Terrahawk:



You are not very intelligent are you. The project has many sections, and the other main section from Calabar to Uyo will begin in July, with others like port Harcourt to Bayelsa also to commence before the end of the year. Please do some reading before you open your moronic mouth. No offense 😊

Lagos-Calabar coastal road ..
Uyo isn't a coastal town..

Go check the map, study it and come back and reply me.

Good evening...

Buccalcavity2:

The same the 2nd Niger bridge could offer that the 1st could not offer!
Projects aren't mutually exclusive. Stop selling that narrative. They run concurrently.
Rest. All I hear is emotion. Nothing pragmatic!

Second Niger second Niger.... Since we are having epileptic electricity condition in Nigeria, Tinubu should go and build nuclear power plant to reinforce your confirmation bias.

emkz:
Recently, a media house popular among the GenZs has been doing what was done hush hush in media circles in the past, i.e., when journalists are PR consultants to some wealthy but shady businessmen, companies, and politicians. Some of them are used to plant stories in the media or used to kill stories that may potentially embarass their paymasters.

Some of the journalists who write lengthy columns in their newspapers sometime sell those columns to the highest bidder, where they write to promote the paymaster or demonize the paymaster's enemies sometimes.

If you see someone writing castigating someone, be rest assured that the writer may have been paid heavily for that hatchet job.

Senior journalists know what I am talking about and won't deny this. Some senior journalists opened companies to get PR contracts from shady businessmen.

It is a multi-million naira business.

If you open any newspaper and you see a company getting some favourable press, the company paid for it.

Trust me, if not for the advent of online journalism with Fisayo Soyombo's Foundation for Investigative Journalism and Sahara Reporters, Yahaya Bello's case would not have made it to the press. Nor IBD Dende.

Another trick is that when you see a media house consistently attack someone, they want the person to come and settle.

Above is the business model of one of the controversial TV stations in Nigeria. But they now carry out their media assassination in full glare of all of us.

They repeat a lie consistently until it becomes gospel truth to buffoons. What sort of journalism is that?

If they didn't receive PR consulting contracts, why was one television station consistent in attacking the candidate of the APC while giving positive press to the candidates of PDP and LP? It was so bad that the media proprietor of the said media house launched a direct attack on the candidate of the APC.

That had never happened in the history of Nigerian politics.

Now, why is the same media house discrediting the coastal road project? Did Landmark retain them for PR? Remember that this same media house never interviewed anyone or gave rigorous coverage to the Emefiele trial as they did the cases they had an interest towards protecting.

What I explained above was drawn from a petition written by a dismissed editor of PUNCH newspapers against a former director of the newspaper some ten years ago, and from my own observation of the media business. It was common in the print media; it is now being brought to the fore in the broadcast media by the same controversial television station.

It is shameful.

Ladies and gentlemen, while it is sensible to seek information and entertainment from the media, never forget that it is a business and the highest bidder receives the best press coverage.

They are not after your interest.

Just mention the name of the TV station, to educate the fools and bigots on nairaland. Arise TV and the owner Nduka are hustlers.

7upnigeria:


Wouldn't exchange with a product of the most despised people in the world, getting chased from South Africa, Ghana, Malaysia, India and even common Pakistan. Dirty things whose ancestors were fed to pigs during the civil war.

Obviously, I actually engaged a water front puppy with an IQ of a damned pangolin.

Odin13:


This road is a funny Yoruba project .. that will outdate this administration

Tinubu is just doing this for fame ..

Wetin I know

As long as hunger keep knacking Yoruba people and not just us in kaduna

As long as Yoruba land keep getting empty and Fulani herdsmen keep taking over .. with those two by two shops .. igbo men buying up large lands and fencing them

As long as Yoruba people keep deserting their land .. and pouring into Lagos .. claiming lagosians .. leaving the town with acute poverty and chronic hunger

Nothing spoil..

If Tinubu say Na costal road be his problem .. Nigerians Dey..

Inflation and hunger go just turn normal.. even his people starts eating flesh.. no one care carry on jare

Nigeria need tourism more than development

How is this a yoruba issue
Ur frustration just started

APC in disguise

Gerhards:






Obo iya-e wumi goo la ti do pa

Otu nne gi. Nne gi bu akwunna

jonatoye:
The Ilorin to Ibadan road remains uncompleted to date. Construction began in 2001, and 23 years later, it is still unfinished. Furthermore, the completed sections require rehabilitation. This people just want to seal nothing more! We don't want any new things from APC they just just give us back the Nigeria the way it was in 2015.

You people just lie with boldness......road that have been completed since when??

Nawa ooo

Shattuck:
so in your thinking you think it is okay to spend over a billion dollars on a coastal highway in a time like this? Those of us from the south south who see the bigger picture are definitely against this. Another thing of note is the likely corruption going on imagine spending over 4 billion naira per km when the world bank benchmark building a km of road is 220 million.btw a beer factory is even a better investment that the coastal highway at least a beer factory will create greater jobs from local ingredients from farmers to production, to packaging to transportation to supply to retail.

