₦airaland Forum

flexyrule:
Nice project!

Meanwhile,

Akwa Ibom roads are really going bad and most of the streetlights are no longer working.

We can't abandon existing infrastructure for new ones.

The old ones needs to be maintained as well.

The bright side of the uyo city is gradually fading out.

Inorganic development. The hype and over reach of 'infrastructure'.

In a lay man's terms. You can save to buy a phone or an automobile. But it takes a job that pays wages to utilize it well.

What this means is simple. Without human capacity development that leads to productivity that yields returns in the form of taxes, capital gains, etc, infrastructure is bound to decay, as fast and as sure as a man who buys a car but has no job or income to maintain it.

That is why in 'saner climes' the economy is the principal barometer of development, not infrastructure. Infrastructure is merely the oil that greases development, not the vehicle of development itself.

No Nigerian government past or present at any level has realized this.

PS. I used to tell people who say that 'give us 24 hour electricity and Nigeria will develop' that electricity like good roads, airports, high speed internet, etc does not automatically translate to productivity and prosperity.

That there is more productivity in real terms coming out of Aba that barely has roads and more productivity coming out of the oily creeks where there are no roads at all than from Abuja that has the best infrastructure in Nigeria.

None whatsoever.

The greatest loss however is that no lessons will be learnt, no reforms are likely to be undertaken and so the 2027 elections are likely to be worse.

The reality of the now is that the aggrieved parties should begin to transit into proper political opposition.

That will be the only benefit to Nigeria of all this drama.

Atiku and his people and all the various parties in court on one post election matter or the other should come to a realisation that the Judiciary is not prepared to rock the boat and go against the establishment.

It has not done so since the return of democracy in 1999 and it is less likely now at the time of institutional weakness throughout government.

They should transit into the office of political opposition. That is the best way forward for now. It will serve and fulfill all the aspirations of all parties concerned except the very personal or selfish ones.

Your northern neighbors Newcastle have taken your place while west london, Chelsea has given up its place to north London's Arsenal. Fair enough.

Usefulsense:
If you think these things you mentioned will kill you fast, try hunger.
Everything we eat actually contains sugar apart from vegetables.

You gorrit. Vegetables.

Sunofgod:
Nigeria subsidising UK universities....
It's a pity

Subsidizing their soccer league, subsidizing their banks, and financial markets, and on and on..... It's called globalization. Where wealth flows from the un-serious to the serious nations.

You can imagine how much subsidy your President has made/paid to their health care system in the last 8 years. They will dearly miss him.

juman:
It was okay what buhari did.
Ministers are to supervise the ministries activities.
There are civil servants there that help the ministers.
Anybody can lead any ministry.

Honestly, sometimes it feels like one should just give up on this country. Can you imagine this.....citizenship....

simmydare82:
No wonder, that was why education in Nigeria enter reverse gear with the longest ASUU strike.

When you give your car to a driver who doesn't no road, you must certainly experience a slow motion.

But he was vetted and passed fit by the Legislature, your supposed social safety and protection device/system as a bonafide citizen.

So what happened. Can we see what institutions are meant for. That you can elect a 'good' president but he will still mess up, but democracy has safety features to catch out post election errors. That is if those institutions are allowed to work.

But it is our fellow citizens that advocate and support a 'dependent' legislature instead of an independent one saying naively that 'cooperation' is better than confrontation. See the results.

The last Assembly was just passing as fit every rubbish that came their way. So what are we planning for the next assembly....same ol, same ol. Then we sit down and complain.

A rubber stamp legislature is like a car without fuel or oil filters. The end is costly repairs and tales of woe.

And the same people who were cocksure about that regime are equally adamant about this new one knowing not that democracy does not work that way. That it is not a launch and forget system.

Nothing works well automatically in this business. Without a detailed knowledge of it's inner workings and an unflinching advocacy to drive it along the path of performance real results will just be a mirage.

The kind of pressure citizens of other nations out on their leaders and governments to do what is right and best we here can only dream of despite the fact that they have been in democracy for much longer and have well defined institutional paths towards progress, they know the human mind will not do what is right always and everytime so they remain eternally vigilant.

From May 29.5 Nigerians had better put serious pressure on the incoming government, demanding the details of it's activities and watching out for every misstep if they want to see or say anything positive of their experiences come May 29, 2027.

Sai Babarism, the excessive praise singing of public servants caused all this. It erodes the responsibility of proper citizenship.

savcy:
What many do not know is that the Ukraine war actually halted a huge plan the EU had to get itself off US influence, and that plan involved integrating Russia into EU affairs. NATO would probably have been disbanded in 10 years time, because EU powers were already getting weary of it and questioning it's continued existence. This war granted legitimacy to NATO, a development which saddens Germany, Hungary, France and Belgium, because they had a plan to create a military organisation that would protect EU interests solely. EU isn't really happy about how the war is progressing. They all want an end to it, either militarily or by negotiations. But they want it to happen now. They're weary of it and just want it to end. The EU still and will always see Russia as a brother.

