nijanigga:
Oloshi,keep deceiving yourself with Gej. Old dilapidated trains,are renovated for deceptions. The same train tracks the british constructed is what NRC is still using.In common Spain,they have trains that can go 160Km/Hr.I just wondered, Nigeria came to being officially in 1914,almost 100 years, we are not progressing but retrogressing.Nigeria of 1960 is far better off than Nigeria of 2014. What a shame. Nigeria's best brains run out of Nigeria. In Saudi-Arabia alone there are over 5000 Nigerian specialist doctors. Add,US,Canada,Europe etc. Many best brains that get can't get out of Nigeria,have their dreams buried forever.

you have just described the disgusting nature of our country, people still believe the beauty of america cannot be replicated in Naija, and will work against anyone who tries to make it beautiful.

nijanigga:
Oloshi,keep deceiving yourself with Gej. Old dilapidated trains,are renovated for deceptions. The same train tracks the british constructed is what NRC is still using.In common Spain,they have trains that can go 160Km/Hr.I just wondered, Nigeria came to being officially in 1914,almost 100 years, we are not progressing but retrogressing.Nigeria of 1960 is far better off than Nigeria of 2014. What a shame. Nigeria's best brains run out of Nigeria. In Saudi-Arabia alone there are over 5000 Nigerian specialist doctors. Add,US,Canada,Europe etc. Many best brains that get can't get out of Nigeria,have their dreams buried forever.

The problem we have today is because of the dull brains like you remaining in the country. I sense frustration.

omanzo02:

GEJ should keep the tempo and focus on laying the primary foundation, for the next 25 - 30 years we are going to run on locomotives, when the patronage percentage increases and NRC start earning from the investment they will gradually introduce comfortable coaches, and introduce modern locomotive, fact is the journey is still very far.

Correct. What is happening in the railways is not guess work, accidental or Haphazard. The govt is implementing, one step at a time, a well thought out, 25 years railways revival and modernization plan.

Omexonomy: if those clown that were ur master including buhari had done 1% of what gej has done where do you think nigeria will be.

1% of his lootocracy abi? just wait 4 d UK to release their report on him, then he wont have to go n embarrass himself at the UN anymor cos they'd lock up his sorry ass 4 good. Shameless thing

ugoezeb: Gud report 4rm GEJ. We love GEJ

speak for yourself

omanzo02:


This a case of doing with what u have, 90% Nigerians can't pay the fare if modern trains are deployed on those tracks or do u expect to ride in it for free?.

So you accept mediocre?

Perfect case of someone been brainwashed by our leaders! Just like cloths been donated for Charity. Igbo boys would bring them to Nigeria and sell it (boss-corner) or Bend down boutique! The fact here is that the Government could afford it but since People like you accept mediocre things it gives our leader the option to bring home scrap metals.

C ppl dey shout (FRESH AIR), do u knw wat it does? It frees u from (bad air---» PDP). Gej or not, PDP can't rule dis country again n ACN will not rule Lagos state, period na wetin FRESH AIR mean be dat ---» CHANGE

Don Demu: I hope igbo people will not take advantage of this cheap mode of transportation to export their trade of prostitution, armed robbery and kidnapping to the northern part of the country.

its better to keep mute than run off at d mouth spewing thrash. But if hating d igbo rocks ur world, well u can knock urself out.

when people r thinking abt ways to make teleporting a commercial reality some monkeys want us to return to that old railway junkyard. n sincere 9jerian says its a well thought out plan. wat abt the one they started in kd? some 6yrs later n d tot has stalled, or is it just me? all this ur asari dokubo antics wont keep ur man in the rock. beta find a beta job 4 urself dan dis one dat has already bn decided. good change is coming to naija. in sarafina's voice "freedom is coming tomorrow"

A̶̲̥̅♏ sure you're a politician, and if a person like you was a councillor; you'll be worse

Nice development.
Good work GEJ.
The level of hate that has eaten into the fabric of some people eh....
Tufiakwa..
D can never see anything good from GEJ.
I just pray for their souls cos the are already everlastinly damned.
Bunch of swine.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. When you take that first step, others will see that you are serious and they will come and assist you.

