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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Ephemmm: 4:19pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.

Nigeria is not America: we cannot afford new trains - GEJ's administration in March, 2015 - http://gistpartner.com/2015/03/09/nigeria-is-not-americawe-cannot-afford-new-trains-doyin-okupe/

January, 2016 - Nigeria first ever high speed train is ready under PMB's administration - https://www.nairaland.com/2892093/nigerias-first-ever-high-speed-rail

Despite oil boom, Mr clueless cannot afford a single new train because of rampant corruption: a fool can even see the difference...

GOd bless Nigeria.

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by lilygabriel08: 4:23pm On Jan 26, 2016
God bless Gej

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Ephemmm: 4:27pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
You all are just being naive and ignorant. You will agree with me that idea is worth nothing, Execution is what matters.
GEJ executed this project and thats quite simple and we must appreciate him for that.

You can go argue with your grandmother.

Despite the oil boom experienced in the last administration, which administration said Nigerian cannot afford new train because we are not America in March, 2015? In your myopic thinking, it is GEJ that executed it right? Click here for an eye-opener - http://gistpartner.com/2015/03/09/nigeria-is-not-americawe-cannot-afford-new-trains-doyin-okupe/

It is high time you start thinking straight...

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by jmichlins(m): 4:29pm On Jan 26, 2016
Osakah24:
You are wrong,the one OBJ initiated was actually terminated by Umaru Yaradua,GEJ resurrected the project and should be commended.
not according to the post
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by comos: 4:30pm On Jan 26, 2016
ibotic:


****
...did you not read that this project
was started during Obasanjo's time
chekwu abiama o...
we ibos need to think
before we write.

Spanning from the Obasanjo administration to present, an active and efficient rail system has been marred for a long time by inefficiencies and corruption on a massive scale. As since the contract was awarded in the Obasanjo era, there has not been any positive move to see its fruition.

GOD bless GEJ

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Bestbeelieve: 4:33pm On Jan 26, 2016
150kph Not high speed at all. I go in trains moving at 400kph now that's high speed!

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by fortune1968: 4:39pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.
How many Nigerians ? Count the sensible majority like us that detests CORRUPTION that Jonathan stands for out !
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by anonimi: 4:40pm On Jan 26, 2016
jaybee:
That it took the grace of APC to complete the first ever standard gauge rail line, started by PDP in its 16 years of national mismanagement is not a cause for any glory to GEJ in particular or PDP in general.


Please tell us how APC paid for it since-

- they met an empty treasury hence they could not deliver their campaign promises?
- they have no budget of their own up till now?

Thanks.


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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by MICHEALADEX(m): 4:44pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.

For au much?

Fool
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by anonimi: 4:45pm On Jan 26, 2016
Ephemmm:
Nigeria is not America: we cannot afford new trains - GEJ's administration in March, 2015 - http://gistpartner.com/2015/03/09/nigeria-is-not-americawe-cannot-afford-new-trains-doyin-okupe/

GOd bless Nigeria.[/i]


Stop spreading rumors and propaganda from your useless source.
Jonathan worked on and made substantial progress on this rail project unlike the Judas of Ubima.


Kenai:
The Rivers Monorail has already arrived...

And it's about to take off...
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... To outer space.

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by pasol4real(m): 4:46pm On Jan 26, 2016
kayfra:
Thanks OBJ for the incubation
Thanks GEJ for the execution
Thanks Buhari for the actualization
15% thanks to obj
5% thanks to pmb
80% thanks to Gej .


Gej we will never forget u

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by soloyes(m): 4:47pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.

Laziness of the highest order. I wonder why we can't read stuff no matter how brief the write up is. Can't you see that the contract spanned from OBJ's regime?
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by goodlifehyd(m): 4:47pm On Jan 26, 2016
obasiken:
God will punish all those that said GEJ never did anything when their leader is yet to flag off a road project.
Same to you too for crediting GEJ for a project by Obasanjo
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by 989900: 4:48pm On Jan 26, 2016
Good.
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by anonimi: 4:50pm On Jan 26, 2016
kayfra:
Thanks OBJ for the incubation
Thanks GEJ for the execution
Thanks Buhari for the actualization

We need to thank Buhari for not CANCELING this as he usually does although I suspect Jonathan had advanced the work beyond cancellation.


Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/





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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Ephemmm: 4:50pm On Jan 26, 2016
anonimi:



[s]Stop spreading rumors and propaganda from your useless source.
Jonathan worked on and made substantial progress on this rail project unlike the Judas of Ubima.
[/s]



Haha...... was this not abandoned project which PDP always accuses Amaechi of? Which single project did Mr clueless execute in River?

Your propaganda is nothing but a delusion of grandeur.
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Nobody: 4:51pm On Jan 26, 2016
ibotic:


****
...did you not read that this project
was started during Obasanjo's time
chekwu abiama o...
we ibos need to think
before we write.

See this I'd!ot for say we Igbos, u nd who be Igbos? Thunder fire u devil grin grin

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by porka: 4:53pm On Jan 26, 2016
ibotic:


****
...did you not read that this project
was started during Obasanjo's time
chekwu abiama o...
we ibos need to think
before we write.

Within the same 16 years that you people said PDP 'destroyed' Nigeria.

When it suits you - when there's no where to hide - you cherry pick shamelessly.

We thank the Almighty God that it's too late for Buhari to CANCEL this one as is his practice. It's too late for Fashola to 'renegotiate' the contract and send everything into a tailspin - Lagos - Ibadan expressway reconstruction project has been 'arrested' as we speak - justified by a 'lengthy epistle' few days ago.