Where did you get this bed time story from. The fact is rather the opposite. That Trump's America was actively seeking to water down ties with Europe seeing that lopsided bills on security. It was Biden that has tried to reverse, restore and strengthen ties.

Get your facts straightened out. Europe cannot stomach Russia's lack of democratic progress.

Ask ke,.... are there no laws about export proceeds reparations again?

OluwaEbuka1:
Ladies are very funnny - "she is a life of a party and when they got married he stopped her from seeing her friends". So a married woman should be partying upandan abi? She should be clubbing?

Obviously her friends have influence on her and if she continue hanging out with them, they will drag her back to her old life - the more reason they must be cut off.

On the issue of her taking up afternoon shift jobs, what is wrong with that? You did not sound like the man need the salary she will make from working night shifts. If a man decides that he has the capacity to provide for his family and don't want his wife to work at night, what exactly is wrong with that?

You people should go and sit down.

Including this.
Everything is on the table.
If you both agree, fine.
Just don't sign the dotted line before.

Newnas:
1. It's her responsibility to explain before getting married. If a part of my career requires something that I know could cause friction in my marriage then I make sure I explain it before marriage.

2. Is night duty a must? You're talking as if it's impossible to be a doctor or nurse without doing night duties.

This is exactly what I am saying.
Marriage is a relationship that requires full disclosure between bother parties on EVERYTHING.
Just like any other relationship, business, work, etc.
Just like a contract. The small print matters.
Whatever is not settled before consummating the relationship can end it.
Because all relationships is an intercourse of preferences.

Well that is the critical function of courtship. Where amongst other things the future is discussed and aspirations are decided and agreed.
But I guess the African marriage institution is lining up with that of the west in which they meet and fall in love in the morning, marry at noon and divorce in rush hour traffic.

Marriage is a serious relationship as many unfortunately discover after mishandling it. But if the end of the institution will cause more ladies to pursue their careers, so be it. Life for anyone, male or female does not opportune everyone to attain every single aspiration dreamed about.

That is a fact.

Wow, what a loss.
RIP legend.

This is a stark picture of the multi-dimensional poverty engulfing Nigeria we talk about.
The smelly backside of the elephant.
That hailers are apt to deny.
That Nigeria is doing well because their view is the face of the elephant, the rip roaring tusks and enormous mouth that their circle of friends and family use in ripping off the soul of this country.

Phantom233:
Which one is " with or without traffic? Does the km/hr counts when the car is not in motion? Or does your battery drain when your phone is inactive?

It does but at a slower/reduced rate.
I just suppose that the buses that will ply the congested routes will just spend less time on the job.
It is one thing for the a/c of an electric automobile to cope with traffic and I have watched many tests performed on the net and on t.v,
But buses have industrial sized/capacity airconditioning units and I have not seen any tests performed on them viz battery drain when in traffic.
I am sure the drivers will be instructed to save power and cancel operations when battery power falls to certain levels. At least enough charge to get them back to base.
I don't see any problem with this.

Cool. That's positively interesting.
But surprised that the average BRT bus travels only 200 kilometres in a day.... ?
That will mean a ship load of buses required.

Segzy19:
I agree with you to a large extent.
For me what I think is that the security needs to be beefed up and the community citizens also need to be responsible for these installations.

If you change the materials, the vandals will still go for the new materials. There is a market for almost everything or every material. You will be shocked to realize... The vandals go to any length in their ingenuity, be it reasonable or not. This is Nigeria where things defy the logic you stated in your comment. You wonder how people still remove cable and other components from an energised transformer. Sometimes they die while at it and other times they succeed... Nigeria is tough and peculiar...

Beef up security, shoot vandals at sight, let the community be protective of those installations... Take tougher measures...

I was merely responding to the post talking about inadequate engineering and vulnerability of installations which is entirely correct. Where safety or security or importance is high on the agenda it is up to engineering to respond. It doesn't depend on other factors for succour. Good quality thinking, planning and execution particularly going forward is the solution.

Another example. The relatively new American embassy in Abuja is leaps ahead of older embassy complexes built in other countries and in Nigeria in terms of security. The place is like a fortress. Engineered to combat the realities of terrorism. That is how to respond. Not just depending on their hosts, they too have done their part.

In the Niger-Delta, subsea and swamp pipelines are now being buried instead of left exposed to make it more difficult for vandals and saboteurs. That is an engineering response.

