The big problem of Nigeria is corruption. Ethiopia is more nationalist and patriot than other country of Africa. Addis look like a city of Asia than Africa city.
dev a please think wisely bro... dont be too islamphobia or racist... its not about islam or what... its about how the citizwn and goverment work together to improve the city life... lot of muslim country is much better then this... Dubai in UAE... Istanbul in Turkey... Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia... just give you a few example of islamic country... compare to non muslim country like Zimbabwe... India.. Suriname.. Venezuela... Haiti.. clearly its not islam who make you least developed... it is yourself.. wake up people...
Stop encouraging her. The two system are different. LRT system moved people between places within a home area. Rail train system facilities more and faster economic activities between home, regional and oversea economities which increase productivities at home and the prospect of employment and happiness. Criticism is good but intelligent criticism is better.
omg rofl!!! the guy telling the reporter "we can not have new trains!!!" the girl be like.. whaaa?? why not we have the largest economy? and he's like "the money, it is spent!!!" no good day god bless... and off he goes, LOLZ
+David Abraham Yes they really are. They must have really empathic leaders relatively despite the imperfections along the way. Nice to see Africa start developing: The West have been so successful in stopping this happening so far.
+Chris Williams OK Mugabe is clearly Pathological and displays plenty of Narcissistic traits if not psychopathic. Just like a lot of Western Leaders we are forced to choose but their criminality and psychopathic urges are hidden from us by the media elite networks ans corrupt police forces and judiciary. Yeah the 50hz group wired Harare-Gweru but was it USA financed? (probably not). It is important the masses identify where the corruption is so they can rout it and send these so called elites running for their miserable lives.
+toyota manzini Looks like Eton Education (corruption) by me in the UK. UK manufacturing employs only 8% of people. In Kenya it is 12%. Do the sums. My children are going to leave when they are old enough:-(
+Paul Ebai We need to do that in the UK. We have a Failed State here. I am amazed we have not yet collapsed. So many capable people but a few priveleged criminals mess it all up. Yes the Neoliberal Chickens are coming home to roost!
toyota manzini - The Addis Ababa Light Rail (የአዲስ አበባ ቀላል ባቡር) was in fact contracted by the China Railway Group Ltd. (中國中鐵股份有限公司) and it was funded by China Exim Bank (中國進出口銀行). It is even operated by Shenzhen Metro (深圳地鐵). As a matter of fact the light rail was strategically routed from Addis Ababa city center to the Chinese Industrial Area (i.e. Eastern Industrial Zone 東方工業園) located in Oromia (ኦሮሚያ ክልል). So don’t give Ethiopia so much credit. But I am sure the money went to exactly that project while in Nigeria the money was probably siphoned off into pockets. And the Nigerian Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Doyin Okùpè was abrasive and defensive about his demeanor and response. That is telltale signs the money was misappropriate into their pocket. That would explain the used hand-me-down trains. They heard $12 billion was coming their way, so they cut corners so they can have money to chop at the end. Kleptocracy is too much. They will leave the citizen at the mercy of debt to other nations, but will already have taken cuts to by mansion for themselves. There should be a Dep’t of Transparency. Public officials need their bank account, every so often, audited. And the EU (including Switzerland) and the US need to stop hosting their money. This is absurd.
The Ethiopian light rail system was also constructed with a loan from Chinese financial institutions. Although the local authorities had oversight, engineering and construction was done by Chinese construction firms. That being said, some level of corruption exists in both countries, however, after seeing the $12billion bill Nigeria is handed for that project, I can see the difference in the degree of corruption. Perhaps the Nigerian authorities fell for the "Nigerian Prince Scam" emails and let down tax payers.
haha that trains r more expensive than trams is a given. however, my only complaint is that the trains seem kinda old model ish. however it is hard 2 judge. perhaps the moniez is spend on makin tracks from city 2 city and thats where the largest amounts goes.
Nigeria is building a nationwide 5000-plus km rail infrastructure for its $12 billion, while you are building an inner city tram system. Quit comparing apples with oranges. SMDH
Whoa! I usually agree with you Adeola Fayehun but you are waay off comparing the price of a 34 km commuter light rail system in the capital of Ethiopia to the price of a 1400 km heavy rail road stretching the entire coastal length of Nigeria. What are you thinking? Also, you're too caught up in how cute and modern looking the light rail system is. The ugly heavy rail system is actually capable of carrying far more people. Although they do need to get newer trains. I would love to see Nigerians building their own rail road and they are doing much of the work on the commuter train construction in Lagos which is more along the same size as the Ethiopian rail road you were referring to. It, however, is heavy rail not light rail. This is actually an advantage. Many people now a days mistakenly think light rail is more modern and sophisticated but light rail only means it's smaller. Major systems like those in New York City, London and Paris all mostly use heavy rail to transport because it can handle longer lines of larger cars moving faster. Now there is a difference between old fashioned diesel heavy trains like the one you criticised in Nigeria and electric heavy rail like used by the London tube or Japanese bullet trains. Fortunately the heavy rail public transportation trains in Lagos are supposed to be electric according to the Engineer whom said the line would have it's own power plant to avoid power outages frequently taking place in Lagos.
gacaptain The guy you were interrogating in the interview obviously didn't know much on the subject or else he would have told you the same as I posted above instead of getting angry and saying they couldn't afford new trains. LOL. Furthermore he should have said that Nigeria needs to build up it's exports in order to be able to afford exporting such expensive items. It would also save Nigeria alot of money and provide alot of jobs if it were able to build up and maintain more of it's own infrastructure but it lacks the technical know how and skill, shops and other facilities necessary for that. The bright side is that hundreds if not thousands of Nigerians that were employed to help the Chinese build what's gone up thus far now have enough skill that I could fore see allowing Nigerians to one day soon be able to construct rail roads on their own with out help from the Chinese.
