₦airaland Forum

TeeGentle:
Nigeria is the pride of Africa

providencia:
Radio and TV stations were instructed to play more of nigeria songs. Ratio of 80:20 I think.

Amotolongbo:
I can still remember when American musical jamz were what dominates our air and shows back till the early 2000s when Olusegun Obasanjo came up with that reformation that transform our music industry

RedEnergy:
Use your own brain, they are already spending it and the place is still same way it is since OBJ era. Stop defending corruption.

ACRI:
You ll build a new one with less than #40B

Na wah for this country and corruption

anonimi:
Why are you still using FUTURE tense in March when the vanguard news of December said that the target has been met

RedEnergy:
So they spent 40 billion revamp it and it still has potholes on the road inside when I passed 2 months ago? Fantastically fantastic corruption

CryptoTeacher:
Wow. The amount scares the shit out of me. 40billion? That's like 100 million USD.

BSsniffer:
Left to me Putin should bomb Ukraine to ashes......

Maxymilliano:
Ramaphosa that cant even stop a fight in his own backyard is trying to stop a war

Throwback:
A sad tale of zero maintenance culture for a national landmark.

Hopefully, Lagos State government will be able to restore it and better manage it.

Those of you too young to know what the National Theatre was like in its glory days of the late 1970s and 80s, are about to be astonished by the renewed beauty of Nigeria's most elegant and powerful cultural edifice.

My generation used to attend the National Theatre to watch the top US R&B bands of the day, like Kool & the Gang, Shalamar, The Brothers Johnson, Delegation, Dynasty and other acts, who toured Nigeria regularly, and played at the 4,000 seater main bowl of the then state-of-the-art, fully air-conditioned, world class National Theatre, Lagos.

Stevie Wonder played there once, I believe.

You know it had to be a top drawer venue for Stevie Wonder to play there.

Famous African acts like Ipi Ntombi of South Africa, Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango, and others, famously graced the theatre in its hey day.

The renowned edifice fell into slow disrepair during the military regimes of Gen. Babangida and Abacha, and has been neglected ever since by successive govts.

Until President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, came to power, and, together with the Lagos State govt, decided that Enough was Enough.

That it was time to restore the National Arts Theatre, the pride of Nigeria, back to its glory days.

An unprecedented sum of 40 billion Naira was devoted to the renovation, and what we are about to see is the 21st century National Theatre, fully upgraded, updated, and ready to host the world's greatest superstars, in top class condition, once more.

National Arts Theatre, Lagos
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National Theatre Renovation Project Meets Year-End Targets — Sanwo-Olu, Emefiele, Mohammed

Vanguard

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele and the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, yesterday, expressed satisfaction with the level of renovation work being carried out at the Lagos Creative and Entertainment Centre, LC&EC, popularly known as the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos.

Exchanging views during an inspection of the facility, the Project’s Steering Committee, led by its Chairman and CBN Governor, Mr Emefiele, noted that major milestones had been achieved since the project’s commencement on site early in 2021.

The over N40 billion investments committed to the project by the Bankers’ Committee is expected to deliver far-reaching benefits to the Nigerian economy and supports the initiatives of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to grow the creative industry and provide jobs to Nigeria’s youth population.

Sanwo-Olu, Emefiele, Mohammed and other members of the Steering committee, including the CBN Deputy Governor in charge of Financial System Stability, FSS, Mrs Aishah Ahmad; the Group Managing Director of Access Bank and Chairman of the Body of Bank CEOs, Herbert Wigwe; and the Managing Director of GT Holding Company, Segun Agbaje, noted that the entire heating, ventilation, air conditioning system, power, water supply and sewage systems are currently being replaced while fire safety standards are being significantly upgraded.

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The nearly 3000sqm roof terrace, which had been a major source of leakages, is also currently undergoing repair, while the floors, walls, panels, and ceilings have been stripped back as part of a plan to ensure that all underlying structures can support new finishes.

In the 4000-seater main bowl, the new stage infrastructure will deliver future-fit performing arts spaces, for dance, theatre, music, and multimedia, with adjustable acoustics and advanced technical systems, adaptable to the requirements of audiences, artists, and sponsors.

The team also observed that the banquet halls and exhibition spaces as well as the two-500-seater cinemas had been stripped out, with new walls, floor and ceiling finishes being installed.

While inspecting the master plan for the adjoining 44Ha site, which had been concluded, the inspection team was informed that an environmental remediation exercise, along with the Lagos State Government, was also on course with the recently concluded Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Review led by the Federal Ministry of Environment of the 44Ha site.

Similarly, the committee was briefed that mitigation plans had been put in place to support the preservation of the natural ecosystem and manage all potential impacts, in line with the project sponsors’ commitment to ensuring the legacy of sound environmental principles.

