₦airaland Forum

bqlekan:
You guys should continue celebrating mediocre teams

Hmmmm.....and you should continue celebrating big names and the bookies will continue smiling to the banks. Better enjoy football and is unpredictable nature which makes it a beautiful game rather than this.....anger, anguish and despair.

Emeonyerichard:
is that the least u can come up with.. Men am so so disappointed in u.. Just negode what ur saying

His argument is often off tangent.

Yeah, Sammy is right, Hazard is a liability to most teams. The posession he like to keep slows down the team a lot. He hangs on and on and allows the opposition consolidate which does not compliment the quick break, counter attacking play of the modern game. His value will obviously dip after this tournamnet.

Terrible argument in the supersport studio about this topic. Indeed Hazard in the game today and most games is a liability.

Football remains a team game and stars though tempting......give me a team anyday....I just luv football.

Football is crazy and I absolutely luuuuuuvvvvvvv it.

nextstep:
And the lamentation is that, as a result of our short sightedness, we won't ever have a Civil Engineering company large enough:

- we won't loan them money at favourable terms
- we want them to import all the materials and expertise
- we won't partner them with the bigger companies to work on these large projects
- we won't spend time and money to help train them
- we'll second guess them and frustrate them at every turn

and so on. Once China gets too expensive or obviously imperialistic, we'll turn our begging bowls elsewhere. That's what vexing me.

My own idea for these kinds of public works is to have them built almost entirely by mass labour. They are not high tech projects and don't use high tech materials or equipment to deliver, so you can have a very high local content. Granted he who pays the piper dictates who gets what but the government can double up on that project. It is called shadowing. You just copy what you see step by step, bolt by bolt, naira for yen. Unfortunately we don't have the economy neither do we have the nature or will as a nation to develop like that. Take Abuja for instance and the Julius Berger phenomenon. Every bridge they build, every culvert, every light pole is exactly alike, factory built. Why have we not been able to transfer such standards to the local industry down to mass labour works. Why haven't we been able to create an identity of high standards. We just cannot develop if we continue to outsource our infrastructure in perpetuity. The benefits of building roads and rails is not just in the economic product of a better transport network but in the processes that will strengthen the economy, prosper the people individually through jobs, create and sustain allied industry like steel. No not us, we are Nigeria that thinks it is Saudi Arabia.

cramjones:
Was this another route Goodluck Jonathan planned to steal $5billion from this phony project? Why is PMB not revising the contract? Who now takes the extra 4 - 5$ billion, because we all know it wont cost 11.2Billion>

Before you all crucify me. Kindly look at the average cost of Chinese Construction of railines from the well respected Railway Finance website http://www.railway-technical.com/finance.shtml

This is not an underground rail line neither is it a high-speed. Let us even assume it is high speed, we are looking at $10 million per kilometer.

Even at the price, if we take 800km to be the total distance, we are looking at $8billion at most. Who steals the remaining $5 billion?

Nigeria is a dead country. I continue to say this. We are a dead nation. Even after "spending" all that money we may not even see the rail way. Just imagine what someone is planning to steal in the name of change?

Again, I repeat, Nigeria is sunken ship. We are a dead nation. No hope for a corrupt cesspit!

-CramJones

The cost of doing business in Nigeria is higher than in most parts of the world due to the very reason the rail line is built, lack of infrastructure. Add to that the cost of security and the cost of a fragile economy. The main ingredient in rail lines is high strength steel. All those countries mentioned have a viable steel sector, we don't. Ajaokuta which should have capitalised on these projects to establish itself is moribund. Secondly, the terrain in most places the line will pass is tough, semi swamp land. The sheer number of bridges and culverts to be built will rival costs of tunneling and blasting through mountainous regions. Nigeria is expensive to build corruption apart.

When we were saying they should open up other seaports outside Lagos to commercial activities and allow those already built to thrive, the owners of Nigeria under influence said they prefer a Lagos monopoly. Guess what, every tax payer will pay the 'sentimental tax' through 300, 500, 800, 1000 kilometer haulage costs of Chinese steel from Apapa to site locations perhaps just 20, 50, 100 kilometers from the nearest port of Calabar, Warri or Portharcourt. This is the real corruption.

Boscojugunu:
Change is here to stay. It might be slow, but believe me we will surely get there. But what about the 60 billion naira budgeted for the project. Someone should please explain where that is going to

Onshore expenses, compensation, insurance and......embezzlement of course. Wetin concern you.

jmoore:
I hope the project gets completed on time.

It cannot be completed in that time span but it is a great development. Rail is a far better mode of transport and its advantages are simply incalculable. For one, it will prolong the lifespan of our roads and reduce the overal cost of production. Good news for the economy.

sweatlana:
Yes u are. Our ancestors went about bear chested with only a small piece of animal skin covering their private part and did not get raped.