Una well done. Gacaptain, I see your essay. Go tell the person wey send you say we see him messenger. Since you have become blind to new and modern development
BTW I'm proud of my Congo team, that is a great innovative work. and another BTW, the Nigerian train doesn't look that bad kkkkkk but of course the mister who thinks Nigeria doesn't deserve a new train is a complete idiot.
Ethiopian train is light rail train, which is used for inner-city transportation only and not designed for long distance travelling whereas Nigerian train is designed for inter-city transportation and much faster.
Do a bit research. You seemed confused. Addis Ababa light rail is 100% funded and built by China. China trained all Ethiopian staff, including sending a group to Tienjing China for 6 month, free training. True, the cost is low, that is another story.
Peter Wang You must be an ignorant, the 12 billion of Nigeria is only for Building. Even though the Chinese built the railway, it is with our money ( 400mllion +) only. Peter you must be one of the mafia of Nigeria. You are famous for in corruption and frauds if you are Nigerian.
Designed, rolling stock supplied by, financed and contracted by, trained the locals by: the Chinese. So yes it was built by the Chinese pretty much from A to Z. My only concern is that once they leave it for the locals they will mess it up.
Addis Tram system's operation was comtracted to Shenzheng Metro at the expense of over USD $100 million in addition to its being funded and constructed by Chinese companies
for those of you who have visited dubai, the whole rail system here cost them $7.8 billion, so with all this talk about not being able to afford new trains is absolutely lies. how can the people look forward to improving when the government is providing people OLD trains. and the trains in Dubai are robotic for God's sake
Adeola, your report is very misleading. Ethiopia spent $475million for 32Km of light rail with a design speed of 80Km/h. Nigeria will be spending $12bn for 1,385 kilometers in one-way mileage and a design speed of 120 km/h. Any right thinking individual will see the clear difference between the two; and you are the journalist, you should have done your homework. Secondly, contrary to your report, China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group began construction in January 2012 under a contract signed in June 2009 for the Ethiopian project, China’s Export-Import Bank provided loans to cover 85% of the $475m cost. Another point, light rail is the railway tecnology not the railcar. What I see here is cheap propaganda, it pays to get your facts right.
***** could you show us the proof? Because the Ethiopian Govt. itself are not making any such claims; even Wikipedia collaborates what i said. You can simply Google 'Ethiopian light rail' and get your facts right.
***** lol, u really need to read. Did you take out time to read through the links you sent? Let me educate you a little; on the CIOB site, the 2nd paragragh states and i quote 'It has already completed one of sub-Saharan Africa’s first light rail mass transit systems, in the capital, Addis Ababa' the question here is HOW MANY KM OF LIGHT RAIL WAS CONSTRUCTED. Kindly do a little research and find out because it is 32km. Wikipedia has info on it, railway Gazette has info on it too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa_Light_Rail www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/addis-ababa-light-rail-test-running-begins.html
Ethiopia is one of the realest contries in Africa and is the only African country that was not colonized yet they are doing better than the countries colonized, Nigeria is still in bondage
We are talking about the light rail. The light rail does not go to Djibouti, it only stays within Addis Ababa, it is a type of street car. We are not talking about the ADDIS ABABA-DJIBOUTI railway!
Thanks for sharing light on the difference between the two issues. Can't really argue either when it's coming from the Nigerian media. Hats off for her!.
Haha they are both built by China lol. But u cant really compare the two. lightrail is more like a tram, to be used on a city. a train culd go from city to city at faster speeds.
this a light rail train and used only for passengers usually within the city. There,s a big difference between light rail and heavy rail which travels further and transports tonnes of goods and people.
Chris Macdonald Chinese give infra loans to other countries then take this money back with interest by giving contracts to Chinese companies and employing Chinese workers rather than local people.
Jerry Lu india don't trust Chinese in infrastructure project no contract have been given to Chinese company its mostly given to European, Japanese nd indian company.
Great great great...... Will its good to see my fellow Africans comparing their wealth and assets.... I would say spoiled.... At the same time when our these nations or countries going to reach out to their brothers and sisters in America especially and support them... On a large skill.... Your brothers in America need your support to re establish our true african culture that we lost through slavery.... This still effects us now.... We need a program to bridge back our youth back to africa to re learn our lost culture..... The majority of African american our struggling and need your support to reconnected what our anscentors lost through slavery.... this has effected us to this dated.... Its called post tramatic slave sydrome..... past down through each generation..... No money has been used to correct this pattern for african americans.... african americans our directly from your roots and your countries should be investing in helping your lost brother and sisters... its not fair for african countries to ignore this for centuries.... It isnt the US JOB TO CORRECTED THIS WE SHOULD HAVE YOUR SUPPORTED PERIOD..... AND I MEAN TO CORRECTED THIS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SHOULD BE INVESTED.... THIS IS YOUR BLOOD AND FAMILY THAT NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO RECONNECTED WITH THERE ROOTS.... Most of us our lost and dont know the good great things of africa.... so please help sit up programs for your brothers here in the US.... AND I PROMISE IM PLANING ON DOING MY PART TO HELP.... THESE BROTHERS OUR KILLING EACH OTHER CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE JOBS NO FAMILY.... NO CULTURE.... AFRICA PLEASE HELP YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP... THANK YOU... SO STOP WINING AND BRAGING ABOUT YOUR STUPID TRAINS... THE AFRICAN UNION IN ETHIOPIA SHOULD BE FOCUS ON HELPING AFRICAN AMERICANS... WE OUR ISARELITES.... AND WHY DONT YOU TEACH THIS IN YOUR COUNTRIES AND COLLEGES.... THIS SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY.... ALL OF YALL SHOULD BE A SHAME.... YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT MOMMA AND DADDY WAS STOLEN FROM YOUR LAND.... AND WE GET NO SUPPORT BULL SHIT.
