What is confusing is that why is the federal government used to buying locomotive trains in these times of high-tech speed trains and advancement? Well, maybe we will get an answer for this soon.

Parada:
Your Igbotic father is one of those atikulooting ba. True Nigerians will make sure you don’t smell the seat.

hotwater1:


Hmm leave talk o

Could you believe it was stated in an interview last night on TV by one of Abacha's ministers that this train transport project PDP and APC are claiming to have started was actually started by the Abacha regime. no be today! Abacha made sure these rail tracks project became reality.

Pple are just fighting on the internet on which government started it...what Pdp and Apc were/are just doing was/is simply importing the train parts and assembling them here in Nigeria for use. I even learnt most of them have been imported long time ago even before this dispensation but were kept in warehouses only to be assembled and put into use now.

Kudos to the Abacha regime for the ground breaking, near completion and the revival of the rail transport in Nigeria....that not withstanding, we can't overlook the fact that lack of policy continuity continues to be a problem in our political system.

I just pray our maintenance culture has greatly improved or else the trains and rails will disappear fast.

Parada:
See senseless reasoning, the person that couldn’t not complete what Abacha started should not be blamed ba ? But APC should leave talk now they are completing the projects all over the country . The kind of slap many of your deserve should be divine.

deomelo:



You mean Abacha resurrected from inside his grave to negotiate the loan for the railway and started construction in 2017 and he's even going to commission the same Lagos Ibadan railway tomorrow?

Sadly for you, the same Abacha could have built 5 and even more Lagos Ibadan high-speed railway with all the billions he stole from us.

The kind of mentality you people are saddled with says you must always praise and recognize the looters and project abandoners and ridicule the ones with fortitude, sense of duty and determination to construct and complete. What kind of warped and backward mentality is that?

You people are too young to be mentally screwed, intellectually lazy and handicap, all because of politics, tribalism and bigotry.

Xander85:
I think the whole thing is being done in a hurry just so they have something to show that APC/Buhari has benefited the south-west!

pedel:
OP, This is the first time your post made absolute no sense to me. Please, don't start doing things that maybe harmful to your brand.

The reason the FG started with locomotives is the same reason the Americans are yet to have Hyperloop trains.
Lack of realistic expectations is the reason we are not making progress as a nation. In Europe many country still use diesel engine trains. In our city here we use trams powerd by electricity on the tram tracks along public urban streets.
Towns and cities are linked by different kinds of rails with diesel engine locomotives.
Majority of people commenting here has never seen a train track in their entire life likewise their parents.
At this stage in our development, which is obviously stunted, It is better we have 100 locomotives than 20 high speed if the the cost of the 100 is same as or less than the 20.
Since it is about the current government, maybe Atiku will update his campaign promise with the provision of high speed trains connecting all the 36 state capitals and the FCT within 100 days in office.

Moreover, the picture you shared is not that of the actual cabin. That's for moving parts and equipment around. Why can't you show the full picture?

dadark:


not true...look how the trains in europe run....they run on electric....nigeria doesnt have that type of capacity yet....thats why nigeria has no other altenative than use diesel loks....

but nobody will blame fee dee fee for that ofcourse....blame buhari....

awelekiti:
Something that will soon pack up the same way port Harcourt airport facilities have packed up in less than 1 month after commissioning...The same way sub standard and refurbished military helicopters bought by buhari administration , including the one vice president boarded to kogi which crash landed in borno and other parts of the north, same way the substandard military hardware bought for fighting boko haram packed up. If buhari likes, let him bring down the moon in deperation of winning the election. We're not stupid. The judgement day is this month.

sarrki:


What did they understand aside ranting

hotwater1:


Deomelo e be like say sleep still dey ya eyes. Abeg employ the reading techniques to be able to comprehend my take on this matter...OK?!

Good morning Sire

Pple are just fighting on the internet on which government started it...what Pdp and Apc were/are just doing was/is simply importing the train parts and assembling them here in Nigeria for use. I even learnt most of them have been imported long time ago even before this dispensation but were kept in warehouses only to be assembled and put into use now.

dadark:


ofcourse,this is what they do best...they dont use logic on anything....they dont understand how far back western nations started buildin this capacity....

you will even see some of them rantin about speed trains when nigeria doesnt even have the capacity to operate speed trains....

sarrki:


They lack reasoning

kayfra:
You can't ship cargos with bullet trains.

deomelo:




Excellent post..

They'd like us to believe that the same people with zero ability and capacity to complete any rail project in 16 years are all of a sudden capable of giving us the best railway in the world.


Fortunately for Nigerians, the choice is clear and well defined, the first time in the history of Nigeria, a railway system was started and completed in less than 2 years.

16 years of nothing under PDP or 2 years of start to finish rail system under PAC?

In the history of the PDP, they've never completed anything meaningful, not even their own secretariat which as usual was abandoned with the funds looted and parked in private bank accounts.

In the history of the PDP, they've never completed anything meaningful, not even their own secretariat which as usual was abandoned with the funds looted and parked in private bank accounts

what nigeria needs is a culture of continuity no matter who is in charge....this culture of quick quick is stvpid.

kayfra:
You can't ship cargos with bullet trains.

supereagle:



God bless you. we should start somewhere.


They want to come back and sell the remaining for their friends and families.

dadark:
what nigeria needed back then was a solid plan for over decades and not privatisation....

discos what a bad idea....is a bottle neck....no matter how many power plants una build it will be worthless without proper infrastructure to deliver the power to the end users....

deomelo:



The DISCos and the people behind the DISCOs are still looking for quick profit and return on investments when in fact they should be growing the business by investing in power plants, distribution infrastructure, credible power management and billion systems, even alternative power like wind solar, including residential solar installation, It;s a business with great opportunities, but they lack the necessary experience, financial capacity and management skills to run the DISCOs,

The PDP sold the power assets to their cronies to reap profit, but never to provide quality service.

Greed is the PDP way.

Xander85:
I think the whole thing is being done in a hurry just so they have something to show that APC/Buhari has benefited the south-west!