STATE OF NAIJA STADIUMS
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 4:50 pm
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Chief Gotti, we have a maintenance problem in Naija.Gotti wrote:[/video]
UK strategy for those public owned stadiums is work in progress. West Ham are not finding things hunky-dory. Nigeria public hospitals, schools, roads are all in the same state of decay.realtrouble wrote:Stadium are expensive liabilities and should never be built without a strategy of shared ownership with a football club or business venture. In the UK the 2012 Olympic stadium and Wembley stadium are now shared with football, NFL and rugby teams. The overall management of the stadiums are in the hands of private owned management organisations. I will suggest Nigeria adopt the same model.
I guess you also missed the part where it was stated that the award of these contracts is fraught with the usual corruption.mcal wrote:...that Chidi Okenwa's comment echos my continued chorus here. Give private sectors contracts to run the stadiums. Turf and grass management requires a person with university degree not some village women using hands and hoes.
When there is no money to be made, when free money is throw in then no one cares because govt is not looking for profit.
The same way it maintains Aso Rock, Lugard House, the Senate President's house and 32 cars (or is it 52 cars), the state government houses, the state liaison houses in Abuja and even in Lagos? The Ministers' houses, Aso Rock Clinic, Abuja House in London, the commissioners' houses, the bullet proof cars, the outriders for anyone with a public appointment and the myriad "first ladies" offices! Need I go on?!The real deal wrote:Friends, lets wake up. Gotti got after me when I made suggestions about this in another thread. The problem called Nigeria is not about GOVT anymore....repeat this line a thousand time please. Stadia are white elephants; giant edifice that you have to have a plan to use it continously........GOVT should not be building stadia! Imagine If this was a house...you'd have to sweep, wash, fumigate and paint periodically....How's Govt of a nation that depends on petro-dollar (and the uncertainty of it market price) supposed to maintain a stadium and fulfill its other obligations?
I don't blame Govt anymore cos I know the Govt reflects the citizenry......we suck as our Govt. My advise is.......Citizen sh;d form a private company , sign a cotract with the Govt (after due diligence of a viabilty research) $1M per per year.....then rent it out for parties, concerts, matches of difft types (soccer, volley ball,wrestling, boxing, inter house sports) make money , maintain stadium and pay Govt
I think its possible......
I have been waiting for your answer for a while. Let me say, I respect and love your perspectives on issues. But you always fall short of a cliche characteristic of 'US" educated literates from the 3rd world; throwing INSULTS, instead of engaging in intellectual debates.You tend to revel in demeaning and belittling others that you don't agree with. Its what they call 3rd world temperament in politics. We can disagree without been disagree-able.Gotti wrote:The same way it maintains Aso Rock, Lugard House, the Senate President's house and 32 cars (or is it 52 cars), the state government houses, the state liaison houses in Abuja and even in Lagos? The Ministers' houses, Aso Rock Clinic, Abuja House in London, the commissioners' houses, the bullet proof cars, the outriders for anyone with a public appointment and the myriad "first ladies" offices! Need I go on?!The real deal wrote:Friends, lets wake up. Gotti got after me when I made suggestions about this in another thread. The problem called Nigeria is not about GOVT anymore....repeat this line a thousand time please. Stadia are white elephants; giant edifice that you have to have a plan to use it continously........GOVT should not be building stadia! Imagine If this was a house...you'd have to sweep, wash, fumigate and paint periodically....How's Govt of a nation that depends on petro-dollar (and the uncertainty of it market price) supposed to maintain a stadium and fulfill its other obligations?
I don't blame Govt anymore cos I know the Govt reflects the citizenry......we suck as our Govt. My advise is.......Citizen sh;d form a private company , sign a cotract with the Govt (after due diligence of a viabilty research) $1M per per year.....then rent it out for parties, concerts, matches of difft types (soccer, volley ball,wrestling, boxing, inter house sports) make money , maintain stadium and pay Govt
I think its possible......
