₦airaland Forum

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government build huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

Go and google about NLNG. If you don't know about the expected impact of the road , go and research

Tinubu is selling this light rail propaganda to the north because of the outrage over FG's funding of the Lagos light rail. All wrongs are wrong. I don't think Kaduna and Kano even need light rail at this moment. Heck, 150b can't get you a light rail.

This idea of North vs South development is nauseating and it's Tinubu's handling that's aggravating the situation. It's not fair to prioritize everything about Lagos and leave other regions crying for projects. There are terrible roads across all regions yet he chooses to pick so called super highways that will take two decades to complete. As it stands today, there's no good road linking the nation's top cities Abuja and Lagos. How does that make sense? To add insult to injury, the roads from Lagos/Abuja to the oil-rich Niger Delta is in a terrible state. How can this be justified?

People will always be citing Buhari's record. If Buhari did something wrong, is that a justification for it to be replicated?

Yes, Buhari's appointment was lopsided and favoring the north. But that's just at face value. Because the appointments went to the three northern zones. Infact, Buhari's north west wasn't as favored compared to the north east. But the situation today is that major appointments are truncated to the south west. What we expect is at least a fairness for the SS and SE.

I just hope that the federal fire service are not trying to push themselves into the oil and gas sector. The entire value chain of the sector has regulators NUPRC and NMDPRA under whose purview safety(not just fire) falls. Let the FFS focus on regulating fire safety in states ensuring that the fire services have the right manning and training.

It's a good move though I don't foresee it addressing the real issues —substandard jobs.

Kano state commissioner not Kano State. There's a difference between the two.

What I expected from the responses here is everyone to look at the projects in their region and validate what the minister claims. As for my north west region, most of these projects are either on paper or moving at a very slow pace. If the FG can do a 30km section of the coastal road, let them show us even a 10km stretch of the so-called Akwanga-Gombe and Sokoto-Badagry roads.

Omo. Mexico is under rated. I never knew they're this big.

Kwankwaso went specific with the Abuja-Kano road construction. Let Sunday Dare tell people the real reason why the project was revoked from Julius Berger and given to a nondescript contractor which no known antecedent of such a project

What a country! I hope they'll pay them with the prevailing exchange rate. If not then it's pure wickedness

Exousiang01:
Built by the Kaduna state government in partnership with PTF.

Did any Southern state tell you the FG prevented them from building?

Or you want to state Blaiming the FG for the incompetence of the southern governors.
FYI Bauchi state is also building something similar

It's a purely federal project. It was Yaradua that gave it the greatest impetus

Omo. The mighty iroko has fallen and they want us to celebrate. This rebased figure is just about 250b dollars. A decade ago when our GDP rebased, we were hovering around 500b dollars. Nigeria is no more Africa's biggest economy despite having the largest population by far. There is no doubt that this country is failing

These are fake numbers. The true representation will show a high number of appointments in SW and the lowest in SE

I don't believe most of these statistics. A lot of these indices for developing countries are cooked by propagandists and lobbyists. They use the data to source for funds for NGOs from generous donors or creditors. I have seen instances where millions was injected to fight opened defecation, but the highest they do is to build some blocks of toilets mostly substandard and not sustainable. I know of a place where hundreds of such toilets were built but they were never put to use. The equipment have been carted away by looters

Dalohad:
Yeah. It is just like APC proclaiming PDP- a terrorist group because of political competition.

If FETO is truly terrorist group, their leader would have fled to Afghanistan not the US where he died.

Exactly. Throughout their decades of presence in Nigeria, there's no record of them engaging in terrorism or other illicit activities

This is more of a political statement than reality. The FETO are bitter rivals of the current Turkish government because they were accused of sponsoring a coup.
Part of the people been accused to be part of FETO in Nigeria are the owners of Nigerian Tulip International School. Some years back, diplomatic pressure from Turkey to Nigeria forced them to change the 'Turkish' in their name to 'Tulip'. The Turkish government were even pushing for the closure of the schools and other businesses. Nigeria has applied a lot of wisdom in handling the issue. I see no reason why an entity such NTIC which has been of immense contribution to Nigeria's private educational landscape should be closed down. Let Turkey free us abeg

His sojourn on earth has come to a close. May he find peace in his new station

"However, while leading troops to the hideout, the suspect in a bid to escape attempted to disarm own troops and was neutralised,” he added.

