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FreeStuffsNG:

This is misleading. Customs kept setting new records of revenue and surpassing its records year on year, how can such gains now be mischievously regarded as loss when it was such incentive that increased the customs revenue. Lately, media reports have been trying to twist reports of officials of the current as if their feedbacks are indicting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's predecessor. Check my signature for free stuffs!

E tire me o. I don't like these blame games. If the current admin is not OK with the decision of the predecessor, let them reverse it. It's obvious that the Customs officials don't want a fully digitalised system

Israel07:


Comity of terrorist u mean 😂.... Talk to your fellow terrorist to allow farmers farm in peace in zamfara, Niger, Benue, Jos, Taraba, Sokoto, Katsina and Kaduna before going to help Hamas and Hezbollah Iran annex terrorists. Fools!

I know your problem. Your terrorism is internal, it'll never allow your heart to rest, or your brain to think straight

This is Nigeria commanding some respect in the comity of nations.

Wow. 2006 thread hitting FP in 2023. Twale to the OP sha, man is still active to this day. Seun, you need to start rewarding NL veterans o.

Offpointng:
There's a whole lotta evil unsaid going on in the Army, who can tell??

I spent a whole year, day in day out in a Air Force base for a whole year, no death of personnel was recorded both officers and soldiers but anytime we happen to attend Army barracks for any mess function or inter competition, you'd always see a postal bill of deceased Army personnel and they're always changing it week in, month out.

Too much jealousy, too much superiority issues, too much power seeking men

Army personnel are more vulnerable to dangers compared to AF. So nothing mysterious about the higher death figures

Straybullet:


You have no vantage position if you cannot see that el rufai left the state worse than he met it.

A man that publicly admitted his choice of Muslim Muslim ticket was to subdue and subjugate Christians.

A man that admitted he paid money to foreign terrorists out of state coffers.

Whatbisnthe result of his "incredible" performance if.our state is littered with houses abandoned by their owners because insecurity has rendered the area unlivable?

Why are there so many houses of relocated people vacant and up for sale with no interested buyers?
Why is the millennium city project failing with no meaningful attraction of human resources?

Why is the television garage to sabo road still abandoned after scraping away the little one people were managing...?

Which road did he do in sabo, television, gonin gora, romi, karatudu, federal housing, buwaya?, to mention just a few...

You can earn your pay without trying to mislead the public. We are right here on the ground. El rufai hated the Christian half of kaduna. That half has reciprocated , because many of them are the investing visitors who are now leaving in droves.

I hope el rufai manufactures investors out of thin air to come back and get this economy moving...

Whether you accept or not, the issue of insecurity occasioned by banditry is not peculiar to christian areas or even the whole state. It's a north west and north central issue. How you keep blaming Elrufai for something that's responsibility of FG is what I'm yet to fathom. The lives and properties lost in Kaduna Central in recent years, outnumber that in Southern Kaduna. The records are there. There's no LG in Southern Kaduna that's not readily accessible. But a large LG, Birnin Gwari which is muslim dominated, has become a Bermuda triangle of sorts. But since the LG is muslim, you barely hear about their sordid situation.

As for what Elrufai said about some Christians, I'm not supportive of that. I am of the opinion that he said that to massage the egos of the Muslim audience that was there, which is an attribute of most politicians. His utterance was at variance with what he's known for. He doesn't give a damn about the religion or tribe of people he works with.

I still wonder how the decades old violence in Southern Kaduna is heaped on Elrufai, who governed less than 10% of the period. Imagine citing unleased shops as a reason Elrufai failed? Is Kaduna innocuous from the general economic downturn in other states? The roads that you claimed Elrufai built in 'muslim' areas, are they not used by christians? Why didn't you mention that he built roads in the so-called chrristian areas too?

We have to learn to be fair. Governance is not a matter of black and white. Don't just paintbrush someone as if he's overall a total failure

Elrufai performed incredibly in urban infrastructure, schools and health centres. However, I think his approach to renewal of markets was too aggressive and ill thought. If I were the one at the helm, I'll make sure most occupants of those shops get the new ones. But overall, Elrufai performed well.

