₦airaland Forum

OkunrinMeta:
How many people are responsible for stealing the bolts. Say about 20 people. Divide 20 by 180 million! That's 0%. In fact, count everyone that are in prison for just cause and divide that number by 180m to get the percentage.

Nigerians as a people are NOT bad or wicked. Non thinkers like you just love to highlight the bad eggs.

ahiboilandgas:
u are very stupid ....the trains is made to ease the live of the poor ...rich people fly in planes

freeze001:
Mr frowland, take time and educate yourself. https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rail_Life_Safety_Guide.pdf
Read the information provided by this link specifically page 5 - 7 and understand that electrified rail lines actually have electricity running through them. In fact it gives a summary of statistics for vandals that lost their lives in the process of their crimes through other causes including electrocution. The crimes do not seem to stop but it is drastically reduced because technology plays a key role and my point is that successive Nigerian governments have failed the citizens.
Furthermore, like I mentioned in my earliest post, with the provision and maintenance of steady, reliable power, there will be far less persons interested in vandalism of this nature. Criminals remain liable but the government takes the greater share of the blame, take it or leave it.

frowland:
No, electricity does not pass through railline. I read pure and applied Industrial Physics. So I dont need any journals to explain that to me. There is overhead electric lines which the train touches, this converts electrical energy to mechanical energy. NO ELECTRICITY IN RAILLINE PLEASE. What you and your vandals are mistaking is that there might be an accidental bridge of some such which short circuits the overhead cable to the railline. This does not mean the railings itself is electrified.
Are you aware that there are stations passengers have to walk across the rail lines? Are you aware that rail lines passes across bushes and even roads?
The logic is simple, put current is railline and you will see dead wildlife (rabbits, dogs, snakes, forest animals and even livestocks) all over the place. Vehicles and their occupants will get electrocuted ones they climb railings that crisscross the roads. Does this make sense to you at all? So tell me, which journal again??

Secondly, let's assume electricity actually passes through rail lines, BUT the topic is referring to rail line that is still under construction! So I wonder how you want electricity to be connected to them when it's NOT YET OPERATIONAL?? Still doesn't make sense.

royalamour:
https://i0.wp.com/www.editorialtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/images-14.jpeg?fit=738%2C415

The Nigerian government has raised alarm concerning the stealing and replacing of clips, bolts and knots on the Lagos/Ibadan rail line.

Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Fidet Okhiria, said 5,000 clips and 10,000 bolts as well as knots had been replaced along the rail track.

Mr. Fidet said, “You can’t imagine that between Lagos and Ibadan, we have replaced over 5,000 clips and close to 10,000 bolts and nuts on the track and it is not a good thing at all.


“Without those things on the tracks, accidents can occur.

“We know the volume of passengers on a train. So vandalism of rail infrastructure has to stop.”

He added that government would still go ahead to extend the Lagos-Ibadan line to Kano in three years.

The Nigerian government has in the past 10 years sunk over 4 billion dollars in its railway sector with the hope of reviving and sustaining the sector.

http://www.editorialtimes.com/danger-vandals-stealing-clips-bolts-on-lagos-ibadan-rail-track/

freeze001:
We agree to disagree; I will not engage in any back and forth on the subject. My point is clear as is yours. Fact still remains that bad/failed governance provides the boost for the crazy, desperate criminality in the country; I do not exonerate perpetrators either but the root causes and enabling factors are clear to all.

Why are some Nigerians always eager to justify CRIMINALITY?!

There are other nations in Africa and across the world with desperately poor people...
And yet these people somehow still manage to conduct themselves with decency, honesty and integrity.

Jimi24:
Things were better in the mid 70s but Nigerians were still stealing aluminum bridge rails, overhead cables and traffic light stands. Nigerians are bad through through. Only Sharia government will work.

jcross19:
you don't have any na . you that was born out of wedlock and you know what I mean.

Alphafeezay:
Heavyweight thinker, statistician of the nation. Weldon