Adeola, I am trying to understand your report on the trains. Is the $ 12 billion to build the light trains, it says along Nigeria's coast? If that's the case, it's insane. But it seems a it too much. By the way, I am Ethiopian and don't think that the light-rail in Addis was totally overseen by the Ethiopian government. The Chinese were involved. But we are developing capacity in train engineering and hopefully soon we will be able to oversee such big projects.
Awash Jember let me throw more light on this becos her report is very misleading. Ethiopia spent $475million for 32Km of light rail with a design speed of 80Km/h. Nigeria will be spending $12bn for 1,385 kilometers in one-way mileage and a design speed of 120 km/h. There a great deal of difference between the 2 projects and there is no basis for comparison. Secondly, contrary to her report, China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group began construction in January 2012 under a contract signed in June 2009 for the Ethiopian project, China’s Export-Import Bank provided loans to cover 85% of the $475m cost. Another point, light rail is the railway tecnology not the railcar. What I see here is cheap propaganda to discredit the Nigerian Govt.
Ubong Uman Ubong Uman I think your “fact” finding mission is off track and is deliberately ignoring the fact that Nigeria is a high level corruption country. Resources poor Ethiopia is doing great and is registering impressive growth compared to resources rich (oil producing) countries like Nigeria. Just look what projects are being undertaken in Ethiopia. Most of these projects are designed to take the country to a mid level income country in the near future.. and some of the projects are are grand not only by African standards but of the world. I think African countries like Nigeria should have done more for the rich resources they have. Off topic…I think this lady is Adeola is very sexy. I must say she is the only Nigerian lady that takes my eyes off the sexy Ethiopian chicks.
how long would you keep educating. Africans? why not just scrap away those mud huts primary and secondary schools. and university. structures and curricula and look back 3500 yrs in kemet and copy your ancestors belief system and world view. then you would be able to build confidently your own. modern nations. you can't copy when you know notbing
Our current programme seeks to replace old trains with new SA manufactured ones ( but in reality we bought them in Europe). It's underway and will cost $US16 bln. We could gain more from local manufacturing and innovation, and perhaps export our trains to Naija for a better price.
Wev do not want Locomotive trains, we want comfortable trains with large companies such as China Railway Construction Corporation.. China Railway Group Limited.. China Railway Engineering Corporation.. China Railways CRH380A.. China Railways CRH6.. China Railways CRH5.. China Railways CRH3.. China Railways CRH2.. China Railways CRH1.. Siemens Valero.. AGV (train).. Alstom Coradia.. Siemens Desiro.. Bombardier Transportation
Addis Tram system's operation was comtracted to Shenzheng Metro at the expense of over USD $100 million in addition to its being funded and constructed by Chinese companies
Nigeria has MORE than enough revenue to pay for their own infrastructure projects. As she said, lots of money for presidential jets and the military but nothing for the people. It is appalling that Lagos, Abuja and other citiesdo not have modern rapid transit systems. Ethiopia didn't have the capital yet and needed a helping hand.
I love her by the way cause she's just trying to open our eyes you know... she is not there to blame to other people or countries she is just trying to say "Hey... we have opportunities, talent and the money as well to produce or do things as well instead of calling workers from other countries you know" I won't blame here she is just doing her job. She is at least entertaining us haha :)
አምላክ ከአገሩዎ ጋር, ከአሜሪካ ጋር ፍቅር ከሆነ አምላክ እመኛለሁ I'm not sure what that means, I just learned some random words!!! like damn girl, that scene where they invented the Robocop had me laughing so hard, cardboard and scissors
i'd rather have old trains than no trains at all..."_) and you're right, most of the cost goes to buying planes, luxury cars and mansions for government officials. Look at the United States military spending. $285 screwdriver, $7622 coffee maker, $74,000 aluminum ladder. and $2043 ONE regular bolt nut made by McDonell Douglas. these prices are from 1986!!!
Out 54 nations in Africa only 2 South Africa & Egypt produces steel and both countries steel industry was not created by Africans...whites in South Africa...arabs in Egypt. How can African "leaders" even pretend that they are on a path to modernization when they don't manufacture steel...steel is the backbone of a nation state...its needed for construction of...buildings...public works projects...shipbuilding...machinery...automobile manufacturing...etc...etc...other than buying BMW and Mercedes automobiles, what the hell have African "leaders" been doing for the last 40-50yrs since independence?
HA!! 475 Million for the LRT in Addis?? If this would have been built in USA or Canada, this would have cost 3 Billion, because of politics and Unions.
