₦airaland Forum

zoedew:
What are the Nigerien and Chadian economics worth? If there are sub-regional entities Nigeria should cautiously interact with, they are Chad and Niger! Very insecure climes and tied to France like forever. Funny idea to imagine that France will allow Nigeria take the pride of place in those Francophone countries when they are black Frenchmen. Colonisation by assimilation is a strong brand.

Biodun556:
To those who ignorantly believe Buhari is just trying to please his Fulani brothers in Niger Republic

Buhari has foresight. Those countries have no sea so they have to rely on seaport of neighboring countries.

Biodun556:
Niger Republic will import goods through Nigeria

Nigeria will soon start another rail that will link Benin Republic through Kwara

Difrent:
But you just admitted Lagos is linked with Benin now .....isn't road infrastructure?

Vex go jump into Lagoon now.

There's West African highway from Lagos to Abidjan.....it's not a problem since its in the south

There's West African gas pipeline from Nigeria to Ivory coast.....it's not a problem since its in the south

But you have a problem with linking Nigeria with Niger because its in the north abi?

Everything done in the south is right
But anything done in the north must be wrong.

Reason am now.....no just vex, use your brain

Gayigaskia:
Too many morons*** on this thread. Do you know that Niger Rep is sending Diesel fuel to Nigeria? Do you know the amount of businesses owned by Nigerian specifically Easterners in Niger? Do you also know that Ivory Coast Ghana and Benin are also trying hard to make Niger Republic patronize their ports ? I can go on and on. Niger was kept poor by the French , they have a lot of ressources that will eventually be exploited. Only God knows tomorrow, but the wise think before they act . That thinking is what birthed this rail project. God blessed PMB.

Biodun556:
To those who ignorantly believe Buhari is just trying to please his Fulani brothers in Niger Republic

Buhari has foresight. Those countries have no sea so they have to rely on seaport of neighboring countries.

Biodun556:
https://dailytrust.com/nigeria-wants-landlocked-west-african-countries-linked-to-railway

Biodun556:
To those who ignorantly believe Buhari is just trying to please his Fulani brothers in Niger Republic

Buhari has foresight. Those countries have no sea so they have to rely on seaport of neighboring countries.

Don27tiky:
what is Zimbabwe, Togo, chad etc worth that China is interested in doing business with them. Why are countries with developed economies interested in countries with struggling economies? Don’t you know that their growth depends on one another?

zoedew:
To answer your first question:-
1. Political economists will tell you that when a nation’s economy is dependent on the economy of another country it’s sovereignty is compromised. That is something China wants so as to enlarge its sphere of influence in international politics. The borrower will always be servant to the lender.
2. China is not an orphan that Nigeria is. Nigeria is, presently, a concept in the minds of a few. Only a well constituted entity can take the benefit of an investment. Tell me, how well has Nigeria taken the benefit through the decades of independence fighting the cause of other African nations? Those nations know that Nigeria is akin to broken chinaware. It is no longer useful to itself as one whole but gathered in fragments by others and for their own good. Benin, Chad, Niger, Cameroon have and are raking benefits off Nigeria for that reason and that way!
Second question:-
Go get ECOWAS stats and you will see how beneficial it has been to Nigeria relative to the benefits the other nations in the community derive from the gathering.
Unless we restructure Nigeria without using military glue it is in vain that we conduct elections. Why

zoedew:
To answer your first question:-
1. Political economists will tell you that when a nation’s economy is dependent on the economy of another country it’s sovereignty is compromised. That is something China wants so as to enlarge its sphere of influence in international politics. The borrower will always be servant to the lender.
2. China is not an orphan that Nigeria is. Nigeria is, presently, a concept in the minds of a few. Only a well constituted entity can take the benefit of an investment. Tell me, how well has Nigeria taken the benefit through the decades of independence fighting the cause of other African nations? Those nations know that Nigeria is akin to broken chinaware. It is no longer useful to itself as one whole but gathered in fragments by others and for their own good. Benin, Chad, Niger, Cameroon have and are raking benefits off Nigeria for that reason and that way!
Second question:-
Go get ECOWAS stats and you will see how beneficial it has been to Nigeria relative to the benefits the other nations in the community derive from the gathering.
Unless we restructure Nigeria without using military glue it is in vain that we conduct elections. Why