To say the distribution company will continue erecting those towers the way they have done for the past 50 years and depend on the community to secure THEIR business is just wishful thinking and smacks of unseriousness. It won't happen. No serious company that sees its business as critical does that.

I feel they still wear this toga of government which is patronizing and says, 'if you break it, its is YOUR business, it is your loss'. The kind of attitude that renders a lot of things un-serviceable in Nigeria. They had better start thinking hard to protect their business.

Segzy19:
For sure you didn't read the news. You read the headline and rushed to comment for FTC but you eventually made a mess with your comment...

Activities of vandals caused the collapse, not due to poor engineering....

What a shame!

Well, she's wrong basically, but right in a way.
Better engineering could result in a more resilient system where threats are known after all the purpose of engineering is to make things work by overcoming obstacles.

Take for example bridges in Abuja used to have metal railings but repeated vandalism has resulted in some works being changed to concrete ones. It is a matter of thinking outside the box and the electricity company had better start doing that going forward. Change materials, change designs, change monitoring and security..... do something different. As the bad man in the movie Bad Boys said, 'keep em guessing'.

Because doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is incompetence. There will always be thieves everywhere in the world till the end of time. That is guaranteed.

OmoOgunOriginal:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/600009-exclusive-police-speak-on-n2-billion-vote-buying-allegation-involving-adebutu.html

Mr Adebutu ran into trouble on 18 March for allegedly using Verve ATM credit cards branded in the name of his late mother, ‘Dame Caroline Oladunni Adebutu Endowment Scheme,’ to buy votes in all polling booths.

But we saw branded cards of other types and parties on display in Lagos and other places by party faithfuls and citizens.
It is difficult to know what is legal and illegal in Nigeria without shared, common values.

The expectations should be of the citizens not the government.
The government serves the citizens. It merely organises corporate activity. It is the citizens that build the country so it depends on the degree to which the citizens are able to order the government, the power of citizen advocacy for good governance.

Because the forces that have brought Nigeria to where it is through their negativity and pressure on leadership to serve them alone will not let the coming regime deliver in the way most other Nigerians think. And from what I can see in the last days of the Buhari government plans are in top gear to 'continue leveraging on the country's weak institutions'.

Believe me there are a lot of people up here that live on government patronage and will not ease their greed simply with a change of landlord in Aso Rock. They will not allow this country work for the people.

That is the fight Nigerians have to wage over the next four years.

Tzar:
PDP and OBJ/Atiku never meant well for Nigeria!

But your fellow citizens disagree.
They say if the privatisation was done and dusted back then perhaps we would have saved trillions of naira spent, wasted and stolen in subsidies.... and all this grammar drama is going on right now even though OBJ has long left the building.
So can you tell us exactly what the problem is.

This is Nigeria. A country that bears citizens that don't know what hey want and how to go about it.
Yet are eager to employ leaders at elections to work for them.... how.

So funny reading the responses here.
We were witnesses in the early days of the Yaradua regime when the privatization of the refineries was cancelled after pressure by 'concerned' individuals, labour unions and government fat-cats and used as a political football to dribble naive citizens ever since.

The unions resisted, half the population insisted it be so. That selling to Dangote was privatising our collective patrimony. What has suddenly happened today...... suffering has formatted the thinking of most, elevated their thought process out of the kind of sentiment still holding sway in many other ways.

And that is why i am personally comfortable and assured that the present sufferings and those likely to exacerbate in the coming months and years will purge our fellow citizens more of ethno-religious biases and let this country flow freely.

Yesterday it was, 'no we don't want refineries privatised. He will sell them to his friends', today they are hailing private refining.
Tomorrow I want these same 'hailers' to explain how government owned refineries will compete in the same space with this one.

So before you party remember billions have been allegedly spent to refurbish NNPC's..... I am eagerly watching out for the last act in this drama like other audiences in a country with deep citizen contradictions. A people that simply do not know what they want. Just wavering with the wind.

Originalsly:
Cars are built with systems to prevent fire outbreaks .... no need for fire extinguishers or fire suppressant systems. In case of fire there is a fire wall to slow the spread of fire into the passenger compartment giving the passengers time to escape. There is nothing faulty about the car ... same cars in other countries do not burst into flames nowhere as often as in Nigeria. This should tell us the problem is local ... and for this we need to point fingers at unqualified people parading as mechanics .... Kazeems .... who prosper because car owners go for cheap price over competence. I'm almost sure the cause of this is electrical ... rewire guy fix one problem that caused a major one.

I sincerely hope you are joking about this.

Because if you have seen accidents where victims have roasted to death in their vehicles you will realise not every accident has a clock attached to it. Not every fire is 'escapable' and the vehicle will burn to ashes with or without a 'firewall'.

