₦airaland Forum

Chinjo2:
This is how Ayade killed the dream of Donald duke.
This is the same scenario playing out in Edo State where the governor is busy destroying everything that were done by Obaseki instead of him to build on them.
Nigeria politicians are evil

Why is it the dream of one man? Donald Duke invested in the wrong project. Nigeria needs an industrial park so that we can make stuff.

I visited Tinapa when I toured SS , it's degrading as well . The last governor underperformed .

slivertongue:
Donald Duke's successors were not helpful to that project

How can they be helpful when he failed to provide the basics of government services and common utilities for the enavling envitronment of sustainability and maintenance to such huge projects?

Where they have these things maintaned and improved forever, do they have most children out of school and many of those in school being in private establishments? Or they have people drinking shitty water from boreholes in the same compound with soak aways?

What progress did Donald Duke make on these indices

Obudu cattle ranch is very beautiful place to be back then but as it is now case closed.

maiunguwar:
I'll recommend mrvitalis as economic minister under a future government.

It's very obvious most Nigerians don't understand how a modern economy works.

Feel good fancy projects should not be a priority in a country where 80% of the citizens live below poverty line.

Build the people, empower businesses, eliminate poverty and with time the results of an empowered population will manifest.

That was what worked for the Chinese

how do modern economies work?

how should poverty be eliminated?

what was the purpose behind obudu cattle ranch resort?

Chinjo2:
This is how Ayade killed the dream of Donald duke.

This is the same scenario playing out in Edo State where the governor is busy destroying everything that were done by Obaseki instead of him to build on them.
Nigeria politicians are evil

Did Duke hand over to Ayade?
Or did he hand over to Imoke

mrvitalis:
Then take loan from the bank and buy it off na I'm sure the state would sale

some rich man would in the future.

I will visit there again for the cold. Naija heat fit drive man crazy. The only good thing about the situation is one can hire a luxury room for under thirty thousand Naira per night. Why didn’t Duke himself maintain the place after his tenure? Wasn’t he said to be wealthy? Nigerians don’t care for the next person unless they have endless capital from the national treasury.

Obaaderemi2:
Is it not Nigeria again? There's a total lack of maintenance culture. Our level of education as a group of people is very low. That's the foundation of our problem. Until something is done about our abysmal attention to education Nigeria will not progress. Wasting money building edifices will not help. You can't build something on nothing

"You can't build something on nothing".

Words 🤔

sulaak:
Why is it the dream of one man? Donald Duke invested in the wrong project. Nigeria needs an industrial park so that we can make stuff.

how was investing in obudu the wrong project?

why did Duke's successors not build this industrial park?

what was the purpose of the tinapa free trade zone?

mrvitalis:
Lmao obubu is over 6 hours away from calabar
Just like tinapa are foolish projects

Nigeria has less than 3 million people that spend 10 dollars per day
Cross river less than 5% of that

And you think it can sustain things like this

How many international visitors visit there yearly? Upto 1000 ?

If the place was sustainable banks would have taken it over

You are the only one commenting with facts not Emotion. Has Laudable as that project would have been, but it was a white Elephant project.
The ranch is so far to the Capital, Too far to the Calabar yearly Canival that would have helped a little.
The successive Government are also about their own Landmark project, unlike Lagos State that it's all about continuity.

mrvitalis:
When I see comments like this I laugh

It's not maintained not because we lack maintenance culture but because it's a revenue draining project

Most of you don't understand how economy works at all economics should be compulsory

revenue draining as how. If the government rebrand it and market it won't it generate revenue for o the state.

slivertongue:
Donald Duke's successors were not helpful to that project

Nigeria and poor maintenance culture. Our national stadiums are suffering the same.
But, how many Nigerians get money to go vacation nowadays? When last did you think of going on vacation? I think this is still one of the reasons the place was abandoned.

sulaak:
Donald Duke should have sold the project to a private investor. The government are just not good at operating commercial ventures.

So why are we against privatisation and deregulation capitalists in PDP, who made our country proserous with high productivity employment for 16 years before ebilokan kicked out southerner Jonathan and replaced him with northerner Buhari?