You’re either dumb or not from the SS. The project is being funded 90% by private equity. The purpose of government is to create an enabling environment to for its citizens to unleash their full potential

This coastal road will create massive wealth along those axis forever

No responsible government will use limited state resources to establish a Beer factory

This is a good one...NYC one Prof bruce

This is a good one...Nice one Prof bruce

CommonSense1967:



I hope you were joking when you typed the bolded part.

Capital projects have been used in many parts of the world to jinja up slow economics. When you build capital projects such as this roads it affects almost every aspect of the economy - cement factories will have to increase their production, raw materials for cement will be sourced, and local businesses for that raw material will benefit. Iron producers will benefit, fuel suppliers and producers will benefit, engineers and other road construction workers will benefit, food sellers will benefit because they have to feed the workers, and the list is endless
This will help circulate money hard earned money into the economy and act as a catalyst for economic growth.
Now, when the road is done, more and more people will move closer to those areas that have been empty for thousands of years, and businesses will spring up in many areas that have never seen human traffic before. The effect is unimaginable, it will change the Nigerian economy on a monumental scale. A brewery? Are you really serious?
Comparing this to a beer factory must be an attempt on your part to be comedic ...I will just laugh out loud.

I agree it has its economic benefits also, we may have our reservation about a beer factory based on moral or health ground but one thing you can't take from it is that it has a large market not just in Nigeria but in Africa, do you know how much france and Italy makes every year from selling wines even the US has a liquor market worth billions of dollars,major celebs like Jay z diddy own a liquor brand when tourist visit Scotland they visit the johnny walker brewery, and the johnny walker brand is worth billions of dollars, Nigerian celebrities even have endorsement deals with some of these foreign brands. The Benin- ore road how many businesses are there apart from the petty traders? It is an highway nobody sites a business on an highway unless you get to a transit city and most of the business that will spring up are still petty traders who sell bread and banana, the highway does not pass through the city centre, so don't expect massive economic output in terms of job creation.

fregeneh:
haba!!! Oga take it easy nah! $4 billion dollars on km!! That means the whole 700km will cost $2.8 trillion dollars

sorry I meant 4billion naira per km not dollars.

poiZon:

Lagos-Calabar coastal road ..
Uyo isn't a coastal town..

Go check the map, study it and come back and reply me.

Good evening...

Listen, just because it's called a coastal road does not necessarily mean it will be situated near to the coast in most areas. It's not possible, due to the topography and the mangroves, delta and swampy coastal coastline of the Niger delta and coastal states of Nigeria. It's just a name. Most of it will be far from the coast.

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

You are the one who should keep quiet. You are less informed.

melow666:
What of fixing the bad ones before reaching for new roads.

WHITE ELEPHANT PROJECT!!!!!

MISPLACED PRIORITIES!!!!!

LOW GRADE MIND PEOPLE IN CORRIDOR OF GOVERNMENT!!!!!

INSTEAD OF FIXING INSECURITY,ELECTRICITY,HEALTH CARE,AGRICULTURE ET CETERA THEY BUSY GOING GOING ROUND IN CIRCLE.

Which Part of ss?
I'm sure it must be the igboid part of ss.
Na dem dey reason like this.

If it be d case, then ur (myopic) input is not needed in ds matter.

Shattuck:
so in your thinking you think it is okay to spend over a billion dollars on a coastal highway in a time like this? Those of us from the south south who see the bigger picture are definitely against this. Another thing of note is the likely corruption going on imagine spending over 4 billion naira per km when the world bank benchmark building a km of road is 220 million.btw a beer factory is even a better investment that the coastal highway at least a beer factory will create greater jobs from local ingredients from farmers to production, to packaging to transportation to supply to retail.

CommonSense1967:


If you borrow money to build capital projects, that's perfectly ok.

Do you know that Nigeria was borrowing money to pay salaries towards the end of the Jonathan administration? Borrowing to pay salaries? Yes, they did. The finance minister at that time said clearly.

There is no logic in your argument. I live in the US and I can tell you that the US govt is the highest debtor on the face of the planet, I used to work for the US federal govt. They will always borrow money to build capital projects because they know that those capital projects such as roads, schools, and the like will bring more development and create an enabling business environment for businesses to thrive. When businesses thrive, the govt will get more taxes from those businesses, and employed people will also pay taxes. That's how you develop.
Nigeria has thousands of coastal lines that are wasting away right now. How many people do you know that are even thinking of investing along the coastline in other states besides Lagos? I don't know a single person.
With this road, many other areas will become economically viable not just Lagos, people will build hotels and other businesses along the coast in Ondo, Edo, Delta, Ogun, rivers, and others.
This is what you call out-of-the-box innovative thinking. Individuals borrow money to start businesses all over the world, govt also borrow money to build capital projects not to pay salaries.

