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This is one of the best ideas have heard so far.
It should even be made mandatory with set targets.

So instead of wasting resources building white elephant airports for imaginary foreign activity that will never come it is better to integrate the local economies to move goods at far higher efficiencies than is possible by road. This will be a real economic force multiplier.

For example, it will open up the extractive industry and enable industrial sized mining of mineral ores and the cost effective shipping of these products to port locations for export or local processing plants that maybe hundreds of miles away which is presently not economically viable.

There is no nation with a thriving mining sector that does not have web linked rail infrastructure. It is only in the third world you see trucks transporting quarried materials hundreds of miles from pits to construction site and processing factories. Little wonder the cost of construction and of infrastructure remains un-competitively high.

If the granite fields of the Cross-River highlands can be linked with the coastal cities of the south where heavy industry is located by rail ways one can only imagine the vast amounts of materials that can be shipped per time drastically reducing the cost of those products and the costs of maintaining the existing road networks.

Same thing I have said about the waterways. Granite is as common as ice in Iceland in Kogi but as scarce as ice in Arabia in the Delta. Both locations are linked by the Niger River yet in 60 years no one has thought of making river transportation mandatory for such goods between those locations.

We should rise and be a nation of critical thinkers.

PS. The Federal Government must set a target of one tenure to end the movement of quarried materials between Cross-Rover and Rivers State via Akwa-Ibom by establishing a rail link. This is one route that is extremely viable and will ROI in short notice and will save billions spent yearly on the saving the highways between. No country serious about development has hundreds of trucks of rocks and stones hauled across its highways every day. I doesn't make any sense.

Just above average.

Personally it is a battle between expectations and reality.

Expectations like the promise of radical reforms in the order of restructuring the state which is fundamental to the survival of this country, nothing yet.

Because the reality is that it is not people driven. And the people cannot drive a process if they are not united in their desire to better the country, to save the country.

So like the previous regime it is safe to predict that results will be average and gains largely superficial by the end of the tenure of this regime.

Isokotolopia:
My former Governor of Delta State, his Excellency Former Governor Okowa has gone ghostmode since the Presidential elections were concluded.

My beloved Delta State has not been too lucky to have Governors in the mold of Akwa Ibom or Rivers state in terms of commitment to infrastructural facelift.


Governor Okowa secured over 170bn loan towards the end of his administration that money today cannot be accounted for. Rumors had it then that he used the money to finance his failed Vice Presidential bid.


It will be futile to ask EFCC to probe him as that agency is not even focused at the moment, las las na Delta State loose while political allelujah men continue to grow fat bellies in Isoko South.


Oghene biko, We pray Sherriff will be focused

If after all the documentary stated your solution is to 'PRAY' for the focus of the successor... and this is the planned strategy of the citizens of Delta state.... then I can almost conclude that you will be here again in 4 years with a new, updated version of the same documentary.

I remain completely bemused that the average Nigerian has no idea, no resolve, no strategy, no impetus whatsoever on how to get the governance that affects him WORKING.

The average citizen of this country is the most helpless one on this geo-political earth. He has no solution to anything.

It is like he buys a car and has no idea about how to drive it and no impetus whatsoever about learning to do so. He just sits in it and prays it begins to move in the direction even he cannot imagine because he doesn't even know where he is going.

Just having a car for a car sake is what Nigeria's democracy, Africa's democracy is become, moribund.

Okay, let us pray to close this meeting.....good day.

SavageResponse:
Everyone in the country is very snappy due to the bad state of the economy

Snappy with who? They should be cheerful and circumspect. It is their will and choices that brought them here. How can you be angry with another man due to the way you crafted your life.

Man makes his environment then becomes a slave to his environment.
As a man thinketh in his mind so his environment is.
This is the way we Nigerians live.
Anything outside this is pretense and an unsustainable vanity.

The black man is basically unable to create, evolve and sustain a viable, progressive and prosperous society, fact.
Slavery did not fall on us.
By our nature we invited it.
Without it, this is whom we are.

Man cultures his environment and his environment controls him. As a man thinketh in his heart so are his streets.

On those roads and through those alleys will billion naira cars proudly drive and excuse givers will say and I quote, 'afterall oyinbo sef dey do safari'.

Juat returning to the country after a well deserved sumvac.

Congratulations to the APC for the affirmation.

Haven't read the details of the judgement but on merit it was certain and by the antecedents of the judiciary and clear signals of various government agents and agencies over the past few days it was obvious on who's side the gavel will land.

Ofunaofu:
Imagine!

DSS is now performing Police duties

Arresting palliative thieves

Because the police first jumped into the swamp of politics and so cannot act.

By the time the 'Secret' police joins in playing politics we may have to invite Interpol to monitor the various social programs.

The DSS is really having a serious clash of conscience. Desperately trying to govern to assuage the angst of the people because it has taken sides.

Hope it will not apply to share the pallatives itself and be carrying bags of rice and beans around.

