₦airaland Forum

PassingShot:
I will do, we will do, we plan to, I vow to, we are looking into it, a committee will be set up, etc.

No matter how good-intended Jonathan is, he will continue to fail as long as he cannot fight corruption. He himself is corrupt and as such got no balls to fight it.


Well, GEJ has tried in the transportation sector, I will give him a C.

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Danhumprey:
Project(s) inconclusive. Almost every project completion is always in future tense. Why?

PassingShot:
Leave sentiments out of it please.

Even Buhari's harshest critics know that he is very upright and a man of unrivaled integrity. This is a man who collects only 10% of his monthly allowance from the FG (2.3 million of 23 million). With a Buhari as the president, the war against corruption is half won already as many will automatically desist from the cankerworm.

You equally know that Ribadu or Kwankwaso do not command the same followership as Buhari. So, where will the numbers to defeat PDP come from. Buhari's candidacy is the best thing to happen to Nigeria in this two party state affairs of our right now.

nkowaputa:
that moment your hater gives you a C then you know its actually an A.

anyway, what grade will you give him in the agric sector?

#they don de agree say him work

tonytony208:
go and ask raji fashola and his moribund and fraudulent light rail project that question. Also ask amechi and his fraudulent 19 billion naira loan that he coaxed the state assembly to approve. Maybe you also want to ask him to give account of how he spent d money.

And do not forget to ask fashola why lagos is the most corrupt state in Nigeria in 2014.

The change apc is preaching is fake.

rozayx5:
@bolded stop peddling this old propaganda, are you buhari's account manager, make we hear word abeg, a man that cannot clear the air around common certificate you guys are trying to portray his am st mary

Reptyle:
I dunno about the rest of the drivel you typed.

But the light rail project is on course as we speak.

Construction speed is slow but steady.

tonytony208:
fashola promised to deliver light rail project about 2 yrs ago. This is 2015. Yet, there is no light rail. Apc is as bad as pdp.

M4gunners:
GEJ built 12 university under 2 years. Which ex president has done that? Gej rebuild our Train system. For more than 20 years in this Country there is nothing like Train. Our Economy is in the best shape now making us to overtake South Africa as number 1 in Africa. Talking about security, GEJ called the Boko Haram for dialogue for several times. The id1ot accepted it,but turn around to kill innocent people that same day. He now gave order that the Army should go after them . Northen elders say Gej is killing there Children.

PassingShot:
Buhari will not blow that type of trumpet for himself. People in the know have said it times without number just as it was revealed yesterday that he had to sell his house at Lagos to send her daughters for education abroad.

You know what? GEJ/PDP know more than you about Buhari. If Buhari doesn't have a certificate, it is PDP that would have first stopped him legally and not use the failed propaganda to discredit him.

Think brother.

PassingShot:
Leave sentiments out of it please.

Even Buhari's harshest critics know that he is very upright and a man of unrivaled integrity. This is a man who collects only 10% of his monthly allowance from the FG (2.3 million of 23 million). With a Buhari as the president, the war against corruption is half won already as many will automatically desist from the cankerworm.

You equally know that Ribadu or Kwankwaso do not command the same followership as Buhari. So, where will the numbers to defeat PDP come from. Buhari's candidacy is the best thing to happen to Nigeria in this two party state affairs of our right now.

klem93:
fake project from fake government

Longeria:
Nigerians who often feel unsafe in Nigeria’s airspace and yet cannot endure a nine-hour road trip between Lagos and Abuja, have received cheery news from the federal government who announced the planned take-off of a three-hour high-speed train project between the two cities.

Announcing this in Abuja on Wednesday, the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, disclosed the federal government’s partnership arrangements with private firms within and outside Nigeria towards the commencement of the project.

Umar made this disclosure at the public presentation of a book, “Showcasing Goodluck Jonathan’s Monumental Strides: A Third Party Perspective,” authored by the Director-General of Citizens Network For Peace and Development in Nigeria, Mr. Dressmann Preye.

According to Umar who also said the Abuja-Kaduna rail project would commence full operation next month, the federal government equally carried out a number of feasibility studies with the plan to construct more standard gauge lines across the country.

He disclosed that the government had also successfully completed feasibility studies in seven new corridors including, the Abuja-Lagos high speed train adding that different private firms within and outside Nigeria have expressed interests in the project. The project, largely expected to be private sector-driven, according Umar, would formally take-off in 2018,

“The consultants who carried out the feasibility studies have submitted their reports. Part of the report contains the involvement of the private sector to drive the project. This is because we want to develop these lines under a public, private partnership arrangements.

