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o shut up about lagos already!compare your neighbouring states with states in the SE and SS, then ull know you aint different from your brothers up north.

wild wild south, lol

na wa o!

lol, even the dead r leaving.

@bk, since i found out your parents were actually brother and sister,i ve decided to tolerate you, its quite traumatic, and explains your pedophilia.but you need help, just indicate.i should be able to work somethin out.

alabalaba, you seem genuinely angry bout wat is goin on in lagos.pls if you have authentic info dont hesitate to spill it cos most nlers screamin lagos have not smelt the place in more than 20yrs and know nothing more than wat they get from the net.

@aigbofa, you say hes a retard and yet see as you dey kill yourself dey reply am.wat does that make you?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-374942.0.html

i hope this helps,

damn, lol, always knew there was somethin not right about the f u c k e r

make dem bring back bakassi.it ll work like magic.

for all the doubting thomases, visit this link and stop sounding beefy,
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-374942.0.html

IGNATIUS CHUKWU in Port Harcourt writes that the Rivers State government is poised to revolutionise transportation in the Garden City with the construction of West Africa's first monorail project
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, May 14, 2010, laid the foundation stones to flag off construction of West Africa's first monorail project and perhaps Africa's third monorail experiment, after the Nile system and Kuala Lumpur monorail project. Should construction go according to plan, and with N50Bn spent by the next five years, five trains of 300 passengers each would move at the same time and run through the routes from morning till night.

The Port Harcourt monorail, an advanced rapid transit system, is therefore capable of hauling over 15,000 passengers in a day, conservatively. The implication is that the monorail system would mop up passengers that would have required at least 1000 14-seater buses to handle. When monorail begins, at least 1000 buses would either go off road or look for passengers elsewhere. At least, there would be sanity on the roads and the routes in the garden city.

By charging at least N.50k per drop on a short route and N1 for long routes, the monorail operations are capable of earning at least N1m per day, N30m per month or N360m per annum to its owners, the Rivers Monorail Company Limited (RMCL). The RMCL is a special purpose vehicle (a joint venture) between the Rivers State Government and a private company, STI Property International, owned by former military governor of the state, Anthony Ukpo. The Cross River State-born retired Army officer is now into heavy investments in Port Harcourt (Rivers State) and runs other businesses in the garden city including the top-class hotel in the reserved areas, Le Meriden (Ogenyi Place), which is not far from the prestigious Hotel Presidential and Protea Hotel.

According to Ukpo, the first phase of the construction is expected to bring results in the next two years with two trains on course. By the time the 19.1km route is completed, the monorail system would begin from Aggrey Road in the heart of the old city to Sharks Park and UTC Junction. It will then develop a loop to Mile One, Two and Three, and detour to Olu Obasanjo Road to link with the loop from UTC to Airforce Base. The second loop would veer off at Garrison Junction to Trans-Amadi, Elekahia back to Airforce Base. On completion, a total of five stocks would run the routes back and forth.

The commissioner for Transport, George Tolofari, explained in an interview that the routes to be covered by the monorail transport system are in the densely populated areas, some of the rowdiest in the state capital. During the rush hours, hundreds of passengers are usually stranded because of absence of buses and taxies, and this is made worse by the chaotic traffic situation that would not free commuter-vehicles to execute fast turn-around to take other passengers. Many workers get back home close to midnight, and when it rains, some simply stay back in the offices or risk sleeping on the road.

The routes chosen by the government and the planners seem to be viable and loaded with passengers always falling over each other for buses and taxis. At the Isaac Boro taxi park, passengers often tore away at the doors each time a taxi showed up, just to gain a seat-space inside.

On a business trip to Port Harcourt in 2005, the then managing director of Nigeria Breweries, Festus Odimegwu, sat so furiously in the hold-up for hours until he began cursing at every one connected with governance of the state. At the venue of an event later, the then chief executive admonished the state administration and made it clear that anyone claiming any achievement in the garden city without first getting the roads moving was a loser. This frustration has always underlined the utterances of business executives and visitors to the garden city, but this situation cannot be said to be as a result of not trying.