If anyone have questions, I'm ready to answer from my vantage position.

The leader of them patapata is missing in the LIST-MAIMALA BUNI of Yobe State

SoNature:
I have said it several times. Implement true federalism. Unbundle the national grid nonsense.

Every state should look for means to generate power or buy from a neighbouring state.

How can states in faraway North be supplying power to the south when the south has gas in abundance?

Research before spewing spurious assertions. Hydropower is just about 20% contribution to Nigeria's total electricity generation. The rest us generated via natural gas fired power plants

whitejs:
What should I do to break out?

I can't give a speech in public.

I blank out at times when trying to express myself.

Also rapid heartbeat...

I feel more relaxed when alone.

For public speaking,practice makes perfect. I'll urge to join toastmasters club around you. You'll be tranformed if you put in the dedication

justmi1:
This is me, I have been battling depression because of this. I'm 34, I dread speaking in the public. I have attended public speaking classes to no avail ( I stopped going when it was getting practical). I avoided speaking in class till I graduated. I have never had a girlfriend that I toasted myself. I used to be a chronic mastubator, I'm trying to overcome that. Many times I wish I could end it all. I feel worhless, I'm always alone, being amongst people scare me. I always feel awkward and ashamed. The irony of it all is I do my own business and It's going well. I don't have friends. It's difficult to make friends with me as I always appear to be frowning. I know one day I would have the courage to end it all.

Tackle masturbation first. It's a confidence killer. Join the Nairaland no fap community, I read they are breaking records on that

This thing called introversion is a spectrum. Someone whom you think is extroverted will claim to be otherwise. For me sha, if introversion is scaled on 0 to 100, I'll be at least 70

FreeStuffsNG:
The Islamic countries topping the list there is a special kind of divorce as practiced in Islam and not like we have in regular courts in non-Islamic countries.
I will love a teaching on Islamic divorce posted on one Jumat day here on Nairaland. It will help us understand why the Arab nations will have a high number yet may be different from how we know divorce is practiced elsewhere.
Check my signature for free stuffs!

@Lukgaf can help with that

professorPABX:


Though I have been away from nairaland and vowed never to come back again but I was pulled back just for this moment by some retired military officers friends. As usual, I have to borrow this account to use.

NAPTU2 , Ruwan Yaro is not Amariya. His Royal Highness Alfred Papapreye Diete-Spiff as a Navy Commander and Governor of old Rivers State acquired a Yacht - Ogina Bereton which was for official duties. It later became Ruwan Yaro. There are many falsehoods written about Ruwan Yaro and Amariya on Social media just as you do on your write up and most people with Information have no time as some people are only after false information.

You said in 1987 Babangida used NNS Aradu (Nigeria's Flagship) for fleet review to give impression that Babangida never used Presidential Yacht. For your information, Babangida used Presidential Yacht all through his tenure. Even when he relocated to Abuja, the Presidential Yacht (Amariya) was under presidency but operated by Nigerian Navy just like Presidential Airfleet are under Air force.

The Presidential Yacht (Amariya) was designed by a renowned Naval Architect - Engr N. V Ozobia the first CEO of Nigerdock, Snake Island, Amariya was at Snake Island for years under a Naval detachment until it was brought to Olokun naval base.

Personally, I witnessed Babangida using this Yacht severally.

NAPTU2 don't confuse people with falsehoods, Ruwan Yaro is not what became Amariya (Presidential Yacht). Ruwan Yaro was Ogina Bereton a yacht bought by a Navy Commander as old Rivers State governor.If a SOJA or Airforce officer had been appointed as Old Rivers State governor instead of Navy Commander Diette-Spiff he wouldn't have bought the Yacht because that is not his professional core area. Ruwan Yaro was used as training ships for cadets.

Personally, for years, I entered both Ruwan Yaro and Amariya and anybody can tell you the survey, security and other electronics are not the same. Even without light (in darkness), I can walk or move in both Ruwan Yaro and Amariya because for years I entered both vesseis before decommissioning.

