How much trade does Nigeria do with Niger? If you are talking of building a rail line to Benin Republic now or to Cameroun, that will make sense. Building a railing to a desert. How productive is a desert. I know Niger has some oil but that's all there is. Interconnectivity within Nigeria is even more important.

flokii:


Notice it's very common with South South people.. just like Goodluck Jonathan wasted 6 years building almajiri schools in North and asslicking Northerners while his own home state Bayelsa and town in Otueke witnessed zero development.

Same thing Amaechi is doing. Tomorrow he will come out and be making noise about loopsided projects in the North and neglect in South whereas he supervised the impunity as Minister of Transportation. I doubt there is one functional train in Rivers state.

Thats just it.

Spending123:


You mean IPOB in Zamfara?

Yes they killed him for violating their devilish sit at home order at Zamfara

Juliusmalema:



Ameachi is an Ikwerre man not an Igbo man.

The difference between a toad & a frog is the difference between Igbo & Ikwere.
Other Nigerians outside ur region see y'all as the same tribe

Coly2012:
National Assembly tackles Amaechi over Nigeria-Niger Republic rail line, others


https://punchng.com/national-assembly-tackles-amaechi-over-nigeria-niger-republic-rail-line-others/?utm_source=top-story&utm_medium=web&amp

na waooooo e won do the rail go is master country

clarocuzioo:


You are pathetically Ignorant.

First of all, Biafra agitation started when Ojukwu was in his youthful age.

During Obasanjo's regime, Ralph Uwazuruike and Nnamdi Kanu were always in and out of jail for Biafra agitation.

When Jonathan was there, Nammdi Kanu called him names, but Jonathan handled the whole agitation.more maturely by totally.ignoring Nnamdi Kanu. Not even a single response to all he said, that simply made Nnamdi Kanu to be less relevant and unknown to so many people then.

unfortunately, the dullard and disaster of a president came in, and started chasing Nnamdi Kanu around, today the whole world is interested in Nnamdi Kanu's case, all because of the dullard in chief handled the whole thing.

Go and read up kiddo.

Biafra also started by Ojujwu when east lost out in the power struggle, nothing has changed now. It's still the same presidency you will not get in 2023 that is making you murder your sons and daughters.

Good to know Kanu has your remote control in his hand and since your elite were the pillar of Jonathan govt, you knew how to settle and calm him down. Immediately your elites lost out they decided to unleash Kanu on the country as strategy to negotiate 2023 presidency
Too bad it's going very badly.

Fraud as usual, so you're defending treason committed by Kanu with the lives of the flower of your population and sacrificing the lives of your intelligenista for a fraud? What a bargain, as you decimate your homeland in a foolish battle, your loss becomes other regions gain. To come back wailing of blockade, starvation which you're already doing to yourselves or £20.

You will neither get Biafra nor presidency with this failed strategy.

MANDIPUTIN:
The more i try to understand the rationale behind the Construction of the 284 kilometres Nigeria-Maradi (Niger Republic) standard gauge rail line the more confuse i become.
Excerpt:
“For a segment of this country that is known for trade and commerce, they need railway as they need air.

“Why is the ministry doing a 287 kilometers of railway track from Kano to Maradi that you will fund with Nigerian money borrowed for Nigerians to be paid by our children to do a world class railway to Maradi.

“I also know the economy of Niger Republic and I believe the economy of the South-East is bigger than that of Maradi. I am not even talking of South-South."

SE had 16 years wining and dining at the center, what infrastructure deals did you attract to your region?

Now you want another president from another party that you hate to build railway for your region first, what kind of nonsense infantile reasoning is that?

We already see evidence that if SE returns to the center via PDP and rule for the 100 years, no railway project will be completed in SE. We will only see more abandoned mansions in the village , plenty SUVs, no new roads or bridges, no new seaports.
And you all will be happy and forget about Biafra and marginalisations

sapientia:


Are you saying linking Niger to Lagos seaport will be more lucrative than linking it to South East?

Lagos - Kano standard rail at 1300km is a critical rail we need and already doing. The extension to Niger by 294km, with mere 25km inside Niger itself will make the entire Lagos Kano stretch even more viable and busier, with potential to earn extra port charges from Niger import/export volume.