How can one person who's unarmed attempt to disarm a contingent of soldiers? This story get as e be o

tofolo:
Staff quarters belonging to Rimi College Kaduna.

I'm not aware. But I guess the quarters were within the perimeter of the school. Because I remember some houses built inside school were said to have been recovered

tofolo:
bros, Elrufai sold staff quarters of schools, these are houses meant for civil servants, I have relatives that were thrown out.

Which schools pls?

Please take a moment to write a quality post with at least 40 characters.

I suspect propaganda here because Uba Sani govt is known to be adept at that. It was Elrufai that restored the sanctity of public facilities especially hospitals, clinics and schools. One of his first moves was to evict some houses constructed within a boarding secondary school I think in Zaria. During Elrufai, you dare not build anything attached to a school fence, a departure from the rife practise of building shops along such structures. Today, Uba Sani has allocated green areas including sections of public schools to his cronies. Elrufai himself sold government properties but it was well advertised in the dailies. But Uba's case is discreet and covered with propaganda.

Insightful exchanges on this thread. Upon checking, I saw that it originated in the Education section. No wonder

Since it's Lagos, it would be approved expeditiously and the job would be given to a good contractor. Other regions, revoke contracts from credible vendors and hand them to cronies who take till eternity to deliver the projects

Yes, military training instills discipline and patriotism. But I'm at loss how such people who have gone through the rigorous training turn out to be some of the most unpatriotic and corrupt elements in government. In the last decade, only few service chiefs finished their tenure scandal-free. Where is the patriotism is someone who's well paid till his death still goes ahead to steal billions!

Good for him. People are becoming crazier by the day just to get money.

Interesting. How is the journey gonna be when he reaches Gambia? I checked and saw that there are no passenger ships from west Africa to the US

Apart from Lagos and Abuja, I don't see any city in Nigeria that needs a light rail system. Let's have an efficient public bus system first. Lagos is the only city that has made a good attempt of the BRT system and it has really helped them. So, running a light rail system wouldn't be too herculean on them.
Kaduna needs no light rail. Put 200 buses on the city roads and see the impact.

PlasmaTV:
It is very very bad sir.
Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world. We are too poor to be living this ostentatiously.

Bro is it Cotonou cars you want them to use? Reason am na

For, this isn't that bad seeing that most of the brands are locally assembled. It's cheaper than buying Prados which cost more than a 100 million each. My biggest problem with govt vehicles is how they are auctioned to retiring office holders at giveaway prices. This shouldn't apply in these perilous times. Even companies which has policies using cars for four to five years, have since adjusted. We shouldn't be buying new vehicles for govt officials every four years.

I see many spurious and bigoted comments here. First of all, the deceased died outside Nigeria and he had a wish to be buried in a particular. It wasn't compulsory but the family wanted to fulfill his wish which the Saudi officials granted. His case is an exception. He's not the first muslim billionaire or reknown Nigerian to die. Did you ever see them taken outside the country to be buried? Yaradua and Abacha died and both were buried in Nigeria. Several billionaires of the Dantata dynasty died and were interred in Nigeria. A prominent Lebanese Kano billionaire died in Lebanon but he earlier willed that he should be buried in Kano and so it happened. So what's all this fuss about?

Zionmdde:
While this is commendable

It's also worth noting that, FG is taking a pipeline and Gas right from SE to the north with intentions of even getting the gas to North Africa. Meanwhile the pipeline carefully evaded the SE. Uzodimma is obviously not interested because he must always bow to his masters in abuja
One nigeria indeed.

Did the OB3 pipeline also evade the SE? Just asking

Umahi always using technical jargons to confuse the gullible. Did he really say 80 inch stone base? That's unrealistic.
Why insist on a concrete road in the north when the terrain doesn't necessarily need such a pavements? The 11 km he claims to have been completed which I even doubt is only on one lane. Those who play Zuba will bear witness to slow pace of the work and unprofessionalism of the contractor in handling traffic diversions. Also how does the road compare with the asphalt road constructed by Julius Berger is some of the road section before Umahi forcefully terminated the contract?
Umahi brought a contractor with no known history of handling major projects just because of his ulterior motives. Time is an arbiter