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TOLLING would commence at the Admiralty Circle Toll Plaza only upon the certification of the toll road as ‘fit for purpose’ by an independent engineer. The independent engineer is already certifying work that has been done so far.
The benefits that will be availed road users include improved journey times, such that road users are able to save valuable time, commuting from one place to the other. Also, with the revamped expressway scheduled to undergo round-the-clock maintenance, the usual problems such as dangerous potholes and uneven road surfaces which road users regularly encounter and which often pose grave dangers would be eliminated.

SIX days ahead of the scheduled August 2010 commencement period of the Lagos State government’s planned tolling scheme for the Lekki-Epe Expressway, clouds of uncertainty have continued to hover above the scheme, as government and unrepentant stakeholders stick to their guns over divergent positions on the project. While the state authorities, speaking in the same vein with the concessionaire for the scheme – The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) – insist the scheme is the answer to the perennial infrastructure problems plaguing the highway, residents in communities located along its route have remained staunchly opposed to the tolling implications for all users of the road.
LCC officials, however, assured members of the State House of Assembly who waded into the dispute that the rumoured August 1st take–off date was not true, but that the firm expected the scheme to be up and running sometime during the month.

Mariory:
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blacksta:
2. Android Scales to Every Device
Android isn’t dependent on device hardware. Instead, it changes which features it offers. iPhone-like features would be reserved for individuals with pricier phones, but those with lesser-priced phones need not worry about lacking applications like mapping and address books.

blacksta:
5 Reasons Why Android Will Revolutionize The
Mobile Industry

1. It’s Time for a Change.
For years, mobile phone users have been stuck using phone carrier’s proprietary and ugly interfaces

2. Android Scales to Every Device
Android isn’t dependent on device hardware. Instead, it changes which features it offers. iPhone-like features would be reserved for individuals with pricier phones, but those with lesser-priced phones need not worry about lacking applications like mapping and address books.

3. It’s Supported by Dozens of Hardware Manufacturers.
Sure, the iPhone created a change throughout the mobile phone industry. Android finally allows individuals to get the features they want in the phone they want, without a ridiculously high premium

4. It’s Open Source
The average consumer doesn’t have to know what open source is to benefit from it. The participation of thousands of volunteer programmers means the interface will get the upgrades it needs without the corporate oversight it doesn’t.

5. Third Party Development is Encouraged
iPhone developers are renegades, constantly playing a cat-and-mouse game with Apple until the official SDK is released in February 2008. Android, meanwhile, is taking the opposite approach, relying on third-party developers to make the platform viable for consumers.

blacksta:
5 Reasons Why Android Will Revolutionize The
Mobile Industry

1. It’s Time for a Change.
For years, mobile phone users have been stuck using phone carrier’s proprietary and ugly interfaces

2. Android Scales to Every Device
Android isn’t dependent on device hardware. Instead, it changes which features it offers. iPhone-like features would be reserved for individuals with pricier phones, but those with lesser-priced phones need not worry about lacking applications like mapping and address books.

3. It’s Supported by Dozens of Hardware Manufacturers.
Sure, the iPhone created a change throughout the mobile phone industry.  Android finally allows individuals to get the features they want in the phone they want, without a ridiculously high premium

4. It’s Open Source
The average consumer doesn’t have to know what open source is to benefit from it. The participation of thousands of volunteer programmers means the interface will get the upgrades it needs without the corporate oversight it doesn’t.

5. Third Party Development is Encouraged
iPhone developers are renegades, constantly playing a cat-and-mouse game with Apple until the official SDK is released in February 2008. Android, meanwhile, is taking the opposite approach, relying on third-party developers to make the platform viable for consumers.

sunnyben:
Does anyone has info on how SCJP exam can be done in Nigeria? Can i just go to Prometric online and register or i have to go through a centre to make payment and book a date for the exam.

Awaiting responses.

johnie:
While I understand the grievance of the people with the issue of non provision of an alternate access route and support their right to peaceful protest, I believe all forms of violent protests and vandalism should be condemned.

The Lekki Concession Company, the concessionaire of the Lekki Toll Road, has unveiled a toll-free number for reporting road incidents along the road by members of the public to facilitate prompt responses to incidents along the road.

It is expected to help in the maintenance of free flow of traffic as well as reduce the number of potential fatalities as a result of traffic incidents on the road.