All the opposition to Navy acquisition of a modern Yacht is because of Tinubu because of Lagos. All the ships you mentioned as alternative to presidential yacht are just the blabbing of noise makers who don't know much. It is not the present CNS who made arrangements for the replacement of Amariya. There is no need for the Navy explaining anything again.

Lagos State or Ogun State or Ondo State can individually acquire the Yacht for the Navy.

Note: babaolofin will not read your response or come back here. Nairaland moderator can delete the post as usual. Thanks.

babaolofin

You can make your corrections without castigating the OP. The insights, from you and Naptu, are all appreciated

Ishilove:
Una don find trouble. Nigerians will turn your country to their second home.

It has been visa free for Nigerians sha. Rwanda is not a place for someone to do anyhowness

bonnyhope:


Citizens are to be blamed more

They drop refuse anyhow even in the drain lines

I diasgree. Same citizens who litter indiscriminately, don't do such when they visit military barracks. Because they know that there are punitive consequences.

Mehn. Lagos, nay Nigeria, is too dirty. It is the fault of all of us, though the govt takes the biggest blame.

Dogalmighty17:
This is the most stupid thread in the history of niaraland.

No be fight na. Go an marry.

MXrep:
I thought Chindo is a native name for north East minority tribes. Is it an Islamic name?

It's not an Islamic name, but a cultural (Hausa) name. The name is usually given to someone who has additional fingers/toes i.e polydactyly

Abagworo:
The problem bedeviling Nigeria is democracy. Don't get me wrong Democracy is good but no nation can develop with our expensive type of democracy which lacks direction. Abacha I've always maintained is the best President Nigeria ever had hence the media brigandage and international conspiracy against him powered by enemies of Nigeria. He was not the one who annulled June 12 election but many people alive tiday including my own children associate him with it because the media made it so. Oil actually sold for as low as 11 DPB and his major problem was the Abiola mandate which he didn't annul.

I have same opinion on Nigerian democracy. We'll never have strong institution if we continue with it.

NAC1666:

What about Bauchi and Gombe state,I thought they are oil producing state.

They have the oil and gas reserves. But they are yet to start production

Great man. Father of medical education in Northern Nigeria

Baba Naptu, thank you for all you do here. I hope one day Seun will recognise and reward you for always feeding us with palatable historic nuggets

I have never seen or heard of any major project commissioned by Obaseki. A big disappointment

Photo 1 is leading while observing the situation of his followers Photo 2 is literally leading from the front. In normal circumstances, each of the two leadership styles have their places of application. For example, the NLC leader must lead from the front while confronting the govt the give workers a better package.
On the other hand, you don't expect a commanding officer of a batallion charging against bandits/terrorists to lead from the front, because it makes him vulnerable. Imagine the morale of a 200 man strong force when their Colonel commander is the first to be felled by enemy bullets.

You can see the correlation between the number of engineering graduates and the development of these countries. In Nigeria, we have brilliant engineers in the thousands. But the sordid situation is that the government doesn't take engineering education serious. Little or no support to technical education. That's the reason that we are not innovative. The fact is, a country can not grow beyond the quality of its engineers.

If Elrufai had got this position, by now everyone for don feel am. But this is Nigeria, where selfishness trumps competence

Twale, Baba Naptu

Very useless journalism. Who told them that NNPC is a regulators? For those who don't know, the agency in charge of regulating Dangote Refinery is the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Regulatory Agency(NMDPRA).

Wow. Superb

When former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike was appointed minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it was met with a lot of excitement.
Wike’s appointment is historic. It marks the first instance of a Southerner holding the position of FCT minister in its history.
During his tenure as Rivers governor, Wike was celebrated as “Mr. Projects.” Hardly a month passed without a major project being inaugurated in Rivers.

He commissioned a plethora of infrastructure projects even up to his last day in office.
Wike engineered a transformation of Rivers’ infrastructure landscape and this achievement is precisely why many FCT residents greeted his appointment with enthusiasm, as the city yearns for the sort of development he brought to Rivers.
Nearly four decades after it was made the capital city of Nigeria, the Abuja landscape is still dotted with all manner of unfinished projects, some white elephant in nature.

