₦airaland Forum

1stola:
You have no point here.
You are the one in distress and one who needs help.
You're just being an unreasonable troll.
Take your advice to the west. Instead of building a single house with 50 trees, they can switch to using bricks and other ecosaving materials.

Olodo, What has the West got to do with Africa deforestation?

Your inferiority complex to the White Man is the reason why you measure your success and failure base on White people action

Focus on the rapid deforestation across Nigeria and why there are afforestation project across the country

afforestation project will facilitate employment – Akeredolu ...nigeriannewsdirect.com › News
27 May 2017 - Ondo state governor,Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has been commended for flagging-off the 10,000 hectares afforestation project at Omotosho in ...
http://nigeriannewsdirect.com/afforestation-project-will-facilitate-employment-akeredolu/

Snowale:
Life would be more beautiful when we do things based on what our conscience says as Humans, we were created with conscience not to just dump it, and follow strict rules we created for ourselves. Just see how the will pity her, had it been she is the VC's, a professor's or a powerful politician's daughter. That's why sometimes I agree with those that says laws are for the poor, especially in Nigeria. This law in particular is too strict, because she had spent almost 4 years in the medical school before she was withdrawn. The money + The time + The stress + risks etc. Only if you know the amount of money spent on an average undergraduate per session.

I've seen three people called to panel for examination malpractice, 2 were expelled.the third one was pardoned because he's dad is a senior lecturer. The 2 that were expelled were caught talking to each other, can you imagine, the judgement passed on them was too strict, because they are already in their final year.

Solution: We are not robots that just pass judgement based on rules and regulations written in paper. expelling someone in year 1 and someone in year 4, for breaking the same rules. We are humans, we should be considerate.

Nigeria is an unfair society, but exam rules say don't talk to each other period. If we want credible leaders then it must start at our schools where ethics and integrity are not taken for granted. Expelling the two students was harsh, they should have been allowed to retake the exams the following year.

Academic balance was achieved in 300 level then and so progressing across levels were easier. This balance and joy of soon to be a pharmacist was truncated in 400level second semester when my admission was questioned and subsequently suspended. It was heartbreaking and mentally draining but then it thought me a lot.

My admission was questioned and my graduation suspended. Does this really matter anymore? No it does not. The most important thing is I left UNN and came to my place, Edo state. I wrote another JAMB and got admitted again into the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin and that was where my second ‘missionary’ journey began.

Does it matter? Yes, it does.

You need to explain why your admission was questioned and suspended, for one reason or another you're presenting yourself as someone that has overcome adversity but one I suspect you are someone of questionable character.

staneless:
All I see are buildings inside thick forest

Isn't that beautiful, modern architecture surrounded by nature.

1stola:
Keep fooling yourself.
90% of country homes in the west is built with woods.
Where did the woods come from?

I can't help you, you are truly a limited African.

Preserving your forest is as important as preserving your life. Why do you think the Chinese have an afforestation programme at the same time that is exploiting Africa rainforests from Senegal to Mozambique.

1stola:
Yes!

This is an institution!
See structures
See tarred roads
See organisations

Unlike that forest called UNILORIN
(BETTER BY far NONSENSE)

Forest is better than building. Africans must be the only race cutting their trees

Despite the delay and corruption, I must commend the initiative of the project.

The Red Line will share the Lagos -Ibadan infrastructure is a sure way of cutting and integrating state and federal projects.

“The Red Line will share track with the standard gauge track of the Lagos – Ibadan Rail Modernisation project of the Federal Government. It is planned to commence passenger operations also in the second quarter of 2022.

“The state is currently evaluating bids submitted by investors for four other rail lines recently advertised for expression of interest on design-build-operate-maintain-and-transfer basis.

“The four lines are 68-kilometre Green Line from Marina to Lekki Free Zone, 60-kilometre Purple Line from Redemption Camp to Ojo, 34-kilometre Yellow Line from Otta to National Theatre and 48- kilometre Orange Line from Ikeja to Agbowa.”

PortHarcourt1st:
Good job

Impressive development, I will drink to Innosson today

Lisaint:
Agbara-Badagry to border was supposed to be 10 lanes + rail

But now what we have on agbara to Badagry road now is police acting like Thrift collectors

Collecting money from motorist
And the road was also reduced from
10 lanes to 6lanes

The contractor handling that project is just working like snail
Since none of the government agencies is there for monitoring

Trust me

The only time those polithiefians consider those in that Badagry corridor to be Lagosians is when they need their votes

Then don't vote for them, stop complaining and use your voting powers

Man90:

JAMO84:
Illiterate! That lady has PhD. I follow her on Twitter, she's one of the most educated women in this country.

