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fasbat: YES,WITH A FOREIGN AIRLINE ,ETHIOPIA AIRLINER!!!! YOU PPLE HAVE NO VESTIGE OF SHAME AT ALL....

Maybe you don't know that Ethopian Airlines is one of the most patronized airline in Nigeria for people going Eastward.
If you are travelling to Dubai, Gaungzhou, Beijing, Seoul, Bangkok or any of the major trading hubs in the east, there are only 4 airlines of choice. Its either Emirates, Qatar, Ethopian or Etihad. It makes no sense to fly all the way to Europe and then start another journey into the far east.
The Enugu airport would serve mainly trading passengers who purchase thier goods from the far east.

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
https://sydservicedapartments.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DSC_0046-300x199.jpg

Let me burst your lame self.
Only those that don't understand the maneuverings of Google would pull the stupid stunt you tried to pull.
The picture you posted as your living room is a serviced apartment in Sydney, Australia.
You stole it from this blog: http://sydservicedapartments.net/2012/02/17/a-change-for-the-better-in-sydney-accommodation/

You've been busted. . I'm pretty sure you live somewhere in Iyana Ipaja in one of those run down slums. Maybe not. But that house you posted is not your house even if I choose to believe you truly live in Australia.



For those that care to know, to bust guys like these, simply follow the simple steps:
Right Click on the picture and click "copy Image URL"(Chrome) or "Copy Link Location"(Firefox)
Go to www.images.google.com . In the search bar, you'd see a small camera at the right end of the bar.
Paste the image Url in the bar that opens and click "search by image". It would expose the original source of any picture.

huptin: now this is taking mediocrity to ridiculous levels. 1st international flight in the east in the 21st century? and people are dancing around? please tell me I am dreaming? can some one remind me of the day and time of the first international flight in the west? when ffk uses this as an example of how far ahead the west is compared to the east then you guys will start attacking him right? hmmmm some news are best hidden. imagine an american or even a beninoise hearing that people are dancing around celebrating a first international flight in the 21st century. in fact we have suffered in Naija.

I have only one thing for you and it is called facts.

Enugu domestic Airport alone carried 8 times more passengers than the entire 5 states of the south west combined despite the fact that for a good number of months it was under renovation.

The 5 States of the South West combined carried a total of 18000 passengers in the first half(January-June) of 2012. The 5 south west states have 2 airports in Ibadan and Akure and a total population of over 30 million people.

Enugu Domestic Airport carried a total of 150,000 passengers in the first half(January-June) of 2012. This happened despite the fact that within a 300km radius, there are 7 other very active and viable airports in Asaba, Benin, Warri, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Uyo and Owerri that pulled off similar or better figures.


The Airports in the SW recorded passenger traffic similar to those in Yola, Makurdi, Kaduna, Maiduguri and Jos.


The records are there for you to see at THE LINK BELOW
[url]http://www.faannigeria.org/documents/statistics/2012-Annual%20Traffic%20Report_first%20half.xlsx[/url]

plaindealer: Fashola is a state governor, not the president of Nigeria with oil money to refurbish kiosks aka village airports all over the place so if you really feel like comparing, compare Fashola with all your village governors combined, it's called sensible and accurate comparison, not that you are bright enough to know what that is anyways....

This is the problem with you guys. Plain hypocrisy.
So a lack of money in the state is the reason why the refurbished schools in Lagos look like they were planned for the deepest ghettos in Rio.
So the lack of money in Lagos is the reason is the reason why used BRT buses were imported from India and everybody screamed Eko Oni Baje.

Now you talk about lack of money. Yet Tinubu didn't have a lack of money when he choose to build Oriental Hotel and Ikeja Mall to international standards for himself with the peoples money. But for Hospitals and Bus Staions, there is a lack of money.

Well FYI, the reason for much of the jubilation you see here is not as much the infrastructure but the signalling of a new era.
If a woman delivers a baby after soo many years of miscarraiges, whether the baby is ugly or not, she would celebrate with all her heart the beginning of a new dawn. That's what Ndigbo is celebrating. And as a proud Edo man, I join happily in this celebration!