Former governor, Peter Odili, began by repairing the roads in the state capital. At a point before he left, the governor awarded N3Bn contract to resurface some of the key roads. He followed by building traffic lights and later added traffic marshals to help clear the troublesome Port Harcourt motorists. When this failed to make any impact, he began to build artery roads such as the Elelewno Road to carry alternative traffic off Aba Road to Eleme, and built the Airport Road to divert traffic after Rumuokoro to free Ikwerre Road.

None of these measures saved the situation. Instead, the then governor kept explaining that the original design as well as infrastructure-content of the garden city was busting to the brim due to massive influx or fortune hunters.

True, the prosperity that exploded in the garden city and the killings and exodus in the north attracted heavy human traffic into the oil city at several proportions over the original population. When Chibuike Amaechi came on the scene in October 2007, he launched a full war on Port Harcourt traffic decay and later formed deadly traffic teams mostly from the hordes of youths and recanting (ex-)militants but they seemed to rather add to the headache, with extortion of money as the main outcome. The governor disbanded them and formed a new set that has appeared well-trained.

Amaechi also began the decongestion of Port Harcourt by starting a new city (mega-city) that would take about one million residents, cutting through eight local council areas. He also delved into construction of new roads and dualisation of all the major township roads such as Ikwerre road, Woji, NTA Road, etc.

He is also fighting flooding which used to imprison the state capital. The plan is to install underground drainage systems with mighty concrete pipes. These will inter-connect with each other and eventually empty into the Nta-Nwogba natural drainage (river) which empties into the ocean at the back of the city. True, the administration has shelved the proposed ring-road project in the city due to escalating cost (from $1Bn to now $2Bn), but the N50Bn monorail system is expected to link up with the multi-billion naira new road from UTC to Ada-George mostly through long-range flyovers to decongest the oil city.

The monorail as a system of transportation seems suitable in the garden city. It can easily interface with other transport modes to ferry passengers around in the oil city. Boats ferry persons from the creeks every hour into the city through areas such as Aggrey Road, Borokiri, Wharf, etc. In the absence of motorcycles, taxis now carry the emerging passengers to Aggrey, Lagos Bus Stop and Station Road up to Abonnema Wharf Junction. This is why UTC Junction is a bustling area as those from the state secretariat and Moscow Road join those from Marine Base to raise traffic rates.

The monorail trains would mop up all this and bring them to Mile One, or Two up to Mile Three. Buses can take over from there and run the Rumuokoro or Wimpey routes out of Port Harcourt.

The result is that the monorail corridor including terminal ands sub-stations would definitely become a business route for hawkers and petty traders. This must be why Ukpo told journalists on the eve of the foundation ceremony that shops would be created and regulated along the routes. These will pay rates and fees. Sure, there would be in-transit hawkers and salesmen who may require licenses to operate. The concentration of 300 passengers at a time would create a large mobile market that could generate a turn-over of about N10m per month at a conservative sales estimate of N5000 per train of 300 passengers per trip.

Several operators, conductors, technicians, etc, would be required to help the trains move about. There would be administrative and management workforce to drive the system, and this would definitely create jobs in the state capital. Where ever over N360m is generated in one year, the activities will surely create jobs and businesses that also galvanise the local economy.

The amount involved (N50Bn) sounds staggering but the state government says it has already paid up its share of N11Bn or 20 per cent of equity. The governor says he is however yet to see the funds promised by private partners (STI) who are also to execute and manage the special purpose vehicle (SPV) company known as RMCL. He said he is ready to take over the funding if crisis ensued, just to save the noble project.

The reason for choosing the SPV approach, he explained, was to hand over the management of the advanced rapid transport system to private experts and save the experiment from public officials and political jingoism.

In all this, political economists fear that the bane of every good project in Nigeria has been political instability which truncates most noble economic and social infrastructure projects. This is why many have appealed to those in authority in the government in the state to also work on political relationships so as to reduce destructive tension that rears up at succession times in most states.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11595:economic-imperatives-of-port-harcourts-monorail-experiment-&catid=94:features&Itemid=353

lol, austin nwachukwu is my uncle, come and see the mansion he's building with our constituency fund somewhere in nsu district,ehime mbano.
crooks, thats all they know, meanwhile doctors are on strike in this same country and these idiots are fightin to share our money,
I have said it , this country is goin no where until we spill the blood of these criminals,

sorry, i believe this is the correct link http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/june/21/national-21-06-2010-010.htm , , dem must to die money, why?

