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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by lexy2014: 12:21pm On Mar 15, 2022
BabalawoPikin:
wait till 2023.. I will reply you grin

Did u wait till 2023 before u said this?

BabalawoPikin:
nobody is a saint bruh.. Politics is business.. You give and take.. What's more important is making sure you deliver.. JAGABAN DELIVERED LAGOS!!!! he accommodated everyone. He's not a tribalist like most of y'all here on nairaland..
I personally will use my funds to print flyers and make people vote for a wonderful man like him..

Thankiu

If u didn't, then u shouldn't have any challenges answering my question:

Can u give us a snippet about alpha beta?

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by aribisala0(m): 12:22pm On Mar 15, 2022
freesystem:


Pls show me any newly completed roads/bridges that is toll in the North?
Another ignorant statement of victimhood. This is a very toxic mentality you have.


You do not know, You do not know that you do not know and think you know everything

Last year the Federal Executive Council approved the National Tolling Policy . So it is a new thing.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/478794-nigeria-set-to-reintroduce-tollgates-as-fec-approves-new-roads-policy.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBw_JOE0Ktk


So we expect to see Toll Gates up and down the country

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by IfnobeGod20: 12:24pm On Mar 15, 2022
Ekejoestar:
I asked the question when I saw the post on frontpage few days ago, but nobody deemed it fit to give me an answer.

Why would you toll a bridge that is of economic importance to Nigeria.

We were talking of building a modern bridge that will have a ship under pass but here they built analogue bridge and want to use noise to block our ear
Truly human being is insatiable. If he has not done that of analog as claimed, same you and your ilks would be shouting, he did nothing. Why are you people wired to always be at the bad side of life.
You can contest to be president in 2023, so that you will build the ship underpass. Since 1999 every successive governments have been building that second Niger bridge on paper but this one changed the narrative and even bring out something but the insatiable being of your kind are on the loose for no just cause.
I know you're not happy Buhari built it, if it were your loved one, your brain will not reason this way. I am cog sure in my churchmind.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by membranus: 12:24pm On Mar 15, 2022
hammer567:



WATCH NIGERIA LIGHT UP COME 2023, IT WILL BURN.


NUFF SAID!

Who will lit it up, you?

Stop your phony boasting?

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by athaboi(f): 12:25pm On Mar 15, 2022
OMENKAismad:
the toll gate is at asaba Delta state the taxi will go to Delta state nothing for Anambra this government is hate anything igbo

bushman don't even know the owner of the bridge, he's interest is his hate for the igbos! Is well
Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by Anambra1stSon(m): 12:26pm On Mar 15, 2022
aribisala0:
It is not PPP
Julius Berger is not funding the project that part of your story is not true

When GEJ was there and agreement was entered for PPP but the investor pulled out . The reason is that when they signed a MOU the $ was 165 and it crashed in 2015 meaning they could not proceed . That arrangement was CANCELLED and the FG is funding the bridge 100%.
That information is online

Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by aribisala0(m): 12:27pm On Mar 15, 2022
[quote author= post=111056378][/quote] I mentioned that the PPP was cancelled do you dispute that? What is your point with this?

What is the date and source of this thing you posted?

This is my source
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/491717-why-fg-abandoned-ppp-arrangements-on-second-niger-bridge-lagos-ibadan-expressway-fashola.html

Are you uninformed or being deliberately dishonest?
The information you posted is wrong.
The Project is not just the bridge but also 11 km of motorway and the Owerri Interchange
Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by LordOfTheGame: 12:27pm On Mar 15, 2022
The hate for anything Igbo is soo alarming.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by buckeyemedia: 12:28pm On Mar 15, 2022
aribisala0:

Another ignorant statement of victimhood. This is a very toxic mentality you have.


You do not know, You do not know that you do not know and think you know everything

Last year the Federal Executive Council approved the National Tolling Policy . So it is a new thing.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/478794-nigeria-set-to-reintroduce-tollgates-as-fec-approves-new-roads-policy.html

https://www.youtube.cowatch?v=eBw_JOE0Ktk


So we expect to see Toll Gates up and down the country
When you were born, were there not Toll gates on the express ways?