Education is not equal to intelligence. Ganduje has a PhD, would he be considered an intellectual or opportunist. The woman has the opportunity to speak up against injustice and barbaric murders, instead, she elects to keep quiet because she and her husband support the Fulani's militant.

NGpatriot:
Inflated? Do you know what's included in the whole package? It's actually a great deal.

$600 million for 12 turboprop aircraft?

ogododo:
https://www.facebook.com/1463386573730175/posts/2883801361688682/

PDP needs to shut the Bleep up!

APC and Buhari are useless and lack capability but 16 years of PDP led Nigeria to the mess called APC.

gidgiddy:
Im not impressed with these planes, looks like the type used in the second world war

So you want to use expensive jet fighters to fight terrorist that don't have an airforce?

In my opinion, the contract is inflated, these kinds of aircrafts can be assembled in Nigeria. I like to understand the role of the DICON (https://dicon.gov.ng/military-products-2/)

Years ago I was researching the development of the Air Beetle trainer that was jointly developed by DICON and West Germany.

Agboriotejoye:
The same comatose kd refinery?

KD Refinery is not comatose, the refinery was built in the 1980s and in refinery age is quite young. The issue is the Nigeria government, they can't run a bath.

Sheuns:
Affordable indeed.
Our government need to build more high rise buildings. All these 2-3 storey buildings can’t solve housing the deficits.

Where will they get the electric power for the lifts (Elevator)

ednut1:
when production starts let me know and when they lay pipelines to transport also let me know. Jokers

They will not lay pipe for transportation, read the article first. The Kaduna Refinery and petrochemical company can be integrated into the new oil field.

“One of it is to create a hub around the production so that instead of pipping the crude oil from the North, we can create a development corridor around that product. We can build a refinery there and create businesses from the production using the oil as feedstock. We may not export but create development activities around the production.”

Zico5:
To be sincere, something must be done about these northern cabal before things get out of hands. They always think upsidedown. The amount of money they have wasted on fruitless search for oil in that region is alarming. Something must be done cos 2023 is too long.

I disagree with your assessment.

If Oil has been discovered in the North, it will reduce the Northern Nigeria dependency on the South, if at the same time they can integrate the Oil in the North with the Kaduna Refinery and petrochemical plant they can develop petrochemical feedstock for Northern industries.

The South is suffering from Northern Nigeria burden and underdevelopment.

eyinjuege:
Even if he doesn't come back as president of the bank, I hope his successor will always put Africans first.

Why?

You think Africans will do a better job than European or Asian. Look around you at the great Africa achievements.

9gerian:
Some of the allegations are weighty, but would appear insignificant to Nigerians who are used to being violated by their government and leaders without a break.

On the flip side, the real reason he is wanted out may not be stated directly (especially if it’s not to Africa’s benefit), as it may just be that he was putting Africa and Africans first.

Any leader worth his salt would always question the core objectives, and the capacity of his organization to solve real problems. This can be very frustrating if the leader understands most of the problems but is forced to follow laid down bureaucratic systems that are unhelpful for meaningful impact. This is why the media is used extensively by the US government to advance specific narratives that shape the thoughts of the people world over in specific directions. Those directions are not altogether bad, but sometimes, they are very sinister.

As anyone wondered why there seems to be very little impact in spite of the decades of presence of all those donor organizations (USAID, UNESCO, WHO etc) in the poor and developing countries? Sometimes it even looks like they are monitoring spirits with agendas totally separate from helping the host countries. This is while the myopic and uninformed African leaders look on. Most of those organizations appear to promote their parent country’s interest more, thereby compounding the host country’s problems mostly.

Truth be told, the standards for such international organizations are usually very high but become superficial. Superficial because powerful member nations such as the US and other advanced countries get to influence things from the very top, and bend the rules without checks.

In other words this Adeshina’s case may just be that of: Do as I say, and not as I do, which by the way is understandable.

HE THAT PAYS THE PIPER DICTATES THE TUNES! If only Africa could look inwards and get its acts right!

We await the outcome of the independent probe.