BTW, I resent folks who mis-characterize the position of others (even though it is probably one of those Dotard Trump tactics that you love him for) and then embark upon a disingenuous Strawman Argument - because my primary position on the National Stadium in Surulere has ALWAYS remained since the issue first came up years ago to demolish the main bowl and use the land for affordable housing or other commercial purposes, given that there is a stadium right across the street. Nonetheless, your stance betrays the same mindset of the supposedly educated elite that continues to mismanage Nigeria, and most of whom regard the sports industry as some sort of leisure or welfare program largely for dropouts and never-do-wells rather than an economic sector that could meaningfully contribute to the GDP and provide significant direct and indirect employment opportunities.
Yes, “government reflects us” so much that even the poorest Nigerians who still see fit to sweep their compounds daily and fix their thatched roofs periodically or those Nigerians that have built world-class businesses and/or provide world-class services in such an infrastructure-poor country must by definition obviously be fake Nigerians. SMDHThe real deal wrote:I have been waiting for your answer for a while. Let me say, I respect and love your perspectives on issues. But you always fall short of a cliche characteristic of 'US" educated literates from the 3rd world; throwing INSULTS, instead of engaging in intellectual debates.You tend to revel in demeaning and belittling others that you don't agree with. Its what they call 3rd world temperament in politics. We can disagree without been disagree-able.
Straight answer to your positions; we don't have to demolish national stadium. Nigerians hold PARTIES everyday. Imagine if they pay a fee to RENT the stadium....it'll generate employment and revenue....from the bus to take folks to stadium, to school kids that clean up after etc, etc...its an innovative suggestion IMHO. The GOVT exist to WASTE money...no GOVT can operate what is commercial and make money for long especially in a corrupt country like ours....GOVT will waste money on what they use everyday..house, cars and all you listed up there and not stadium that's used 3 times for SE games/year. I'm realistic about our time, our people attitude and mindset and will rather proffer meaningful solutions than go wth the usual " Govt is corrupt....." Govt is US!! They are a reflection of what we are as a people!
Quit with the insult. Nothing to resent....I like intellectual argument
Gotti wrote:Yes, “government reflects us” so much that even the poorest Nigerians who still see fit to sweep their compounds daily and fix their thatched roofs periodically or those Nigerians that have built world-class businesses and/or provide world-class services in such an infrastructure-poor country must by definition obviously be fake Nigerians. SMDHThe real deal wrote:I have been waiting for your answer for a while. Let me say, I respect and love your perspectives on issues. But you always fall short of a cliche characteristic of 'US" educated literates from the 3rd world; throwing INSULTS, instead of engaging in intellectual debates.You tend to revel in demeaning and belittling others that you don't agree with. Its what they call 3rd world temperament in politics. We can disagree without been disagree-able.
Straight answer to your positions; we don't have to demolish national stadium. Nigerians hold PARTIES everyday. Imagine if they pay a fee to RENT the stadium....it'll generate employment and revenue....from the bus to take folks to stadium, to school kids that clean up after etc, etc...its an innovative suggestion IMHO. The GOVT exist to WASTE money...no GOVT can operate what is commercial and make money for long especially in a corrupt country like ours....GOVT will waste money on what they use everyday..house, cars and all you listed up there and not stadium that's used 3 times for SE games/year. I'm realistic about our time, our people attitude and mindset and will rather proffer meaningful solutions than go wth the usual " Govt is corrupt....." Govt is US!! They are a reflection of what we are as a people!
Quit with the insult. Nothing to resent....I like intellectual argument
So your understanding of stadium development in Nigeria is that only the SE are permitted to use repaired or renovated stadiums in Nigeria? Could have sworn that Enugu Rangers plays all of its home games at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium (one of those listed in the video report), as does all of Enugu State’s club and cup competitions, schools sports and festivals, arts and cultural festivals, political rallies and conventions, church gatherings, music concerts, etc. - as probably with most of the other stadiums in Nigeria (sans Abuja). Anyway, interesting how folks can justify governmental expenditure on so-called state liaison houses in Abuja that are only used when the governor visits Abuja and elects not to stay in a hotel, but thinks that stadiums dotted around the country that can be put to daily use in human development (including but not limited to the sports industry) is a wasteful ‘luxury’ that the same governments cannot afford.