Symphony007: May God!! My fellow nigerians are celebrating this as an airport? Look at the overcrowded chocked up spaces, no barriers to control crowd, look at the ticketing section, is that not a concret slab? No glass between the passanger and staff, see outdated luggage carrier.

For the love of God, is'nt this facility below, leagues ahead of this airport? It is owned by thailand. A country's GDP we trunce, infact we actually enrich them with rice we import. And guess what this facility is just a bus terminal, i repeat BUS TERMINAL...the one above is INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT......Chei my country, in the midst of plenty, you are now so hungry, rotten bread given to you is course to celebrate.

Please can you show me one single picture of anything looking close to what you posted that any of your Fashola and Tinubu have done in 14 years that makes you and your ilk scream Eko Oni Baje. I need just one picture. Just one that look anywhere close to what you posted.Either a Bus terminal or a Hospital or an Office complex. Just anything to prove that you are not just one silly hypocrite with a grossly biased mind.


Or better still, I want a picture of your room or parlour. And please let it be as good as the beutiful ones we see in movies.

Brimmie: MY TAKE:
Let Jonathan do his best and let Nigerians decide by polls who they want.

He spoke to PDP members not the general voting public. That reference is for the Primaries. And party things are different from general things.

NIGERIA IS ON THE MOVE!!
THIS IS BIG. VERY VERY BIG.
If we moved 400,000 telecom lines to 120 million lines in 12 years.
Then I see us moving from 4000MW to 40,000MW in 7 years.

This is big big big!!

Industrialization would start in earnest.

Prof Corruption: It took PDP fourteen years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need guys who can move with the dynamics of modern time. If 14 years were used to rehabilitate , how many years would it take to construct new rail lines? We can't wait for another fourteen year of clueless maladministration.

PDP has failed Nigerians.

It took PDP 12 years of doing nothing and it took Jonathan 2 years of action.
Lekki Epe express way- 51km- 10 years and still counting- yet there are tolls already on the roads.

What Jonathan has done in 2 years, we haven't witnessed in 30 years. The transformation is everywhere.
The biggest landmark happened yesterday. The privatization of power just delivered the biggest success in 50 years of Nigeria. Now we have cargo trains taking load from Apapa. I finally feel an air of hope for this country.

Rossikk: Dude, the fact that the colonialists did all that and yet left you with just one half-university for 100 million people at independence should tell you who that rail system was set up for, and it wasn't for you.

Wow! Words of wisdom!

I was passing the expressway today and I saw the road dancing azonto. I was astounded. So I stopped and asked it why it was dancing.It took a very deep breathe and and the conversation went thus:

Road: For years now some Mack trucks had been climbing my back with very heavy load. They run over me without considering the fact that my bones which are located underground usually get fractured anytime they pass. My skin tears, rain falls, I get sludgy and then very very ugly. Its been a hellish experience.

Me: Very very sorry for your plight, but that can't be the reason why you are dancing Azonto. Why are you dancing?

Road: I'm dancing because I haven't seen the Mack Trucks today. They said Fresh Air blew them away into the bush and they fell on some long things called trains that now carried them away on a rail track.

Me: Yes, I heard it too oh. Ha, that fresh Air is blowing everywhere. Mr Airport, Mrs farm, Uncle Economy ati Brother Power. They are all experiencing this wind you are talking about oh, Mr Road. Make I dey go jare. Make I reach house quick so that I go fit chop Cassava bread!

Sincere 9gerian: The major worry for me on this issue is the deafening silence in the media. This further confirms that the media is already compromised

Trust me, if you want this on all headlines tommorow, you'll get it. All you need is the bank acct number of key journalists.

Nigerians media is effed. The only reason I still papers is to see adverts.

touchmeder: Sadly i am nearly tempted to agree with you until we step up our game BIGGGGGGGG TIME. Personally all this waka pass role sha they give them still saddens me, i feel instead of giving the juicy parts to the Thandie Newtons and co, they can at least recognise those who have been doing a good job at the home front. Abi all this time award and Elle abi na cosmopolitan important people nor dey translate to better role?