But seriously who is the person, you interviewed, seems like babu manners oh. He be like say the man doesn't know how to give gap when communicating with a lady or is he just carried away by the tension produced by your kind of questions. See the way he ran away sef,serious something oh, thank God he didn't swallow our Adeola up sha. You're doing a great job my sister, I hope we Nigerians will be able to gather enough confidence soonest and stand up against all these corrupt practices called development.
Ha ha ha!!! Adeola your so funny and humourous,you have made my day wonderful.I'm watching this from kenya.Truly speaking the Ethiopia's train looks very nice and modern whereas the Nigeria's- one looks like the stone-age trains.The difference of the cost supports my perception.
I feel sorry for that country called Nigeria, the ministers run brown new prado and the people they are representing can't even get a brand new public tram, they should have renovated all the locomotives and the rails we had before than telling us they are building new shit, the man don't have time to be interviewed, he is in a hurry to meet his flight to come here in Spain to ride on AVE.
its such a pity that, with the speed at which the World is moving now, we still have leaders who constantly tries to keep us in the dark....thats why i dont like to watch T.V here in Nigeria.
I follow infrastructure development projects in India and around the world. So, I came across this video when I was watching a video about new Ethiopia and Djibouti railway line. I don't know why this TV presenter is comparing a tram to actual railway line. And shouting and almost insulting Nigerian efforts. Can someone explain what's with this? 12 billion $ is a lot of money for 120kmph at grade train. But this comparison is complete bull sh*t.
Adeola, abegi quit comparing apples with oranges. For its $12 billion, Nigeria is building a multi-year, multi-phase nationwide standard gauge rail system (of which the Abuja-Kaduna line is merely the first project, with Lagos-Ibadan to come on stream next), while the Ethiopia project is merely a metropolitan light rail project. Furthermore, the efficacy of rail projects is not determined by how “pretty” the trains or stations look. SMDH
The big problem of Nigeria is corruption. Ethiopia is more nationalist and patriot than other country of Africa. Addis look like a city of Asia than Africa city.
you are an idiot saying that .
True. Ethiopia is the only Country in Africa that resisted to be colonized .
dev a please think wisely bro... dont be too islamphobia or racist... its not about islam or what... its about how the citizwn and goverment work together to improve the city life... lot of muslim country is much better then this... Dubai in UAE... Istanbul in Turkey... Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia... just give you a few example of islamic country... compare to non muslim country like Zimbabwe... India.. Suriname.. Venezuela... Haiti.. clearly its not islam who make you least developed... it is yourself.. wake up people...
ethiopia is one the poorest countries in africa.
Addis will never where UAE is tioday or DUbai for that matter.check yiour facts !
The Ethiopia's $475m Trains is a MRT light rail system; while Nigeria's $12b Trains is a
standard gauge railway. You are comparing apple with orange.
Watch the video fess
Ya like sedan vs truck
Sometimes i don't this country comparing their self with Nigeria. It's a shame for you
Ethiopia is more efficient than Nigeria because of their age.
FOR 12BILLION, THIS SHIT SHOULD BE BUILT IN ALL 36 STATES.
You are one of the first African satirists on TH-cam, kept it up. One love Africa.
Stop encouraging her. The two system are different. LRT system moved people between places within a home area. Rail train system facilities more and faster economic activities between home, regional and oversea economities which increase productivities at home and the prospect of employment and happiness. Criticism is good but intelligent criticism is better.
God Bless Ethiopia& Ethiopian!
omg rofl!!! the guy telling the reporter "we can not have new trains!!!" the girl be like.. whaaa?? why not we have the largest economy? and he's like "the money, it is spent!!!" no good day god bless... and off he goes, LOLZ
Ethiopian are growing very fast!!Good for them!!
+David Abraham Yes they really are. They must have really empathic leaders relatively despite the imperfections along the way. Nice to see Africa start developing: The West have been so successful in stopping this happening so far.
+Chris Williams OK Mugabe is clearly Pathological and displays plenty of Narcissistic traits if not psychopathic. Just like a lot of Western Leaders we are forced to choose but their criminality and psychopathic urges are hidden from us by the media elite networks ans corrupt police forces and judiciary. Yeah the 50hz group wired Harare-Gweru but was it USA financed? (probably not). It is important the masses identify where the corruption is so they can rout it and send these so called elites running for their miserable lives.
Ethiopianiloveyou
Wow, the stupidity. You spend so much money for old locomotives while those who spent less got a better system, the corruption in Nigeria
+toyota manzini Looks like Eton Education (corruption) by me in the UK. UK manufacturing employs only 8% of people. In Kenya it is 12%. Do the sums. My children are going to leave when they are old enough:-(
+Isochest blame the indivuals sent them to jail. put in place a transparent system and stop poking fun at a failed state
+Paul Ebai We need to do that in the UK. We have a Failed State here. I am amazed we have not yet collapsed. So many capable people but a few priveleged criminals mess it all up. Yes the Neoliberal Chickens are coming home to roost!
+Paul Ebai Sounds like an Etonian Strategy. It's from the UK:-(((
toyota manzini -
The Addis Ababa Light Rail (የአዲስ አበባ ቀላል ባቡር) was in fact contracted by the China Railway Group Ltd. (中國中鐵股份有限公司) and it was funded by China Exim Bank (中國進出口銀行). It is even operated by Shenzhen Metro (深圳地鐵). As a matter of fact the light rail was strategically routed from Addis Ababa city center to the Chinese Industrial Area (i.e. Eastern Industrial Zone 東方工業園) located in Oromia (ኦሮሚያ ክልል). So don’t give Ethiopia so much credit.
