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Post by Honorebu on Jun 25, 2017 18:10:01 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Jul 9, 2017 14:08:40 GMT
This whole Lekki flood thing is no jokes fam. Like that's what everyone is talking about. I'll be dropping some related tweets soon
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Post by Honorebu on Jul 9, 2017 14:18:33 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Jul 9, 2017 14:21:01 GMT
Many question marks
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Post by Honorebu on Jul 9, 2017 14:48:59 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Jul 9, 2017 15:10:05 GMT
I don't think anything key is being done to solve this problem
Cos it keeps happening. We talk about it for few days, and every one is back to business again
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Post by Short_Biscuit on Jul 26, 2017 7:45:27 GMT
Fam, e don happen. Leaders kick as $1.5b loan for Lagos-Ibadan railway is stuckthenationonlineng.net/leaders-kick-1-5b-loan-lagos-ibadan-railway-stuck/Seems the project might suffer due to Politics. Abuja-Kaduna rail didn't face this sort of problem o. The SE reps in particular haven't hidden their desire to ensure that the project doesn't see the light of day, hinging their opposition on the condition that another route that would criss-cross their region must be included. But what I find particularly annoying is the silence of our SW Senators and Reps at the National Assembly who aren't saying or doing anything about it. One hardly hears of them coming together to collectively fight for the region's interests.
I have been wondering why the SW state governments can't the see the sense adopt the model that Lagos state used when building the Lekki/Ajah road (and the Eko Atlantic City project), and which resulted in the tolls on that road. This is a proven and tested way of building critical infrastructure. Why can't we bring in private investors who will build these critical infrastructures under a 'Build-Operate-Tranfer' model? Why is such an arrangement proving difficult for our governors to exploit? Lagos is the only state that seems to have the political will to develop its infrastructure, compared to the other SW states.
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Post by Short_Biscuit on Jul 26, 2017 7:48:28 GMT
Just saw this comment. I've removed the images in question.
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Post by AgbongboAkala on Jul 26, 2017 8:46:52 GMT
Fam, e don happen. Leaders kick as $1.5b loan for Lagos-Ibadan railway is stuckthenationonlineng.net/leaders-kick-1-5b-loan-lagos-ibadan-railway-stuck/Seems the project might suffer due to Politics. Abuja-Kaduna rail didn't face this sort of problem o. The SE reps in particular haven't hidden their desire to ensure that the project doesn't see the light of day, hinging their opposition on the condition that another route that would criss-cross their region must be included. But what I find particularly annoying is the silence of our SW Senators and Reps at the National Assembly who aren't saying or doing anything about it. One hardly hears of them coming together to collectively fight for the region's interests.
I have been wondering why the SW state governments can't the see the sense adopt the model that Lagos state used when building the Lekki/Ajah road (and the Eko Atlantic City project), and which resulted in the tolls on that road. This is a proven and tested way of building critical infrastructure. Why can't we bring in private investors who will build these critical infrastructures under a 'Build-Operate-Tranfer' model? Why is such an arrangement proving difficult for our governors to exploit? Lagos is the only state that seems to have the political will to develop its infrastructure, compared to the other SW states. Bros, this is not strange to me as we have turned ourselves to playthings in the hand of the politicians. Sorry, this is not going to abate for some time now. On the Lagos infrastructure issue, I had the opportunity of reading a masters' thesis of a friend of mine whose project centred on the PPP model in Lagos. You know, that Lekki bridge didn't come easy. The same people that were using the bridge now, taking selfies on the bridge were the ones calling for the head of Fashola back then. Thank Goodness Fashola didn't look at Uche's face as at that time. If not, that bridge would have been another white elephant project. If the governors decided to do the right thing, we would be the one to carry placards and write epistles. Imagine a governor sacking 50% of his workforce to construct modern health facilities in each ward. Hell would be let loose and the hullabaloo may consume the governors and his family. The day we put sentiments apart would be day we will begin to enjoy good things. As for our SW senators, majority of them are pre-occupied with their gubernatorial ambitions. They don't want anything that will endanger their pursuits. So, they are on permanent silent mode. The only time you can see them flexing muscle is when their political bases at home are being threatened by their governors. Sorry for my musing.
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Post by Short_Biscuit on Jul 26, 2017 9:27:16 GMT
Fam, e don happen. Leaders kick as $1.5b loan for Lagos-Ibadan railway is stuckthenationonlineng.net/leaders-kick-1-5b-loan-lagos-ibadan-railway-stuck/Seems the project might suffer due to Politics. Abuja-Kaduna rail didn't face this sort of problem o. The SE reps in particular haven't hidden their desire to ensure that the project doesn't see the light of day, hinging their opposition on the condition that another route that would criss-cross their region must be included. But what I find particularly annoying is the silence of our SW Senators and Reps at the National Assembly who aren't saying or doing anything about it. One hardly hears of them coming together to collectively fight for the region's interests.