According to the project team, the sand filling will commence shortly, having identified the areas that will generate the least impact on the environment through site studies (topographical, bathymetric, geotechnical, hydraulic and hydrology) conducted over 12 months.

Thorondor:
This is what happens when you make a comedian your leader. Is this guys head even correct?

Kastonkastroll:
This comedian is hell bent on dragging nato/eu into this war. Like the fool wants a worldwar 3 to start. Why do I have a feeling that the comedian is not even in kiev as the western propaganda wants us to believe

Ikillbrokehoes:
Zoogeria

agadez007:
Omoh the guy hammered your head with facts and even pictures and your only option is to go full tribal
I didn’t expect much from BMC,one of the criterias of selecting BMC is just be senseless,once you no get sense they start paying you 30k to defend the indefensible Presidiot

MrMaestro:
God bless you for this. It’s really a problem with us as black people that we need to remedy fast. Everything we do we prefer to patronize white people because it’s “better quality” , as if Japanese, Chinese, and Indian manufacturing didn’t start somewhere. Soon Ethiopia will too pass us as they’re beginning to manufacture things on their own.

Our main problem is that we want things easy and fast, and we think anything white is better

- It why many people scam
- It is why many people want to fly to the west
- It is why many people buy western products
- It is why people will promote western apps but mass review Nigerian apps negatively
- It is why politicians procure foreign construction firms
- It is why politicians procure foreign mining companies


Simple 10 year plan to teach its own population manufacturing and construction skill sets to set Nigeria up for the next 100 years, it is headache. Many politicians won’t because they lack foresight and can only think 4 years in the future. And even if they do many citizens will curse them because they automatically react negatively whenever anything is made by blacks.

Look at Lagos Ride launch. A right thinking government wanted to give citizens a right to own cars, replace Uber, build tax for the state, build a safer mobile taxi service (all cars have cameras and an S.O.S button in the app) all in one endeavor. What did Nigerians do? Curse the Nigerian government instead of telling their fellow Nigerians to patronize those apps instead of Uber,Lyft and Bolt which goes to supporting their own countries’ stock market.

Honestly many of this is so deep seated it will take something akin to an extremely aggressive national mandate like Mao’s cultural revolution to reset people’s brains. The Chinese would gather in crowds flogging and attacking people that didn’t promote and support Chinese culture. And look at them now.

foryourmindlol:
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Street mafia and extremist groups are now "terrorists". Haha. Now tell us the American local government or states held and controlled by these "terrorist" groups.

Illiterate Fraudgerian yoonity begging buffoon

foryourmindlol:
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Fool I'm not talking of non-Igbos in Rivers. Wetin concern me and them?

No single Igbo-speaking town will remain in Nigeria whether they're in Kogi, Benue, Rivers, Delta or elsewhere.

Go and merge your failed shithole Shitgeria with your willing Fulani terrorist brothers of Niger Republic and Mali so you can have the biggest Boko Haram Republic that you always wanted. Stop begging me for yoonity, Almajiri swine

foryourmindlol:
America has no terrorist group on their soil.

foryourmindlol:
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In your small Fulani bandit taqiya mind you want Igbos to leave out our own blood in Delta and Rivers state? We're not leaving an inch of Igboland to you terrorist Nigerians.

All Igbos are going. Take the remaining Delta and Rivers that don't speak Igbo. We don't care.

We are going to leave Nigeria. That one is sure. No amount of tears or yoonity begging will stop us.

foryourmindlol:
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Tell me which part of America is being held by terrorists like your Northern Nigeria where over 1000 terror groups hold sway and collect taxes from already poor Almajiri northern villagers like you?

Even your president is a happy taxpayer to Fulani bandits

foryourmindlol:
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America does not have a terrorist group on their land.

When are you going to stop begging uninterested people for yoonity and finally start being like Dubai..sorry, Kenya or Uganda?

foryourmindlol:
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Without government help Igbos have suppased the same criminals who stole our property, money in the bank and invited British to come and bomb our region to the ground.

Northern Nigeria is the highest drug abusers, the poorest and the region with top 4 terrorist groups in the world, alone, despite producing most of Nigeria's presidents.

And you're not ashamed, yoonity beggar.


When is Buhari going to bring the 24 hour electricity he promised cows like you? When is Nigeria going to be like Dubai? Which day and date? China without crude oil and 1000x population of UAE achieved all these. When are you going to develop and have electricity and water like small Ghana here? Are you going to waste the rest of your life begging for yoonity from people who have rejected you?

foryourmindlol:
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Why are you poor? How did Nigeria "defeat" Igboland on their own but can't defeat terrorism, poverty, rituals/skull mining, yahoo yahoo, hunger, lack of infrastructure, nepotism, corruption/looting, etc?