But I am sure the money went to exactly that project while in Nigeria the money was probably siphoned off into pockets. And the Nigerian Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Doyin Okùpè was abrasive and defensive about his demeanor and response. That is telltale signs the money was misappropriate into their pocket. That would explain the used hand-me-down trains. They heard $12 billion was coming their way, so they cut corners so they can have money to chop at the end. Kleptocracy is too much. They will leave the citizen at the mercy of debt to other nations, but will already have taken cuts to by mansion for themselves. There should be a Dep’t of Transparency. Public officials need their bank account, every so often, audited. And the EU (including Switzerland) and the US need to stop hosting their money. This is absurd.
Your show is fun and informative, that is why I subscribed.
i am proud to be Ethiopian
Seid Hassen allah bless her 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
3budy ah Ameen
charging method man that is just flat out stupid reasoning
charging method man note he was born by Ethiopian parents that makes him Ethiopian 🖕
Same... denane?
please stop saying rubbish with your mouth, look at other countries in the world, do they compare their trains with the other countries?
The Ethiopian light rail system was also constructed with a loan from Chinese financial institutions. Although the local authorities had oversight, engineering and construction was done by Chinese construction firms. That being said, some level of corruption exists in both countries, however, after seeing the $12billion bill Nigeria is handed for that project, I can see the difference in the degree of corruption. Perhaps the Nigerian authorities fell for the "Nigerian Prince Scam" emails and let down tax payers.
haha that trains r more expensive than trams is a given. however, my only complaint is that the trains seem kinda old model ish. however it is hard 2 judge. perhaps the moniez is spend on makin tracks from city 2 city and thats where the largest amounts goes.
Nigeria is building a nationwide 5000-plus km rail infrastructure for its $12 billion, while you are building an inner city tram system. Quit comparing apples with oranges. SMDH
TheRealist 12 billion is for 1402 kms railway line. Not for 5000 kms of it
Whoa! I usually agree with you Adeola Fayehun but you are waay off comparing the price of a 34 km commuter light rail system in the capital of Ethiopia to the price of a 1400 km heavy rail road stretching the entire coastal length of Nigeria.
What are you thinking?
Also, you're too caught up in how cute and modern looking the light rail system is. The ugly heavy rail system is actually capable of carrying far more people. Although they do need to get newer trains.
I would love to see Nigerians building their own rail road and they are doing much of the work on the commuter train construction in Lagos which is more along the same size as the Ethiopian rail road you were referring to.
It, however, is heavy rail not light rail. This is actually an advantage. Many people now a days mistakenly think light rail is more modern and sophisticated but light rail only means it's smaller. Major systems like those in New York City, London and Paris all mostly use heavy rail to transport because it can handle longer lines of larger cars moving faster.
Now there is a difference between old fashioned diesel heavy trains like the one you criticised in Nigeria and electric heavy rail like used by the London tube or Japanese bullet trains.
Fortunately the heavy rail public transportation trains in Lagos are supposed to be electric according to the Engineer whom said the line would have it's own power plant to avoid power outages frequently taking place in Lagos.
gacaptain The guy you were interrogating in the interview obviously didn't know much on the subject or else he would have told you the same as I posted above instead of getting angry and saying they couldn't afford new trains. LOL.
Furthermore he should have said that Nigeria needs to build up it's exports in order to be able to afford exporting such expensive items.
It would also save Nigeria alot of money and provide alot of jobs if it were able to build up and maintain more of it's own infrastructure but it lacks the technical know how and skill, shops and other facilities necessary for that.
The bright side is that hundreds if not thousands of Nigerians that were employed to help the Chinese build what's gone up thus far now have enough skill that I could fore see allowing Nigerians to one day soon be able to construct rail roads on their own with out help from the Chinese.
Maybe it was whatever was in the bottle speaking......she was way off this time....
Una well done. Gacaptain, I see your essay. Go tell the person wey send you say we see him messenger. Since you have become blind to new and modern development
Bless up for the Love sis. Your brother from Ethiopia!
Tram vs Tain! How to compare? Very low news standard.
Maaaan for $12 Billion ill get you some trains, today.
BTW I'm proud of my Congo team, that is a great innovative work. and another BTW, the Nigerian train doesn't look that bad kkkkkk but of course the mister who thinks Nigeria doesn't deserve a new train is a complete idiot.
Ethiopian train is light rail train, which is used for inner-city transportation only and not designed for long distance travelling whereas Nigerian train is designed for inter-city transportation and much faster.
Hahaha, you killed me sisteroooooo!!
Do a bit research. You seemed confused. Addis Ababa light rail is 100% funded and built by China. China trained all Ethiopian staff, including sending a group to Tienjing China for 6 month, free training. True, the cost is low, that is another story.
Peter Wang
You must be an ignorant, the 12 billion of Nigeria is only for Building. Even though the Chinese built the railway, it is with our money ( 400mllion +) only. Peter you must be one of the mafia of Nigeria. You are famous for in corruption and frauds if you are Nigerian.
welesh mahary funny
Peter Wang it's about 62% not 100% beside Ethiopia is 38% paying mix of public and government fund
welesh mahary ii
The Ethiopian tram was also built by the Chinese...
wrong!...
Rasdashen x It was not? Who built it then? I read it was a Chonese project. Please elaborate if I am wrong. Educvate me.
