Itoroetti :
Did u expect sahara,punch and the nation to report on d positive development?let me borrow a word from my igbo brodas-mba! They won't report,rather de are waiting for when jonathan will fail.but he won't fail

dvee2:

Excellent report from a foreign media abi? yet if the write up is critical of government like the 40 Ambulance saga,i also hear we say "Let them leave us alone,it is our country,they want to break us up to steal our oil,they are sponsored by opposition etc". Weldone GEJ. Lets also hear you acknowledge when the presidency goof . thats objectivity. LOL

boron10: GEJ has a good vision, unfortunately, he's too dumb to effectively monitor the execution of his projects.

kavey10: This Taharqa and Sincere9gerian ALWAYS, ALWAYS give me reason to think they are Okupe and Abati or some government official. They have almost every answer to questions on the government, that's just too much for a doctor (Sincere9gerian's case).
I won't comment on this topic because I DON'T CELEBRATE MEDIOCRITY! Nigeria can do more than this abeg. "We are getting there", I hate that ish!! It irks me!

nameo:
why must it be the international media that is informing us about what is going on in our own railway sector? What of our Local media(Punch, vanguard, guardian, nation, saharareports, leadership, and others)?

Shouldn't our Local media be reporting to us on the progress work on the portharcourt-maiduguri rail line that is presenting ongoing, so we can put the authorities and the contractors on the toes?

I tire for 9ja at times o

Sincere 9gerian: "Meanwhile, China’s CCECC is building a two-way, standard-gauge line from Lagos to Kano that will allow trains to travel at more than 75 mph"

I know of the Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line that was recently awarded but I dont know of this reported ongoing Lagos-Kano standard guage rail line. Does such FG project exist? Or mayb the Lagos-Ibadan recently awarded is a section of the Lagos-Kano? I suspect that should be case.

slyfoxxjoe: 39 hour journey from lagos to Kano No thanks, ill rather take a bus.

thelastPope:

The Lagos-Kano standard gauge is on. The Lagos Ibadan is the first phase of the project. This is different from the Lagos-Abuja electric tracks for which feasibility studies in currently going on.

kavey10: This Taharqa and Sincere9gerian ALWAYS, ALWAYS give me reason to think they are Okupe and Abati or some government official. They have almost every answer to questions on the government, that's just too much for a doctor (Sincere9gerian's case).
I won't comment on this topic because I DON'T CELEBRATE MEDIOCRITY! Nigeria can do more than this abeg. "We are getting there", I hate that ish!! It irks me!

Omo_Tier1: This is like a man who has money to build a modern concrete house yet is celebrating living in a mud house as a life achievement How come when they want to do anything for themselves, they go for the world's best, yet when it's time to do anything for the Nigerian masses, they put up a mediocre!

Nigerians deserve a modern and functional railway services and what this government is giving us is no where near good enough! We have the money and men to have a modern and effective rail service all across the country, sadly we lack a leader who can think into the future.

Lets stop celebrating mediocrity and demand for the world's best. We have the money, people and resources to have them in Nigeria. Yes, He may have tried in reviving Lagos-Kano rails, but lets us as a people collectively tell Him, GEJ that we are not celebrating because the allege investment does not commensurate with what is on ground hence we DEMAND a Nigeria standard railway services.

Let anyone not be deceived, if the Lagos-Kano railway service was anything to rejoice about, people will not have been sleeping in MMIA over the mad Easter rush as many would have opted to use the rail service.

GEJ has made a start, but it is not good enough and He needs to up the game and deliver big time. This is about Improving Nigerian lives and no politics should come into play in doing so.

vizboy: hey man clap for yourself nice speech and if my guess is right you started running the moment you came out of your moms stomach. Give Gej a break he is just half way into his tenure and have taken a bold step if our past leaders has taken these steps we wouldnt be were we are today. USA as you see today wasnt built in 4 years but for more than 300 years.

all4naija: The world is turning to Magnetic Levitation(Maglev) for the future of railway transportation yet we are introducing locomotive which pollute the environment. It saddens me to see how much money have been put into the project only to come up with old cranky couches.

