₦airaland Forum

1. He is doing it because we do it.
2. I'm sure you can do it in any country. However what I'm not sure of is what happens to you if you do. He is sure that nothing will happen to him here so he can do it.
Why is this on front page?

dfrost:
That's a good idea on paper though. My questions for you are these:

1. What happened to maintaining existing structures before creating new ones?

2. Who is the owner of this project? ABSG or Okezie Ikpeazu or the consortium that will carry out the project?

Because I don't see how this addresses the roads that are very bad at the moment, albeit Aba's problem is majorly the roads.

Think about this, lest you start creating a section where the rich can stay and leave the poor masses to suffer.

The state and federal government are responsible for maintaining existing structures (roads). If the state government cannot maintain state roads and asks a private company to do it and toll it. Would you pay?
The owners of the project are the people of Abia state. It's your land, it's in your state. It cannot be carried away so you all (I assume you are from Abia) own it.
I don't think the problem of Aba is just the roads. It is also the people. If they had a sense of pride for their city, they won't dump rubbish indiscriminately or is it the road that dumped rubbish there. The roads are bad; all well and good but turning the roadside to rubbish dumps as well. Anyway, hopefully this model city will trigger the State government to improve its existing cities.

betterABIAstate:
wow, please can you tell us more about it?

I will start a thread to showcase this project and fill you in with all you need to know. It will become a reality so start saving up

betterABIAstate:
wow, please can you tell us more about it?

You are probably aware that your state has a PPP Public Private Partnership office headed by Mr. Austin Ufomba. We worked closely with him to bring this project to reality. We were in Abia two weeks ago to see the site which is massive...and today we met your governor who is passionate to see this project realised. Like I said, it is not an estate, it is a city. It will be managed privately so you are certain it will be a city that works. All infrastructure provided...I cannot give you more details now but in the coming days I may open a thread to showcase progress. We have contacted a team of foreign town planners to come up with a masterplan. Start saving because in 3-5 years you can buy into this city.

Hmmm...I didn't know that Aba was in such a deplorable state. However I have good news for Abians and in the coming days/weeks/ months you may get to hear of it. You will have an opportunity to live in a modern city with every amenity you can think of. I was part of a group of investors and we met with your governor this evening in Abuja. We are proposing to build an new city between Aba and Umuahia... it is a 580 hectare development in Nsulu and it will be world class with all infrastructure plus hotel, parks, fire station, a golf course and all the works. I would like to get some feedback from Abians here. Is this a welcome project and would you live here if completed?

Anywhere between the two markings is ideal but I the closer to the upper limit the better but never pass the upper marking....I think

gidgiddy:
At least Obiano is doing something tangible. If you ask the gworo chewing dullard of Daura what he has initiated and commissioned after almost a year in office........

This project wasn't initiated in the last year. We funded this project in 2014 under the 2013 CGS to State. What that means is the proposal for this project was submitted in 2013 but we gave them funds in 2014. The project is counterpart funded which means that we give the state 50% and the state provides 50%. I must say that I'm impressed with the scale of the project and I hope they can sustain it.

uduak2016:
Somebody is trying to piss America off by abandoning the Dollar for other currency...no nation has tried it and was successful at it especially in Africa.

My thoughts exactly. Ask Gaddafi...oh...they killed him.

Let's get ready to hear a policy statement from the president. It's the only time we get to hear that he said something.

Why can't a government just accept responsibility for its failure. It always has to look for blame somewhere else. If they aren't blaming the previous administration, it is NASS. Now it's the head of Agencies.

Hmm.... so the guy was a broke ass and his family too...but the retired broke army man could still get 30 soldiers to beat up guests. Issokay

EbukaFran:
OP are you aware that anybody can set up a profile on Wikipedia- for Free?

Do you know you can set up a profile for yourself and members of your family if you wish to do so?

This was not done by Wikipedia!

Please Nairalanders, use your internet facilities to expand your knowledge and not for porn surfing.

Most 10-13 year old kids in the US know that you can set up a Wikipedia profile for your cat if you want


Smh

Thank you for that! I am actually surprised that people didn't know that anyone can make a Wikipedia entry. Who is the mod that moved this to front page? He needs a Wikipedia entry to immortalise his ...... brilliance? Or otherwise

If you like yourself do not spend the money. It happened to a colleague of mine some time back. I credited him with 450k and it credited him twice. He called the account officer and reported at the bank bit they did nothing. He spent the money. Almost 6-7 months later, they debited his account for that amount. Just be sure that sooner or later they will detect the error and just be sure that when they do, you have enough in your account to cover it else....

dustydee:
It may not have been in the budget but I believe it was included during the budget defence.

