Comments for Grandiose Parlor http://grandioseparlor.com Cogitations on sociopolitical and economic issues focusing on Nigeria & Africa Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Street lights on Lagos-Benin expressway… by omotaylor http://grandioseparlor.com/2008/07/having-street-lights-on-lagos-benin-expressway/#comment-49622 omotaylor Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:20:18 +0000 http://grandioseparlor.com/?p=828#comment-49622 Oz you took the words out of my mouth for my first consideration when I read this was the issue of daylight and night robbers cannibalising the street lights. Wouldnt it make more sense for the government to repair the roads, ensure adequate road safety patrols to remove broken down vehicles and road marshalls to arrest drivers of dangerous vehicles and wreckless drivers? After this then we can move on to the issue of street lights (which I note is not a bad idea as long as electric fences are built round each)? Or has a friend to a friend of someone in the right place proposed this as a lucrative project? This is a concern for then it does not put safety and protection of human lives first. Oz you took the words out of my mouth for my first consideration when I read this was the issue of daylight and night robbers cannibalising the street lights. Wouldnt it make more sense for the government to repair the roads, ensure adequate road safety patrols to remove broken down vehicles and road marshalls to arrest drivers of dangerous vehicles and wreckless drivers? After this then we can move on to the issue of street lights (which I note is not a bad idea as long as electric fences are built round each)?

Or has a friend to a friend of someone in the right place proposed this as a lucrative project? This is a concern for then it does not put safety and protection of human lives first.

]]> Comment on Street lights on Lagos-Benin expressway… by Oz http://grandioseparlor.com/2008/07/having-street-lights-on-lagos-benin-expressway/#comment-49618 Oz Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:48:25 +0000 http://grandioseparlor.com/?p=828#comment-49618 Growing up in Ibadan I recall asking my mum on the way to school one day, "what happened to all the street lights" and she informed me that a few robbers stole the street lights the night before. This was right in the middle of city. Those were days when there was still an element of sanity left. Growing up in Ibadan I recall asking my mum on the way to school one day, “what happened to all the street lights” and she informed me that a few robbers stole the street lights the night before. This was right in the middle of city. Those were days when there was still an element of sanity left.

]]> Comment on Nigeria: Shut down gas-flaring oil wells! by Imnakoya http://grandioseparlor.com/2008/06/nigeria-shut-down-gas-flaring-oil-wells/#comment-49615 Imnakoya Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:15:24 +0000 http://grandioseparlor.com/?p=827#comment-49615 Snazzy - Idea is cheap...that is the case with Nigeria. Execution is where the work is. Don: Nigeria "can't afford" the cost to process the flared natural gas as quickly as it's produced. That is the problem. OT: Policy statements, that is what the feds like to do. Empty statements. Snazzy - Idea is cheap…that is the case with Nigeria. Execution is where the work is.

Don: Nigeria “can’t afford” the cost to process the flared natural gas as quickly as it’s produced. That is the problem.

OT: Policy statements, that is what the feds like to do. Empty statements.

]]> Comment on Nigeria: Shut down gas-flaring oil wells! by Don Thieme http://grandioseparlor.com/2008/06/nigeria-shut-down-gas-flaring-oil-wells/#comment-49614 Don Thieme Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:57:37 +0000 http://grandioseparlor.com/?p=827#comment-49614 With the price of both crude oil and natural gas so high, I cannot see why this still goes on. Surely there must be some way to capture this and put it to use. I had a discussion with a Cameroonian scientist recently who was advising a young relative to specialize in biofuels technology. I wondered how young African scientists can be encouraged about future prospects for energy technology when there is such waste and overproduction of fossil fuel resources in Nigeria and other African countries. With the price of both crude oil and natural gas so high, I cannot see why this still goes on. Surely there must be some way to capture this and put it to use.

I had a discussion with a Cameroonian scientist recently who was advising a young relative to specialize in biofuels technology. I wondered how young African scientists can be encouraged about future prospects for energy technology when there is such waste and overproduction of fossil fuel resources in Nigeria and other African countries.

]]> Comment on Mandela at 90 by Codrin Arsene http://grandioseparlor.com/2008/06/mandela-at-90/#comment-49609 Codrin Arsene Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:11:04 +0000 http://grandioseparlor.com/?p=826#comment-49609 Very cool images and movies. Lovely posts as well. :) Very cool images and movies. Lovely posts as well. :)

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