Beaf:

You do not need good roads to transport agrictultural produce. Roads are just one of several transportation options, others are:

1. Air
2. Rail
3. Water

With water, a lot can be moved around very cheaply with next to zero maintainance cost. On the other hand, road, rail and air networks are prohibitively expensive to build and manage. All Ekiti needs for transportation of agricultural produce are viable inland waterways.

As for the second bolded, thats just pie in the sky like most of what ekt_bear has been banging about. What would foreign or local investors be attracted to in Ekiti state with its present economy even with a wonderful road network? You've got to build the economy first, then investors will come.

For electricity, Ekit like the rest of Nigeria, is blessed with abundant solar energy; we just lack the imagination and self-belief to pull it off.

bayooooooo:

Guy, there is no such river for inland waterways in Ekiti! Good roads are needed.

What is Importance of Transport and Communication for a country like India?



Transport and communication occupy an important place in the economic and social development of a country.

Importance of Transport:

A country cannot develop so fast without a developed transport system. Development of roads facilitates utilisation of natural resources lying unutilized in different hills, mountains, forests and mines. Transport system helps to send raw materials, fuel and machineries to different industries at right time and runs the industry.

Transport system helps to raise the production of raw materials, fuels and machineries etc. by providing market to it. Transport system widens the size of the market. Due to selling of commodities in an extensive manner in large areas, it leads to large-scale production. As a result industry of firm gets the advantages of large-scale production.

A developed transport system reduces regional industrial disparity by facilitating establishment of industries in backward areas, because the backward area is brought nearer to developed area with the help of a developed transport system by sending raw-materials to the backward industrial centre and by selling the products of industries in different areas.

Transport system helps to solve the problem of unemployment in rural areas by sending surplus labourers to the industries and it also solves the needs of industries. Development of transport system also leads to development of industries because transport system utilizes the product of industries.

Different machineries and raw materials are supplied through roads, ships, motors, buses, trains, aero planes to industries. It shows that transport system of a country affects economic development of a country in different manner.

Transport system is regarded as a strong pillar to protect the people from the difficulties of war, natural calamities and other problems. Transfer of military equipment, soldiers and war heads is possible only through a developed transport system during war. A developed transport system is necessary to send necessary helps to the affected people during the period of natural calamities.

Except this, transport system helps to establish relationship among different parts of the people and strengthens the feeling of unity and brotherhood among the people. Lastly it makes India one and undivided

ekt_bear: Solar?

And you are saying that I am "pie in the sky?"

Have you looked into how expensive solar actually is for generating electricity?

Look, stick to concern over your state. Let me focus on mine.

The "edge" Ekiti has over certain other states is that it has people like with me who reason more sharply than others.

We lose that advantage if we start listening to people who propose dumb things like solar energy for large-scale energy production.

Seriously, there is no point in commenting on electricity if you don't even realize that solar is extremely expensive, on a per kWh basis...

ekt_bear: Inland waterways. In Ekiti State?

Air, for transporting produce?

I.e., charter a plane to transport yam from Ekiti to Lagos?

Do you want the farmers to go bankrupt?

My brothers and sisters. Fellow Ekiti indigenes and Yoruba people more generally.

If we listen to perhaps well-meaning but clearly uninformed folk like this, we are absolutely doomed.

It is very easy for people to propose suggestions and give advice for a state that isn't their own. After all, if their advice is id1otic, they don't bear the risks.

However, for me, my own suggestions are the best strategy going forward, to my knowledge. At least given what I know, what I've researched and read. I'm not claiming that this is the best strategy.

But it sure as heck beats anything proposed so far on this thread. I haven't seen anyone yet suggest something better.

Sincerely, works are going on around the state and the Guy is really focused on his urban-renewal projects. Also, his promise to review the strategic position of the state within Nigeria towards becoming the major rice producer for the nation the governor is working towards raising the state's economy and job creation. I am currently in ado ekiti and i see things for myself. Busy now and will upload some pics soon.

PhysicsQED: @ekt bear, I think the cost of solar recently went down to around that of nuclear.

Saharan sun to power European supergrid

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 July 2008 16.50 BST
Article history


A worker tends to the world's largest solar plant in Germany. Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch/EPA/Corbis

Vast farms of solar panels in the Sahara desert could provide clean electricity for the whole of Europe, according to EU scientists working on a plan to pool the region's renewable energy.

Harnessing the power of the desert sun is at the centre of ambitious scheme to build a €45bn (£35.7bn) European supergrid that would allow countries across the continent to share electricity from abundant green sources such as wind energy in the UK and Denmark and geothermal energy from Iceland and Italy.