Finally, not quite how stating my resentment at your mis-characterization of my position on the matter amounts to an insult. But then again, I am just a common “US-educated literate from the 3d World” (who if I recall correctly apparently confused his laboring proximity to Wall Street as working thereat), as opposed to an apparently special 3d World-educated US economic migrant, so what do I know? SMDH
Many State liaison offices are in the same state of decay. Cars are routinely replaced every three years or thereabouts, otherwise the same fate awaits. Aso Rock Clinic is in the same boat more or less with lack of essentials despite billions budgeted to it. If the stadium maintenance budget were commensurate to the needs and given same attention as the formal place of above of the executive or legislative, things may improve despite the prevalent corruption.Gotti wrote:The same way it maintains Aso Rock, Lugard House, the Senate President's house and 32 cars (or is it 52 cars), the state government houses, the state liaison houses in Abuja and even in Lagos? The Ministers' houses, Aso Rock Clinic, Abuja House in London, the commissioners' houses, the bullet proof cars, the outriders for anyone with a public appointment and the myriad "first ladies" offices! Need I go on?!The real deal wrote:Friends, lets wake up. Gotti got after me when I made suggestions about this in another thread. The problem called Nigeria is not about GOVT anymore....repeat this line a thousand time please. Stadia are white elephants; giant edifice that you have to have a plan to use it continously........GOVT should not be building stadia! Imagine If this was a house...you'd have to sweep, wash, fumigate and paint periodically....How's Govt of a nation that depends on petro-dollar (and the uncertainty of it market price) supposed to maintain a stadium and fulfill its other obligations?
I don't blame Govt anymore cos I know the Govt reflects the citizenry......we suck as our Govt. My advise is.......Citizen sh;d form a private company , sign a cotract with the Govt (after due diligence of a viabilty research) $1M per per year.....then rent it out for parties, concerts, matches of difft types (soccer, volley ball,wrestling, boxing, inter house sports) make money , maintain stadium and pay Govt
I think its possible......
BTW, I resent folks who mis-characterize the position of others (even though it is probably one of those Dotard Trump tactics that you love him for) and then embark upon a disingenuous Strawman Argument - because my primary position on the National Stadium in Surulere has ALWAYS remained since the issue first came up years ago to demolish the main bowl and use the land for affordable housing or other commercial purposes, given that there is a stadium right across the street. Nonetheless, your stance betrays the same mindset of the supposedly educated elite that continues to mismanage Nigeria, and most of whom regard the sports industry as some sort of leisure or welfare program largely for dropouts and never-do-wells rather than an economic sector that could meaningfully contribute to the GDP and provide significant direct and indirect employment opportunities.
https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/06/ ... -rot-away/Liaison houses in Lagos now squatters’ haven
Liaison buildings of some states in Lagos have been abandoned and have now turned into abode for squatters and miscreants who move in the buildings unchallenged, Daily Trust investigations have revealed. The state liaison buildings in Lagos were done by the respective state governments to ensure free flow of correspondence and communication between the respective state capitals and the liaison offices in Lagos, being the hub of commercial activities in the country and the nation’s former federal capital. Once a capital city, Lagos is populated by people from all over the federation.
The liaison buildings/offices were also meant to take care of the interests of the indigenes of the respective states who live in Lagos and its environs. However, our correspondents gathered that many state governments have now abandoned their state liaison buildings in Lagos, preferring to pay attention to the liaison buildings/offices in Abuja only having moved the capital away from Lagos. This neglect has left the Lagos liaison buildings, mostly located in the highbrow area of Victoria Island in disrepair and an easy access for squatters and miscreants to occupy.
Mostly affected are the liaison buildings of Zamfara, Benue, Kebbi, Imo, Edo and Cross River states. Visits to the buildings showed that most of the structures are dilapidated. Zamfara liaison building is worst as our correspondents observed that some parts of the building have even been pulled down. Some of the squatters in the Zamfara liaison building on Adeola Odeku street, Victoria Island said that they live in the building because of its proximity to their places of work. The occupants, who are low income earners such as drivers and cleaners of some companies in Victoria Island said they could not have ordinarily afforded accommodation in that location, if not for the availability of some abandoned properties like the state liaison buildings.