If you where too young to recall, go & enquire from your parents.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by buckeyemedia: 12:29pm On Mar 15, 2022
LordOfTheGame:
The hate for anything Igbo is soo alarming.
There are over 250 indigenous tribes in Nigeria, yet only majority tribe will be making noise up & down.

Nonsense.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by aribisala0(m): 12:30pm On Mar 15, 2022
buckeyemedia:
When you were born, were there not Toll gates on the express ways?
When I was born there was not a single expressway in Nigeria . Not One

I thing your problem is comprehending English

The National Tolling Policy is a NEW THING

There have not been Tolls on federal Roads for a while
Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by IfnobeGod20: 12:31pm On Mar 15, 2022
Onepeople:
They are using igbo elites to deceive the igboman, tell me, who among those that have continuously oppose Kanu criticism of this evil government, have find its worthy to criticise the tolling of this bridge, igboman is his own enemy, until we understand this, half of our problem will be solved.
You guys have to stop this self imposed victim mentality. All new roads built now will be tolled as approved by FEC. Your elites would not talk because they are aware and not ignorant like you.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by s4short: 12:32pm On Mar 15, 2022
Let's even over look recouping the cost of building it for PPP reasons or to reinvest in another project, op where do you expect the money for maintenance of that bridge to come from, most roads and facilities in Nigeria are dilapidated because no one thought of maintenance as at when they were building them. I'm very sure you are one of those that like to complain when things are not in perfect condition yet you can't take time to understand how things are maintained.
If anything you should be grateful that toll gates are attached from the onset, meaning the bridge will outlive all of us not to come online and spew your ignorance, ethnic sentiments and entitlement mentality.
In case you are not aware most of the exquisite places in the world you so much admire this is how they keep them functional.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by buckeyemedia: 12:33pm On Mar 15, 2022
aribisala0:
When I was born there was not a single expressway in Nigeria . Not One

I thing your problem is comprehending English

The National Tolling Policy is a NEW THING

There have not been Tolls on federal Roads for a while
You must be lamenting from ignorance, ok what year were you born?

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by Aboguede(m): 12:34pm On Mar 15, 2022
You did not make at all

I am anambra but yes u re normal


Rugaria:
No nation built on nepotism and sectionalism archives her full potential. Infact most promising states around the globe have imploded in the past, under the enermous weight of their iniquitous history full of tribalism, favouritism and grand injustices. This is so, because for the people of any given country to come together and galvanize their collective abilities towards modernizing their state, there must exist a sense of nationalism, patriotism and a common purpose. This can't happen when it has become a government policy to marginalize, antagonize and deprive a certain section that contributes immensely towards the economic growth of the country, her fare share of national projects and recognitions..

A case in point here is the over dramatized Second Niger bridge. In the history of this eternally convulsing amalgam, no project has been so dramatized, so politicized and so unashamedly utilized as a political football by the close minded political class in Abuja, at the detriment of the welfare and greater economic activities in the South East and the South South regions. The drama started way back during the military era, when the aging bridge built by the then Eastern government in the 50s, started to show signs of wear and tear. This bridge was bombed during the Nigeria - Biafra war and was extensively damaged as a result of the endless skirmishes there. For a long time, the bridge has been the only shaky link between the former Eastern Nigeria and the rest of the country. With the economic activities going on in such wonderful places like Onitsha, Aba, Port Harcourt, Owerri and the rest, the enermous economic importance/impact of this bridge can not be over emphasized..

It's against this backdrop, that one is overwhelmingly alarmed at the disdain with which the federal government has carried on with this project over the years. Firstly, under Babangidas administration, a drawing of the bridge was made with plans for a rail crossing. But nothing happened as it rgards construction proper. Obasanjo came in and only laid the foundation stones few hours to his abdication of office in 2007, which was basically nothing but a taunt" to those who considered the bridge an essential project to them! The plan for the rail lines over the bridge was also shelved. Jonathan did start the project but suggested a partnership between the construction companies, the state government and the federal government as it regards the funding. Then came Buhari, whose administration saw the second Niger bridge as the most convenient project to use as a balancing act for his brazen but shameful display of bigotry and classic igbophobia.