This rail project was awarded by Obasanjo's government together with the contract for construction of Lagos-Kano and Port Harcourt-Maiduguri standard gauge. Funding arrangements was a mixture of Chinese loan and payment by Nigeria with oil.

Yaradua that succeeded Obasanjo claimed the contracts did not follow 'due process' then. He canceled the east and west corridors but somehow left Abuja-Kaduna. (Yaradua employed the 'rule of law' to cancel many infrastructure projects in those days. He was cheered on by the 'crowd' nevertheless.)

Jonathan adopted (continued) the project alongside the rehabilitation of the old east west corridors narrow gauge upon his assumption of office, which he delivered.

We have heard the 'change people' said nothing was achieved for sixteen years. It wasn't until recently that Amaechi 'knew' there's a functional rail transportation in Nigeria.

We thank God they are commissioning what they claimed never existed.

Infrastructure decay started when Buhari forcefully took over the government of Shehu Shagari in 1983. Many of the projects that would have given Nigeria a leap into a more modernized/industrial society were 'ARRESTED' or CANCELED by Buhari - Ajaokuta Steel, Lagos metro-rail, Nigeria railway etc.

To Buhari, every big project is corruption, regardless of the value to the society.

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Nobody: 4:56pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.
......Since Obasanjo.........era and passing through the GEJ and Finally Landed in PMB's era! .............Glory be to God for Change !

Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Nobody: 4:59pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.
exactly!hehehe
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by pmbluv2015: 5:02pm On Jan 26, 2016
saint047:
First they impose ₦50 bank charge, then they increase price of Kerosene used only by the poor. Were they elected to change poverty into hardship?

All thanks to GEJ
I use kerosine occationally and I can tell you that for over six years now 95% of the masses of this country of which I am one have been buying kerosine way above 100 naira/litre, though I don't know about you believe me no 50 naira/ltr kerosine anywhere in Nigeria before now.
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by ril19(m): 5:02pm On Jan 26, 2016
ibotic:


****
...did you not read that this project
was started during Obasanjo's time
chekwu abiama o...
we ibos need to think
before we write.

I see you thrive in insults. if you can do it to a grown man out here, you can do it to your husband as well. i suggest you wait till you're married then you have someone to insult everyday at home.

i'm taking you on this one coz i think it's totally uncalled for to insult Ozoekpe the way you did.

#it tells alot about you.
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by kobonaire(m): 5:12pm On Jan 26, 2016
Really impressive
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by porka: 5:24pm On Jan 26, 2016
Kikero112:


Actually if GEJ had remained ,the naira would still be where it is at now.....because of the fall in international oil prices. Infact the current fall in the Naira started during the last year of GEJ's regime

Also....we were still miles away from being a strong agric power....we had only gotten up to No 5 in cocoa production,we are still far behind Malaysia and indonesia in palm oil producition(the two of them produce 80% of the palm oil in the world....we used to be that country forty years ago)....and groundnut and cotton are still not there. Then there is the fact that most of the farming done in Nigeria is still done on small scale subsistence farming....we do not have enough large scale farms.And how is Nigeria doing in animal husbandry?


Which number are we now in cocoa production? Do you have any idea?
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by matt32: 5:26pm On Jan 26, 2016
OZAOEKPE:
THEY WONT BLAME JONATHAN FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT IF IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND THEY WOULD WAIL TILL THY KINGDOM COME?

The Project was awarded by Obasanjo and not GEJ. So why should any one give credit to GEJ?
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Henovy: 5:29pm On Jan 26, 2016
jstbeinhonest:


Why do most Nigerians forget about Yaradua.
Because poor health did not allow him to reap the fruits of the presidency!
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by ALISMILE(m): 5:31pm On Jan 26, 2016
OZAOEKPE:
THEY WONT BLAME JONATHAN FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT IF IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND THEY WOULD WAIL TILL THY KINGDOM COME?
Is ur ban over! Welcome back anyway! I hope u re a repentant hater now?
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Henovy: 5:33pm On Jan 26, 2016
meshacha1:
We know who initiated it "just as Rome was not built in a day",so let's honour who revived railway in Nigeria GEJ.
No amount of propaganda can erase or cover the good effort of a hero GEJ

If GEJ had still remain, maybe by now all the railways would have been effective and refinery which he started would have began its full function and maybe 1$ wouldnt have been 305 naira. Agriculture would have been our bed rock.

Can you just hear yourself? Please read aloud what you just typed to your hearing.
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by porka: 5:34pm On Jan 26, 2016
matt32:


The Project was awarded by Obasanjo and not GEJ. So why should any one give credit to GEJ?

Because many projects were awarded by Shagari and Jakande but were all CANCELED by Buhari.

See why now?
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by Guyman02: 5:41pm On Jan 26, 2016
ibotic:


****
...did you not read that this project
was started during Obasanjo's time
chekwu abiama o...
we ibos need to think
before we write.

It was started and completed by GEJ. Obasanjo came up with the concept but did nothing for years.

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Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by ooshinibos: 5:54pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.
nope , we should be grateful to Nigerian tax payers and the minister of transportation ...the dasuki arms and cctv deal has rendered GEJ an evil man ..and cluless
Re: Nigeria’s First Ever High-speed Rail Is Finally Here by abduljabbar4(m): 5:58pm On Jan 26, 2016
AceBeauti:
Thank you GEJ

Nigerians will forever be grateful to you.

I don't want to insult anybody this morning but why are you trying to be foolish and senseless? Was it during the drunkard's era or OBJ?

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