Some of the mega projects appear to be jinxed as they have outlived several administrations of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) but remain uncompleted, despite the huge amount of money that went into them.

21st CENTURY CHRONICLE investigations have identified these multi-billion beautiful projects that are either abandoned, or with works ongoing at snail pace. Among them are the Millennium Tower and Cultural Centre, Utako General Hospital, World Trade Centre, and Abuja City Centre.

Residents of Abuja are eager to see how Wike’s touch will lead to the completion of some of these projects and turn around the story of Abuja as the graveyard of unfinished projects.

18 years on, Millennium Tower project lingers
Despite being called the Millennium Tower and Cultural Centre, the project located in Abuja’s Central Business District was conceptualised in 2005, five years into the new millennium, under the Olusegun Obasanjo-led administration, and projected to be completed in 2011.

The tower was designed by Italian architect Manfredi Nicoletti; and its construction awarded to another Italian construction firm, Salini at $333 million (N53 billion). It was planned to be to Abuja what other major monuments across the world such as the London Bridge, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Statue of Liberty in the United States, are to those countries.

Standing at 170 metres (560 ft), the tower was expected to be Nigeria’s tallest building when completed along with an eight-storey, low rise, pyramid shaped Cultural Centre. Construction for the tower started in 2008 and was topped out in 2014 whilst the cultural centre is still under construction. An underground arcade links the Millennium Tower and the Cultural Centre which are severed by a main road, while a disc-shaped section housing two floors include a restaurant where visitors will be able to enjoy spectacular views of the city below while they dine.

A lot of people considered the plan outlandish at the time, but that was not enough to stop the government.

As at 2017, construction work on the project was only 38 percent completed, even as there were no budgetary provisions for the project in 2016 and 2017.

In 2019, the contracting firm, during a visit by the FCT Minister, Muhammad Bello, to the site, revealed that it had submitted extension of time claims to the tune of N4.9 billion for 36 months to the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) and that an additional sum of $500 million (N38.2 billion) would be required for the project to be completed.

In the 2021 budget, N1 billion was allocated for design and construction of the project.
In 2022, former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had said during an inspection of the state of the project that to complete it, the federal government would require $400 million and that it was looking in the direction of the private sector for the investment.
The new FCT minister, Nyesom Wike has, however promised to complete the project within two years.

The project is currently at 40 per cent completion and is expected to, upon completion, be self-reliant as revenues would be generated from all the commercial activities in the complex.
“It is a very ambitious project, but again if we are talking of Abuja being one of the best cities in the world, then we must have such a facility.“
“I can tell you it is not easy to go into that project, but we decided that whatever it takes, it is going to be one of the legacy projects for President Bola Tinubu.”

220-bed Utako General Hospital
This is one project that seems to have been jinxed and its construction has lingered for over a decade.

It is one very important public institution that would serve residents of Utako, Jabi, Wuye and other environs yet, it has received the least attention since it started.

Construction of the 220-bed Utako General Hospital started in 2011.
The contract for the construction and equipping of the hospital was awarded to M/S PPC Medical Systems at the cost of over N4.3 billion.

Ten years later, not much has been achieved as the contract site has been abandoned by the contractor and taken over by miscreants, while residents of neighbouring houses have turned it into a refuse dump site.

Though the various buildings at the site are at various stages of completion, not much progress has been made especially since 2014 when a part of the building under construction collapsed, necessitating a stop work order and setting up of a ministerial investigation panel headed by then permanent secretary, John Chukwu.

According to reports, as at 2016, approximately N2.222 billion of the N4.263 cost of the project was said to have been disbursed on the project which is still far from completion.
In 2019, the then secretary, FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, Adamu Bappah, assured that the FCTA was poised to sort out all pending matters on the project.
The project has however remained abandoned with no hope in sifght for its completion.

N700 billion Abuja City Centre
In 2015, the federal government gave approval to Messrs. Chikason Group and partners, Eagle Hills, Abu Dhabi, to immediately commence work on the N700 billion Abuja City Centre project, after the architectural design was done and approved by the government.