“We have already received a lot of expression of interests even ahead of advertisement for the purpose from various companies in the country and indeed, in other countries of the world.

“The idea is that, if we have this in place, the trains can move from Abuja to Lagos and from Lagos to Abuja in a maximum of three hours. We are intending to compete favourably with other transportation systems in carrying passengers from Abuja to Lagos.

“When fully actualised, a train will leave Abuja to Lagos and Lagos to Abuja, every hour. The feasibility studies had been completed, it is not a question of story. The trains will start running within the next three years, say by 2018.”

He further explained that the federal government had completed the rehabilitation of western rail lines through the administration’s revivalist strategy in the rail transport sector, insisting that Jonathan’s government is working towards the completion of the eastern line.

He said: “At the moment, the trains are moving from Port Harcourt all the way to Gombe - a distance of over 1, 000 kilometres but as soon as the security situation improves around Borno State, we will complete the line from Gombe to Maiduguri.

“While that is going on, we have constructed the standard gauge from Abuja to Kaduna. We have completed the laying of the track and very soon, President Goodluck Jonathan will inaugurate it and by March this year, we are going to commence full operation on that line.

“We have placed orders for the procurement of locomotives and coaches that we are going to deploy on the track. It is a standard gauge. The trains can move on an average speed of 150 kilometres per hour.

“That means that in a maximum of one and half hours, you can leave Kaduna for Abuja and from Abuja to Kaduna by rail. It is the first standard gauge to be completed fully in the whole of West Africa.”

He used the forum to drum support campaign for the re-election of the president for another term of four years, saying his re-election, would offer him the full fledged opportunity to complete the projects in the works.


Also speaking at the occasion, Preye, the author of the book, said the contents were drawn by a team of independent media practitioners as well as representatives of civil society organisations whom he said carried out an on-the-spot assessment of all projects executed by Jonathan’s government.

“I am convinced that this book, will serve not only as a research material but also, a proof that the transformation agenda is working and is yielding fruits,” he claimed.

In his submission, the book reviewer, Dr. Casimir Anyanwu, accompanied by his wife, Senator Chris Anyanwu, said the book embodied the landmark achievements of Jonathan’s government in 15 critical sectors of the economy.

Such areas where he said federal government’s footprints had been visible were macro-economic management strategies; trade and Investment policies; infrastructure development; agricultural transformation; oil and gas industry reforms; power and renewable energy; education and health reforms, among others.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-unveils-take-off-of-high-speed-train-from-abuja-to-lagos/201012/

liberty300:
shut up! GEJ has done perfectly well in the transportation industry..even the dude above you confirmed it. Give the man some credit and stop all dese nonsense

spott:
Nigeria and Mexico approached China for credit facility to rebuild their railway systems (and other infrastructures). They both got the credits.
Look at what each country did with the money.
Are you not being short changed?
Don't you deserve Better?

PDP generated 4,000 MW @ $32.4bn in 16yrs while China Generated 22,500 MW @ $26bn

#SayNoToCorruption
#ThingsMustChange

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Reptyle:
I dunno about the rest of the drivel you typed.

But the light rail project is on course as we speak.

Construction speed is slow but steady.

PassingShot:
I will do, we will do, we plan to, I vow to, we are looking into it, a committee will be set up, etc.

No matter how good-intended Jonathan is, he will continue to fail as long as he cannot fight corruption. He himself is corrupt and as such got no balls to fight it.


Well, GEJ has tried in the transportation sector, I will give him a C.

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ocelot2006:
GEJ promised to bring back the train. Has he not achieved it?
GEJ promised to remodel our airports. Has that not been achieved?
GEJ promised to work on our federal roads. Why not take a trip see for yourself?


The GEJ administration scores at least a B+ in my books.

eleko1:
They should wait till nomalcy returned to thr trouble Northern State b4 they start this.We don't want BURNING TRAIN here/transport of terrosist to LAGOS

iiichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] If the FG can resuscitate more than 100,000 kilometres of rail network inaddition to building new rail infrastructure then linking Lagos to Abuja shouldnt be a big deal ....fresh air.. [/color]

PassingShot:
I will do, we will do, we plan to, I vow to, we are looking into it, a committee will be set up, etc.

No matter how good-intention Jonathan is, he will continue to fail as long as he cannot fight corruption. He himself is corrupt and as such got no balls to fight it.


Well, GEJ has tried in the transportation sector, I will give him a C.

Modified*

30pence:
And who is not corrupt, u inclusive?
Why did the lagos state govt take up legal proceedings against signing the freedom of information foi bill into law?
We've seen it all, letz use our head.

Thank you!