TonyeBarcanista:
Kano state and working Governors

Dollyak:

It has the worst PMI (purchasing managers' index ) out of the major states in Nigeria, which pretty much settles it. Let's not talk about IGR or growth outlook shall we.

Goke7:


oga, nobody fit hijack aso rock o, na elections dem dey win go there. I wish them good luck in their hijacking

it took Obj to get GEJ there but when I see my ss and se brothers abusing Obj, I laugh in spanish.

CSTR2:
$1.85b to china for a country lacking dollars and under serious economic repression? Are you sure Nigerians have sense at all?.
Why not use those monies for local construction companies even if it means much smaller projects? Kano state with millions of almajiris and widespread poverty surely has a lot of things she could do with that money instead of sending it to china.

Goke7:


why are you lying? most of the food you dey chop, where do you think they are from? From Mars abi

When Okorocha de tell una home truth, una say im be okorohausa abi? Honestly you guys preferred to be lied to

CSTR2:
$1.85b to china for a country lacking dollars and under serious economic repression? Are you sure Nigerians have sense at all?.
Why not use those monies for local construction companies even if it means much smaller projects? Kano state with millions of almajiris and widespread poverty surely has a lot of things she could do with that money instead of sending it to china.

aresa:




The rail project is set to create tons of jobs for the people of kano and the economic transformation and benefits across the board brings more benefits a million times more than your myopic, shallow and shortsighted comment.

I know it's a fad on to badmouth progress and development in other places outside your zero project villages, but it's not by force to always bore us with your lame and unintelligent rants..

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Another point of note and like I said before, a recession is not the time to do technology transfer but provide basic nuts and bolts, brick and mortar infrastructure and except if the deal is an investment or a grant, whatever monies will be paid should remain in Nigeria by all means. This means Nigerian workers, Nigerian materials and Nigerian technology if possible. Now is not the time to bleed foreign exchange particularly on a project which has no potential to generate foreign exchange. Here I will distinguish it from what Dangote for example is doing. CBN should intervene and do due diligence that it will not be a conduit for shady deals in capital tripping.

CSTR2:
$1.85b to china for a country lacking dollars and under serious economic repression? Are you sure Nigerians have sense at all?.
Why not use those monies for local construction companies even if it means much smaller projects? Kano state with millions of almajiris and widespread poverty surely has a lot of things she could do with that money instead of sending it to china.

CSTR2:
Don't feign ignorance with me. I have no patience with such.
Is it a habit of Yoruba people to change discourse when the issues become too intellectual.? You said northern governors are leveraging on buhari to get unequal federal govt spending to their region, and I agree that a precedence has being set.
A future SE/SS president would see such precedence honoured with probably greater ferocity which would be deserved anyway. So what is all this talk of OBJ and shitt?
Can OBJ stop the SE/SS from ever becoming president?

EazyMoh:
goke7 9jii yomz1e
First of all you can't claim Kano more than me. My dad was a true Bakano, though I now use Jigawa state. I presently permanently live in Kano. So my comment is out of love I have for the state.
Am not saying the rail system is a bad idea, what am saying it's a misplaced priority. FYI the rail is only gonna move within Kano metropolis, so it's not gonna affect movement of products as some of you claim.
With the newly built flyovers in the city, there's almost nowhere you can spend up to 10minutes in a traffic hold up, and the transport fare is also cheap. I can get from Yan Kaba to BUK New site with just N200 and within a short time. Compare that with last year's tomato glut when a full basket you can't lift sold for as low as N400, imagine if provision for processing was established how much the economy of the farmers and the state would have improved.
It's like the proverbial your house is on fire and you are chasing rats.

Goke7:


stop beefing, bruv, rail transport is one of the things that will easily diversify the economy as goods can be moved easily at a cheaper rate thereby having a spill effect on any state's economy.

Anything rail is a welcome idea, it brings faster development, our politicians are finally waking up to see the benefit of rail system, just wait and see when the Lagos light rail will be completed and you'll see the effects on the economy.

We should commend what's good and not pull down unnecessarily, GEJ still get commendations for reviving the rail system and I think anyone who doing the same should be applauded too.

Goke7:


Madam economist, na you get time, you can ask your governor to start his rail project and we will commend him too, ok?

CSTR2:
Seriously? This is supposed to be an intelligent response?
Kano state alone contributes so much food that would warrant such massive mega federal spending and yet Nigeria spent billions of dollars in food imports yearly? What then does the other northern states contributes?
Billions of dollars generated from oil, some of which was explored from two south eastern states and customs levied from south eastern importers and exporters.