Yes, NRC is using locomotives, but the trains are no longer dormant. . .they are working and guess what

General Electric has set up shop in Cross River State to build train engines and coaches. We will get modern trains and coaches that are built in Nigeria. They did this because they can see that the government is serious about reviving the railway services.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step.

Constructive critisism

omanzo02:

GEJ should keep the tempo and focus on laying the primary foundation, for the next 25 - 30 years we are going to run on locomotives, improve the tracks and safety systems, when the patronage percentage increases and NRC start earning from the investment they will gradually introduce comfortable coaches, and introduce modern locomotive, if we are aiming for Half of rail system I use everyday in Europe fact is the journey is still very far.

scipher: Where's the yeye train?

A̶̲̥̅♏ sure you're a politician, and if a person like you was a councillor; you'll be worse

naptu2: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. When you take that first step, others will see that you are serious and they will come and assist you.

Yes, NRC is using locomotives, but the trains are no longer dormant. . .they are working and guess what

General Electric has set up shop in Cross River State to build train engines and coaches. We will get modern trains and coaches that are built in Nigeria. They did this because they can see that the government is serious about reviving the railway services.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step.

I believe the Nigerian Railway Corp is 100 years old.

If you have seen a derailment before you wont be talking like this...

When the government said cars over 8 years should not be shipped to Nigerian didnt Nigerian adapt to it

[size=14pt]GE Breaks Ground For $250m Manufacturing And Assembly Plant In Calabar[/size] by awodman: 5:30am On Jun 16

awodman: Following its announcement last year that it intends to invest $1 billion in Nigeria, General Electric (GE) has scheduled the groundbreaking for its $250 million manufacturing and assembly plant for Tuesday in Calabar.

The ceremony will be performed by Vice President Namadi Sambo.

When completed in the next three years, the facility will be the biggest in Africa and will have an additional operating expenditure of about $1 billion in the next ten years.

Besides, it intends to make Calabar the hub of its manufacturing activities in sub-Saharan Africa.

Expectedly, Calabar is agog with various activities just as economists have been listing the impacts GE’s arrival will have on the economy of Cross River State in particular and Nigeria as a whole.

Prof. Ndem Ayara, the Economic Adviser to Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, said, “The biggest infrastructure gap we have is in the energy sub-sector.

The expectation is that they are coming to close that gap between energy that is available and the energy we need. They are going to provide energy that will support other sectors of the economy.” Ayara said apart from creating employment opportunities by stimulating investments in other sectors of the economy, thus creating a multiplier effect, Cross River as the host state will become the cashment area or primary beneficiary of direct employment from GE.

“Cross River as the hub, will have the advantage of being the immediate market. Indigenes of the state will benefit from employment, especially if what GE seeks is skilled labour.”

Speaking in a similar vein, the head of Cross River State Investment Bureau, Mr. Gerald Ada said “the investment by GE will add approximately 2500 skilled jobs and several unskilled jobs in the supply and distribution chain.

“There will be various opportunities triggered from this
investment as GE suppliers will follow suit.”

Source:www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/ge-breaks-ground-for-250m-manufacturing-and-assembly-plant-in-calabar/

Sincere 9gerian:
Correct. What is happening in the railways is not guess work, accidental or Haphazard. The govt is implementing, one step at a time, a well thought out, 25 years railways revival and modernization plan.

jst like 7point Agenda abi?

baby-boy:



I believe the Nigerian Railway Corp is 100 years old.

If you have seen a derailment before you wont be talking like this...

When the government said cars over 8 years should not be shipped to Nigerian didnt Nigerian adapt to it

Wasn't there a derailment in Spain last week? Were they using 100 years old trains? Do you honestly believe that NRC trains are 100 years old? Do you know what is at Ebute-Metta? Did you see the J5 train?

naptu2: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. When you take that first step, others will see that you are serious and they will come and assist you.

Yes, NRC is using locomotives, but the trains are no longer dormant. . .they are working and guess what

General Electric has set up shop in Cross River State to build train engines and coaches. We will get modern trains and coaches that are built in Nigeria. They did this because they can see that the government is serious about reviving the railway services.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step.

r u high? wheres the steel they'd use in building the engines? the best they can do is assemble n by the time the phony reality of this project becmes obvious they'd pack up lyk the rest of them. when shell is shutting down ops cos of theft u want us to believe we r moving forward. if GE builds engines on wic trains wud they run? those 1920's in the 2000's abi?

naptu2:

Wasn't there a derailment in Spain last week? Were they using 100 years old trains? Do you honestly believe that NRC trains are 100 years old? Do you know what is at Ebute-Metta? Did you see the J5 train?

