₦airaland Forum

[color=#000099][/color]The script has been written long before we were born. The Western world are seriously part of our problems because they know Nigeria will develop faster and become less dependent if North is split away from South.

On the nepotism allegations, it's crystal clear. Apparently they want to get everything ready in case the split rumours eventually turns to reality.

You all made a very good points in your comments, my question is what's the way forward? Link the nation's train lines first then link it with the outside world, my take's

There are huge gains waiting to be tapped from railway transportation,one of which is reduction in movement of heavy duty vehicles on our roads which will translate into reduction in high rate of accidents and increase in lifespan of our roads apart from other economic gains.

Neddstark:
Go and tell USAID that began the initiative that it is bullshit. As you get sense pass all of them.

But is it not dangerous for the country? There is no railway link now and killer foreigners are trooping into the country what of when the railway links Niger to us.

I am not a tribalistic person neither am I a religious bigot. But anything that would jeopardize the peace of this nation should not be encouraged. We have enough problems already as a nation why look for more.
Illegal alliens are all over our Nation and now we are creating more avenues to encourage them to come in.

Reason it very well and don't side any government because you belong to their party. Your future and that of your kids matter most than what you get today.

Reason

law001:
Why not stop at the border and let Niger Republic do their own bit?

This railway will open doors for illegal immigrant to enter Nigeria.

Godarz:
Except the fact that they are dependent on our ports for imports and exports which the line is being built to take advantage of.

And by the way, if yoy read the article, the feasibility studies were done under the GEJ administration. USAID also thinks the line would be useful.

Get your senator to fight for a line from Port Harcourt to Kano and Niger to take advantage too

Look at it logically, they use our port, and we will fund the rail lines 25km into their country

Talking about SINathieves, do we have senators from Niger Republic That will explain a lot.

Except you are covertly telling us, most of the senators from the North are citizens of Niger Republic, wow! Now it all makes sense.

Thanks for the revelation, can you please state their names for the record!!!

A country with over 30 trillion naira of debt, excluding servicing, doing charity, like you said it’s not charity, they are connecting their home land. Thumb up!!!

lol..37 states and capital loading....

Neddstark:
Go and tell USAID that began the initiative that it is bullshit. As you get sense pass all of them.

Why not allow USAID to complete it since they started it?

Neddstark:
Some people are cursed never to see anything good in what the government does. Even if FG tomorrow gives them food for the next 6 months, they will say FG is poisoning them.
Pastor Reno Omokri is their ring leader.
Not saying we should not criticize the government. But when they are good, let's acclaim them and when they fail, let's condemn them. Muhammad Buhari inherited alot of shit. He has greatly underperformed, but let us praise the few good he did.

Why didn't you praise the few good Jonathan and OBJ did

WhatCanIsay:
Why not also tell us what it cost to move goods from Cotonou to Lagos and more importantly from Lagos to Onitsha.

And more importantly which of those movements have provided more taxes and money into the coffers of the Nigerian economy and historically for how long?

Stupid entities using stupid references to back up their stupidity!

Minus ethnocentrism and pure devilishness, any right thinking and normal human being knows that train services from Lagos to the East or direct link from Cotonou if we want to go international, will be more economically advantageous.

Ya dịba.

I guess you are not aware of the river port being constructed in the East for the same reason.

They won't remember south East but when i toll gate the will cover all the south east.
This country can never be good or better with this kind of wicked and selfish leaders we have.

tsephanyah:
They will now shout our "Oil money" Our. But human history shows the strongest takes what they like.
Our economic policy, I repeat, is determined solely by the interests of the Northern people. From this principle we shall never depart. If the rest of the world says: "War," I can only say: "Very well. I do not want war, but no one, however peaceable, can live in peace if his neighbor intends to force a quarrel."

I just read this and I shake my head. What a heck!

Neddstark:
Go and tell USAID that began the initiative that it is bullshit. As you get sense pass all of them.

How did USAID begin it? USAID is a development agency. If they began the initiative, why are they not funding it even if partially? You should think things through before believing them.

Macphenson:
This is absolute bullshit, cross River is closer to North than Lagos, why use that route.

Let the vegetable dullard keep fooling himself.

It's obvious you haven't seen the Nigeria map.


Illiterates trying to act literate

Neddstark:
Go and tell USAID that began the initiative that it is bullshit. As you get sense pass all of them.

The question is, is that the only initiative by USAID? And also, is that the most profitable of the initiatives?
We may not know all these because we are not in government. We only know what we are being told.

tsephanyah:
They will now shout our "Oil money" Our. But human history shows the strongest takes what they like.
Our economic policy, I repeat, is determined solely by the interests of the Northern people. From this principle we shall never depart. If the rest of the world says: "War," I can only say: "Very well. I do not want war, but no one, however peaceable, can live in peace if his neighbor intends to force a quarrel."

If you have quoted anyone, give the person the due recognition. in this case, Adolf Hitler

Shenky:
They have neighboring countries they also export from mostly Ghana. So is more like an incentive for them to patronize is more through our freight services in movement of their goods and products

The railway is not for them to patronize Nigerian products. It’s time allow them move goods from Lagos port to Niger republic.

Read the post.

tsephanyah:
They will now shout our "Oil money" Our. But human history shows the strongest takes what they like.
Our economic policy, I repeat, is determined solely by the interests of the Northern people. From this principle we shall never depart. If the rest of the world says: "War," I can only say: "Very well. I do not want war, but no one, however peaceable, can live in peace if his neighbor intends to force a quarrel."