SE will need to link to PH port for it's exports and this is an ongoing project to link to a new deep seaport at Bonny

There's a Lagos-Calabar line 1400km in the works, will also link to SE. Surely 294km extension is far easier to attain than 1400km.

If you are one of those who think it's about Buhari cousins, whose cousin was jonathan planning the Niger rail extension for in 2013?

CSTR2:
To be fair, the Nigeria-Niger republic project is a good project.

It would make Niger republic dependent on Lagos seaport and earn us good revenues.

The real problem is that Buhari and amaechi are not coming to equity with clean hands.

The favoritism is the problem.
If they had tackled Eastern based rail project the way they prioritize maradi, nobody would bat an eye.

Agree totally. Let it go round.

Obi3icebaba:


Shame on you and may this evil you people keep supporting hunt you and your generations to come

You are the evil one who thinks the entire universe should revolve around you and your desires.

nairaman66:


In the department of stupidity, you must be the HOD. Of what economic importance is this rail line to maradi, niger? When internal railway lines are in decrepit state? It is rather insulting to say borrowed monies are to be used for a project linking another man’s land than internally!

Since you were buttressing the claims of revenues, is it difficult for Niger republic to kickstart this project from their end?

Are you more educated than the lawmakers who pointed out the flaws in Amaechi’s terrible mappings? Do you have more data than these lawmakers?

There is an important saying- Remove the speck in your eyes first before pointing fingers at another’s!

If only you had followed your own advise at the end of your tirade, then you won't sound so stupid.

You want to dictate what the project focus of a president should be, something you never demanded from your people who ran government and focused on diamond bra

obyrich:
He can resist or even resign his appointment in protest if he has the interest of his people at heart. He is to blame.

They will still go ahead to execute it even if he resigns, In Nigerian politics, every politician will try to remain relevant. And the only way a Nigerian politician is relevant in a society is by being in power or bowing and singing praises of those in power.

Our matter no get cure.

Ovamboland:


If only you had followed your own advise at the end of your tirade, then you won't sound so stupid.

You want to dictate what the project focus of a president should be, something you never demanded from your people who ran government and focused on diamond bra

You rhetoric is simply dumb, dysfunctional and a machination of your imagination. Brainwashing yourself with the same thought process of PDP being the product of your failed project (APC). The APC has shown so far that they are a band of common thieves (Yahoo Boys) with no ideology nor template to take Nigeria and Nigerians to the next level.

The APC bandwagon (Members and Associates) continue to fail in simple arguments without referring to the PDP which left power since 2015, we are currently in 2021 and nothing to show. It is imperative to clear the air- Nigerians are wiser now and will not be cowed by your evil and senseless rants about the PDP.

Conclusively, you should be able to know that your senile thoughts are only jumped upon by your likes (APC members and associates) who create their own reality and continuously masturbate consistently on it.

VULCAN:
It takes a really daft person to peddle this diamond bra story.

I can understand the EFCC peddling it because low IQ is a perennial problem with Fulanis.

But you who attempt to at least sound intelligent, go on to upload the EFCC Dieziani's bra picture that was downloaded from the internet.

You seized a diamond bra that does not show up on camera so you decided to download the picture from the net.

And perhaps some school awarded you a degree.

Mtscheww

Low IQ guy, so you expect the pictures of the actual dirty bra pictures to be used for this comparison.

The shame catch you so much you had to become incoherent

EjaikreTheViper:


SHUT UP!!!

YOU CAN ONLY DECEIVE GULLIBLE PEOPLE WITH YOUR CHEAP AND SHALLOW COMMENTS

It's far above your vacuous intellectual depth

Agbalanze:
Nnamdi kanu might be right after all...
Buhari might be from niger republic

Not from Sudan again? And you follow go school oh, and a drop out is leading you by the nose.

Tomorrow he will tell to say he came from Burundi

juman:
I think buharis father originally came from that country (Niger). Buhari is not originally from daura.

Buhari was planning the railway to Niger from his house in 2013.

Appears you went to school to learn nothing, you came out worse than when you went in.