Is it that our leaders don't know what is happening around the world?

thelastPope:

The Lagos-Kano standard gauge is on. The Lagos Ibadan is the first phase of the project. This is different from the Lagos-Abuja electric tracks for which feasibility studies in currently going on.

vizboy: hey man clap for yourself nice speech and if my guess is right you started running the moment you came out of your moms stomach. Give Gej a break he is just half way into his tenure and have taken a bold step if our past leaders has taken these steps we wouldnt be were we are today. USA as you see today wasnt built in 4 years but for more than 300 years.

Omo_Tier1: This is like a man who has money to build a modern concrete house yet is celebrating living in a mud house as a life achievement How come when they want to do anything for themselves, they go for the world's best, yet when it's time to do anything for the Nigerian masses, they put up a mediocre!

Nigerians deserve a modern and functional railway services and what this government is giving us is no where near good enough! We have the money and men to have a modern and effective rail service all across the country, sadly we lack a leader who can think into the future.

Lets stop celebrating mediocrity and demand for the world's best. We have the money, people and resources to have them in Nigeria. Yes, He may have tried in reviving Lagos-Kano rails, but lets us as a people collectively tell Him, GEJ that we are not celebrating because the allege investment does not commensurate with what is on ground hence we DEMAND a Nigeria standard railway services.

Let anyone not be deceived, if the Lagos-Kano railway service was anything to rejoice about, people will not have been sleeping in MMIA over the mad Easter rush as many would have opted to use the rail service.

GEJ has made a start, but it is not good enough and He needs to up the game and deliver big time. This is about Improving Nigerian lives and no politics should come into play in doing so.

ocelot2006:

Hold it right there. Do yyou know how expensive the MAGLEV technology is? And do you know that no one, except the chinese (Shanghai MAGLEV), adopted this technology cos of the steep cost? Even the chinese paid thru their noses for just a few kilometres. Yet you want us to adopt the very same technology. Riiiiiight.....

Omo_Tier1:
Perhaps maybe you need to realise that blaming past leaders does not cut it in today's world! The reason the people did not stick with the past leaders or demand their continued stay in power is simply because the people didn't see their future in the ideas and ideals of those leaders.

If we are to believe the nonsense about we need to crawl before we walk, why are all the ministers not driving a 1976 ford all over Abuja? Why do they splash Nigeria's tax payers money on the latest models of cars, houses etc? That goes to show the mentality of the Gestapo in power.

It takes an extra ordinary visionary, a strategist of a kind to realise that to break cleanly from the past, you need to set a standard for the future, and by standards, I mean something others will look at and say, yes, truly this is the least that we should be doing as a nation.

Can you in your right mind claim what is being done on the Lagos-Kano rail project is a standard that anyone can build upon or use as a reference? Perhaps, you need to have a think on the contract sums involved here and really ask yourself if this is money well spent

ocelot2006:


This is why a have an issh with so-called impatient Nigerians like you who expect things to change overnight. This was a once comatose and totally neglected transport sytem that the current administration is trying so hard to revitalise, yet you expect bullet trains, MAGLEVs, and GTVs overnight? Haba! As someone rightly mention, did you jump out of your mom's womb running? Didn't you crawl before learning how to walk and then run?

thelastPope:

Just to test the waters. I know you are a Fashola and ACN apologist so I will ask you a simple question. Why is it that in 14 years, Lagos has not even completed up to 2 kilometers of the light rail project and you praise them and call them visionary instead of criticizing them yet you vehemently criticize and lampoon GEJ for "only rehabilitating the Lagos to Kano route" and blame him for not building electric trains after just 2 years of being in power?

all4naija: You didn't read my comment properly. Maglev is the future of railway transportation. The technology is adopted in many countries like in Germany, France, Japan, China,etc. I never said we should go for Maglev, that's for a sideline. I am advocating for electric trains with good condition couches not the locomotive smoking all over the places and sounding like broken drums which are no longer in use which are being installed on our railway lines.

I think you misread my comment there.