A squatter, Biodun Tomori who lives in the compound of Benue House on Bishop Oluwole Street also in Victoria Island is a driver attached to a branch of First Bank Plc on the island. He told Daily Trust that his family lives in Ikotun where he has a room apartment, “but transport fare forced me to look for an abandoned accommodation nearby”.
Tomori said he pays a certain amount of money to some people he refused to disclose to be able to live in the Benue House. “Some people pay per week to sleep in the building,” he disclosed. However, the Benue State government still occupies a small room apartment with about three staff to get correspondence to the state government in the Benue House. One of the staff who spoke to us under the condition of anonymity because the staff were not authorised to talk to the press disclosed that the staff were annoyed with the state government for owing them salaries “for many months now”. “The state government is also marginalising those of us in the liaison office in Lagos by depriving us of certain welfare packages,” the staff added.
Our correspondents’ investigations revealed that some of the state liaison buildings have had part of their apartments converted for business activities such as hotel and office spaces for rent seekers to occupy. Some state governments such as Benue, our correspondents learnt, have even made attempts to sell off the state liaison buildings outright, through property management companies.
Problem predates present Benue govt
When contacted, the Benue State government said that the problem associated with its liaison office in Lagos predates the current administration of Governor Gabriel Suswam. Director of Media and Public Affairs James Uloko said that the property was leased out to one Moses Ayom to manage long before Suswam became governor. He denied plans by government to sell the property but rather admitted that it is making effort to renovate the building as soon as that of Abuja which is ongoing reaches completion.
Kebbi govt dodges
Kebbi State government dodged questions on the state of its liaison house in Lagos. Permanent Secretary Special Duties Alhaji Musa Muhammad Kamba referred our correspondent to the Permanent Secretary Protocol Sani Abdullahi who in turn said the office is not under him. He referred our correspondent to the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Garba Rabiu. Several attempts to see the SSG to react to the issue proved abortive. He was said not to be in office each time our correspondent visited. He did not also respond to several calls and text message sent to his phone number.
https://dailynigerian.com/the-nation/na ... -in-abuja/Multi-billion naira govt liaison offices rot away
The dilapidating state of some government’s liaison offices in Lagos have become an eyesore, with traits of threat to the environment. DAYO AYEYEMI reports
Sitting on highly valued plots of land in the heart of popular Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos are abandoned and derelict buildings, which at a particular time were states’ liaison offices. While some of them are in state of disrepair, others have remained vacant for about two decades due to stretched abandonment by their owners – state government. These properties include Plateau, Niger, jointly owned Oduduwa House by Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ekiti, as well as those of Edo and Kogi states.
Their abandonment has become a source of threat to the immediate environment where they are sited.
When New Telegraph took a cursory look at the properties, many of them were occupied by miscreants and security guards, while their premises looked unkempt. Also, parts of some of the buildings have been converted to restaurants and car parks.
It was gathered that people, who park in any of the open sparks pay a token to some miscreants.
It was also discovered that some states have concessioned the properties to some private developers for redevelopment but the project stalled due to lack of funds. A recent report states that the value of some of the abandoned properties, especially those on Victoria Island, currently stands at above N5 billion. Erstwhile Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development in Lagos, Mr. Olusegun Oniru, had sometime ago described the abandoned properties as threat to the environment. To first time-visitors and tourists, the sight of the properties smacks of an eyesore when compared to the adjacent $6 billion Eko Atlantic City project ongoing in the neighbourhood.
Experts’ views
Worried by the dilapidated state of these buildings, many built environment stakeholders have described their neglect by various state governments as sheer waste of public funds. They advised owners of such buildings to find a way of letting/renting them out to interested members of the public or institutions. A former President of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), Dr. Bunmi Ajayi, a town planner, advised property owners to go back to the drawing board and see how they could be turned to money-spinning investment. “The properties are sitting on value land. They can be converted to valuable project,” he said.