That train was over speeding

Rail condition can cause derailment, look i work in a train depot... Am sorry a crack on a rail at a bend could cause a derailment

If you hate GEJ, kindly do this

Don Demu: I hope igbo people will not take advantage of this cheap mode of transportation to export their trade of prostitution, armed robbery and kidnapping to the northern part of the country.

DON DEMU,
DON DOKPEMU
DON MUGU
DON DEMU
DON MUMU
D MUMU
D REAL DONE DEAL DON DE-MUMU

kaorama: With this passegers' movement will now increase from 3000 to 5000 per week along the route. And with this some people can begin to reason that GEJ is actually working.

No, he is not working. He is vision-less. He is the worst President Nigeria ever had. Clueless! By next year, the power situation will improve. Yet he is clueless. Our roads are taking shape. Yet he is clueless. For the past 5 decades Nigeria has been ruled by leaders from the major ethnic groups with nothing to show. Let this 'drunkard' from the delta creek be allowed to transform the country. Rome was not built in a day. Impatient set of people called Nigerians who want miracles to take place over night. The clueless man will take this country to the promise land. Skeptics beware!

The train left Lagos by 12noon, yet no body know the outcome of these journey.

snakova:
r u high? wheres the steel they'd use in building the engines? the best they can do is assemble n by the time the phony reality of this project becmes obvious they'd pack up lyk the rest of them. when shell is shutting down ops cos of theft u want us to believe we r moving forward. if GE builds engines on wic trains wud they run? those 1920's in the 2000's abi?

Hahahahahahahahahahha!

1) It's usually people who don't have any meaningful arguments that resort to insults.

2) They are building engines and coaches! Do you know what a train engine is?


What has Shell got to do with GE? (Now I suspect that you are one of those people who get emotional instead of reasoning. "I hate Fashola, so anything he does is bad". "I hate GEJ so anything he does is bad". You know, those kind of people).

[size=14pt]Nigeria to become a Global Leader in Steel Production from 2018[/size]

15 Apr 2013

By Crusoe Osagie

Nigeria is said to be on track to join the world’s largest producers of steel in the world from the year 2018, as the country’s potential for iron and steel production is progressively transformed into actual capacity.
Chief Executive Officer of African Foundries Limited, Mr. Sanjay Kumar, dropped the hint in Lagos when he announced that the steel giant has concluded plans to ship about 5,000 tonnes of fully-manufactured iron rods to Ghana in what would become their first major export deal.
Kumar said the company, which began steel production in Nigeria, 2010, churning out varied dimensions of iron rods for construction and other purposes, has now developed the business to a point where it has began to seek more market for its products outside the country.


“In the next 5 years Nigeria may be one of the largest producers of steel in the world. Nigeria is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of unexplored iron ore, so if steel is developed then it will lead to more mining and essentially more development for the nation’s steel sector and the entire economy,” he said.
Explaining that the growth in the steel sector has been on the upward swing from year to year, the AFL boss noted that the industry was now heading towards the inflection point where demand for steel products will actually be outpaced by supply, stressing that this reality was the primary reason why the company began to explore the export market for other off takers for its products.


“Currently, we have an order of 5,000 tonnes of steel products and this has been produced and prepared for shipping out we are trying to get around the ancillary challenges of logistics occasioned by the large volume of the present order. However, we expect to meet the time lines and we have met all the required international quality standards.”
With a current plant capacity of 500,000 tonnes of steel output per year and another 500,000 tonnes per annum capacity to be added, Kumar said theirs will likely be the biggest steel factory in Africa, and stressed that this was the major reason why serious effort is going into seeking markets outside Nigeria.


Stating that a clement export regime will make the next phase of their business better, Kumar stressed that the company was currently revving up its steel production, explaining that in the economics of steel manufacturing the more steel a company produces the cheaper it becomes for it to produce a phenomenon that has taken AFL beyond the inflection point of their production process, leading to the need for a much larger market to absorb steel output from Nigeria.
“The potential is there for Nigeria because of her drive toward economic diversification; her manpower base; her intellectual base in metallurgy science; and because she possesses abundant natural resources for steel production. It is without doubt that Nigeria has the capacity to become Africa’s voice in the international market place for the manufacture, marketing and exportation of rods,” Kumar said.


