Seniorwriter:
Weyrey(Mad) clueless leaders....This one is also trying to be politically correct....sometimes I feel ashamed when my online clients ask me why Nigeria is the way it is when we have so many brilliant individuals like me....reason we youth must do the needful paradigm shift via voting in youthful visionary leaders come 2023. The Edo election shows the people can turn things their way with a proactive will.
Anyways I'm happy cos my P2P activity just yielded a $130 exchange profit!!! still on still my target($400) yet reached as I multitask between my FB-NL-P2P platforms accounts.
Please equip yourself financially as a youth in order not to be used as a political Pawn(tool) for negatives by these criminals in Nigeria that call themselves political leaders!!!
BTW for those sending me PMs or DMs ill suggest you just send me a message on facebook using the FB ID on my profile here on NL....i have tons of emails and will not attend to it for now till after I meet my target....so if you want to reach me urgently kindly do as I've suggested. Am interested


Proactivity Leads To Productivity!!!
@Seniorwriter

Mindlog:
Senseless! What stops the rail track ending at Jibia which is the border and containers offloaded there and Nigeriens clear their goods and truck their goods to their desired destinations?

AceRoyal:
But the South East and South South have been begging for standard rail lines to be extended to them(a standard rail line from the south to the north) to boost economic development that will be very beneficial to our country as a whole. Rail lines that. An be used to transport petroleum products, agricultural products, etc.

Absolute waste of resources with NO ECONOMIC BENEFIT WHATSOEVER TO US AS A NATION!

I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I'M ASHAMED OF OUR LEADERS, ESPECIALLY THIS PRESENT SET OF LEADERS!!!

PHijo:


I wonder if he is bipolar!
Yesterday he was Igbo, today he is married to an Igbo woman. Tomorrow he may be a 'Bini' man.

orisa37:
So an Igbo Man, AMAECHI, is The Executioner of all The MACBAN'S AND BUHARI'S wasteful Commitments in NIGER REPUBLIC.

adenigga:


Source: https://m.punchng.com/news/We-begged-Niger-Republic-to-construct-railway-for-them-Amaechi

adenigga:


Source: https://m.punchng.com/news/We-begged-Niger-Republic-to-construct-railway-for-them-Amaechi

adenigga:


Source: https://m.punchng.com/news/We-begged-Niger-Republic-to-construct-railway-for-them-Amaechi

Nature129:
Why do these people keep chasing shadows? There are lots of reports in the public domain that the Eastern railway is the most lucrative in Nigeria, but you would rather fix railways in other regions because the east didn't vote for APC.

They have even gone to beg Niger Rep to connect them to Lagos in the name of facilitating the international trade between the two countries. Meanwhile, the most lucrative rail line in your country is lying moribund. The black man has a big problem.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/nigerian-railway-losing-billions-of-naira-in-south-east/amp/

adenigga:


Source: https://m.punchng.com/news/We-begged-Niger-Republic-to-construct-railway-for-them-Amaechi

adenigga:


Source: https://m.punchng.com/news/We-begged-Niger-Republic-to-construct-railway-for-them-Amaechi

ccffwx:


He's now an Igbo man no longer SS? Jokes on you peeps.

PHijo:


I wonder if he is bipolar!
Yesterday he was Igbo, today he is married to an Igbo woman. Tomorrow he may be a 'Bini' man.

Dasuks:


Baseless... what is the value of Niger external trade? For it to warrant taking the debt cost to build it for them.

Does Amaechi understand trade nodes and patterns? Modern Niger is a Franco construct and has long established Benin-routed trade connections. Northern Benin is also full of the same ppl as northern NG and Niger...they flow toward Ouaga as well and ultimately France.

French infrastructure is geared to channel SW Niger (wealthiest region) trade to coastal Franco ports. Maradi (southcentral) just has a significant connection to the Nigerian trade sphere, dating from pre jihad and esp in the post Jihad, because the sarkin gargajiya(old Hausa royals) fled towards there.