After all stealing of palliatives has become a NATIONAL SECURITY threat.

socialmediaman:
If you’re not married how can you advise a married person if you haven’t experienced their situation? That would only be an entitled opinion

The only person you should give advice is someone whom you have been in a similar situation to theirs. The advice you give them is to tell them what you did, not what the best thing should be, because you don’t know the best thing to do, you only know what you did based on your circumstances

Exactly, the summary is, details. There are marriage counselors who are single, married, divorced, etc. They all have unique experiences and competencies and will not be universally successful.

Well, will a pilot take advice from a frequent flier.... it depends on the details.

If it is how to make the flying experience better, why not.

But if it how to skip through foul weather, avoid mid air collisions or calculate takeoff weights, I think not.

It depends on what the issue befuddling the man are..... details.

This is completely wrong and a case of assault. It does not help the NLC in their quest to fight for the rights of their members.

Violence has never solved any social problem.

Omooba77:
They just wanted GEJ out at all cost......

And no one is saying that the GEJ government should not have been voted out in 2015.

It was underperforning and had to go but the reality of several points of governance were lost in the process.

What this admission clearly states is that governance and politics were completely mixed and misunderstood.

In a democracy that lacks ideology policies must be taken objectively.

For heavens sake the debate about fuel subsidy that led to the strike was that costs were going up and corruption was rife in the process.

The GEJ government admitted to that and their solution was to remove it. No one then that protested for it's retention offered any alternate solution to retain it at a lower public cost or a solution to the corruption.

And that is why the corruption contunued in the Buhari regime and the cost completely got out of hand despite a smaller economy and several global economic hindrances.

Omooba77:
We cried then, but the noise from hungerbad and co, may God rest his soul......

I am not tech savvy and don't have all the time, if not I will have brought out the views of Nigerians on several of these matters from way back then.

This is the simple reason why history is so important. It explains why we are here and produces the possibility of repeating or reversing, changing the course of individuals, a community or a nation.

There has to be a forum whee the single topic is, WHERE DID WE MISS IT.

We cannot afford as a nation to continue gropping in darkness.

Today the same folks and their insincere supporters are busy preaching about how evil protests are and how damaging strikes are to the economy. Is it not clear that they are still 'playing politics'.

We are here today because of insincerity, simple. Few, few, few Nigerians can claim a conscience and hold a stable point of view that his political and social inclinations have remained consistent for a decade or over any two administrations. All sway according to ethnocentric sentiment.

I had been a vocal advocate for the removal of subsides when the fans of this present government were busy insulting others in 2014. Insults that have turned out to be hypocritical.

That is why there are few here I bother to respond to. Their antecedents are just reprehensible. Their talk and views absolutely worthless.

They say the sun is shining and you don't check the weather but who is contesting for power.

Nigeria is suffering today because of dishonesty and anything Mr. President and his government goes through, he and them participated in bringing it upon themselves.

MTNnews:
Oshodi Isolo we shall wait patiently after 4 years to see what LP will do differently

That is the core test of democracy. It is not just power for winning sake. A democracy that cannot make a difference and progress the constitutes is ineffectual.

When a government changes there has to be a clean and clear break from the past and a visible, measurable motion in a positive direction.

Good luck to you but time and events have passed you by. Abeg let Nigeria soccer grow. Let go of any national ambitions.

Funkybabee:
Ladies to you

A life that is all about 'things to acquire' is already one of resentment, because greed has no limits.

Emeka71:
What happened to turning off the engine?

Journey don end be dat. Na rewaya go take ova.

Hopefully the metro will wipe them all out one day.

Expanse2020:
This people are Just ripping us thinking they help us..reason is that last week they boss of visa grant to Nigerians of 132,000 there about..
My question is how many people apply that they gave 132,000 out of how many people 4-8millions and you gave just 132,000 and boasting up and down. It's not you people fault it's our government fault

Is there any reason the British people and government should be HELPING you. They have given you billions in aid every year already for decades since independence.

At some point the parent will stop helping the child who should have become an adult.

Build Nigeria.

MrsTwrite:
This is terrible, why are they making it harder?

It is natural to expect desperation to be exploited in every walk of life.

Build your country from this point to one of a visa free reception, one where the green passport opens up a world of opportunity.

Evading should not be made easier than building. Nature does not support that.

The government should sit down with the unions and open up, be completely transparent first with the state of the economy and work with them to evolve solutions.

You are the boss, they are the workers, sit down with them. After all whatever way you chart it is them that will work it out.

Ask labour to bring it's own team of economists to the table so that everyone understands what is going on as to when what and how. And there will be peace.

I really don't know why goverment persists in nature of ruling by clandestine decisions made by a few.

Transparency and corporate governance is integrity and it opens the atmosphere to more ideas. No one knows it all.