He added that indigenous steel producing companies were doing enough to bridge the local demand-supply chain, adding that domestic rod production could reach 1,250,000 tonnes by 2013.
Kumar urged the Federal Government to improve on the nation’s infrastructure to encourage more investors to go into the production of steel and iron rods locally.

Executive Director, Corporate Affairs, African Foundries Limited, Uche Iwuamadi, said that local rod manufacturer would address the nation’s unemployment crisis. According to him, the steel making industry attracts skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labour, which Nigerian has in abundance.
“Recycling of scrap metal entails getting scavengers to go get waste metal objects and supply mills that use them to produce rods. About 5000 people alone have been known to be gainfully employed and supplying us with the scrap metals we recycle for our production,” he said.


The Technical Director of African Foundries Limited, Ravi Sharma, said that building collapse in Nigeria should not be blamed on use of substandard iron rods. He said that rods alone have not been known to be the cause of building collapse.
“There is the need, however, for more government’s intervention in checking the importation and production of substandard building materials. We manufacture under full international certifications such as ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, OHSAS 18001:2007 and NIS 117:2004 of international certification by RINA, ones that meet the International Finance Corporation and World Bank guidelines”, he added.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-to-become-a-global-leader-in-steel-production-from-2018/144948/

Lastly, they are engaging in both manufacturing and assembly. These will provide the trains for the NRC and the power plants for the NIPP.

By the way, do you think that you are smarter than GE or do you think GE is in business to throw away money?

baby-boy:



That train was over speeding

Rail condition can cause derailment, look i work in a train depot... Am sorry a crack on a rail at a bend could cause a derailment

This is getting interesting. I see that you didn't answer any of my questions, could you please answer them?

Anyway, you've just confirmed what I already know, a derailment can happen anywhere and at anytime.

The goal.

naptu2: The major new rail lines that have been planned are (in no particular order)

1) The East-West rail line

2) The line to Abuja

3) The high speed rail line from Abuja to Lagos.

At the moment they are rehabilitating existing lines, but one of the reasons GEJ went to China last week is to get a loan for the line to Abuja (and the Abuja metro).

[img]http://img1.nairaland.com/attachments/1219785_bang_JPG6c7228dcd283903afc2fe3684b2ea4f5[/img]

A train in Nigeria



A train in Japan capable of traveling at speeds over 310 mph!

Horus: [img]http://img1.nairaland.com/attachments/1219785_bang_JPG6c7228dcd283903afc2fe3684b2ea4f5[/img]

A train in Nigeria



A train in Japan capable of traveling at speeds over 310 mph!

thank you..Nigeria's train na yeye ..d thing be like box

baby-boy:


So you accept mediocre?

Perfect case of someone been brainwashed by our leaders! Just like cloths been donated for Charity. Igbo boys would bring them to Nigeria and sell it (boss-corner) or Bend down boutique! The fact here is that the Government could afford it but since People like you accept mediocre things it gives our leader the option to bring home scrap metals.

U just spill rubbish out your mouth without logical thinking, railways is a cost intensive venture, affording modern trains is not the problem but making profit to sustain it, government can only provide the infrastructure for it not to run it with taxpayers fund. U start with what customers can afford and gradually improve as economy improve, that is how it done In Europe where I live.

AND YOUR GOOD LEADERS THAT MADE IT DORMANT FOR YEARS ARE WHAT THEN?

Horus: [img]http://img1.nairaland.com/attachments/1219785_bang_JPG6c7228dcd283903afc2fe3684b2ea4f5[/img]

A train in Nigeria



A train in Japan capable of traveling at speeds over 310 mph!

oya pro-GEJ compare n contrast abeg? My question na 'shey clock dey go backward or forward?

Rexxie:
DON DEMU,
DON DOKPEMU
DON MUGU
DON DEMU
DON MUMU
D MUMU
D REAL DONE DEAL DON DE-MUMU

May the devil kiss those swollen lips of urs for calling and spoiling the name of the DON in vain