And our ancestors had cowries, yam barns, cattle, wealth aplenty but they did not have vaults, banks and insurance. Your reasoning on this matter is equally primitive. Why not go round dressed in sheep skin then. There is no excuse for this. It is just a race to the bottom of what humanity is left and IT WILL PROMOTE AND ESCALATE rapes, muggings and other anti-social behaviour because it is in itself anti-social. And I am not the type to try to be a politically correct slowpoke by failing to relate one to the other.

tibaonnet:
So Fayose naa "federal Governor" & not a state Governor?
Apply your brain while engaging your fingers.

I am speaking about Amaechi specifically. His case has been reported to the EFCC for almost a year now. Fayose should answer. Why hasn't Amaechi been investigated by the EFCC, period. Stop deflecting.

Without restructuring, corruption can never end. Like matter it will only take another form. Nigeria is a place where the constitution empowers its citizens to practice every illegality possible in the quest for the Nigerian dream. Sack them and the next set will do the needful. All you have done is to shuffle the deck of cards.....just wasting their time. I said corruption is still going on massively, based on the information and reports I constantly get in various MDA's and arms of government. Letting the information out is the difficulty.

I thought someone said the EFCC doesn't do states, only Federal so how come it is doing Benue and will do Suswam but it cannot do Rivers and Amaechi. This thing is confusing.

timilehing:
Is there any rule/law that restricts road users to single lane

Yes there is. And it gives you explicit instructions on how, when and in what circumstance to change lanes. Its in the traffic code.

emi14:
Brother I been waiting for post like yours. It is painful anytime I found myself in that God forseeking country. I have actually avoided Lagos since 6yrs.
There is no orderliness in Nigeria. Some beat the red light when the see no car is in motion.
The extreme left lane is called speed lane outside Nigeria but roads like Musa yar'dua highway in Abuja somebody will be driving 30kph and still maintain the speed lane. These actions are so irritating.

Yeah, you got it, that Yaradua highway and its intersecting brother, the longer, Nnamdi Azikiwe. Very annoying. The authorities should also do something about the bottleneck caused by parking cars at the Berger flyover especially in the mornings. It is very, very dangerous. You have cars coming at top speed from the Maitama axis and those from Yaradua meeting there. This present FCT administration is doing little in terms of road way/traffic enforcements.

Yeah its bad even here in Abuja. The worst is when driving across bridges and flyovers, you see a vehicle right in the middle and you have no shoulder to pass by. Another is having slow moving vehicles and trucks on the speed lane forcing you to overtake on the right hand side, their blind side even after honking tirelessly. On the highway some especially trucks will be 'dating', crawling side by side and blocking both lanes forcing vehicles to overtake on the shoulder which is extremely dangerous.

Football eh. Portugal never win one single match. 5 draws and semi finals. Na waoh.

AccessME:
here in lokoja for more than a week approximately 14days now and still counting we don't have light trying to know what went wrong resulting to this power outage like never before, I was told that the pipeline that supplies gas to the power stations to enable them supply light was bombed by Niger Delta Avengers though don't know how true it affected all the nation including Lagos, Abuja, portharcourt, Enugu and the rest so, how is the current power outage in your area? have you had light for the past 1week if yes,how frequent is it?

You are in Lokoja just besides the mighty river Niger and all its hydro potentials and you are here talking about Niger Delta gas line vandalism. Are you nuts. Nigerians eh....

rotexteymie:
RIP to the dead... But why did they try to clean the name on the bus?

That is Nigeria for you where image and money is more important than lives and humanity. Someone sent that man, not to care for the injured or the dead, but to protect the business. Nigerians can be vile. Now is there any government agency responsible for issuing mass transit licenses. It should suspend that of PMT immediately and look into the operations of the company with a view to finding out, what the hell is going on and bring any defaulting official to justice.

ultra100:
ur house must be so infested with rats for u to still be keeping a news paper of 1984.u better work hard so that u can keep some important valuables in our life.hmm

Better withdraw or modify your statement obviously made out of passion. What is more important than the history of your country and keeping it for yourself and your children as the light into the future. The Library of Congress in the US is filled with such publications detailing people and events of American history. Peoples study these to make informed future decisions. But when your life is all about social media and Telenovelas how won't you be led by the nose to the slaughter. These people, politicians know we dont read, we don't inquire and don't care. They know we are driven only by sentiments and that's why they constantly play the sentimental cards off section, tribe and religion most folks tap into. Continue like this and the Jonathan so hated as a failure and removed today may come back to be elected and to rule your children because this is EXACTLY how it happened in 1984. I cannot see what is more important now than people writing about this government and keeping it in a vault together with all that has happened to Nigeria since independence.

dejavubobo1:
It got worst when free tickets were given to wives and concubines of government officials. Flight would be delayed for one minister held up at his girlfriend's birthday, prostitutes and pimps of ministers and airline's staffs were employed as air hostesses and aviation staffs. These among other pesky infractions killed Nigerian Airways.


Epitome of a people who lack Direction

Every government since independence did it in every commercial sector in Nigeria. If Nigeria Airways existed till this day, it will have continued. So we should be glad it is dead and not there further eroding our public finances. If you are an undisciplined man, it is pointless going into business. It is better you seek employment where you will be compelled to perform. Nigeria is not a disciplined nation so we cannot have national businesses.