And when they do that and people don't go to the cinemas because they don't know the actors, you'll be one of the first to say the movie was a flop.

Movies are business concerns. Lead actors are selected not just on thier capacity to act the part, but also thier ability to bring with them to the cinemas their huge fan network. Give Genevieve a lead role and she would act it wonderfully and bring along a Nigerian audience. Give Thandie Newton a lead role and she would act the part excellently as well as bring with her a global audience.




Hmmmmmm....
The timimg of this movie. Hmmm.... The trailer ended with the flag of Biafra. Hmmmm.... Wouldn't this movie only serve to open old wounds?? Please lets enjoy the movie when it comes out, debate the neccesities but forget the hurts of the past. We must move on from what our fathers and forefathers did and embrace our own responsibility of creating a future that is better than our past. If we make the right choices, this movie would serve as an excellent cultural renaissance that should unite all and sundry notwithstanding you tribal affiliations.

goldenval: This post must make front page, I know it, I don't need to brag lol.

First to comment!!! Lmao!!.. Like seriously tho!

Prophet goldenval.

Wow. How did the lady pay out 2 Million dollars of hard earned money(surely it ant have been) to a briefcase trotting fella without any office and staff.No due diligence, nothing! Surely she probably didn't have much value for the money, hence the carelessness.


And for the fraudster, since you are such a excellent marketer, why not use you skills to actually sell Dubai properties to interested individuals and make healthy commissions. You can actually set up a real office and employ real people and do real marketing of those Dubai properties. You really don't have to be a fraudster since your skills are strong enough to collect $2million upfront for just real estate. Jail time beckons!!

Paul John: Excellent development.

Only three ministries are working under GEJ:
Agriculture, Aviation and Transport.

Others... We give up.

Add to that
Ministry of Works,
Trade and Investment
Finance
Foreign Affairs

So with all the supposed marvellous works ACN has done in Lagos state for 14 years now, there was no hospital for the man to fix his knee. This one no be heart surgery oh. No be liver transplant or one complex thing or the other. Na knee oh. And he still travelled abroad. After they'll tell us PDP is the problem of Nigeria.

Wish him quick recovery.

emiye: I will only address your last paragraph.

You are disparaging fellow africans, but have you asked yourself why many seemingly unproductive Nigerians leave the shores of Nigeria and becomes shining light ?

Because they experience a cultural reorientation!! Simple.

emiye: Small and medium scale enterprises should be driver of an economy, not those major manufacturers.
i have not blamed all on power failure, what about the credit and financial systems ?


Most Nigerian commercial banks will not lend money to those who truly need it, how many small scale entrepreneurs have access to credit facility to build their business?

What is the strength of govt regulation to prevent rip off by likes of MTN?

Dangote with govt backing has been given series of loans by banks and has enjoyed all sort of privileges.

We must give up this mindset of Government is not encouraging. While I totally agree that government has its issues, you ask yourself how the Government wants to make all these requests usually listed possible when they have a budget of $27bn for 170 million people. They have to listen to ASUU. They have to work of Primary healthcare. They have pay salaries which I think constitute a whopping 60+%. Then the worse of all, they have to subsidize fuel for rich people who own 5 cars because poor people would shut the country down if the subsidies stop.

The question about lending: Why are the banks not lending? The banks are a part of we the people. They are not government entities. Trust me, they lend a lot of money to importers but not to manufacturers. This is what I mean by cultural reorientation. The bankers have a cultural orientation that is predicated on consumption. So they find it more palatable to lend to an importer than to lend to a producer.

Dangote is a Nigerian industrialist and his wealth has risen astronomically on the back of Nigerian production. He has done so in this same country where many say because of power you cannot produce.
Many small scale entreprises are making tonnes money on the back of Nigerian production. But the sad reality is that too many people who should be starting companies are buying jeeps, building filling stations and flipping real estate in our urban centres. This has nothing to do with a lack of an enabling environment but everything to do with a culture of consumption.

emiye:
But the government has failed to create the enabling environment.