Nonexisting:
This is exactly how Chuba Okadigbo was lighting cigarettes for Shehu Shagari and never attracted anything to Igboland, a whole PhD holder lighting cigar for a man with elementary six. All the IBB boys of the 80s and 90s, the OUKs and co, what did they do for Southerners if not enrich themselves?Goodluck Jonathan was busy developing the North and now Osinbajo the condolence vice president is doing nothing and telling youths not to bomb. The thunder that will fire him is still in Cuba processing Nigerian visa.

Osinbajo has attracted Lagos Ibadan railway to his region complete with a wagon assembly plant, within 6 years amongst other projects. What did the 5 senate presidents from SE attract to their region?

Ovamboland:


So you now want Buhari to collect more loans because you want standard gauge rail lines in the SE?

I thought you were all bleating that collecting loans even for railway is a very bad thing? Now you want to add $12bn to the loan portfolio because your self esteem can't carry seeing results of the loans you condemn in other parts of the country who welcome them.

Only if you had demanded real infrastructure like this from Jonathan when we had lots of money instead of temporary appointments and diamond bra and pants

This is a quote from your slave master back before he was president. Your slave master came to divide Nigerians on ethnic and religious lines!

luizpippo:


Can the resources from the ones you want the rail lines constructed on be able to offset the loans without grovelling for those from the South South and South East?

The resources been used belong to Nigeria, after every state got their lawful share.
Port charges from Niger export of Uranium and crude oil will payback the cost of 25km rail track in their country in 3-5 years and will keep paying for the next 50-80 years.

When Jonathan controlled Nigeria resources we saw where it was focused

Ovamboland:


Buhari was planning the railway to Niger from his house in 2013.

Appears you went to school to learn nothing, you came out worse than when you went in.

You are the one who has learned nothing or pretending to be useless. You claimed the Niger project was to link the port in Lagos.., are you not mentally incapacitated with this statement?

Ovamboland:


The resources been used belong to Nigeria, after every state got their lawful share.

When Jonathan controlled Nigeria resources we saw where it was focused

You are so dumb to know that the funds to be used on that project are to be borrowed.

He said that the negotiation for loan for the construction of Kano- Maradi standard gauge line was about to be completed.

nairaman66:


You are the one who has learned nothing or pretending to be useless. You claimed the Niger project was to link the port in Lagos.., are you not mentally incapacitated with this statement?

No its to link Buhari cousins directly to his bedroom in Daura, that's why Jonathan started planning it for him in 2013.

The teachers who stood for years trying to make you learn simply wasted their time.

MyExpression:


They will make back the money shipping which economic product?
Is this how educated you are?
Is it not the same blood oil, blood food, blood imports Jonathan cried about?

These guys do not have real export.
Their items are Nigerian bound items that gets shipped to Niger to avoid high import duties and then illegally smuggled into Nigeria via our numerous porous road borders.

The rail line is only creating a channel for legal import yet this doesn't solve the issue of smuggling.

Truth is, this Inter national rail line was endorsed by the AU/ECOWAS. And both countries are suppose to cover the cost. Nigeria is going about it alone, maybe cos of the 90% thing you said or for reasons best known to this Buhari govt.

Check the value of their exports of uranium and crude oil and estimate how much Nigeria can earn via port charges and freight rates

discusant:


NITEL died when it first built Digital exchanges in small towns of the north while Aba, Onitsha etc business cities in the south continued to use obsolete Analogue exchanges.

In other good countries, railways are first constructed on most busy routes like Lagos-Benin-Onitsha-Nnewi-Orlu-Owerri-Aba-Portharcourt. The profits generated go to construction of railways on less busy routes.

But in Nigeria, it’s the other way round.


Amaechi is doing what his slave master, President Buhari, wants him to do.

If Amaechi is not a typical House Niggar, he would have long resigned from that Ministry.

Far better than those who did not build anything.

Thank God we've moved past debating whether we should import private jets, rice and diamond bra with our forex to discussing real projects and investments

MadamExcellency:


When will these stvpidity end?

