₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
Because it costs too much money if you are not Lagos.

Lagos has the advantage of being our largest city and an international city and our business capital.

Even then it took 10 years to construct two out of the seven rail lines it needs to build. Five more to go.

Most other states try but find out the money is too much. Kano wanted to do it, but the loan needed led to a huge outcry that the then governor terminated the idea.

Maybe if states started raising income from tax because most of them have very low tax to gdp ratios, maybe.

They need to LOOK INWARDS and do what it takes to lay tracks with direct labour.

You do not need white men to come from Europe to lay down FCKING rail tracks.

For crying out loud, don’t those states have universities?

Why can’t they go to their universities and get their civil engineering departments to develop the blueprint for the cheapest rail system possible, using indigenous know how and labour?

No. They will say because we don’t have 500 million dollars to pay a company in Canada to come and do it, so no rail!

Who did this to you people?

Are you aware your ancestors built the Benin Wall and Rampart system 600 years ago that’s 16 thousand kilometres long in total, and is four times longer than the Great Wall of China?

It’s actually in the Guinness Book of Records!

So how is it that today you cannot build a simple 20 km rail track without calling Canada and America and UK?

It’s disgusting and disgraceful.

You don’t lack the brains.

After all Igbos built various sophisticated weapons and equipment during the war using local inputs, know how and technology.

If you can build Ogbunigwe and such things, you can lay down rail tracks and a rail system.

We do not need to be in a war situation before we can be creative!

Anambra1stSonTV:
We are building world class project you can use direct labour in your state

This is the difference between Nigerians and the Chinese.

The Chinese lack your inferiority complex which says “what we do cannot be as good as what the white man does”.

They believe in starting from within their own capacity and progressing steadily by learning from their mistakes etc.

Tragic.

How will you ever become developed and industrialised if you lack trust in your own capacity?

Anambra1stSonTV:
It took Lagos more than two decades to build state railline outside Lagos tell me another Southwest state that funded it railline, currently Anambra state government under Soludo is designing Anambra rail master plan it's being handled by CPCS a Canadian company, which will be completed in few months then the gov will inaugurate the project
https://cpcs.ca/projects/cpcs-to-deliver-anambra-rail-master-plan/#:~:text=This%20rail%20master%20plan%20will,Federal%20Government%20standard%20rail%20line.

This is all well and good, but we’ve been seeing these sort of plans for donkey years, with nothing at the end.

I reckon it’s due to the cost, so why don’t they use Direct Labour just like Ebonyi state does with many projects?

Depriest2020:
Please why Anambra in specific? Are you from Anambra state?

I’m a Nigerian. That’s all that matters.

I chose Anambra because Onitsha is a place that is very similar to Lagos in terms of frenetic commercial activities and movement of people here and there.

They need an intracity rail service and they have the labour force, so what’s holding them?

Mobilize the youths and lay down some tracks, man.

They can use direct labour and lay tracks in Onitsha, and get their train coaches and wagons from the Kajola Train Wagon Manufacturing Plant in Ogun state.

Why don’t they do it?

I think it’s just laziness on the part of their leaders.

Just look at what Lagos is doing!

Today, Red Line opened, tomorrow Blue Line, Purple Line…

I mean, don’t they feel ashamed that they are getting left behind by the SW?

I find their inertia shocking and unsettling.

Paraman:
Dying is like sleeping. You won't know if you're even existing or if you once existed

You are WRONG.

Dying is a return to your REAL LIFE before you were born into this…program.

Kenochi:
I am really loving the healthy discussions going in Nigeria,for the first time in our Democracy we are beginning to see our leaders play the role of true opposition
Democracy is built on ideas and not just talking about problems without giving constructive solutions,the Government is on their feet and they are responding to the opposition's statements
Coming to the issue at hand,the truth is that if you sincerely take your time to look at all the presidential candidates,their manifesto was almost similar,the only difference was perhaps in the pace of implementation

As for me,I will continue to insist that this Government must look at the possibility of devolving more power and more funding to the states and Local Governments
The kind of Federalism we practice is very suspect, Asiwaju should go back to the policies he fought for between 1999 to 2007
He took the Federal Government of Obasanjo to court so many times because he wanted more powers to the states, he created more Local Governments because he wanted governance to be more closer to the people
He fought the federal government on taxes, state police and even Roads across the state
The Reforms that this Government has started will only work if it becomes more comprehensive,it is not about increasing money to the states, it should go the whole hog and start reducing the powers of the Federal Government and allow States and Local Governments become the engine room for the growth of our Economy

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It's always 'sensible' supporting such policies when you are in the opposition.

When YOU become the guy in Aso Rock, the last thing you want to see is a weakening of your power and authority.

That's why these guys always talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to devolution of powers.

It won't surprise me if the ancestors are working against us because we abandoned them to embrace the English, from religion to even the naming of our land, when we have so many great kingdoms and empires we can use to name ourselves.

Countries with indigenous names like Kenya, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania etc all seem more serious and patriotic in the way they do things, with far less corruption and abuse of office.

It is our total political disconnectedness from the past that makes us unpatriotic and corrupt, because we are like a tree without roots.

illicit:
It should be named New Oyo

😶

We can actually combine the names:

Songhai
Benin
Aro
Oyo

And name it the Federal Republic of Sonbenaroyo.

Or Arosonbeniyo

Or Bensonaroyo

PortHarcourtcit:
seun seun seun mynd44 nlfpmod Fergie001, this post is devilish and with DIVISIVE IDIOLOGIES... Nigeria is fragile now and she doesn't need such division now...

What...?

What is this CLOWN on about?

Wanting an AFRICAN name for an AFRICAN COUNTRY is ''devilish''?

Thanks Britain, for destroying the minds of our people, and replacing their ancient pride and dignity with self hatred and inferiority complex.

Pathetic.