Ajayi recalled that some of the properties were owned by each of the state government as liaison office when Lagos was the capital of Nigeria.
He noted that the buildings were centres of states’ activities during the period. According to him, immediately the federal capital was moved to Abuja in 1991, these properties suffered occupation. He added that the long-abandonment contributed to their present poor condition, adding that the creation of more states by the then administration also compounded the problem as some of the states were not at peace with one another. “Some of the states, while breaking them down, were not friends. This also created problem in the joint ownership of the properties. Anything of joint ownership will suffer. This is the reason these assets are in state of disrepair today,” Ajayi said. Besides, he pointed out that the continuous flooding of Bar Beach also threatened the properties as their premises used to be flooded, “but the story has changed now due to the ongoing Eko Atlantic project.”
Also, a former National Secretary, Nigeria Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Mr. Kunle Awolaja, corroborated Ajayi, stating that because of movement of federal capital to Abuja, states’ liaison offices in Lagos were left unattended to. “They turned these houses into guest houses but not well managed. They tried to push them but money became difficult,” he said. To turn around the fortunes of the properties, Awolaja urged owners to take advantage of the on-going Eko Atlantic project by coming up with good proposals for their assets. He also said they could also consider people in the Diaspora for the redevelopment of the properties.
Last line
Since the buildings were constructed with public funds, state governments should swiftly move by taking advantage of the high-brow location to turn around the fortune of the assets.
You have a habit of talking about stuff you know nothing about. The London mayor Sadiq Khan has just taken over the Olympic Stadium due to "financial challenges". Those challenges are related to £323m of public money being used to convert it to a football stadium for the benefit of West Ham, who contributed a pittance. This corrupt deal was stitched up b/w Tories Boris Johnson and the West Ham exec Karren Brady (most if not all public/private so-called partnerships involve stitching up the taxpayer). The management of the stadium is not by a private organisation - it is by a public sector company E20.realtrouble wrote:Stadium are expensive liabilities and should never be built without a strategy of shared ownership with a football club or business venture. In the UK the 2012 Olympic stadium and Wembley stadium are now shared with football, NFL and rugby teams. The overall management of the stadiums are in the hands of private owned management organisations. I will suggest Nigeria adopt the same model.
What are you saying? What did you write? Please can you correct yourself? One with good "critical thinking skills." Na wah!Bigpokey24 wrote: I.like Austin bobo get swagger. .nah wah ooo see our stadia. .gotti, what are you going to propose?
Oga OdasOdas wrote:What are you saying? What did you write? Please can you correct yourself? One with good "critical thinking skills." Na wah!Bigpokey24 wrote: I.like Austin bobo get swagger. .nah wah ooo see our stadia. .gotti, what are you going to propose?
Bros, the government direct the citizenry.The real deal wrote:Friends, lets wake up. Gotti got after me when I made suggestions about this in another thread. The problem called Nigeria is not about GOVT anymore....repeat this line a thousand time please. Stadia are white elephants; giant edifice that you have to have a plan to use it continously........GOVT should not be building stadia! Imagine If this was a house...you'd have to sweep, wash, fumigate and paint periodically....How's Govt of a nation that depends on petro-dollar (and the uncertainty of it market price) supposed to maintain a stadium and fulfill its other obligations?
I don't blame Govt anymore cos I know the Govt reflects the citizenry......we suck as our Govt. My advise is.......Citizen sh;d form a private company , sign a cotract with the Govt (after due diligence of a viabilty research) $1M per per year.....then rent it out for parties, concerts, matches of difft types (soccer, volley ball,wrestling, boxing, inter house sports) make money , maintain stadium and pay Govt
I think its possible......
I was waiting for a hot head to get angry despite the facts and say "what have you done about it" as if you're the government.cchinukw wrote:Bros, the government direct the citizenry.The real deal wrote:Friends, lets wake up. Gotti got after me when I made suggestions about this in another thread. The problem called Nigeria is not about GOVT anymore....repeat this line a thousand time please. Stadia are white elephants; giant edifice that you have to have a plan to use it continously........GOVT should not be building stadia! Imagine If this was a house...you'd have to sweep, wash, fumigate and paint periodically....How's Govt of a nation that depends on petro-dollar (and the uncertainty of it market price) supposed to maintain a stadium and fulfill its other obligations?