The gross discussion here is that Southeast is being marginalized to empirical level and you are too foolish to be discussing "who did it worst"

Are ordinary South Easterners such evil people they deserve such evil treatment?

You are such an evil person.

Was SE marginalised also under Jonathan that you all loved?

Where is the railway he constructed for you, where are the expressways, seaports, airports he built for you? Was it not needed then?

You are obviously only looking for anything to be used to paint Buhari black.

Ovamboland:


No its to link Buhari cousins directly to his bedroom in Daura, that's why Jonathan started planning it for him in 2013.

The teachers who stood for years trying to make you learn simply wasted their time.

You are compound foolll and a lunatic! The railway concept is a white elephant project that will be a draining pipe on Nigerian’s scarce financial profile at the moment! What happened to a simple way of linking pipeline and having a deport in Nigeria? I guess you are too dumb to think?

The railway concept is to bring in more Nigeriens unchecked in to Nigeria for them to disrupt election results as they have done in 2015. Just a single condom would have saved us these your rants!

Wike was right about Amechi

PeachtreeReside:
Connect the whole of Nigeria first before thinking of connecting Buhari's home country.

The dangers of the Niger line are many!

Our borders are porous enough. Just anyone can come in , not be on any database and claim he is Nigerian.


Connect the East ,South and West and North and experience synergy of trade, resources and manpower.


The headaches the Easterners go through at the end of the year going home is enough to make that connecting line come through soonest.



Rotimi Amaechi should use sense in his dealing as a Minister. Overlook your disagreement with Wike and do what will make your people thank God they had you.


We lack credible, trustworthy leaders who looked out for their own and not their pockets.

Connect this and that first, do this do that here first only became known since 2015?
Are you the president? When you become one you can be dancing to every tune on the street.

The people where the rails are been constructed are not human too? Just because they don't have a loud voice you feel your fancies must be satisfied first.

Yet you will shout loud don't take loans, don't take loans. Now you are seeing the results you are green with envy and jealousy

Ovamboland:


Check the value of their exports of uranium and crude oil and estimate how much Nigeria can earn via port charges and freight rates

Niger’s Soraz refinery, in Zinder, produces around 20,000 barrels per day. How much is this compared to the amount Nigeria would borrow to build a railway track there?

PeachtreeReside:
Connect the whole of Nigeria first before thinking of connecting Buhari's home country.

The dangers of the Niger line are many!

Our borders are porous enough. Just anyone can come in , not be on any database and claim he is Nigerian.


Connect the East ,South and West and North and experience synergy of trade, resources and manpower.


The headaches the Easterners go through at the end of the year going home is enough to make that connecting line come through soonest.



Rotimi Amaechi should use sense in his dealing as a Minister. Overlook your disagreement with Wike and do what will make your people thank God they had you.


We lack credible, trustworthy leaders who looked out for their own and not their pockets.

The idea is to bring a lot of nigeriens into Nigeria for political purposes.

flokii:


Niger has zero economic benefits to Nigeria as compared to countries bordering Nigeria in the West but trust Northerners with nepotism na.. they prefer to build a world class railway to a parasite country with billions of dollars in loans for coming generations to pay back even if noone uses it than to have South South or South East zones linked to a national railway grid (if atal we have any).

The same nepotism they used to kill refinery operations taking refineries to Kaduna and spending millions in naira to transport crude there. Today none of those refineries are functional yet Nigeria keeps incurring billions in debt and costs for non-functional refineries.

They prefer to pack customs, immigration, soldiers and whatnot to ports in West to keep out West African countries with vibrant economies but throw open borders in North to parasite countries like Niger Republic with zero economic value to be coming in and going out as they like with cozy air-conditioned train rides. Ameachi fall hands big time.

Why are the 3 refineries in Niger Delta and plenty oil everywhere not functioning? You focused on Kaduna only because of bigotry.

The countries we sell our crude oil to some of them have refineries far from the seaports, how does that affect the refinery viability if we'll managed?

Which is easier, transport crude oil, refine into petrol, diesel, kerosene, aviation fuel etc distribute to nearby catchment market, or procure trucks for each product over 1500km away in the south.
Bigotry makes it difficult to reason straight