Designed, rolling stock supplied by, financed and contracted by, trained the locals by: the Chinese. So yes it was built by the Chinese pretty much from A to Z. My only concern is that once they leave it for the locals they will mess it up.
it was financed by the chinese!
Addis Tram system's operation was comtracted to Shenzheng Metro at the expense of over USD $100 million in addition to its being funded and constructed by Chinese companies
for those of you who have visited dubai, the whole rail system here cost them $7.8 billion, so with all this talk about not being able to afford new trains is absolutely lies. how can the people look forward to improving when the government is providing people OLD trains. and the trains in Dubai are robotic for God's sake
How is Nigeria in any way able to compare to Dubai???? Dubai is small and filthy rich. Ridiculous comparison.
@@Amidat Ur country is rich in oil......where did the money go?
Adeola, your report is very misleading. Ethiopia spent $475million for 32Km of light rail with a design speed of 80Km/h. Nigeria will be spending $12bn for 1,385 kilometers in one-way mileage and a design speed of 120 km/h. Any right thinking individual will see the clear difference between the two; and you are the journalist, you should have done your homework.
Secondly, contrary to your report, China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group began construction in January 2012 under a contract signed in June 2009 for the Ethiopian project, China’s Export-Import Bank provided loans to cover 85% of the $475m cost. Another point, light rail is the railway tecnology not the railcar. What I see here is cheap propaganda, it pays to get your facts right.
Ethiopia is building thousands of miles of RAILWAY across the country, and the total cost is no where close to $12 Billion.
***** Good point. The plan calls for 5,000 kms. of rail to be be built for some 5 billion dollars.
***** could you show us the proof? Because the Ethiopian Govt. itself are not making any such claims; even Wikipedia collaborates what i said. You can simply Google 'Ethiopian light rail' and get your facts right.
Ubong Uman www.erc.gov.et/index.php/projects/national-railway-network-of-ethiopianrne.html
www.globalconstructionreview.com/markets/ethiopia-steams-ahead-vision-modern-n8a8t8i8o8n8al/
***** lol, u really need to read. Did you take out time to read through the links you sent? Let me educate you a little; on the CIOB site, the 2nd paragragh states and i quote 'It has already completed one of sub-Saharan Africa’s first light rail mass transit systems, in the capital, Addis Ababa' the question here is HOW MANY KM OF LIGHT RAIL WAS CONSTRUCTED. Kindly do a little research and find out because it is 32km. Wikipedia has info on it, railway Gazette has info on it too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa_Light_Rail
www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/addis-ababa-light-rail-test-running-begins.html
I really love your show....Please do Tanzania we have plenty of stuffs going on
Ethiopia is one of the realest contries in Africa and is the only African country that was not colonized yet they are doing better than the countries colonized,
Nigeria is still in bondage
Tanzania we're building a new high speed railway. Tanzanian government have signed the contract with Turkish government to build it. Can't wait
haha ur so funny and witty . . everything is on point. Keep it up :)
I am proud to be Ethiopian! Oh and you are a funny lady! You always make me laugh! LOL
Nathan Ayele Bruhh ur railway goes to djibouti without djibouti its nothing
We are talking about the light rail. The light rail does not go to Djibouti, it only stays within Addis Ababa, it is a type of street car. We are not talking about the ADDIS ABABA-DJIBOUTI railway!
Majid ModZ #ethiopia it's great and it's still great inshaallah, allah bless her 🇪🇹🇪🇹
& don't be malevolent for others!
Thanks for sharing light on the difference between the two issues.
Can't really argue either when it's coming from the Nigerian media.
Hats off for her!.
Allah bless our #ethiopia land of origins 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
3budy ah
Jesus is coming soon
Allah is fake.. Muhammad is rapist
the lady in red she reminds me of the Black Panthers sister in the movie she has so much energy so much passion for what she does.
100% Pure African... love u...from Ethiopia
Adeola you de kill me 😂😂😂😂😂
I enjoy any good news under the name of my country Ethiopia
im from USA and i like the robot and train Africa is getting much better these days
Haha they are both built by China lol. But u cant really compare the two. lightrail is more like a tram, to be used on a city. a train culd go from city to city at faster speeds.
your right！These are different.Train is more expensive，and high speed railway is most expensive.
Thank you so much l like you sis l'm from Ethiopia Africa 🇪🇹♥️😍
It is all about how corruption is viewed culturally.
In Nigeria Corruption = smartness while
In Ethiopia Corruption = shame.and despised.
They both the same Ethiopia is just smart about it
Ethopia is fast developing country, they are very serious, look at there aviation, best in africa.
Ethiopia started with airline and fancy airport, now train . They are going places.
Lady - the Chinese gave Ethiopia the loan and all the training to build and run the light rail...
Great criticism!
Very Funny and lovely Ancher love from India
am from Ethiopia i wud like u when u look after our african .lovely sister. we support u.
this a light rail train and used only for passengers usually within the city. There,s a big difference between light rail and heavy rail which travels further and transports tonnes of goods and people.
For 12 billions you could lay close to 90,000 km of pave roads, I think that would be better than the train for now
In India, we are building 508 km bullet train in 14 billion $
Rishabh Sonker hopefully your leaders are better than those of our nigeria...
Chris Macdonald Chinese give infra loans to other countries then take this money back with interest by giving contracts to Chinese companies and employing Chinese workers rather than local people.
Rishabh Sonker sounds like you alreay have one.