Have we not been seeing APC shege promax extreme poverty since 2015

thisweekng:
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.

He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.

He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.

“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.

“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.”
Private sector to drive the economy

https://nairametrics.com/2023/09/01/the-last-time-nigerias-economy-was-stable-was-about-a-decade-ago-wale-edun/

Maintenance culture dey cry

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Chinjo2:
This is how Ayade killed the dream of Donald duke.
This is the same scenario playing out in Edo State where the governor is busy destroying everything that were done by Obaseki instead of him to build on them.
Nigeria politicians are evil

What did obaseki do that is being destroyed . I would like to know

DeipTruth:
revenue draining as how. If the government rebrand it and market it won't it generate revenue for o the state.

Would the revenue generated be more than the runing cost?

How many Nigerians do you think can afford it to go to that place

How many actually goes

Una no do economics for school?

HEAVEN4444:
some rich man would in the future.

No bank would give such loan because it won't balance at all

Jd10k:
You are the only one commenting with facts not Emotion. Has Laudable as that project would have been, but it was a white Elephant project.

The ranch is so far to the Capital, Too far to the Calabar yearly Canival that would have helped a little.
The successive Government are also about their own Landmark project, unlike Lagos State that it's all about continuity.

Continuity greatest of looting or what in Lagos state?

If the greatest looting is not going on in Lagos, then why have the four governors of the past 26 years failed to do anything near what Jakande did in just four years depite having so much more revenue and even loans

Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

That place used to be so beautiful on the TV, what a terrible politicians are Nigerians having??

mrvitalis:
When I see comments like this I laugh

It's not maintained not because we lack maintenance culture but because it's a revenue draining project

Most of you don't understand how economy works at all economics should be compulsory

Our refinery that didn't work is also a revenue draining project abi?

mrvitalis:
When I see comments like this I laugh

It's not maintained not because we lack maintenance culture but because it's a revenue draining project

Most of you don't understand how economy works at all economics should be compulsory

What is draining about a cattle ranch and resort? Countries like Brazil, Mexico and Netherlands make billions of dollars yearly from cattle ranches like this
Don't be so narrow-minded to think buying and selling is the only revenue generator in an economy

lexy2014:
how do modern economies work?

how should poverty be eliminated?

what was the purpose behind obudu cattle ranch resort?

You provide SMEs with cheap loans if they meet certain conditions through micro finance bank

Like if you have a cooperative of 50 to 500 farms and havw 5000 to 50,000 hectares of farm of a specific goods
And can show you can produce the crop below international price

Then you would have access to 5 billion loan at 8% per annum to cultivate

Same can be done in many sectors it's a very complex process sha

Chinjo2:
This is how Ayade killed the dream of Donald duke.
This is the same scenario playing out in Edo State where the governor is busy destroying everything that were done by Obaseki instead of him to build on them.
Nigeria politicians are evil

What did Obaseku did in Edo? Mention only 10.

ernieboy:
that is because the govt that came later lacked the vision and drive to make it a success.

Oga if the place have profit from the start no government would abandon it

How can you abandon something that makes you money...

Kukutente23:
What is draining about a cattle ranch and resort? Countries like Brazil, Mexico and Netherlands make billions of dollars yearly from cattle ranches like this
Don't be so narrow-minded to think buying and selling is the only revenue generator in an economy

Lmao... Please buy it an

Same fate awaits numerous other project that serve no real purpose in the lives of Nigerians. If this ranch was useful, it wont take so long to for the rot to come to light.

All these mega roads and flyover or airports are no different. Soon to fade away or become unmaintainable. All the flyovers are neccesitaed by petty trading and wrong use of the busy spots. If cleared of these elements nothing can stop traffic enought to cause the suffering thats necessitating flyovers.

Obaaderemi2:
Is it not Nigeria again? There's a total lack of maintenance culture. Our level of education as a group of people is very low. That's the foundation of our problem. Until something is done about our abysmal attention to education Nigeria will not progress. Wasting money building edifices will not help. You can't build something on nothing

Lol THE BLACK MAN is a different breed.