The vast majority of those against this project are from the SE, so don't try to blame others for what is very obvious.
It also begs the obvious question - why didn't they bring up such objections when Buhari was building the 2nd Niger bridge? Was Nigeria not broke, was Nigeria not borrowing money, didn't we have many other roads in Nigeria that needed attention at that time?
To make it worse, the leader of these blind hypocrites is Obi. Now, this is a man who invested 30 MILLION DOLLARS into HERO BEER in Anambra while the state was facing many crucial issues such as erosion, bad roads, bad schools, doctors on strike for 13 months, and many more issues, yet he thought it was ok to invest that kind of money into a brewery.


vanguardngr. com/2015/05/govt-borrows-n473bn-to-meet-up-with-recurrent-expenditure-says-okonjo-iweala/

On a very serious note why on earth should Nigeria government borrow money to pay salaries because to me this is mind boggling.

First of all we have allowed Vagabonds,people with questionable characters,infantile & low grade mind people occupied the corridor of government 🤔

The cost of governance is just too alarming you know,why should government be spending billions of naira on luxury vehicles for its official saying to us its due to bad roads.

I am not against capital projects but 🇳🇬 is a country of no accountability at all of which government keep filtering away our money.

United States of America 🇺🇸 has steady electricity,good road network,mechanised farming,good security etc but reverse is the case of Nigeria.

Shey den tell u say na fg go build d road ni??

Hehehehe....see wetin technologgy don cause now.
Na e make vulcanizer get liver begin type jargonz for social media.

Let me break it down for you:
Na private company get the money wey den go take build d road, nor be fg. Out of $15 billion wey be d total cost of d road, fg go just drop $1 billion. The private company go drop d remaining 14 bllion.

When the road complete, d company go recoup tgeir money thru tolling. And if u and ur generations decide not to pay d toll, no problem, una go use the old road.

Nor be by force.

VULCAN:
So Ben Bruce is now being quoted by you people.

When he reacted after you Tinubu media crew stole his childhood pic and claimed it was Tinubu- you guys blasted him.

Now he is good because he supports your Messiah's plunder project.

15trn that would have been used to support manufacturers and exporters is being used to build a road that will end up as a Toll Road. While the old road from Calabar to Lagos is lying in ruins.

Shame on you

Rebelutionary:

Lol the kind of comments one reads on Nairaland ehn....so because he didn't say what you want to hear...then he should keep quiet and listen to you? Or who? Abegii I like the fact that Umahi has this "I don't care towards you folks", talk from now till tomorrow that highway will be done and dusted and the country will reap the benefits of this project!

Can u imagine, its d niortherners that are supposed to be complaining given that a single kilometer will not pass thru d north, but alas na our fellow southerner blodas dey kick against the project the most.

Na d tin wey Lord Lugard cause we dey see so.

richie240:

Can u imagine, its d niortherners that are supposed to be complaining given that a single kilometer will not pass thru d north, but alas na our fellow southerner blodas dey kick against the project the most.

Na d tin wey Lord Lugard cause we dey see so.

Their hypocrisy is glaring abeg!

7upnigeria:



LEGENDARY COMMENT.

I think this is Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce himself. The date of birth is giving you out.

Na wah for u o, ben was born b4 1967 nau.

Christistruth00:



Why didn't you get Buhari to stop building the 2nd Niger Bridge and fix those roads instead?

That one was necessary

Omalicious1:


That one was necessary

The Lagos Calabar Highway is necessary too

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

The project is good in it's way but not at this time

We are facing High poverty level and deep economic crisis ( food inflation, unemployment, etc) then we are using 15 trillion naira on such a project.

No. Not at this time man

Roads leading to calabar should be fixed while these funds channeled to other productive avenues.

I really don't think this government knows the meaning of opportunity cost. Do they even have real economic advisers?

Anyways if them no do the project how them wan see money chop.

Costal road indeed

naptu2:
Ben Murray-BruceTalks About the Lagos-Calabar Highway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA01B-8vqU?si=PunEAxf0y1Q6nR10

A new era in Nigeria’s transportation history has begun. A 700 kilometre Lagos-Calabar coastal highway, with feeder roads joining it from different parts of the country is being built by the present administration and this is proof of the transformative power of visionary leadership by President Bola Tinubu, who has put the present minister ot works, David Umahi, a man of unwavering dedication at the helm of affairs.

Starting from Lagos, Calabar, Ogun and Akwa-Ibom, simultaneously it will traverse the beautiful landscapes of Ondo, Bayelsa, Rivers, before culminating in the historic city of Calabar.