One day Monkey go go market e no fit come back, just one day.

tsephanyah:
They will now shout our "Oil money" Our. But human history shows the strongest takes what they like.
Our economic policy, I repeat, is determined solely by the interests of the Northern people. From this principle we shall never depart. If the rest of the world says: "War," I can only say: "Very well. I do not want war, but no one, however peaceable, can live in peace if his neighbor intends to force a quarrel."

The only time you make sense is when you are outright cussing SE people and esabilshmemts, so perhaps hate motivates you? Other than that, you write barely comprehensible gibberish. Ramblings with random quotations thrown in discordantly.

Shenky:
Mehn is really not a must for you to comment if you don’t have any reasonable thing to write.. if you say Niger republic does not have any resources beneficial to this country, then what about their crude oil and refined product they export to other countries through the Nigerian borders

As Nigeria no get crude oil na. Ours is even better and more than theirs. Which crude oil Niger get? Yeye

Godarz:
Except the fact that they are dependent on our ports for imports and exports which the line is being built to take advantage of.

And by the way, if yoy read the article, the feasibility studies were done under the GEJ administration. USAID also thinks the line would be useful.

Get your senator to fight for a line from Port Harcourt to Kano and Niger to take advantage too

Show me where USAID thinks the line will be useful.
Niger uses Benin port more than they use Lagos and Benin does not have a rail to Niger. The problem with using Lagos is the congestion of the port, it's even mentioned in the article. Lastly, where's the logic in building Lagos-Ibadan, then Kano-Maradi while we don't even have a date for Lagos-Kano. Nigeria's internal trade beats that of Niger in tens so I don't see what the hype with Niger, the poorest country in the world is about.

Which senator fought for this one o?

Agboriotejoye:
Why didn't you praise the few good Jonathan and OBJ did

For the good they did, i praised them. Obasanjo appointed the best ministers. Jonathan's entrepreneur support initiative was great. And many much good they did. Most of us if we're in government won't be able to achieve what they did. But still these leaders including incompetent Buhari could do way better.

My opinion. Not for economic reasons but to import more bandits. Nigeria with porous boarder up there. I pity this country come 2023. Most of you southerners come here to attack one another instead thinking of how to grab your stolen destinies back.

Lloydfather:
they should also consider boosting the economy of Nigeria and Cameroon, what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.

just when they want to confused the gullible Nigerians, they engaged the services of a good writer's to write nonsense, and it's settled.

They forget that they are not the only ones with culturally similar groups across the border in another country.

Neddstark:
For the good they did, i praised them. Obasanjo appointed the best ministers. Jonathan's entrepreneur support initiative was great. And many much good they did. Most of us if we're in government won't be able to achieve what they did. But still these leaders including incompetent Buhari could do way better.

I asked you to show me where you praised them not mention it. Buhari has performed worst than the two in terms of economy and security. The facts are there.

It's very difficult dealing with a dumb and shameless bunch who found their way to Aso Rock. Of course, in few years time the project will die off because patronages will not be sufficient to sustain it.

To imagine this is being done with borrowed money reeks of extraordinary dumbness.

WILLuKPquiet:
But is it not dangerous for the country? There is no railway link now and killer foreigners are trooping into the country what of when the railway links Niger to us.

I am not a tribalistic person neither am I a religious bigot. But anything that would jeopardize the peace of this nation should not be encouraged. We have enough problems already as a nation why look for more.
Illegal alliens are all over our Nation and now we are creating more avenues to encourage them to come in.

Reason it very well and don't side any government because you belong to their party. Your future and that of your kids matter most than what you get today.

Reason

The Niger-Nigerian border is one of our most porous borders. In every street in Lagos there is a Nigerien. Resolving that one is an immigration issue that should be tackled efficiently. But the issue here is different.
You know Niger is a landlocked country and depends on the Lagos port to receive heavy goods. This is to make the process of transportation from Lagos/PH to Niger easier. Also, this will encourage more use of the Nigerian ports by Niger and Chad. Nigeria should cashout really big on this from transportation and maritime. Lets look at the big picture.

harjay1986:
You are wrong Sir, in a sane clime what they are doing is right except if they have hiden agenda, normally Niger ship their goods mainly through Nigeria Port or Port,Novo... Ghana has no goods to ship from our port likewise Benin, because the two has their own port, but remember, for a Country to be peaceful her nearby neighborh must be peaceful too

What they are doing is wrong in a sane clime. If Niger wants to move goods faster, they can liaise with Nigeria to build a rail. I don't see how building a rail to the poorest desert in Africa is right. The cost of the rail alone is about the GDP of Niger. Besides, Nigeria's internal trade alone thumps whatever Niger has to offer so we should concentrate on our internal trade. Ghana is a far richer and industrialised country whom we can gain a lot from by facilitating trade with and you know the funny thing, there's a rail linking Ghana to Nigeria being built by EACH country along the line supervised by ECOWAS. Why didn't we just build it all alone?

Agboriotejoye:
I asked you to show me where you praised them not mention it. Buhari has performed worst than the two in terms of economy and security. The facts are there.

I just did praise them. I did before and don't have to prove it to you who I don't know. As for your statements on Buhari, i support as its true to a good extent. No fighting this early morning abeg.

youngeagle:
Is there any rail line passing through the eastern states yet?

Easterners don't need rail lines.. The want biafra

BabanawanGod:
You all made a very good points in your comments, my question is what's the way forward? Link the nation's train lines first then link it with the outside world, my take's

What you just said is like someone who has a farm but no money, takes loans, do he cultivate is farm and keep all the products for himself and extended family first, or take some and sell some for money which could also be used to pay back loans and even aquire another land?

Right now the money made from existing rails in Nigeria can't pay 5% of the loans, but with this kind of rail we'd be making huge money from rail which can even be used to fund other rails, that way with time we won't need to borrow to construct and maintain our rail, cos they'd be self sustaining.