ICPC bursts N5bn contract scam in Rivers
, Arrests commissioner, bank chiefs
From Our reporter
Monday, June 21, 2010



The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has nabbed the Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr Parker Sampson and several top government functionaries in the state over a N5 billion ($37.2 million) contract scam.

The commission also arrested some contractors, and officials of three banks based in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as well as the accountant general of the state on alleged involvement in the scam. They are being questioned over their alleged complicity in the deal.

The government officials already in ICPC net include a permanent secretary in the ministry of health, the director of accounts and the director of medical services in the ministry, all said to have made useful statements in support of allegations levelled against the commissioner.

According to ICPC, arrest of the suspects was necessitated by the roles each of them allegedly played in the diversion of the sum of N5 billion earmarked by the state government for construction of Justice Karibi Whyte Memorial Hospital located at Omagwa, Rivers State. The construction was to be jointly handled by a foreign contractor Clinotech International Ova.

It said the health commissioner allegedly collaborated with the main contractor, Dr. Harrison Ofiyal, managing director, Clinotech International Ova, which had been engaged by the government of Rivers State for the construction of the hospital. It said preliminary investigations conducted by its operatives had shown that the amount claimed to have been spent on the hospital project was nothing to compare with the structure on the ground, thus indicating that those connected with the project allegedly misappropriated a large chunk of the money earmarked.

The Justice Karibi Whyte Memorial Hospital, according to plan by the Rivers State Government, was meant to be constructed by Public Private Partnership arrangement. The ICPC said the officials of three banks so far arrested were alleged to have aided the diversion of the fund earmarked for the project such that 60 per cent of the N5 billion set aside for construction could not be accounted for.

The Resident Consultant to ICPC on Media, Mr. Folu Olamiti, said the anti-graft commission swung into action on account of petitions filed by concerned citizens from Rivers State on the contract and eventually uncovered the scam.
He said investigations into the contract scam was yet to conclude as he indicated that more arrest of suspected culprits would be made immediately a signal to that effect emerge.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpage, 6-2010-010.htm

This  same govt claims it cant pay the arrears of the new doctors salary from january but the truth is the deputy senate presidents monthly allowance can pay the arrears of 125 doctors in the service.The senate presidents allowance is enough to buy a brand new MRI or CT machine.It can buy about 10 good quality ultrasound machines.It can go a long way in upgrading our operating theatres.It can get us enough brand new,well equipped ambulances.
It can get us a good number of defibrillators meaning  more than a 50% reduction in mortality in our teaching hospitals.
It can build an average of 2-3  standard health centres with the basic paracetamol for headache and routine drugs for antenatal patients.

Lord have mercy on us!!

Please,how can we kill these people en masse?Seriously!!