And I am saying if a passenger airbag can deploy to reduce the impact forces of collisions or other kinds of accidents the next logical step will be a sensor to detect and extinguish fuel fires likely to occur in a crushed engine or a ruptured gas tank. It will not cost anything to makers of some of the most luxurious cars we see today.

1stGenAmerican:
Doing a bit of research, most come equipped with safety features to prevent these things from happening but many of the cars you see there were in serious accidents in other countries and deemed total losses before being repaired and exported to Nigeria. While the repairs to the bodywork can be impeccable, the damages and necessary repairs to the safety features are ignored which is why it’s not unusual for them to catch fire or have things like airbag failures during accidents.

Yes, I know this.
Almost all used cars have issues of unserviceability to varying degrees, some bordering on life and personal injury but the issue I have concerning fires is why automobiles in general do not have built in fire fighting systems. I just feel it is something completely overlooked, perhaps a statistic that is so insignificant that it doesn't matter in western countries but when cars alight most times it is unsurvivable.

This case above involving the 'Maybach' is perhaps one of self combustion due to faults but in cases of accidents where the occupant(s) are incapacitated and there is not a chance of making a bee line for the trunk to retrieve what amounts to a domestic extinguisher then chances of lives and property lost are almost 100 percent.

I just wonder that manufacturers spend billions researching safety as far as collisions are concerned with airbag tech, ABS, lane departure, and all the gizmos, but even with 100,000 dollar +, top of the line badges you are left to the mercy of a 20 dollar extinguisher in your trunk that you will probably never reach in a serious accident.

When I remembered what happened to Paul Walker of the 'Fast & Furious' franchise and the fact that no one noted the need for automatic fire suppression systems for engine bays and fuel tanks, devices that are as simple as airbags and tire reflation systems then there is something fundamentally wrong.

A Maybach should not go up in flames just like that. There is too much tech and too much luxury for such a simple safety device to be overlooked.

I have often wondered why modern automobiles do not have in built in automatic fire suppressing systems in the engine bay similar to aircraft engines when this is the flashpoint of almost all automobile fires. I have seen a few after market systems that I have considered installing but nothing standard enough to risk.

You will think that top end vehicles bearing engines costing tens of thousands of dollars will have built in devices to protect the vehicle itself and the occupants in the event of accidents or incidents that lead to fires and possible deaths. There is not even a single vehicle out there that I know that has a fire detection system to alert the driver of a breakout until it is visible at which point it may already be late to save the car.

Hope the opposition particularly the Labour party and it's supporters can smell the coffee and begin to prepare their minds to be sworn into the office of the opposition.

The court process is certainly consequential in establishing justice and reforming the institutions of democracy but honestly it will be a miracle if the courts will change the outcome as declared by the INEC.

Uddeze1:
people of this country will learn the very hard way for the poor choices of others as regards leadership.

Indeed.
Elections do have serious consequences.
These sad incidents are entirely about government of which security, the right to bear arms, arrest, prosecute and incarcerate is exclusively theirs.

The local government is probably headed by the same political party as the state and the Federation, so there lies the issue of irresponsibility, a total disconnect of what a proper society entails.
The inability of the average voting citizen to correlate his electoral choices with the experiences he has under a specific government.
The inability of the typical Nigerian to change his situation with all the tools of democracy at his beck.

After 8 years of mourning the fanatics of the outgoing regime have conveniently quietened their rhetoric when the reality of mismanaged opportunity has finally dawned. But has that caused any introspection amongst their ranks.... no, They are at it again. Brow beating whoever questions their latest choices and without scant regards that it is an equally risky journey to be cocksure of individuals rather than the realities on ground and the serious challenges of institutional failures, the root of all the country's ills.

So here we go again.... another four years beckons.
Don't say we did not warn.

festacman:
I am not Sen. Godswill Akpabio's fan but I make bold to say that if President Tinubu has good vision backed with good policies, programs and reforms , Senate President Godswill Akpabio will be of great help given his development-mindedness as a governor.

However, he will be useless in fighting corruption through legislative oversight functions and will likely settle for his cuts.

But since Angels won't come down from heaven to lead us, we are stuck with our corrupt politicians. Therefore, we can only pray and push for policies, programs and reforms that will at least revive the economy to make it more productive to make millions of Nigerians earn legitimate living and also give our country more revenue to run its affairs without borrowing.

May God help Emilokan Bola Tinubu to succeed because failure will be too costly.

Wow, just listen to a bonafide citizen..... admitting that the only choice is between worse and worst..... and then expects good out of them.....
Say this anywhere in the world and meet with total astonishment and utter bewilderment.
Only in Nigeria.
Just sorry for this country.