The idea is gaining growing political support in Europe with both Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy recently giving backing to the north African solar plan.

ekt_bear: It has nothing to do with Nigeria specifically, really.

Generating electricity from solar is not competitive with generating it from other sources, for any country (aside from possibly some island country in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, perhaps. but said country has no hope of industrializing anyways..)

Technology would have to advance quite a bit for solar to be competitive.

And again...if this happens, we wouldn't be reading/hearing about it on NL. We'd see Japan replace their nuclear power plants with solar. The US shut down its coal plants for solar, etc

ekt_bear: 100% agree on that last point.

Nigeria has enough natural gas to probably power all of Africa.

If Nigeria gets natural gas and electricity right, then not only should nobody in Nigeria be talking of solar, likely nobody in West Africa should.

Erratic Gas Supply from Nigeria causes Ghana Electricity Outages
February 7, 2012 · 2 Comments · By BusinessNews Staff


The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has been compelled to begin load shedding exercise in various parts of the country due to erratic supply of Gas from Nigeria’s West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP).

The WAGP is an initiative of several ECOWAS member countries including Ghana, Benin an Togo, inaugurated during the Obasanjo administration, the pipeline is to supply gas from the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline to feed gas-fired power plants in the West African countries.

Nigeria is contractually obligated to supply Ghana 100 million standard cubic feet per day (mscf/d), however the volumes have dropped to 40 mscf/d.

This has caused electricity regulators in Ghana to embark on load shedding exercise, dropping the power supply by 100 MegaWatts during peak periods of 6pm to 10pm.

According to a statement released by the Volta River Authority (VRA), “VRA has …requested the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to undertake a load management exercise in various parts of the country, until the situation returns to normalcy”.

The statement continued, “We assure our valued customers and the general public that VRA is committed to ensuring the supply of adequate power to all its customers, and regret any inconvenience caused.”

Gbawe:

My friend, the article is on the official website of Ekiti State. You are just showing ignorance if you do not know that even in the West no Government department is obligated to supply any pictures to anyone. They will however provide regular updates of work being done .

This is , for example, why you won't find any pictures of the superb drainage project carried out in the Bode-Thomas-Eric-Moore axis of Lagos by Julius Berger recently. Of course fellow haters like you came here to say Fashola is a "liar" who has not carried out one single drainage project in Lagos till I supplied my own personal pictures to prove otherwise. Djustice, a known hater of Fashola who claimed the Lagos Governor was just "chopping", was stunned . See the pictures yourself and trawl the net to see if you can find them anywhere else proving my point that no one is obligated to supply pictures to prove anything to mischief makers like you. The drainage is built for me as a Lagosian living in that area. I therefore don't need any silly pictures when I have my eyes same as Ekiti folks lose nothing over your biased cynicism:

https://www.nairaland.com/826649/what-big-deal-about-fashola/1




In Nigeria, the style is to make vague allusions to work carried out. Administrators never mention specific names because , even if not obvious to you, the silly example you give of proliferation of smartphones makes you look very dull. If SW PDP can resort to wild fabrication and outright lies, would the ACN not be playing into their hands mentioning actual roads if indeed there is no construction going on and everything is a "big fat lie" as you conclude? Oni, smarting from Fayemi ousting him, and lying through his teeth daily will miss the chance to mobilise a camera crew to ridicule Fayemi? You are not very smart.

In any case, why is it that you guys not from the SW are keen to ruin every thread with your silly demand for pictures these days? Why don't you let indigenes speak before you open your mouth to begin yapping nonsensically? It works both ways because if you live in Ekiti you can simply go to many of the sites and prove no work is ongoing. If you don't feel obligated to do that in proving your case why , inversely, should the onus fall on anyone to provide you with pictures when, ultimately, you don't matter at all since you are not from Ekiti State?

Go and check Fayemi's history to see he is no conman like many of your political heroes. Anyway, we have heard you. Can you now go and face your own issues abeg. They are talking of roads and you are showing an elevated picture of a town. What confirms your mischief, driven by bias, more than that?

http://ekitistate.gov.ng/2012/05/fayemi-turning-ekiti-into-huge-construction-site/

Remal: Do you live in ekiti yourself? A lot of constructions are going on but they do not make sense. I guess you are an ACN member. Irọ pọ.

Ufeolorun: Fayemi knows what to do but he's been disappointingly going on about. I thought he isn't conventional but he's crassly same same.
We can make a lot of money from educational services as well by just latching unto the wide spread perception held about the state,
but no!,aiye san Oga-Govenor he wants Airport so he wouldn't have to travel through the craters
Is it not shameful that we are still heavily dependent on handout(though its our right under the law) from the feds despite the huge resources at our disposal,our people donot want only handouts lead them to the way of self-sufficiency


Fiddlesticks!
You are seriously under performing sir
You know what to do, you don't need all this long winded waffles.