Resist the legislators’ jumbo pay, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) urged the public on Tuesday as opinion leaders voiced outrage at the allowance of Senators which fetches Senate President David Mark alone N250 million quarterly or N83.33 million per month.
Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu gets N150 million per quarter or N50 million a month.
Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP) Chairman, Pat Utomi, described it as shocking; Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) founder, Fredrick Fasehun, called it indecent.
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Onibiyo Adelabu, said it is worrisome and may lead to a national tragedy.
Daily Independent reported exclusively on Tuesday that the Senate has allocated N1,024,000,000 as quarterly allowance to its 10 principal officers, known collectively as the Senate leadership.
Each of the eight other principal officers take home N78 million every three months or N26 million per month.
Besides, for this year, the Senate has voted N2.6 billion for local travel, N2.45 billion (foreign travel), N1.25 million (security), N2.28 billion (contingency), N750 million (guest houses for Mark and Ekweremadu), and N500 million (establishment of radio and television stations).
Former Ohanaeze President General, Dozie Ikedife; former Aviation Minister, Mbazurike Amaechi; and former Anambra State Governor, Chukwuemeka Ezeife; all called for a mass protest against the rip off.
Ikedife said: “This is a state of inverted pyramid. How can people be collecting such amount of money and they go to buy garri and rice in the same market with the masses?
“If the masses get to know about this there will be an uprising. What laws have they been able to make for the country that is meaningful to us?
“When they collect such money they do not visit their constituencies any more. They would wait for another election and use the money to return themselves to the National Assembly. This is a shame and must be condemned.”
Amaechi, who was Minister in the First Republic, lamented that, “This was not the picture of Nigeria that we thought of while we fought for the independence. It is unfortunate that we have a bunch of thieves and Judases. They are a collection of looters.
“People go into public service to loot and cheat people while over 80 per cent of Nigerians are hungry and the communities suffer the absence of basic amenities.
“The amount is not just scandalous but criminal. The masses should rise up and defend their wealth which is being plundered by a collection of thieves in the name of legislators.
“Public service and political appointment have become a lucrative business venture where a very few people cheat their way to office and embezzle the money of the people with impunity. Nigerians should not allow themselves to be deceived by these thieves.”
Ezeife said it is “an indication that our political arrangement is extremely expensive. The leaders do not care about the led. They make themselves comfortable and others can go to hell.
“It is condemnable and unacceptable to Nigerians and this has to stop. This act of official criminality is a reproach on this nation and our leaders have become so shameless that they feel proud about what they do.
“We need to put the amount side by side with what they have been able to achieve since they became Senators. They should have a rethink on this matter. I can assure you that N250 million can do a lot for a community in terms of development.”
NBA National Publicity Secretary, Muritala Abdul-Rasheed, said the lawmakers are insensitive to the plight of the people and are not fit to represent anyone.
“They cannot be feeding fat on the wealth of the nation and at the same time ask the people to bear the economic crunch. These people are not worthy of their position.
“The NBA condemns the increase in quarterly allowance of federal legislators at a time of economic depression and national anxiety in the country,” he added.
Fasehun described the remuneration as outrageous and indecent, saying it is the height of depravity for lawmakers to earn such an amount when the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has been fighting to raise the minimum wage above N7,500 per month.
“This is a gross abuse of the Constitution. Clearly the Constitution saddles the executive with the responsibility of project implementation and the legislature with making laws for the good governance of the nation.
“So, the real question people should ask is: With the huge expenditure going into maintaining federal legislators, what has been their contribution to national development and the development of their local constituencies?
“Why should so-called constituency projects pass through federal legislators when executives in local governments, states and the Federal government perform these same tasks?” Fasehun queried.
Adelabu, the Lagos lawmaker, said: “Most of the things we hear about federal lawmakers are worrisome. They have to be very careful because what they are doing will be the beginning of a very great tragedy and we may not come out of it.
“If the only thing that people who are elected to represent the interest of others think about is sharing money, then we should be very careful. Our people should watch the kind of people they elect in 2011.
People tend to believe that the way they get money there is the same way those at the state level get it. Therefore, our people will want to be on our neck and want you to give them money believing that we are getting money the same way federal lawmakers are getting it.
“All the news I personally have been hearing about both the Senate and the House of Representatives is bad, and I don’t have any intention of getting there.
“Those people are not worthy of moving this country forward, so the people must use the instrument they have by not voting them.”
Utomi argued that a bicameral legislature is too expensive for Nigeria and the country does not even need full time lawmakers.
His words: “It is shocking that this legislature is costing this nation as much as 30 per cent of our national budget compared to the Second Republic legislature that cost under three per cent of the national budget.
“When we dare to put forth this figure to them, they respond by telling us that their spending is only a fraction of what the Presidency is spending on its various functionaries.
“This country does not need a full-time legislature. We only need a unicameral legislature that would meet for three or four weeks in a year and afterwards, they would go back to their various professions.
“All the legislations that would be needed for the whole year could be sorted out by this body that should not be more than 100 people.”
Utomi said the cost of running the legislature and other government businesses in Nigeria is 60 per cent of the national budget, far more than the cost of doing the same thing in some advanced countries with more buoyant economies.
On Tuesday, the Senate issued a statement which did not deny the report of the jumbo allowance, but simply alleged a plot to destalise the Upper Chamber.
The statement, issued by Information and Media Committee Chairman, Ayogu Eze, said: “The Senate has uncovered a plot by some individuals to destabilise the Red Chamber by sponsoring some spurious write-ups in some of Nigeria’s national dailies.
“These people are unhappy about the peace and stability in the Senate, and the leadership it has provided in nurturing and deepening our democracy.
“We wish to assure Nigerians that these tales by the moonlight bear no resemblance to the truth whatsoever.
“We also wish to inform Nigerians that we shall launch full inquiry into the source of this unprovoked assault on the institution of the Nigerian Senate.
“Meanwhile, we urge editors of Nigerian media organisations to always cross-check so-called scoops from their field men before printing or airing them. “