Jerry Lu india don't trust Chinese in infrastructure project no contract have been given to Chinese company its mostly given to European, Japanese nd indian company.
pigeon love No wonder India's infrastructure is still so horrible.
Great great great...... Will its good to see my fellow Africans comparing their wealth and assets.... I would say spoiled.... At the same time when our these nations or countries going to reach out to their brothers and sisters in America especially and support them... On a large skill.... Your brothers in America need your support to re establish our true african culture that we lost through slavery.... This still effects us now.... We need a program to bridge back our youth back to africa to re learn our lost culture..... The majority of African american our struggling and need your support to reconnected what our anscentors lost through slavery.... this has effected us to this dated.... Its called post tramatic slave sydrome..... past down through each generation..... No money has been used to correct this pattern for african americans.... african americans our directly from your roots and your countries should be investing in helping your lost brother and sisters... its not fair for african countries to ignore this for centuries.... It isnt the US JOB TO CORRECTED THIS WE SHOULD HAVE YOUR SUPPORTED PERIOD..... AND I MEAN TO CORRECTED THIS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SHOULD BE INVESTED.... THIS IS YOUR BLOOD AND FAMILY THAT NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO RECONNECTED WITH THERE ROOTS.... Most of us our lost and dont know the good great things of africa.... so please help sit up programs for your brothers here in the US.... AND I PROMISE IM PLANING ON DOING MY PART TO HELP.... THESE BROTHERS OUR KILLING EACH OTHER CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE JOBS NO FAMILY.... NO CULTURE.... AFRICA PLEASE HELP YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP... THANK YOU... SO STOP WINING AND BRAGING ABOUT YOUR STUPID TRAINS... THE AFRICAN UNION IN ETHIOPIA SHOULD BE FOCUS ON HELPING AFRICAN AMERICANS... WE OUR ISARELITES.... AND WHY DONT YOU TEACH THIS IN YOUR COUNTRIES AND COLLEGES.... THIS SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY.... ALL OF YALL SHOULD BE A SHAME.... YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT MOMMA AND DADDY WAS STOLEN FROM YOUR LAND.... AND WE GET NO SUPPORT BULL SHIT.
I like all of your video
I like your style we love nigeria I am proud of Ethiopia
I AM FROM MALAYSIA .... YOU ARE REALLY SOMEONE ADEOLA
Adeola, I am trying to understand your report on the trains. Is the $ 12 billion to build the light trains, it says along Nigeria's coast? If that's the case, it's insane. But it seems a it too much. By the way, I am Ethiopian and don't think that the light-rail in Addis was totally overseen by the Ethiopian government. The Chinese were involved. But we are developing capacity in train engineering and hopefully soon we will be able to oversee such big projects.
Awash Jember let me throw more light on this becos her report is very misleading. Ethiopia spent $475million for 32Km of light rail with a design speed of 80Km/h. Nigeria will be spending $12bn for 1,385 kilometers in one-way mileage and a design speed of 120 km/h. There a great deal of difference between the 2 projects and there is no basis for comparison. Secondly, contrary to her report, China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group began construction in January 2012 under a contract signed in June 2009 for the Ethiopian project, China’s Export-Import Bank provided loans to cover 85% of the $475m cost. Another point, light rail is the railway tecnology not the railcar. What I see here is cheap propaganda to discredit the Nigerian Govt.
Ubong Uman
Ubong Uman I think your “fact” finding mission is off track and is deliberately ignoring the fact that Nigeria is a high level corruption country. Resources poor Ethiopia is doing great and is registering impressive growth compared to resources rich (oil producing) countries like Nigeria. Just look what projects are being undertaken in Ethiopia. Most of these projects are designed to take the country to a mid level income country in the near future.. and some of the projects are are grand not only by African standards but of the world. I think African countries like Nigeria should have done more for the rich resources they have.
Off topic…I think this lady is Adeola is very sexy. I must say she is the only Nigerian lady that takes my eyes off the sexy Ethiopian chicks.
I'm from Ethiopia we love Dr abey
thank you so much fainal work
how long would you keep educating. Africans? why not just scrap away those mud huts primary and secondary schools. and university. structures and curricula and look back 3500 yrs in kemet and copy your ancestors belief system and world view. then you would be able to build confidently your own. modern nations. you can't copy when you know notbing
Pls help aunty deola.
What are we doing in Nigeria?
What is going on in my Country?
cause the tramway is built on the land directly. it's cheap.
on the other hand, you have to make tunnels and bridges for the railway
Our current programme seeks to replace old trains with new SA manufactured ones ( but in reality we bought them in Europe). It's underway and will cost $US16 bln.
We could gain more from local manufacturing and innovation, and perhaps export our trains to Naija for a better price.
Hahahahaha....Naija politicians are so similar to Kenyan politicians LOL
They always say, "Hey the money is spent".... may be spent to thier poecket.
Wev do not want Locomotive trains, we want comfortable trains with large companies such as China Railway Construction Corporation.. China Railway Group Limited.. China Railway Engineering Corporation.. China Railways CRH380A.. China Railways CRH6.. China Railways CRH5.. China Railways CRH3.. China Railways CRH2.. China Railways CRH1.. Siemens Valero.. AGV (train).. Alstom Coradia.. Siemens Desiro.. Bombardier Transportation
Michae;l Keshi
Addis Tram system's operation was comtracted to Shenzheng Metro at the expense of over USD $100 million in addition to its being funded and constructed by Chinese companies
exactly - she's keeping it real - wrong... sad
Adeola's best report.