Ufeolorun: Gbawe,
Well my expectation is far beyond just one issue cos I thought we now have someone who will get the job done, I prolly rated him too high and am already re-adjusting to emerging facts.
Nobody want London or lagos in ekiti infact, I don't pray for that just build on the naturally sensible society that Ekiti is,that's all.
He should be seriously flaunting is achievement/quantifiable work in progress so far in AGRIC,EDUCATION,IT.Roads should be an ordinary ancillary to all these
Ekitis are probably the easiest people to lead just do what is right and I trust people will go to any length to support you ask Awo's foot-soldiers and they will tell you how much support baba got from Ekiti people.

NB. I don't have problem with your thread or your point of view,really, but not happy with the disjointed way the government is going on about.I don't criticise Jonathan anymore cos I expect nothing from him,basically.

Govt Okays N12bn on 13 Road Projects

05 Dec 2011


By Toba Suilaman

Ekiti State Government is to spend a total sum of N11,477,062,629.73 on 13 road projects, which will cut across 187.87kilometres. Consequently, the state government gave the contractors between six and 12 months to complete the projects.

The amount represents the cost of the contracts for the road projects which cut across most of the local government areas of the state, and approved by the State’s Executive Council, culminating in the flag off of the roads by the Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
Five of the road projects were flagged off by Fayemi in Ado-Ekiti, last week, just as he rounded off his tour of the local government areas.

According to the documents made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti at the weekend, the road projects in Ado-Ekiti, which would gulp about N5 billion include: the dualisation of Old Garage-Ojumose Road, (0.8kilometre, awarded at N866,872,873.13); dualisation of Atikankan- Post Office- First Baptist Church Road, (0.9 kilometre, awarded at N891,822,525.30); Ojumose-Basiri-Police Headquarters, Iyin Road, (4.9 kilometres, awarded at N1,488,054, 374.92); Fajuyi-University Teaching Hospital Road (1.65 kilometres, awarded at N447,544,063.50); and Ijigbo- Baptist College–Ilawe Road, (3.62 kilometres, awarded at N788,038,599.60).

Others are :Igede-Awo-Ido Road (24 kilometres, awarded at N995,662,458.00); Ikere-Igbaraodo Road, (19 kilometres, awarded at N494,815,781.25); Ikogosi-Ipole-Iloro-Efon Alaaye Road (24 kilometres, awarded at N877, 218,981.91); Ijan- Ise road (17 kilometres, awarded at N702,037,054.62) and Ijero-Ipoti-Ayetoro Road (17kilometre, awarded at N888,258,892.50).

The rest are Ilawe-Igbara Odo-Ibuji Road (17 kilometres, awarded at N894,698,043.75); Ikole-Ijesa-Isu-Iluomoba Road (23kilometre, awarded at N1,139,155,368.75) and Oye-Ikun-Otun Road (43kilometre, awarded at N1,002,883,612.50).


At a meeting with the contractors on Friday, in Ado-Ekiti , the Governor reminded them of the government’s zero tolerance for shoddy job and warned them against entering into any deal with government officials, a development which the Governor said had accounted for poorly executed contracts in the past.

The governor, who said the bulk of the money for the road projects would be from the N20billion bond being sourced from the Capital Market and the money allocated for the Urban renewal project in the state budget, assured the contractors of prompt payment for the jobs, even as he said government would frown at anyone of them, who choose to embark on unnecessary holiday once their money are paid.
Fayemi told journalists after the parley that the state was entering a new phase of “see and feel”, adding that having put in place necessary policy framework and legislative backing, Ekiti was bound to witness a more rapid development in the area of infrastructure development within the next 12 months.

[size=14pt]“The next twelve months is crucial. It is a period of see and feel. Our people will feel the impact of the government like they have never felt before, especially in the areas of infrastructure development. We have laid the necessary foundation for a proper take off and nothing will stop us,” the governor said.
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While stating that the massive construction work that will commence in the state from this month would translate in employment and economic advantage for the people of the state, Fayemi said the 12 road projects terminated by his government last month would be re-awarded very soon

Mr. Globe:
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I'm tired of state governors going to places like Kosovo, and Oman (Okorocha of Imo state) - to seek meaningless private investments.

Your bigoted mindedness will always make you look like a f//f/ucking i.diot anytime you type. Why okoroacha? Why not use your Governor who went to canada to 'inspect' old model used and dumped locomotive trains and recently embarked on an australian jamboree to 'inspect' ferries as another example.