas where road signs currently exist, a road user would have sped past it before decoding its directions.

Also, roads change frequently in the city due to construction works and fear of Boko Haram, but city officials have failed to update the signs. A great percentage of the existing few have also suffered serious wear and tear.

Queen’s taxi
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Once upon a time, Abuja city had London style Queen’s taxi, ferrying passengers between the streets of Maitama and Wuse market. The remains of these taxis are parked in a garage popular for old public transport vehicles along Kubwa road.

Street lights

The current minister of FCT, Bala Mohammed, once told a senate committee that lighting up street lights in Abuja was contracted out to different (energy) companies. According to the minister, the street lights could not rely on electrical energy supplied by government’s energy company, the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).

Despite the use of generators, street lights are rare and erratic on Abuja streets at night. Street lights are only stable in high end areas of the city

Elrufai Buses
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Back in the days, 2009 and earlier, hundreds of public buses, the greens and the reds, lined roads to Abuja’s three gateway suburbs, transporting workers to and fro the city centre. These days, only a few of the red buses still manage to work two of the routes. The greens are completely extinct.

Elrufai taxi
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These Peugeot 306 wagons, also imported in hundreds, were managed by Abuja Leasing Company (ALC). Some were sold out on hire purchase agreements.

Although its services were expensive, they provided the most comfortable and secure taxi services in the city. Nowadays, both the ones retained by government and those sold out to private investors are rare sightings.

However, broken down remains of the taxi are visible around the Utako office of ALC.

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Never heard of her until now, either in the dream or in reality . Lol.
When is this man's tenure ending BTW? Cant wait to see him leave.

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That time of the year when a progressive, articulate and promising young Nigerian celebrate his born day. I pray as you add a year on the surface of the earth, all your heart desire will surely come to pass. Continue to Keep the flag flying

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This is the most silly,stupid,senseless,meaningless comment I have seen on NL in recent time. You need brain check.

salinson: May almighty Allah make it easy to us

Amin Ya Allah

Sitat Shawwal is there. Monday and Thursday fasting is there and the good deeds are there too. It was reported in one of hadith that anybody that follow up his or her ramadan fast with another 6 in the month of shawwal will be rewarded as somebody that fasted for the whole year. May Allah make it easy for us.

Some challenges that have been facing me for some months did not allow me to fully maximize this ramadan the way i wanted. I still feel pain that the holy month is gone. I pray to Allah to give us the grace to witness many of such on the surface of the earth. The little i was able to do, may he accept it as an act of ibadah.

Today, I lift up my hands in prayers especially 4 U. May ALLAH SWT approve your innermost good wishes, purify ur intentions, remove ur fears & tears, 4give ur known & un-known errors & sins, accept ur Fast & Salat and grant U graceful long life to witness many more Ramadans in good health, vitality, freedom, prosperity and total devotion to HIM. May ur private petitions 2 Allah turn 2 public testimonies Aamin. Barka da sallah.

To all the contributors to this section (active, passive) I pray all our private petition to Allah will become public testimony. Eid Mubarak

tbaba1234: Eid Mubarak sister...

One name is conspicuously missing,

is it 'and you too?

Enjoy your day... safe

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We thank Allah, everything has being going on fine, 'boko' boys allows us to have a peaceful celeb

Deols and Tbaba.

maclatunji: LOL, I am like an editor here. She has a lot of great posts that should make front page. However, a lot of the meaning of her posts is lost or mistranslated by the software. If I know the Language she's writing in, I may be able to help her. I have not attacked her. I am a friend of the messenger seeking to give more meaning to the message.

Eid Mubarak to you all, May Allah accept all our deeds, forgive our sins and grant us Al Jannah Firdaus.

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maclatunji: ^ I must commend your efforts, the unfortunate thing is that you are using translation software which spoils your very nice and educative posts.

Please, what country are you from and what language do you speak?

forget about the messenger, the message is what should concern us all.

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pantheon: I don't mean to derail the thread but I would really appreciate a response to this queston: From visiting these areas, which parts strike you the most visually? Which states are mostly free of modernisation - houses, tarmaced roads and fancy cars?

i suggest you open a new thread for this.

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sino: are you shy?

she will be in a better place to answer this. Lol

Jarus: The same reason SUN determines day and night. 6:15pm is night if sun has fully set by that time and and it evening if sun hasn't set by then.

We work with nature.

Thanks for that simple and logical answer.
Truly if better not to talk and people think one if wise.

Lets be fair with our Shy brother, most of this comment about them is not 'fair' on them. All of us no fit be 'sharp' guy.

As the receiver-in-chief of this thread, i welcome you all to this section. As you learn from us, we also look forward to learn from you

Forgive me my last post. I forgot am in islamic center. Anyway, still stand by it.

Let me address the issue of shyness in guys. Some guys may find it difficult leaving their comfort zone, If a guy is shy, there are other ways to approach a lady, he can start by sending romantic and lovely text messages and talking on phone, with time he will overcome it.

Pls posters let ignore comments/post that will derail the thread, let the fun continue.

FFK is just looking for relevance. who is he in the anal of Nigeria history, an opportunist riding on his father name.

I know of the sunnewspaper on friday.

My advice is hinged on an hadith that says He who leave haraam when he has all the chance, Allah will bless him with Halal in multifold. Don't live certainty (itikaf) for uncertainty (the test).

I want to believe this is just a 'mock' porter of the year award. I don't know who will win when it is time, but i know who will not win.