There is no doubt that USA has ulterior motive and self-interest, but Dr Adesina hasn't help matters, his lack of intergrity and poor ethnic has weakened his position.

Alex9999:
Again, you don't have "steal" to bring down an organization. You just have to violate rules -- OMG. Is our country/continent going anywhere soon? I assume you are a youth. With this kind of thinking -- no chance!

He lacks merit and integrity. AfDB first mistake was allowing Mr Adesina to a second term without an election.

seguntijan:
FACTS ARE STUBBORN

the Muhammadu Buhari administration is exactly five years in office. Four full years of a first term, and one year accomplished in the second term of four years.

In five years, President Buhari has touched Nigeria in diverse ways, despite myriad of challenges; economic, security, political, social, and many more.

The fact sheet will be unfolded few days hence, but today, as build up to the anniversary season, let’s dwell on some unassailable truths that can never be swept away. As Sir Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister said; “Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.”

The President and his team are steadily and painstakingly retooling Nigeria. Out of sheer and deliberate ignorance, some people deride it, saying we see nothing, we hear nothing. Yes. When you have become deliberately blind, you can see nothing, even when it is thrust before your very eyes. You won’t see it. When you have become willfully deaf, when it is noised to your hearing daily, you won’t hear.

Some other people do theirs out of panic. Shall it be said that what Napoleon couldn’t do, has been done by that simple, unassuming man from Daura? Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Daura of all places. That small place. Not a man from a major city. And he wants to be recorded in history as the man who turned Nigeria right side up. They resent it out of panic.
Yet some others operate out of malice. He is not of my ethnic stock. Nor of my religion, language, political party. Why must Nigeria work under him? It won’t happen. We won’t see anything, nor hear anything. In fact, he is doing nothing. The country is even worse off than he met it five years ago.

There is a quote often attributed to John Adams, a former American President, though some people claim it was not original to him. It goes thus: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

A number of times, I have written about a private journey I took to Onitsha, in Anambra State, last December. I was on the same flight with the Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Highness Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe. When we landed at Asaba, and I had paid him royal courtesies, he asked me to give the thanks and appreciation of his people to the President on the Second Niger Bridge, currently under construction. For many years, many administrations had made unfulfilled political promises on the project.

“As you drive on the Niger Bridge, just look to your right, and you will see the new bridge coming up,” the revered monarch had said. “Please tell Mr President that we are very happy, and we thank him.”

I saw the Second Niger Bridge, and it kindled the joy kiln in my heart. But you know what? Some people pass on the 1965 Niger Bridge, see the new one in the works, and just pretend not to. Some others see it, and they are angry. Will this Daura man succeed where others have failed? But facts are stubborn things. “Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.”

Have you seen the Owerri Interchange lately? It is the 1.6 kilometers bridge and 10.3 kilometers highway being built by Julius Berger, at Onitsha/Owerri road, Obosi junction. It will lead to the Second Nigeria Bridge.

In March, before the COVID-19 pandemic caused national emergency and halted the project, Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) visited. Very impressive. Now, here’s the news:

As part of the Phase 1 of the easing of lockdown occasioned by Coronavirus in the country, work is restarting on 53 infrastructure projects in 26 states, across the country. Despite the crash in revenue due to the collapse of oil prices in the international market, 11 contractors have been mobilized back to site in 26 states. And the Owerri Interchange is one of the scenes of action.

The Second Niger Bridge is projected to be completed in the lifetime of this administration, in fact by February 2022. The man from Daura will go into records as the person that did it, with Fashola as the midwife. Facts are stubborn things.

In Phase 2 of the easing of the lockdown, you know what will happen? The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) will roll out 92 repair works across 24 states in the country. That will be different from the 53 projects in 26 states. Nigeria will be one huge construction site, at a time the economy is down, and revenue has shrunk considerably. That is the hallmark of a government out to serve the people, come rain or shine. Minister Fashola says the objective “is to get all those depending on daily living back to work, when the COVID-19 is finally contained.”
Strides in agriculture will not stop. Nigeria is on the verge of food self-sufficiency. Rice, beans, maize, millet, all grains, we import none, unlike in the past. What if President Buhari had not invested in agriculture right from 2015? How would we have survived at a time like this? Where would we run to? We run to the sea, the sea would be boiling. We run to the bush, the bush would be burning. We run to the rocks, the rocks would be cracking. Where would we have run to? Yet some people say: we can’t even see what the government is doing. Yes, willfully blind people won’t see. But facts are stubborn things.