How can he defend a project that has no funds appropriated for its execution. Was he making a case for its inclusion? Or defending a ghost project. Or it was probably inserted after the original document got missing from the National Assembly.

nwaanambra1:
nna one week!!

one whole week cha!!! in dis hash econs and njo ubosi!!!


abeg any body fit tell us how much dis jorny go cost the naija tax payer and how much we go gain from the jorny??



nna na waoo!! na dis one we dey sing "ulaga n'ebeee!!! Onye ije ka anyi jee ka anyi naa!!"











[size=15pt]Besides i no understand this pictures - Bubu do the take off ceremony for night finish and still repeat am for day? [/size]

The photos are not in the correct order. The last four photos are on his way to the helipad. I guess there was no fuel for his 40+ motorcade so he went by chopper to the airport. The pictures taken at night are on arrival at the Abuja airport to board his flight after his brief visit to Nigeria.

okogbemyk:
Mind you , the report said it has 4 pumps for petrol and 1 each for the other products.

I know but my main concern is the PMS pumps. Like I said they should go and see a proper Mega station with over 40 pumps. They are making noise about their mini mega station with 4 pumps. Please....

Abeg print the names from 1960 to date. If you can go as far as 1914, it will be good just don't start from the last 16 years

Mega station with 4 pumps? Please visit the NNPC on the expressway to Kubwa and see what a proper Mega station looks like.

odiereke:
Dat issue have to be sorted out between VIO & FRSC. How do I tell VIO when am stopped dat they are not entitled to asking me for my Vehicle Particulars.

You look them in the face and tell them boldly that they have no right to ask you for the documents. They know and they will back off. However before you pull that stunt be sure that your vehicle is road worthy and will pass their road worthiness test else sorry na your name.

You haven't got work yet and you are deciding whether you'd appreciate him or not. You are only letting pain eat you up from the inside. You put yourself through school, you survived, you graduated and have served. Get a job and show him how to be a better man. Take care of him that's the best revenge... oh...and make sure you don't do the same to your kids.

Right out of JJ Omojuwa's playbook

Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega is nominated for his professionalism, determination and integrity as chairman of Nigeria’s electoral commission, which, in 2015, ensured the conduct of Nigeria’s most credible election since the country’s return to civilian rule in 1999.
Really? Very credible! !!!

I guess they want to take back their 50 kobo CHANGE.

fulanimafia:
The current inefficiency of the petroleum industry makes your comparison with telecoms a case of comparing apples with oranges. Pipelines for example, are not operational due to sabotage and tankers must be used for distribution which is highly inefficient and adds several variable costs to the final cost of petroleum products which makes it a much more difficult industry to regulate if eventually deregulated. Deregulation essentially weakens the powers of the DPR so I'm not sure I fully get your point.

Deregulation doesn't weaken the power of the DPR (regulator). The telecoms sector is deregulated but has NCC as the regulatory body and they have immense power . Recall the hefty fine placed on MTN. Deregulation doesn't mean that market players can do as they wish, in fact the regulatory bodies exercise more power in a deregulated market. Deregulate and marketers will invest in more efficient ways to get their products to the stations. We may pay more initially but it will level out.

maximunimpact:
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja blamed past Nigerian leaders for the country’s economic troubles as he said they led without discipline.

He recounted that for the greater part of the last 16 years, oil sold above $100 per barrel but expressed regret that the nation did not have much to show for it.

“In the First Republic, more enduring infrastructure was built with meagre resources. But in the past 16 years, we made a lot of money without planning for the rainy day.

“We showed a lot of indiscipline in managing our economy, and that is why we are where we are today. But this time round, we’ll do our best” the President said while receiving the President of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Bernard O. Aliyu at the State House.

The President, has at different fora blamed the past administrations ruled by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for ruining the country’s economy.

President Buhari stressed that there was an urgent need to ensure that the potentials of Nigeria are harnessed and used for the good of the country.

“Nigeria needs to work on her potentials, so that we don’t remain permanently at the level of potentials.

“If Ethiopia is sustained largely by her airline industry, we have greater potentials here. But we must move out, engage with the rest of the world, as we need to re-establish the integrity of this country. We need to rebuild this country again.”