If the people are suspicious and resort to strike as the last resort it means there has not been a meeting of minds, a genuine passage of information and an honest attempt at implementation. The question is WHY?

What are the ten or so people ruling Nigeria hiding.

Just passing.

Every government renovates that place. Just don't get it.

BigIyanga:
But he increased recurrent expenditure by expanding 32 ministers to 48ministers . More SAs, PA, more MDAs

Well, who allowed that.

The National Assembly of course, the supposed brakes of government.

But the brakes have agreed with the throttle that expenditure continues galloping.

So at the next bend of oil price fall, na bush Nigeria economy go enter.

DOM7:
Complain and fear don't start be that oo. We will create one hundred million jobs in our first year bla bla bla... And now you are scared of the ones you meet.

Job creation as a policy is not government employment. It is the product of entrepreneurship that government stimulates.

As a matter of fact the history of employment in Nigeria shows that whenever government manages to expand the economy or the price of oil rises jobs are created in the private sector and the size of government shrinks due to better private sector wages.

And when the economy contracts (in physical terms) as witnessed over the past decade the public sector comes under pressure as the lifeboat for stable jobs and pensions.

So the alternative way to reduce the size of the civil service and clip the cost of governance will be to spur the economy.

The private sector is the only route to clean, ethical wealth creation and prosperity.

olisaEze:
Everyone is now distancing themselves from Buhari’s govt as if Nigerians have forgotten how they all came together to make sure he became president. Even this patience he’s advocating now, is still the same one he advocated back then. .

That is it.
To them patience is a synonym for fold your arms while driving your car or riding your bicycle. Total rubbish.

Because in every sane society and working democracy the people are at the doorsteps of government day and night reminding, insisting, refusing, directing, checking, checking, checking to ensure what they say is what they do and what they do is not out of what they say.

Here patience means pray, hope, wait while the government leaves the road and crashes into the bush.

If we are looking over their shoulders, does it stop them from working? If articles of criticism are laid out in the media does it stop their governance.?

They can only be nervous if they are not doing the right thing like a cheating student fears an approaching invigilator or do not know what to do like a chef employed with a dodgy resume fears close supervision.

Hikana:
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We spoke out consistently and throughout the kitchen time by the humble means we had available on social media.

Why wasn't Emir Sanusi that insistent, that persistent, that vocal by the lofty means available to him.

What held his tongue then that has now let go.

When we say democracy is not working this is exactly what I am saying.

How come practically all of Nigeria including the experts are in total agreement today that the past government mismanaged the country.

But, but, but could do nothing WHEN the actions and activities WERE TAKING PLACE.

Does democracy not have enough fail-safes,.a dead mans switch of a kind to ensure the train is brought to a halt before the cliff edge.

How come a democratic system is allowed to have ONE MAN so powerful that he can singlehandedly crush a country's fortunes for years if not decades to come.

When people advocate for strongmen and vote for emperor's and at the same time undermine their institutions and bay for the grounding.of all oppsing forces whether political, civil or governmental, they are invariably setting themselves up forbig problems to come.

No one knows it all. The dictates of democracy says that it is the whole country that rules, it is the aggregate of the wishes of the people that prevails. That elections are meant to establish leadership not ownership of all the ways and means to better society.

OBJ, YARADUA, GEJ, GMB and Mr. Tinubu now are placed there to aggregate the wishes and aspirations of the people. To implement the solutions the people agree to so that no citizen will have a reason to complain.

If we had all spoken and Mr.Buhari had agreed and done our wishes. Odds are, that we will not be here today. Or at least no one will be complaining.

Democracy is easy and progressive if the operators and the spectators know how it works and work it.

benuejosh:
Lazy people.

Labour Party working in disguise. Afterall, Nigerian Labour Congress formed Labour Party.

If they can't see reason with what the government is trying to do then they can go to hell.

When you're sick and you have taken medication, do you get healing instantly?

It is not labour's duty to understand. It is their duty to advocate for the welfare of their members. If it means calling attention by downing tools, that is a legitimate means recognised everywhere democracy is practiced.

If they had been more active during the last regime, calling their attention to a number of issues bordering misgovernace perhaps we will not be where we are today.

I just don't understand why you folks always feel threatened by opposing forces, be it political or governance.

It is the nature of the job.

asanausana91:
You giving senators 200 million to go and rest,
While 133 millions Nigerians are dieing of hunger and expect us to keep quiet? Even military regime cannot do that and expect people to shut up.
Go to the military barracks and police barracks you will see how their children are surfering and the same police and military you are expecting to protect you while you stealing our money.

That is the paradox they will have to resolve amongst themselves. Whether to be loyal to the country, the Constitution, the government or the President.

And in the face of advocacy and stern opposition towards a better, fairer and equitable country, whether they will gladly receive better salaries and working conditions if such agitations they are apt to quell succeeds.

They are not under the NLC but as public servants they need the NLC to succeed in fighting for better workers rights.

Only they will have to square that circle.