http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=15429

Rainbow town,

rumuola road, sexy!!

Tam David West/East West flyover by gitto, Tam david west is to serve as a link between the new and old PH

NTA-choba Road, , the contractor should be hung,
Tam-David West Road(3rd image)

sorry the school up there is along old aba road, this is oromenike primary school d/line

oromenike D/LINE primary school

Trans Amadi Gas turbine, (from outside),

CFC junction

beautification project at new rivoc road, sasun junction(2nd image), CFC junction(3rd image)

Elekahia-Rumuomasi road and market junction(last image)

ezeuche, eziokwu ka e kwuru!
Old Aba road, As far as i am concerned zerock did nothing on this road but its better than NTA road, lol

slaughter-oginigba

slaughter-oginigba

There were strong indications yesterday that former Delta Governor James Ibori may seek asylum in Dubai.

Many prominent Nigerians, including a top government official, have been fingered in the asylum deal.

Ibori was arrested on May 12 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital, almost a month after he was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Shortly after his arrest, the Metropolitan Police in the UK said the ex-governor had a case to answer over alleged worldwide assets worth $35million.

The Met Police and the EFCC sent separate teams and documents to Dubai to push Ibori’s extradition.

But, the extradition process, which ought to begin on Monday, may have suffered a setback, following pressure on the UAE authorities by some powerful Nigerians and investors to consider Ibori’s case as political persecution.

It was learnt that many highly-placed Nigerians flew to Dubai in solidarity with Ibori, who is said to be pushing for political asylum.

It was gathered that reports from Dubai have also indicated a grand plot to grant Ibori asylum.

The source said: "We have a great challenge at hand because the UAE authorities are not keen on the extradition of Ibori. In fact, the process has not started.

"Ibori and his counsel are pleading a case of political persecution in Nigeria . In fact, the case is shifting from extradition to battle for asylum.

"Some Nigerians with international political connections and high net worth investments in UAE have come to the rescue of Ibori and the application for extradition might be frustrated.

"I think the security agencies in Nigeria were given a status report of the case yesterday. They are now aware that some highly-connected Nigerians are sneaking to Dubai to bail out the ex-governor."

The source also explained that the Met Police were battling with the application for extradition because the conditions are stringent under the Federal Law No (39) of 2006.

"You should expect some high-level diplomatic talks with UAE by the UK and Nigeria in the next few days," the source added.

The Nation

has reported that diplomatic consultations on Ibori’s fate assumed a new dimension with the INTERPOL in Dubai also signifying interest in prosecuting the ex-governor in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for money laundering.

It was learnt that President H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan signed the law four years ago.

As part of the conditions Ibori may not be released if he produces evidence of political persecution by the Federal Government and the UK authorities.

Ibori’s Special Assistant (Media) Tony Eluemunor said: "First of all, what Ibori’s lawyers may have written or have not written to Dubai authorities is not mine to divulge until the time comes to divulge them because the matter will be thrashed out in open court.

"Yet, the fact remains that it is not new to anybody in Nigeria that Ibori is a victim of political persecution in this election year. We have not only said it before, but it is the truth.

"As Ibori was arrested on a warrant, we are still waiting for the Met Police and their Nigerian collaborators or instigators to bring out whatever case they have in the open court in Dubai. So far, they have no case."

http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/48005/1/Ibori-may-seek-asylum-in-Dubai/Page1.html
, i laugh in itsekiri, i love this country, drama!