Why is the Government at the centre so fixated on holding to so much power at the centre ?

Where is the stable power supply that will bring down cost of production of industries?

How can we talking about industrialisation when our steel industry is in comatose ?

What happened to the Ajaokuta steel mill?

But Nollywood didn't wait for Government to provide stable power. They did what they had to do and took the industry across Africa and almost global.
Dbanj and Psquare didn't wait for Government to provide proper distribution channels. They took their product to the rest of the world.
Redeemed Church, Christ Embassy et al didn't wait for government encouragement. They did what they had to do. They had a global mindset.

Productivity is not measured only in manufacturing. There are loads of ways to be productive without adequate power supply. The cultural mindset is key. If Nigerians would think first of what companies they would start before they think of where to buy land and buy moto, our gross productivity would skyrocket.

Now look at the picture below. It is a complete line for making Chocolate out of Cocoa.
Nigeria is the fourth largest producer of Cocoa yet we don't produce a single piece of chocolate.

The cost of that machine is N40m or thereabout. That is less than half the cost of any standing duplex in lekki.But you know what, Nigerians would rather buy property in Lekki. People say ha, how about power supply. Well there are generating plants. Afterall there are factories producing effectively in the country despite the power situation.

We need a cultural reorientation. One that is more attuned to entrepreneurship as a business model rather than one attuned to rent seeking and contract sourcing.


[img]http://www.machines.net.in/MACHINES%20IMAGES/Candy%20Production%20Line%20Series/Chocolate%20Production%20Line.jpg[/img]

billante: The contract sums for some of the roads especially enugu-port harcourt road looks inflated to me! 50 billion for a 60 km road?! That's almost 1 billion per km.....its not like the terrain is a difficult one to build road on!

Looks like that is becoming the standard. The FG is learning from the ACN states.

Afam4eva: .
No, it's not. In the true sense, Lagos is a state and not a city. It's like comparing Abeokuta to Lagos.

Ugosample: Nope... Lagns city is not up to 8 million. However Lagos Metropolitan Area which includes Ikorodu and the rest can be said to be 15 million max. However, New york city's population is about 8 million plus, however the metropolitan area is heading towards 20 million. Check it out.

A city is a geographic description while a State is administrative. States have clear cut boundaries defined by political entities, while cities are born out of socioeconomic consequences. Cities emerge, states are formed.
Lagos City or Lagos Metropolitan emerged and it includes even places like Isheri in Ogun State. However, Epe which is in Lagos state cannot be said to be part of Lagos City/Metro.
The same thing with New York city. Hoboken in New Jersey could almost be described as part of New York City while places like Staten Island are not exactly a part of the city but a part of New York State.

There is a strong basis for comparing Lagos and New York as they have very strong similarities.

I like this infomation because it exposes to us how poor we are as a nation and explains why we don't have the kind of infrastructure you see in other countries. Some people want us to be like UAE or USA or UK overnight without realizing that we are not as productive as these countries.

And for those who think that this poverty is a failure of Government alone should ask themselves what they've done in their own capacity to grow this country.


Look at the collective revenue of the top 10 companies(Sales) in Switzerland and you'll understand better the meaning of productivity. These companies would be taxed by their governments and in turn would contribute to their budgets which would then reflect in things like infrastructure, social services etc.

Switzerland top 5 Revenues
Vitol9Commodities): $303 Billion
Glencore(Commodities): $217 Billion
Trifigura(Commodities):$122 Billion
Nestle(Food): $100 Billion
Zurich IG(Finance): $70 Billion
Novartis(Pharma): $57 Billion
Roche(Pharma): $50 Billion
UBS(Finance): $48 Billion
CreditSuisse(Finance): $42 Billion
ABB(Power): $40 Billion

Each an everyone of these companies bring more money to their countries than all the oil that Nigeria produces. To think that the population of Switzerland is just 8 million.