I don't blame Govt anymore cos I know the Govt reflects the citizenry......we suck as our Govt. My advise is.......Citizen sh;d form a private company , sign a cotract with the Govt (after due diligence of a viabilty research) $1M per per year.....then rent it out for parties, concerts, matches of difft types (soccer, volley ball,wrestling, boxing, inter house sports) make money , maintain stadium and pay Govt
I think its possible......
If we had responsible government, the citizenry would sit up. What are the government there for?
Is it ordinary citizens that award contracts or arrest corrupt officials?
Abegi, quit making overbroad generalizations...The real deal wrote:Why is it that exchange of positions and solutions have to sound like we are FIGHTING? Your prose and tone is like you're fighting or trying to prove like the one opposite you don't know that there are Nigerians that "sweep" or run "world class...."....this is a country without postcodes!! Rail system? Organized transport system that runs every TIMED intervals ( every 30 mins)? World class Hotel all over the place? Portable water everyone?......I'm not in the business of just crticizing but proffering solutions
I challenge you to pick the 5 busiest stadia in the country and show 40 events in each stadium in a 365 day calendar year....
Whats the gate fee for soccer matches....... I'm not interested in these bitter arguments. Its obvious to any fair onlooker that we are not organized, thoughtful, do not have a maintenance culture.....
Post a picture of your former secondary and primary school compound, Headmaster and principal office.....the bathrooms we used......
Only people that want to be dishonest will argue abt us not having basics of an organized society.....stuff you take for granted.....Fact that some few individuals have created corridors that look "world class cannot hide the larger disorganization in the land...Fuel queues anyone?...... LOL @ your wall street and US economic migrant.....That has nothing to do with this discussion
Just as I would challenge you to name just ONE private stadium in Nigeria (Rojenny Oba, Ifeanyi Ubah Stadium Nnewi, Neros Stadium, Ikpeazu Stadium Onitsha, etc.) that hosts 20 (not even 40) events in any calendar year.The real deal wrote: Why is it that exchange of positions and solutions have to sound like we are FIGHTING? Your prose and tone is like you're fighting or trying to prove like the one opposite you don't know that there are Nigerians that "sweep" or run "world class...."....this is a country without postcodes!! Rail system? Organized transport system that runs every TIMED intervals ( every 30 mins)? World class Hotel all over the place? Portable water everyone?......I'm not in the business of just crticizing but proffering solutions
I challenge you to pick the 5 busiest stadia in the country and show 40 events in each stadium in a 365 day calendar year....
Whats the gate fee for soccer matches....... I'm not interested in these bitter arguments. Its obvious to any fair onlooker that we are not organized, thoughtful, do not have a maintenance culture.....
Post a picture of your former secondary and primary school compound, Headmaster and principal office.....the bathrooms we used......
Only people that want to be dishonest will argue abt us not having basics of an organized society.....stuff you take for granted.....Fact that some few individuals have created corridors that look "world class cannot hide the larger disorganization in the land...Fuel queues anyone?...... LOL @ your wall street and US economic migrant.....That has nothing to do with this discussion
Dude, the majority of positive developments in Nigeria over the past couple of decades have been largely the result of private initiative or investment. So, yes, there is an incredibly significant lot that private individuals who are not "the government" can do - rather than of course just running around with bullhorns and chanting "Aluta Continua" (in a country that already has more 'Comrades' than Communist China ).Eaglezbeak wrote:I was waiting for a hot head to get angry despite the facts and say "what have you done about it" as if you're the government.
You have a point but the public of Nigeria are so used to things falling apart it's easy for the government to believe its just too easy!Members of the public want jobs or rewards from these corrupt fools so no one makes their lives hard by boycotting or even more aggressive tactics delivered by organisations world wide!