With its cutting edge technology and innovative design, this highway will slash travel times, reduce transportation costs and increase access to markets and resources. It will be a game changer for entrepreneurs, investors and travelers and unlock new opportunities and boost economic growth.

As we embark on this journey, we are not just building a highway, President Bola Tinubu is crafting a legacy of prosperity and growth. The Lagos-Calabar Highway will be a lifeline for business, a catalyst for economic development and a symbol of hope for a brighter future.

And this is why it is surprising that some disgruntled people are opposing this project and I would suggest that such enemies of progress should not ply the road when it is completed and stick to the old, long and treacherous routes.

President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to this project is a beacon of hope for our nation.

As we celebrate this milestone, we must recognise that this project is not just a feat of engineering, but a triumph of our collective potential. So let us join hands and support Minister Dave Umahi and his team as they embark on this magnificent scheme.

My name is Ben Murray-Bruce and I just want to make common sense.

Ben Murray-Bruce made a lot of succinct points there.

The Ijaw nationalist, Chief Edwin Clark and even the Governors of the South of South States who met for the yearly BRACED Commission meeting in Yenagoa collectively thanked the current administration led by President Bola Tinubu for commencing the construction of the Lagos to Calabar Coastal highway just 2 days ago.

Over 95 percent of those attacking this project on Nairaland and on all the online and offline platforms are Ibos especially from Anambra and a few nearby Ibo States. The few non-Ibos who are criticizing this are NOT well-informed or clueless about what is really going on in the sense that while the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway construction continues, other roads are being constructed and reconstructed even in the South East.

The FG under Dave Umahi's Ministry hasn't said there is NO money to fix the bad roads. The roads are already gradually being fixed, but the evil forces who do NOT want progress for other sections of Nigeria are the ones spreading FABRICATED posts and calling for the cancellation of the project simply because the road isn't passing through the South East yet. One of them could not hide his bias here on NL and the emotional weakling bluntly revealed on one of the threads that the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway should have passed through the South East. The is a very deep case of ethnic bigotry, envy and narcissism laced with semi-literacy!

For those who have criticized this project, they should NOT even be allowed by the host communities (where this Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway would pass through) to invest in land or infrastructure anywhere near this project when the construction is finished. Just as Ben said, they can also use another route since they don't like the project.

The level of narcissism among these people stinks! The same thing happened last year, 2023 when the 18-year-old school girl called Mmesoma from Anambra State was caught after FORGING her JAMB result with the connivance of her father in order to apply for a scholarship she did NOT deserve from a company. When the JAMB boss Olojede came up with pure evidence to show that this girl is a cheat, the emotional and overbearing male and female creeps from her ethnic group came up crying about Ibos being marginalized and relentlessly kept defending her and even insulting the JAMB boss and his Yoruba ethnic group and the Islamic religion that he practices. All the evidence of hate speech are still online and offline. It was forensic evidence from Mmesoma's phone and mobile phone service provider or company that showed that her authentic JAMB result was sent to her phone, and that was how the SHAMELESS girl came out to confess and starting apologizing on video for telling insidious LIES to the world!


Kudos to Ben Murray-Bruce for his insights here.

Nightwolf1:


That the project has started is not my problem. My issue is, fix existing roads with the same speed like the coastal highway.

Since last year the FG has been struggling to fix Port Harcourt Aba express road with a very short distance. It's less than 40 mins drive from Port Harcourt to Aba.

Besides, the rain is coming and with the kinda people in Govt, a perfect excuse is underway to abandon that project untill maybe forever.

Same thing with the Calabar to Akwa Ibom road that has been on for ages

Berger is no longer working . Only Samatec is on the their session

I hope Mr. Common Sense is not supporting this idea just to gain national relevance from the present government? 🤨
What happened to the existing road networks across the nation that is begging for urgent and emergency attention? 🤷.

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

Leave am the project goenfitm personally.

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

great countries were built by visionaries,and visionaries are not myopic.

Nightwolf1:



Few of them.

at least work has started on a few of them,or have you forgotten that this administration is just almost a year old?.there is plenty of time to fix all the fixables,as long as the minister of works remains on seat.

muykem:
You guys reasons abnormally. Does that mean Dangote Adeunga, Otedola are best economist in Nigeria because they are far successful than 1000 Peter Obi in business

Obi is not just successful. He is far ahead of Bruce is economics

He knows it like the back of his hands ....

Recently ,he told the government that their fluctuating rates on import as charged by custom is killing and government days later reverted the policy.


That tells you that he knows what he is saying


Premium times could but garnish Obi already well publicised statement in the 700km road and made it into an article

He is a trailblazer not a blaze trailer like Bruce

He is self made but bruce is a creation of the Abebe's


There is a world of difference between both

Dangote is an expert otherwise he won't have said that the biggest mess he is seen is the devaluation of the naira last year


These are not theorists but practical men with results