The logic is simple. Only a productive nation can have big budgets to spend on infrastructure and social services. And the private sector is the harbinger of productivity. The Governments only responsibility is to create an enabling environment. When as a nation we start choosing production over consumption, then we would begin to see changes. We have a funny culture that see our capital being allocated to over priced real estate and cars. Every jeep you see roaming our streets could have started a small factory. Every property sold in Lagos could have started medium sized factory. Our cultures must change for us to see better budgets and in turn better infrastructure.

bigass: why are you comparing a state to a city. you mention new york city. Lagos is a state

Lagos is a city. Check up the meaning of City. New York is also a State just like Lagos. There is Lagos City and there is Lagos State. There is New York City and New York State. The comparison is accurate.

If he is alive, he should make one of those his usual videos and not the one of last week that we all heard about but nobody watched.
He doesn't belong on planet earth. Let him go where he belongs.

Tolu Ogunlesi

In 2008, Abasiama Idaresit returned to Nigeria, after studying for a degree in Information Systems & Management at the London School of Economics. He had one thing in mind: to see how the Internet could help transform the business landscape in Nigeria. That, in fact, was the focus of his dissertation -- the impact of technology on small businesses.

"I've always loved the Internet; wanted to see it change a lot of things in Africa -- marketing, operations..." he tells me, at his office in Lagos.

He started peddling his dreams. Without success. "For the first eight months I didn't make a dime," he recalls. "People literally chased me out of their offices."

By Internet-age standards in Nigeria those were early days. Facebook was just picking up, and no one had heard of Twitter; Internet advertising was almost unheard of at that time.

But Abas kept at his proselytising.

Baby M was a small business that catered to the needs of new mothers and their babies. It operated out of one store in Ikoyi, Lagos, near where Abas lived, and also had a network of sales agents who combed the streets of Lagos in search of customers. Monthly revenues were in the region of one thousand dollars.

Abas tried to convince Baby M's proprietor to give him a chance to show how the Internet could help her advertise cheaply and find new customers. At first she wasn't very keen. Until Abas offered a money-back guarantee in the event that he failed to fulfil his promise.

With nothing to lose, she gave him N40,000 (approx $250) -- his debut earning as an internet marketing consultant.

The results were phenomenal. Within three months, says Abas, Baby M's revenues grew from $1,000 a month to $100,000 a month, immediately overwhelming her capacity to fulfil orders.

That feat attracted the attention of Google, which has since developed it into an Internet marketing case study.

Shortly after, Abas incorporated Wild Fusion, to do for other businesses what he'd done with Baby M.

Wild Fusion has since grown remarkably, from its founder's first $250, to over a million dollars in revenue in 2012. It is now on course to double that, in 2013.

It was the first Nigerian company to become a Google Adwords partner, and today provides digital marketing and online media-buying services to a client list that includes names like Unilever, Pepsi and Diamond Bank in Nigeria, and Vodafone in Ghana.

While global corporate spending on traditional mediums (TV, radio, print) has either declined or stagnated in the last few years, Internet advertising budgets have steadily grown, and will continue to, into the near future.

The shift is beginning to be noticeable in Nigeria, and everyone -- from banks to beer companies -- is now seeking to actively engage consumers on the Internet.

According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Africa's 27 per cent average annual growth (2009 - 2013) in household Internet penetration is almost double that of the next fastest contender, Asia and the Pacific. Africa is also the world's fastest growing market for mobile broadband.

Wild Fusion has just opened a country office, in Nairobi, Kenya; its third, after Nigeria and Ghana.

It is also currently building its first proprietary technology, which it plans to license to small businesses and which will provide them with an easy-to-use interface for deploying online advertising.

In five years Abas envisions offices across Africa, and annual revenues of $100 million.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-nigerian-internet-start-up-grew-revenue-from-250-to-1m-in-three-years/156750/

Ok. How much is required to purchase a 40ft container FOB Lagos?