This is in reality a pet project for the ego of the oligarchs in the NW. What is the underlying basis ? Let us try and formulate what would be the key variables for a multiplier measurement identity.

The independent variables to gauge the Usd gains from whatever trade would be: average income, net exports (quantity and quality), population, node importance (Maradi within Niger), size of economy (poorest nation on earth and even still concenteated around Niamey), what else ? You can add?

They send many low quality unprocessed goods our way and have a small population... anybody can check this.... then we can go over to factoring the true cost of the rail extension vs other more lucrative routes within Nigeria ?

Amaechi shld pls sit down. These ppl talk too much

Ps edit: Niger literally exports 1.5 billion euros worth of goods and imports more than 2 billion euros worth of... what is the cost of the rail again ?? Amaechi as u no dey reason, no mean say all of us for Nigeria na MUMU.

plaindealer:

Having a rail system where goods are shipped back and forth via our rail system offers the best mode of transportation of goods and services anywhere in the region. The load up in Lagos or from the country, they go through customs, immigration easily at both ends, put their goods on the rail wagon for straight forward transportation, a better system for them, a great market and economic benefits for us.

The total cost for this aspect of the rail line is $200 million, an investment with multi $Billion windfall for decades to come, a move to position and keep cementing Nigeria's economic dominance, trade, and transportation in the region.

French firm Bollore will cover the entire 1.07 billion euro cost of building the rail link, according to the terms of the deal.

Bollore will own a 40 percent stake in the operator BENI Rail, in which the two countries will each own 10 percent. The remaining stake will be owned by private investors from Niger and Benin.

Blue3k:


The deal isn't good especially when you consider they were more than willing to pay for a rail line to connect with Benin Republic. That rail contract hasn't been terminated so this Niger Nigeria rail wont be a competitive advantage longterm. They will always alternate between cheaper port option.

Aside from begging them to build the rail noboody knows what other concessions he might of made to them. They weren't honest about building rail line into their country at first. Beating benin Republic to establishing a rail could have been handled better.

EmptyGarden:
You can't explain nonsense Sir. Bubu's henchmen are all comedians, they've successfully turned Nigeria to a Joke.

plaindealer:




Niger is not the only landlocked country in our region, there are 4 countries from Mali to Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso and they all need access to coastal trade and transportation that currently we are not participating in because we don't have the infrastructure to make it happen.


This project is not about what you are going to reap tomorrow, it's what you are going to reap and keep reaping for many decades to come, it's making Nigeria the trade and economic hub of the entire region.

Stop been narrow and shortsighted.

Btw, the portion of the rail investment from Nigeria to Nigeria is $200 million, not $1.5 billion

This is the problem with many of you, you read headlines and you pick race to start peddling half-truth, misinformation and formulate your own flawed narratives just because you are to intellectually lazy to source real facts.

In fact, where is the sense and wisdom in forgoing and ceding our regional economic goals just because of France or because some countries are francophone countries? The way you people think henn? If den hand over Nigeria to you to run, It's straight back to the stone age for Nigeria.

plaindealer:



To start with, the portion of the rail line to Niger is costing us only $200 million, not $1.5 billion, it's in the same interview, the same place this article came from, people just singled out their own preferred portion of the interview for their own self-induced motives.

We determine what's best for our country in terms of trade and commerce, not other countries and this rail system mean cheaper port options because it's a cheaper transportation option that removes associated costs transporters incurs via road transportation from accidents to checkpoints, bribes, break downs and delays. Nothing stops us from creating the best and the cheapest model to sell and remain profitable regardless of what other countries are doing, business is all about profits and ease, not colonial bondages.

Goods and services leaving and entering Nigeria remain the lifeline for nearly all the countries in our region France or no France, we are still the dominant economic multiplier in our region and the whole of Africa and we must keep moving, keep expanding, keep putting infrastructures in place to keep cementing that dominance, not to fold hands because of marginal concerns about other countries.