Sitting on 17 hectares in Abuja’s city centre, the project was designed to include four international hotels, residential houses, offices and shops as well as condominium. The project was expected to be completed within a period of between 60-120 months;

Then FCT minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, revealed that the Centre would be a mixed-use development that has the capacity to generate about 10,000 jobs with its multiplier effect on the economy of the entire country.

“The land premium as well as the development control charges accruable to the FCT Administration would be used as its equity contribution to the project.”

“In addition, the investors would construct a National Mall at the cost of 40million US Dollars at no cost to the FCT Administration,” he said.
The status of the project remains unknown, eight years later.

Unending World Trade Centre
The World Trade Centre (WTC) complex under construction in the Central Business District of Abuja, was conceptualised to be the largest mixed-use development on the West African subcontinent.

Located on a land size of over 6,000 hectares in the Central Business District, the over $1 billion (N152 billion) project was launched in 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan with 2013 as target completion date.

It is being developed by The churchgate Group, a Nigerian real estate company, with Woods Bagot as the architect.

The projected completion date could not be met and was attributed to challenges in design and development.

There are seven skyscrapers planned for the site, two of which have already been topped out, with the others either under construction or at various stages of development. At 110 metres (361ft), the 24-floor WTC Tower 1, which topped out in 2015 is said to be the tallest residential building in Nigeria, while WTC Tower 2 is the tallest building in Abuja, standing at 120 metres (394ft).

Endless Apo-Karshi road
The traffic on the Abuja-Keffi road prior to its dualization, prompted the government to come up with another road to reduce traffic on the existing one.
The Apo-Karshi road project was, therefore, conceived and contract for its construction awarded in 2011.

The 13 kilometre Apo -Karshi road project was awarded to M/S Kakatar’ CE. Big. Limited in 2011, at N6, 355, 609, 124. 53 with a completion period of 20 months.

Twelve years later, there seems to be no end in sight even though the contractor, according to the Senate, had admitted receiving full funding of the project.

The project has made too many budget appearances and Smart Adeyemi, chairman of the Senate committee on FCT, had said in 2022 during a visit to the project site that it had become embarrassing.

Poor budgetary provision and inadequate funding have been said to be the major factors militating against the project.

Earlier this year, it was reported that the contractor had jerked up the project cost to N97 billion and that the government was willing to make it N33 billion.

There is also the issue of design as the FCT administration has reportedly been unable to come up with an appropriate design for the Karshi-Apo section, which is about five of the over 13 kilometres of the entire stretch.

It was gathered that the FCT administration has so far paid the sum of N4,542,975,288.14 out of the N6.3 billion contract sum to the contracting firm, leaving a balance of the N1.8 billion of the original contract sum.

Karshi dam
In 2013, the FCTA announced that it had awarded contract for the design and construction of a dam treatment, plants, tanks, and other bulk water supply to Karshi satellite town.

The contract was awarded to SCC Nigeria.
About 10 years later, project seems to have been forgotten about as the government has done little or nothing with regards to it.

It was gathered that the contract was awarded at over N19.438 billion and the FCTA released over N3.501 billion to the company, after which work commenced on the project, with the digging of the first layer of both the main water borehole and the reservoir, but not much has been done so far to justify the money collected to execute the project.

Apo-Wasa road
This is another important road project designed to make life easier for FCT residents but the project has seen six years with no end in sight.
The road is supposed to start at Apo and run through Wasa district and Kuje town, terminating at Gwagwalada.

The Apo-Wasa road segment was awarded in 2017 by the FCT and was expected to be completed within 12 months at the cost of about N8.62 billion.

Other critical projects residents of the territory will love to see completed include Galadimawa roundabout interchange, Wuye-Wuse overhead bride/interchange, Area 1 roundabout, Gudu roundabout, among others.
Ever since he resumed as minister of the FCT, Wike has met with contractors, toured projects and said there is no room for abandoned projects in the territory.
The FCTA, according to the minister, is seeking alternative funding options to complete the projects.