Aliyu, the Nigerian-born ICAO president commended President Buhari for strides on anti- corruption, and urged Nigeria to pay more attention to development of civil aviation.

“Civil aviation is a catalyst for economic development. The level of aviation development in any country mirrors the economic development of that country,” Aliyu said.

The ICAO president pledged to support the development of the aviation industry in Nigeria, urging the country to improve on training and capacity development, aviation security, aerodromes and air navigation, runways, control towers, terminal buildings, among others.

http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/04/04/buhari-blames-economic-woes-past-leaders/

Someone is beginning to sound like a broken record... and he was a past leader too. Ah well, I guess he was voted in for these sound bites. Mr. President, you aren't saying anything new; you were voted in because the populace wanted things to be better and not for you to repeat the woes of the past. I keep seeing "in the past 16 years" as if Nigeria never existed before then or corruption on non-existent pre-16 years ago. The combined loot pre -2000 will triple that stolen in the last 16 years.

fulanimafia:
Right now those saboteurs diverting products for their selfish gain are terrorizing Nigerians, and no sane government negotiates with terrorists.

Giving into their blackmail by deregulating will only legalize their insane profiteering, and if you think it's horrible buying fuel at N150/litre, wait till deregulation is implemented and your petrol station boldly displays N300/litre without the DPR having any power to do anything about it, and you're forced to pay that price, not for the period of any scarcity, but for the next 4, 8 or 12 years.

Deregulation at this time when our pipelines are ineffective, the industry is inefficient, and our marketers/importers are so greedy and undisciplined is a no no in my opinion.

The inability for a regulator to exercise it's power shouldn't be an excuse to maintain a bad system. In an open market, markets forces can come into play and ensure we pay the right prices however I agree that regulation will play an important role and the DPR are not living up to their responsibility. Look at the telecom sector, when MTN and Econet were the dominant players. We were forced to pay per minute and told that per second billing couldn't be implemented. It didn't take any regulation to force prices down neither did government fix prices for calls even when we cried out. It took a new market entrant, Glo to enter the market with per second billing and immediately all the others had to do the same. At one point, it needs to be done. Price fixing is inefficient and we will continue to suffer this scarcity. As a private investor, I will not build a refinery or pipelines if I cannot recoup my costs in a market with fixed prices, government will not build refineries and pipelines because it can't. ..so what is the solution?

The government doesn't want to make the unpopular decision, which by the way is the best decision, to deregulate the sector. I see people happily queueing by the road side to buy from black marketers at 150 naira -200 naira per litre yet years ago a wise man deregulated the market, filling stations were told to sell at 141 naira but we occupied the streets revolting. We are paying the price today and putting money in the pockets of those who want the price fixing to continue. Nobody wonders how the fuel ends up in jerrycans. Petrol stations don't necessarily have to divert tankers to make gains. They just sell all their products to the black marketers at 100-120 naira a litre. Let Magu be chasing yam eaters while petrol stations commit even greater financial crimes and corrupt practices.

Maybe that's what they use for Kilishi in Ogun State

What end time? We've been in the end times since the bible was written and the world hasn't ended. I recall hearing about the rapture and the coming in primary 3 and everyday I kept looking in the clouds for the trumpets and imagining the sound; needless to say it never happened. Focus on living and doing the best you can while you can. The only end time is when your time on this earth ends...

My question is how the government will finance the 'subsidy'. I cannot remember seeing any allocation for payment of subsidy in the 2016 appropriation bill so where is the money coming from? Perhaps they are using the returned loot?

The only cons come with buying a poorly maintained V6.

yomz1e:
Hope this helps:

When you stream a video or music, the file itself doesn’t live on your device’s hard drive. It’s accessed on the internet, temporarily, while you’re using it. That’s why streaming is used by many sites offering free or rented content: you have access to it but you don’t “own” the content. Streaming is great for watching or listening to content on any device – your internet-connected TV, smartphone, tablet, or laptop. Streaming works better with a faster internet connection as you’re listening or watching in real-time.

By contrast, when you download a video or music, the file itself lives on your hard drive and takes up space there. This means that, once downloaded, you can use it again and again, and not have to download it each time. However, you often have to pay more for downloaded content than you would if you streamed it because you “own” the file. Plus, with downloaded content, it can be challenging to use it across multiple devices.

Though you are right, I think the OP is considering the cost in terms of data usage. I'd rather download than stream anyway considering the points you raised