I have been wondering why the SW state governments can't the see the sense adopt the model that Lagos state used when building the Lekki/Ajah road (and the Eko Atlantic City project), and which resulted in the tolls on that road. This is a proven and tested way of building critical infrastructure. Why can't we bring in private investors who will build these critical infrastructures under a 'Build-Operate-Tranfer' model? Why is such an arrangement proving difficult for our governors to exploit? Lagos is the only state that seems to have the political will to develop its infrastructure, compared to the other SW states. Bros, this is not strange to me as we have turned ourselves to playthings in the hand of the politicians. Sorry, this is not going to abate for some time now. On the Lagos infrastructure issue, I had the opportunity of reading a masters' thesis of a friend of mine whose project centred on the PPP model in Lagos. You know, that Lekki bridge didn't come easy. The same people that were using the bridge now, taking selfies on the bridge were the ones calling for the head of Fashola back then. Thank Goodness Fashola didn't look at Uche's face as at that time. If not, that bridge would have been another white elephant project. If the governors decided to do the right thing, we would be the one to carry placards and write epistles. Imagine a governor sacking 50% of his workforce to construct modern health facilities in each ward. Hell would be let loose and the hullabaloo may consume the governors and his family. The day we put sentiments apart would be day we will begin to enjoy good things. As for our SW senators, majority of them are pre-occupied with their gubernatorial ambitions. They don't want anything that will endanger their pursuits. So, they are on permanent silent mode. The only time you can see them flexing muscle is when their political bases at home are being threatened by their governors. Sorry for my musing. Hmmm.. bros, you have spoken nothing but the truth. I actually thought about it too. Both the Lekki toll and the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge met stiff opposition from the same people taking selfies on it today. I don't know how we are going to do it o, coz this problem will always remain -- the governors will not want to do things that would piss of the electorate even though it would end up benefiting the same electorates. Reminds me of Aregbesola as well. The same people heaping abuses on him for owing salaries while embarking on massive road, school and other infrastructural projects that will end up opening up the state, will in future show-off the same road projects while forgetting how they abused the hell out of him (not that I'm absolving him or justifying his owing of salaries). I'm talking about the Oba Aderemi Bypass and the Bisi Akande trumpet bridge. These are legacy projects that will change Osun for the better and forever when completed. But really we need to be honest with ourselves. Hardly will you find a governor that will be remembered for merely 'paying salaries' as a legacy worth leaving -- how many people are in the civil service compared to the overall population sef. But infrastructures that impact the economic bottomline will always be there to remind us of their strides.
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Post by Her Highness on Jul 26, 2017 16:42:27 GMT
Gosh I hate this country
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Post by omohayek on Jul 26, 2017 17:43:19 GMT
Fam, e don happen. Leaders kick as $1.5b loan for Lagos-Ibadan railway is stuckthenationonlineng.net/leaders-kick-1-5b-loan-lagos-ibadan-railway-stuck/Seems the project might suffer due to Politics. Abuja-Kaduna rail didn't face this sort of problem o. The SE reps in particular haven't hidden their desire to ensure that the project doesn't see the light of day, hinging their opposition on the condition that another route that would criss-cross their region must be included. But what I find particularly annoying is the silence of our SW Senators and Reps at the National Assembly who aren't saying or doing anything about it. One hardly hears of them coming together to collectively fight for the region's interests.
I have been wondering why the SW state governments can't the see the sense adopt the model that Lagos state used when building the Lekki/Ajah road (and the Eko Atlantic City project), and which resulted in the tolls on that road. This is a proven and tested way of building critical infrastructure. Why can't we bring in private investors who will build these critical infrastructures under a 'Build-Operate-Tranfer' model? Why is such an arrangement proving difficult for our governors to exploit? Lagos is the only state that seems to have the political will to develop its infrastructure, compared to the other SW states. Bros, this is not strange to me as we have turned ourselves to playthings in the hand of the politicians. Sorry, this is not going to abate for some time now. On the Lagos infrastructure issue, I had the opportunity of reading a masters' thesis of a friend of mine whose project centred on the PPP model in Lagos. You know, that Lekki bridge didn't come easy. The same people that were using the bridge now, taking selfies on the bridge were the ones calling for the head of Fashola back then. Thank Goodness Fashola didn't look at Uche's face as at that time. If not, that bridge would have been another white elephant project. If the governors decided to do the right thing, we would be the one to carry placards and write epistles. Imagine a governor sacking 50% of his workforce to construct modern health facilities in each ward. Hell would be let loose and the hullabaloo may consume the governors and his family. The day we put sentiments apart would be day we will begin to enjoy good things. As for our SW senators, majority of them are pre-occupied with their gubernatorial ambitions. They don't want anything that will endanger their pursuits. So, they are on permanent silent mode. The only time you can see them flexing muscle is when their political bases at home are being threatened by their governors. Sorry for my musing. In addition to the difficulties getting our people to accept that good things are worth paying for, there's also the small difficulty that interstate railways remain on the exclusive list - another marker of our ridiculous unitary "federalism". For me, the stupidest thing of all about the opposition from the SE is that they love to claim they're the biggest importers in the country, and responsible for most of the traffic at the Apapa ports, but if that were really the case, they would also be the biggest beneficiaries of fast, cheap and reliable rail transport between Lagos and Ibadan, as that's the route through which most of Nigeria's imports and exports travel. The truth is, the only part of Nigeria's railway system that even stands a chance of paying for itself on a truly commercial basis is precisely the Lagos-Ibadan-Ilorin portion.
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Post by Honorebu on Jul 31, 2017 17:13:23 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Jul 31, 2017 17:14:30 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 7, 2017 18:12:59 GMT
How do they plan to do this
It's not about saying it
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