Don27tiky:
nigeria has not reach the level of China and other developed economies yet and is striving to dominate just like others. All those internal problems you mentioned are not peculiar to Nigeria alone. All countries in this world including China have their internal problem but that does not stop them from striving to succeed internationally. I wonder why some of you see Nigeria trying to do like others as a problem

zoedew:
To answer your first question:-
1. Political economists will tell you that when a nation’s economy is dependent on the economy of another country it’s sovereignty is compromised. That is something China wants so as to enlarge its sphere of influence in international politics. The borrower will always be servant to the lender.
2. China is not an orphan that Nigeria is. Nigeria is, presently, a concept in the minds of a few. Only a well constituted entity can take the benefit of an investment. Tell me, how well has Nigeria taken the benefit through the decades of independence fighting the cause of other African nations? Those nations know that Nigeria is akin to broken chinaware. It is no longer useful to itself as one whole but gathered in fragments by others and for their own good. Benin, Chad, Niger, Cameroon have and are raking benefits off Nigeria for that reason and that way!
Second question:-
Go get ECOWAS stats and you will see how beneficial it has been to Nigeria relative to the benefits the other nations in the community derive from the gathering.
Unless we restructure Nigeria without using military glue it is in vain that we conduct elections. Why

eaglechild:
What are you on about?
Nigeria did NOT construct the west Africa highway from it's budget.
It is a joint venture/ an ECOWAS project. Funded mainly by the African development bank, with all stakeholders contributing.
The pipeline project is again similar with funding from multinationals and countries involved. And it is purely a business venture.

SmartPolician:
Like what a reasonable guy pointed out, Nigeria is supposed to be implementing stringent border control measures in the north because Boko Haram, ISWAP and other terrorists (in form of herders and bandits) transverse between Nigeria and its northern borders to carry out their dastardly acts.

This is how sane leaders think, not building railway to facilitate the movement of heartless terrorists who kill for joy. BTW, how much Niger Rep has that Nigeria wants them to bring USD to the country?

You want to invest $1.8 billion in a project that will run into a very poor country while manufacturers in your country are crying that there isn't electricity to power their machines and many of them are moving to Ghana. To date, Nigeria is still struggling to generate 4000MW of power, but Buhari wants to borrow $1.8 billion to connect Kano to a dead West African country in the hopes of enhancing international trade.

Why did God curse this country with clueless leaders and followers?

Theunbothered:
What is the trade volume between Niger and Nigeria that justifies us being in mountains of debt and not them?



Is Niger Republic in the sea?

Doesn't it have roads linking it to Nigeria?

When other west African countries build infrastructure they are paying their fair share, how much is Niger spending on the railway?

slimfairboy:
Have you ever heard of book haram coming to Nigeria through Abidjan? Is it not mainly through Niger and Chad? Make una dey reason before Una mis yan na

mmsen:
They want to make it easier to smuggle child brides into Nigeria from Niger.

Gayigaskia:
I think any bride is better than babies factory

potent5:
So, all of a sudden those countries became landlocked. And Nigeria without a nationwide functional railway system has to singlehandedly do the railway lines farrr into these countries. If buhari cared so much about the African free trade, why did he lock up the commercially busiest and most crucial Nigerian borders only to start constructing railway lines in the economically less viable borders?
You people are deceiving yourselves and not me.

Difrent:
Niger is of course landlocked which is one of the main reasons it needs connection to the sea.....and what's bad if Nigeria make use of the business opportunity that provides?

Doesn't matter if Niger is not spending money on the rail.....we are the one that wants to make money and enhance trade..... Besides you've been told several times the rail stops at the Nigerian border but chose to think its going all the way to Niamey....whose fault if you have comprehension issues because of politics .

Biodun556:
To those who ignorantly believe Buhari is just trying to please his Fulani brothers in Niger Republic

Buhari has foresight. Those countries have no sea so they have to rely on seaport of neighboring countries.