The bridge will now have almost a dozen Toll Gates!! This will be the first and only project built under any administration since the coming of civilian rule in 1999, that will demand that those using it will pay for all bills incurred during construction! Ofcourse, it's mainly the people of the South East. There are many projects in the North being handled as we speak, by the federal government that have bigger cost outlays when compared to the second Niger bridge but whose total cost are shouldered entirely by the federal government, even if it means borrowing! A good example is the nearly One trillion Naira Abuja - Zaria - Kano road. Infact, Nigeria has gone on to borrow billions of dollars to erect highways and railways and pipelines to Niger republic, another country! Nigerians as a people will collectively pay for these projects in another country, while the South Easterners, who are going to be the main users of The second Niger bridge, will pay through their noses for EVERY cent used to build that bridge!

"Fellow Nigerians", Is this fair??


Below is The Muhammadu Buhari Toll gates at the yet to be commissioned second Niger bridge:

Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by Cognitivereason: 12:34pm On Mar 15, 2022
angelfallz:
Apart from the toll gate it looks like the bridge is only 2 lanes? Could someone who is knowledgeable about the 2nd Niger bridge confirm this?
It 6 lanes...
3 on each side

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by aribisala0(m): 12:34pm On Mar 15, 2022
buckeyemedia:
You must be lamenting from ignorance, ok what year were you born?
Ask your mother .She knows better
Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by SpecialAdviser(m): 12:35pm On Mar 15, 2022
ednut1:
https://www.thecable.ng/emefiele-fg-to-toll-lagos-ibadan-expressway-2nd-niger-bridge-to-repay-infrastructure-loans/amp some igbos and victim mentality sha
Please where is the picture of Lagos -Ibadan toll gates?

Again why is Abuja - Zaria - Kano road not tolled?

Do you really think we are fools? Why taking loan only on our bridge and our project? Why not do the same in the north?

Again I ask, do you think we are fools? He did well building the bridge but why installing toll gates when same is not done in their hallowed North?

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by buckeyemedia: 12:36pm On Mar 15, 2022
aribisala0:
Ask your mother .She knows better
Mention what year you were born Mumurist Z generation pikin.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by t2luv1: 12:37pm On Mar 15, 2022
hammer567:



WATCH NIGERIA LIGHT UP COME 2023, IT WILL BURN.


NUFF SAID!


Got news for you who will be doing the burning.? if you can't answer that question everything else is secondary
Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by Cognitivereason: 12:38pm On Mar 15, 2022
Rugaria:
No nation built on nepotism and sectionalism archives her full potential. Infact most promising states around the globe have imploded in the past, under the enermous weight of their iniquitous history full of tribalism, favouritism and grand injustices. This is so, because for the people of any given country to come together and galvanize their collective abilities towards modernizing their state, there must exist a sense of nationalism, patriotism and a common purpose. This can't happen when it has become a government policy to marginalize, antagonize and deprive a certain section that contributes immensely towards the economic growth of the country, her fare share of national projects and recognitions..

A case in point here is the over dramatized Second Niger bridge. In the history of this eternally convulsing amalgam, no project has been so dramatized, so politicized and so unashamedly utilized as a political football by the close minded political class in Abuja, at the detriment of the welfare and greater economic activities in the South East and the South South regions. The drama started way back during the military era, when the aging bridge built by the then Eastern government in the 50s, started to show signs of wear and tear. This bridge was bombed during the Nigeria - Biafra war and was extensively damaged as a result of the endless skirmishes there. For a long time, the bridge has been the only shaky link between the former Eastern Nigeria and the rest of the country. With the economic activities going on in such wonderful places like Onitsha, Aba, Port Harcourt, Owerri and the rest, the enermous economic importance/impact of this bridge can not be over emphasized..