You are amazing ... love you💕
With multiple electricity blackouts in Nigeria its true those new trains can't support Nigeria
The robot says "Warning Warning Will Robinson alien approaching!
Nigeria has MORE than enough revenue to pay for their own infrastructure projects. As she said, lots of money for presidential jets and the military but nothing for the people. It is appalling that Lagos, Abuja and other citiesdo not have modern rapid transit systems. Ethiopia didn't have the capital yet and needed a helping hand.
Good job n im sure more to come
I love her by the way cause she's just trying to open our eyes you know... she is not there to blame to other people or countries she is just trying to say "Hey... we have opportunities, talent and the money as well to produce or do things as well instead of calling workers from other countries you know" I won't blame here she is just doing her job.
She is at least entertaining us haha :)
I'm happy for the African people!!!
Somalia is on the way. We will connect trains from Mogadishu to Addis Ababa, to Cape Town, to Senegal.
in Ethiopia the government can forcefully take land without compensation
in Nigeria i guess all land owners must be compensation
አምላክ ከአገሩዎ ጋር, ከአሜሪካ ጋር ፍቅር ከሆነ አምላክ እመኛለሁ I'm not sure what that means, I just learned some random words!!! like damn girl, that scene where they invented the Robocop had me laughing so hard, cardboard and scissors
Even buses in Nigeria is made by Chinese Engineers and uses Diesels to move the buses omg.
My sister really you make me too much laughing you're so funny and think you about Ethiopia yes Inshallah we are always growing up
But there are federal states in Nigeria. Can´t they develop their own light trains?
Dayin Okupe seems not to be very knowledgeable on the nigerian economy!
the traffic robot is the stupidest thing i've ever seen in my life
i'd rather have old trains than no trains at all..."_) and you're right, most of the cost goes to buying planes, luxury cars and mansions for government officials. Look at the United States military spending. $285 screwdriver, $7622 coffee maker, $74,000 aluminum ladder. and $2043 ONE regular bolt nut made by McDonell Douglas. these prices are from 1986!!!
Out 54 nations in Africa only 2 South Africa & Egypt produces steel and both countries steel industry was not created by Africans...whites in South Africa...arabs in Egypt. How can African "leaders" even pretend that they are on a path to modernization when they don't manufacture steel...steel is the backbone of a nation state...its needed for construction of...buildings...public works projects...shipbuilding...machinery...automobile manufacturing...etc...etc...other than buying BMW and Mercedes automobiles, what the hell have African "leaders" been doing for the last 40-50yrs since independence?
HA!! 475 Million for the LRT in Addis?? If this would have been built in USA or Canada, this would have cost 3 Billion, because of politics and Unions.
But seriously who is the person, you interviewed, seems like babu manners oh. He be like say the man doesn't know how to give gap when communicating with a lady or is he just carried away by the tension produced by your kind of questions. See the way he ran away sef,serious something oh, thank God he didn't swallow our Adeola up sha. You're doing a great job my sister, I hope we Nigerians will be able to gather enough confidence soonest and stand up against all these corrupt practices called development.
Ha ha ha!!! Adeola your so funny and humourous,you have made my day wonderful.I'm watching this from kenya.Truly speaking the Ethiopia's train looks very nice and modern whereas the Nigeria's- one looks like the stone-age trains.The difference of the cost supports my perception.
I feel sorry for that country called Nigeria, the ministers run brown new prado and the people they are representing can't even get a brand new public tram, they should have renovated all the locomotives and the rails we had before than telling us they are building new shit, the man don't have time to be interviewed, he is in a hurry to meet his flight to come here in Spain to ride on AVE.
So this is what Megatron is doing when he is not in the Transformers Movies!
you are right dear they think you ppl of nigeria have no head pls wake up
Wow I love that interview
The Ethiopians also built it in a joint venture with china.
God bless you dear..... Carry on
its such a pity that, with the speed at which the World is moving now, we still have leaders who constantly tries to keep us in the dark....thats why i dont like to watch T.V here in Nigeria.
Dear Adeola, I’ve been watching most of your videos and you need to leave us (Ethiopia) alone. 😂😂😂
idk, but i feel that men who touch that girl shoulder just being rude. he seems uncomfortable with that question.
I like it! she is very funny
dang man you are a character-- the presenter she is co0ool
Why this girl is shouting out and so excited looks like first seen the train.
I follow infrastructure development projects in India and around the world. So, I came across this video when I was watching a video about new Ethiopia and Djibouti railway line. I don't know why this TV presenter is comparing a tram to actual railway line. And shouting and almost insulting Nigerian efforts. Can someone explain what's with this? 12 billion $ is a lot of money for 120kmph at grade train. But this comparison is complete bull sh*t.
Thank you my sis
I don't have much to say but thunder will fire Doyin Okupe for telling us that scrap
If Chinese did not build Nigeria trian in abujia Nigeria Engineers will not build it.
Adeola, abegi quit comparing apples with oranges. For its $12 billion, Nigeria is building a multi-year, multi-phase nationwide standard gauge rail system (of which the Abuja-Kaduna line is merely the first project, with Lagos-Ibadan to come on stream next), while the Ethiopia project is merely a metropolitan light rail project. Furthermore, the efficacy of rail projects is not determined by how “pretty” the trains or stations look. SMDH
Adeola don't you think robot is demonic
I like this video and the lady