The company unveiled the number to participants at the fourth interactive workshop on traffic management, health, safety, environment and law enforcement on the road last week. It also disclosed that steps were being taken to further enhance and accelerate incident reporting and response process, while also providing stakeholders with information concerning LCC‘s radio communication processes.

phuck_NL:
There will be chaos when they start charging tolls.

phuck_NL:
Johnie, Johnie, Johnie. How many times did i call you? God will shower billions of blessings upon you. You don't know how much i dey gbadun your photos. Abeg no let the naija factor enter oo. Keep up the good work. Keep photographinggg all the way. I always check this page everyday in anticipation of your photos. My mouth dey always water anytime i open this thread.
Jokes apart. Good job bruh.

jikings:
I'm a Petroleum Engr working in the Industry. My background is Chemical Eng first degree and an Msc in Pet Eng. I think is better to have your first degree in another engineering specialty before an Msc in Pet Eng even if you want to work as a Pet Eng. Pet Eng is a bit narrow and with an Msc you can cover all you need to know in one year and the rest comes with exp. Most of my colleagues took the same root as I did ( not necessarity Chem Eng, some EE, maths, Mech or even geology). As per getting a good job, a good degree is a good starting point, most companies require a 2.1 and above and pray to God as well. I hope this helps. Good luck. it pays to work hard!!!

AjanleKoko:
For the oil sector, it doesn't really matter what engineering you do at undergrad, I think. These days, it's a lot more competitive, with most engineering fresh intakes having masters degrees already.

gowaga68:
USD we buy 152.50 and sell 154
GBP we buy 223 and sell 226

pawa4ul:
I thought we have a moderator in this NL.

pawa4ul:
people like aasog and others should create their own threads

gowaga68:
hello all.
just came back from holi

johnie:
I am CONSIDERING being made vice president.

Oga lawyer, please grant this wish quick o!

dancewith:
@ poster

You really do not have to do anything. You can very easily own two valid passport without cancelling the old one provided you satisfy these two important requirements:
a) Your old passport is expiring within 6 months at the time of applying for the new one
b) You are not to travel with both while the old one is still valid and not cancelled

The fact then is, you can renew your passport without cancelling the old one if you satisfy the points above. If you were a British or an American citizen, once you apply for the new one, the old one is automatically cancelled before the new one is issued even if you did not forward the expiring copy

My brother is british and when he did a change of name he applied for a new passport while the old one was still valid. They issued him a new one. A few months later he tried to travel to Germany with the old one but was turned back at Heathrow because he was carrying a cancelled passport

You will not have problem with the Norwagian embassy on account of the old passport. How are they to know our system is not automated to cancel old passport when a new one is being issued?

As for the British visa on your expired passport you need to tranfer it to your new one. However the Americans accept a visa on an expired passports provided you are also carrying a new and valid passport

Good luck

Fhemmmy:
This thread has all of a sudden gone to the dogs and the purpose for it has been lost.

newintexas:
I was born and grew up in Benin, and as much as it hurts to read some of the things written here, it also saddens me that most of it is the truth. I have often wondered why my home city has remain in the squalor it's in to this day. Everything bad and evil happens in that city, kidnapping, armed robbery, international prostitution, where you see parents and husbands sending their loved ones abroad to go love-peddler and all this mostly becos the next door neighbour built a five bedroom duplex, idol worshipping, and yet you find churches in every street corner, you cannot worship two Gods at the same time, but it appears that message has not reached my people. We have the biggest hypocrites too, I mean how do you explain the way the Igbinedion family is worshipped by the same people that they robbed. There is chronic lack of exposure, that is why you see most of the men still living in their family homes in their thirtys. Another big problem is our inability to let go of old things e.g traditions that have brought us nothing but set backs, when the world is moving on, we are still hanging on and putting so much importance to irrelevant things, and because we put so much importance to what people say about us or our family we are afraid to break away from the usual mode or way of doing things. The worse disease in Benin, is ENVY, you dare not be successful, because the next thing you will know is someone is out there trying to eliminate you. This is one of the reasons you see the successful sons and daughters never going back home to invest in the city and a city where no one is putting money into will definately deteroriate and that is exactly what is happening in Benin. Until we change our mentality and begin to realise that when one person is successful and is given the opportunity to create other opportunities for other people, then Benin will remain the way it is. We need common sense, Nothing will happen in Benin until it becomes a safe place to come to.

snowdrops:
Very well said. Please try and modify your post by spacing it with paragraphs.

Ehoi:
Can someone confirm this. I have heard from two independent sources that the present government have started to transform benin city. I heard all major roads are being made six lanes or expanded. Is it true?

johnie:
Thanks X-2-X for the compliments and also your assitance in resizing the pictures.

I am considering moving this thread and the twin thread  "What is happening on the Badagry Axis?"  (https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=427403.msg5975442#msg5975442) to the political section.

This is because I have noticed that the properties section has gradually degenerated to an "Oyingbo market" where the exchange of useful information and ideas has been relegated to the background.

Vigorous debates seem to have given way to pure consumerism.

I recall that there was a sugggestion that the section be broken up into sub-sections to take care of the "sellers" and others.

Unfortunately that has not been done till now.

While some threads are "locked" and are always at the top of the section even though their appeal to the generality can be faulted, other more general ones get lost in the wave of "for sale posts" within minutes of being posted.

I have also observed that no thread on the properties section has made it to the main page of Nairaland in recent times.

While appreciating the work of the moderator, I think more could be done.

Meanwhile, I am seriously considering relocating the threads.

lawyer:
@ihebrooke

. . .  . I am making this a sticky so  . . .