Contradictory write up, as usual, full of historicals and sentiments but lacking in salient truths about the real situation. You wonder why other African countries have national airlines and Nigeria doesn't, question the 'pocketisation' that led to its funeral but acknowledge the airline was murdered by pimps, prostitutes and partying politicians. So where do you stand and how can you fulfill your desires for a ressurection when all the underlying elements remain till this day. What is your solution then.

My view is that, as not every man or woman should be in the institution called marraige, not every man or woman should get a college degree to make it in life, not every country should have a national carrier or an airline industry because it is abundantly clear, whether government or private, the airline busines just doesn't work in Nigeria or for Nigerians and this can be extended to most top end services and allied industries such as travel and tourism. We just donot know how to do it.

We donot have the financial capacity across board to make it a viable business (currently it remains elitist and no transportation means can afford to cater for only a section of the populace when it has to compete with rail and road for passengers and goods).

We are not ethical and honest enough to run airlines (because worldwide profit margins are always tight and the industry remains the most vulnerable means of transport to oil price changes).

We donot have the expertise to handle the industry (how many universities offer any course related to the industry, how many aviation schools are there, how many hangars, how many simulators, etc).

And we donot have the administrative, logistical, political structures to broaden the industry. How many private airports, airstrips, helipads. There is not a single one I know. No single building in Central Area, Abuja or Marina, Lagos has a helipad. Why, they will tell you security. The same security that held radio stations and telecommunications in the hands of central government for years under military rule for fear of coups.

These are the things that must be changed and established in a unique country like Nigeria before a viable industry can be created and a national carrier established. And even then how many developed countries have government running airlines?

pippimp:
And the guy soludo replaced would say the same thing. That he also inherited a sick banking system. To solve a problem, you need to understand the genesis. The genesis of Nigeria's problem is untraceable.

The problem stares you in the face day after day. Nigerians do not work, donot create, donot produce.

You really know when the recession has no light at the end of the tunnel, when banks completely cease to offer credit. The freezing of the banks is what the government must avoid at all costs. There is no reason and no excuse for this. They can reverse TSA for a fixed period called 'stimulus' and compel them to repay with interest when the cycle is over.

ChukwuIbrahim:
handiwork of DEM 4rm d other side of d river N.
smh

And they will be the first to complain that nothing is working in Nigeria.

PearlStreet:
Hmmn... 10k for Lagos Corpers.

A bricklayer earns about 3k/day and works for 6 days (excluding Sundays)

3k/day X 5 days X 4 weeks
3 X 5 X 4
60k/month.

**NB There is no state in Nigeria where a bricklayer doesn't earn than a Corper.

And what makes corpers better than bricklayers when the only thing money is exchanged for is skill, risk or effort. Which of these does a corper excel in above a bricklayer.

BiafraBushBoy:
Op, your thread is Whack... sorry to say that...!!

Instead on focusing on the negatives, why can't you list the various ways one can be Rich??

There are a million ways to die in the west, But there is only One Way to survive...

Show us the way to be rich and not the way to remain poor...

Number 6 is for you.

He should have resigned since last year. Seperation of powers, checks and balances I totally support but not on this basis. When you become sentimental the executive are, you open yourself to unnecessary disputes which weakens the institution you represent. No man can and should be bigger than the seat he occupies.

Triczchic:
Bunch of hypocrites..Dem guys... Talking about disrespect when they luv it..

Do you call a farmer who raises chickens with utmost care for several months only to sell them to the slaughter a hypocrite. He knows perfectly well what he is doing. It is the chickens who are highly mistaken. They call you that for THEMSELVES, not you, to soften the iron so they can beat it into shape whenever they are ready to make steel. Compliment, hahaha....

sinaj:
perhaps if u guys stp describing girls that dress like that as sexy ladies, the trend will stop

But that is what it is. Sexy is derived from sex. The men know where they are going with it but it is the women that don't and presume it is a compliment. They tell you, you look sexy and you think it is equivalent to being conferred with a Ph.D......ha. It is not a compliment, it is a judgement that your looks, your acts, your behaviour is an animal instict percussor. Then you gals think you can still control the outcome of those signals.....hmmm.

foolinlove:
Some gals like showing off their assets. It doesn't mean they aren't worthy of respect.

They are not worthy of respect, period. Everyone puts his best foot forward most of the time. If this is the best they have to offer then.....

idupaul:
Where did a man whose total career earnings was not upto 145 million get 295 million from

Even if he had no other expenses throughout his career and we know most soldiers for one thing, their excesses. But I will always refrain from speculating where or how a typical Nigerian amounts to the wealth he commands because it is futile. Corruption is so systemic that it could be that, he never stole but could have been advanced the funds by banks, contractors, etc in anticipation or as a reward of future or past patronage. Corruption is so, so complex. There are just no structures in Nigeria that can ever checkmate it.