EazyMoh:
goke7 9jii yomz1e
First of all you can't claim Kano more than me. My dad was a true Bakano, though I now use Jigawa state. I presently permanently live in Kano. So my comment is out of love I have for the state.
Am not saying the rail system is a bad idea, what am saying it's a misplaced priority. FYI the rail is only gonna move within Kano metropolis, so it's not gonna affect movement of products as some of you claim.
With the newly built flyovers in the city, there's almost nowhere you can spend up to 10minutes in a traffic hold up, and the transport fare is also cheap. I can get from Yan Kaba to BUK New site with just N200 and within a short time. Compare that with last year's tomato glut when a full basket you can't lift sold for as low as N400, imagine if provision for processing was established how much the economy of the farmers and the state would have improved.
It's like the proverbial your house is on fire and you are chasing rats.

Dollyak:

This isn't about being an economist nor it is about being sentimental as you are now. Anyone can build a rail project if it is being funded by the federal government. I suppose the question is whether they are viable in the said states, which is something that needs to be debate. Will you justify such rail project if Ekiti states was to build one? because this project isn't anymore viable in Kano than it is in Ekiti or other states. There is simply little or no argument for it, at least so far.

CSTR2:
Shut the hell up, you ignorant doofus.
1.85billion dollars to china. What a wonderful achievement.

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I don't think it is beef or any other meat product but simple reality. A project that can be fundamentally important still has a question of timing because we face a situation of either or and you will have to view this in the national context or national interest since Kano state does not generate forex independently. The Federal government throguh the CBN may consider it unviable at this point in time. But what Government should be doing is not just to focus on cost saving signature projects like these only but give equal if not more emphasis on production, mass employment, export oriented projects at this point in time. Afterall 1.8 billion dollars is a heck of a lot of money in naira terms these days.

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They always produce quality leadership because they are pragmatic, politically aware and independent minded bordering on the radical. No governor finds it easy to handle that state and must perform just to maintain control. Even military administrators never had smooth sailing thoughtless of the nepotism and godfatherism that has stifled other states.

Goke7:


The value a rail project brings is un-quantifiable, your argument does not hold water. Its like saying a road project in an hamlet or village is not viable. Very funny

EazyMoh:
Misplaced priority if you ask me. We shall all focus on production, production and production. Even our agricultural produce if properly processed can generate jobs and revenue for the state. Kano is not congested at all to deserve such project.

Goke7:


you are definitely biased especially from your Ekiti angle, its laughable you know . Rail projects are viable anywhere, it opens up villages and towns that you think are not viable. What a funny response from you.

TonyeBarcanista:


That is to show that people of the south especially the SS DON'T know what they want

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Timing. I know the value of infrastructure but I also know the value of resource management and when things are this critical you have got to consider your options properly and prioritise. Do you know the value of the dollar next year or the price of oil. If you can't then you should eject sentiments from your psyche and spend cautiously. That's all.

CSTR2:
Another unintelligent bullshitt.
I didn't expect anything better from a tinubu photographer.

Dollyak:

Okay, maybe the comparison was a bit of a stretch. However, Kano need a solid economic drive rather than a rail project IMO. I hope I am wrong and this rail project serves as a Up kick in Kano's economic drive.

jpphilips:


Huge government spending on infrastructural development stimulate the economy in recession, damn!! you don't know that?

CSTR2:
Don't feign ignorance with me. I have no patience with such.
Is it a habit of Yoruba people to change discourse when the issues become too intellectual.? You said northern governors are leveraging on buhari to get unequal federal govt spending to their region, and I agree that a precedence has being set.
A future SE/SS president would see such precedence honoured with probably greater ferocity which would be deserved anyway. So what is all this talk of OBJ and shitt?
Can OBJ stop the SE/SS from ever becoming president?

Reference:


Another point of note and like I said before, a recession is not the time to do technology transfer but provide basic nuts and bolts, brick and mortar infrastructure and except if the deal is an investment or a grant, whatever monies will be paid should remain in Nigeria by all means. This means Nigerian workers, Nigerian materials and Nigerian technology if possible. Now is not the time to bleed foreign exchange particularly on a project which has no potential to generate foreign exchange. Here I will distinguish it from what Dangote for example is doing. CBN should intervene and do due diligence that it will not be a conduit for shady deals in capital tripping.

Goke7:


stop beefing, bruv, rail transport is one of the things that will easily diversify the economy as goods can be moved easily at a cheaper rate thereby having a spill effect on any state's economy.

Anything rail is a welcome idea, it brings faster development, our politicians are finally waking up to see the benefit of rail system, just wait and see when the Lagos light rail will be completed and you'll see the effects on the economy.

We should commend what's good and not pull down unnecessarily, GEJ still get commendations for reviving the rail system and I think anyone who doing the same should be applauded too.