What of railway lines criss-crossing the country? Lagos to Ibadan is ready.
Abuja to Kaduna had been in operation.
Ibadan to Kano is in the works.
Roads? Lagos/Ibadan Expressway is 61% completed.
Abuja/Kano is bursting forth.
Enugu/Port Harcourt. And many others. In fact, there is a federal road project ongoing in almost every state in the country.

Airports. New terminals at Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt. Many others under construction
Solid minerals? Contribution to Federation Account In 2015 was N700 million. In 2016, it went up to N2 billion,and N5 billion in 2017. It hasn’t stopped growing since then..

We have a Social Investment Programme that is the biggest and most ambitious in Africa. President Buhari recently directed that those on the social security register be increased from 2.6 million households to 3.6 million. Yet, all that some people can do is pick holes. They forget that there was a time in recent history that the country didn’t have a social security register at all. They won’t even let the one that has been established grow.

Corruption is being fought to a standstill. The same with insecurity in different parts of the country. External reserves are growing at a time of economic crisis. Yet some people don’t see what the government is doing. But those who see, and hear, are full of appreciation.
True, facts are stubborn things. “Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.”

Rubbish, from a paid government agent.


Winston Churchill face adversity and overcame, Buhari is facing adversity and blaming the opposition. A man that has risen to power with no merit will always fail.

mmsen:
The price of oill will not be as high as it was.

It will get to the point where all these foreign companies that have been doing all the hard work, the important work will leave it for the Nigerians to feed on the scraps whilst simultaneously running the infrastructure into the ground.

Nigeria actually doesn't need the IOC, they are expensive and the reason why Nigeria has spent billions investing in expensive offshore and LNG projects such as the $16 billion Egina offshore platform and the $5 billion 3rd LNG. When they should be investing to repair the four refineries and build Petrochemical plants that would produce feedstocks for Nigeria pharmaceutical and agriculture industries.

flyingpig:
I think there has to be a law that compels FG to complete any project kick-started by the previous government, that is why any Party in power must initiate only project that will serve the purpose of "Nigeria" and not the sitting party.

So that even successive governments can carry-on with them and complete them without party-politics sentiments.

In fairness to the Buhari government, they have continued GEJ projects the Airports upgrade,2nd Nigeria Bridge, Lagos to Kano upgrade are all GEJ projects. The problem is that they have done little with so much funds and resources.

Buhari Government has increased Nigeria external debt profile from $10 billion to a whopping $36 billion, with less than $3 billion invested in projects the remaining funds' have been wasted on consumption.

What is the use of having a state if the state governor cannot protect its people, lands and resources? The 1999 constitution MUST be scrapped

Roon9:
Oil is our biggest curse. I pray it never does

The structure of Nigeria is the biggest curse, even the UK and USA will struggle if the government is centralised in Abuja.

mmsen:
Who cares. Oil is finished.

Time to break up the country. Let them keep the oil and Abuja.

By 2050 Abuja will look just like Daura...

Oil will never be finish, we need oil for medicine, drug manufacturing, the air industry, petrochemical and many more. We can't continue having the least productive people controlling Nigeria most critical industry

Sometimes I just dey laugh at Nigeria. The entire board of director of NNPC as of May 2020.

https://nnpcgroup.com/About-NNPC/Pages/Board.aspx


https://i.ibb.co/Ph88bPJ/Screenshot-2020-05-25-at-19-09-23.png

Liar!

haryothosyn93:
There are alot of things that shouldn't be open to civilians because only few of could understand and withstand the threat that flow the rules and regulations of NA especially when it involves the top men. My candid advice to the Nigerian Army School of Infantry and War colleges both for soldiers, Junior Course and to the Senior Course will be that they should make it mandatory never to leak any sensitive information about the body to the public. Anybody that do this should be ready to face the death penalty!!!

With the above mindset, you can all understand why Nigeria has failed as a country.

All the so-called military institutions across Nigeria have failed to provide a military strategy to defeat asymmetric militant because despite billions of dollar invested in the army the same hopeless leaders are at the helm.

Audio development

Call me when Ajaokuta steel, the four refineries and Nigeria Smelter plant are operational.

In 1980 Nigeria had 13 car assembly companies and 10 white good electronic companies, 2020 Nigeria is celebrating the assembling of gunboat using imported steel and foreign expertise.