It's against this backdrop, that one is overwhelmingly alarmed at the disdain with which the federal government has carried on with this project over the years. Firstly, under Babangidas administration, a drawing of the bridge was made with plans for a rail crossing. But nothing happened as it rgards construction proper. Obasanjo came in and only laid the foundation stones few hours to his abdication of office in 2007, which was basically nothing but a taunt" to those who considered the bridge an essential project to them! The plan for the rail lines over the bridge was also shelved. Jonathan did start the project but suggested a partnership between the construction companies, the state government and the federal government as it regards the funding. Then came Buhari, whose administration saw the second Niger bridge as the most convenient project to use as a balancing act for his brazen but shameful display of bigotry and classic igbophobia.

The bridge will now have almost a dozen Toll Gates!! This will be the first and only project built under any administration since the coming of civilian rule in 1999, that will demand that those using it will pay for all bills incurred during construction! Ofcourse, it's mainly the people of the South East. There are many projects in the North being handled as we speak, by the federal government that have bigger cost outlays when compared to the second Niger bridge but whose total cost are shouldered entirely by the federal government, even if it means borrowing! A good example is the nearly One trillion Naira Abuja - Zaria - Kano road. Infact, Nigeria has gone on to borrow billions of dollars to erect highways and railways and pipelines to Niger republic, another country! Nigerians as a people will collectively pay for these projects in another country, while the South Easterners, who are going to be the main users of The second Niger bridge, will pay through their noses for EVERY cent used to build that bridge!

"Fellow Nigerians", Is this fair??


Below is The Muhammadu Buhari Toll gates at the yet to be commissioned second Niger bridge:


There is no tribalism what so every..

There is a national tolling policy now which covers major highways.. It is to be effective from next year or late this year..
The abuja Kaduna kano highway
Lagos Ibadan.
And a federal road in epe (can't remember the name)
As well as 2nd Niger bridge are to be the tolled..
Other roads are planned to go under concessions

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by beejayjohn(m): 12:38pm On Mar 15, 2022
But there's no toll gate at the kaduna-abuja highway, up till sokoto, so why are the putting toll gate. Are the citizens going to pay back the money used in constructing the bridge. If that's the case the present government has failed us irredeemably.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by Alcoron: 12:40pm On Mar 15, 2022
This is bigotry against the Igbos. #DemolishTheTollGates

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by t2luv1: 12:41pm On Mar 15, 2022
SpecialAdviser:

Please where is the picture of Lagos -Ibadan toll gates?

Again why is Abuja - Zaria - Kano road not tolled?

Do you really think we are fools? Why taking loan only on our bridge and our project? Why not do the same in the north?

Again I ask, do you think we are fools? He did well building the bridge but why installing toll gates when same is not done in their hallowed North?

I am already doing a count down waiting for those two pieces of m***therF Walkeee and Abdul to response to your question. They are both well paid mouthpieces for the North.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by buckeyemedia: 12:42pm On Mar 15, 2022
beejayjohn:
But there's no toll gate at the kaduna-abuja highway, up till sokoto, so why are the putting toll gate. Are the citizens going to pay back the money used in constructing the bridge. If that's the case the present government has failed us irredeemably.
The world has changed from the times of your father, PPP is the way forward, the FG is in line with the 21st century.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by christistruth01: 12:43pm On Mar 15, 2022
Akonamasi:
Toll gate wey boys go dynamite. FG won't make 1 naira from that toll gate no worry.


Make sure you use plenty of dynamite so you can kuku burn down the beautiful Bridge

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by buckeyemedia: 12:43pm On Mar 15, 2022
Alcoron:
This is bigotry against the Igbos. #DemolishTheTollGates
Shameless Perennial Constitutional Wailers.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by AsampeteNwaanyi(f): 12:43pm On Mar 15, 2022
Almaigaa:


Na lie. That's Anambra State. They are all over the East.
you'll be banned again
Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by Themandator: 12:44pm On Mar 15, 2022
Rugaria:
No nation built on nepotism and sectionalism archives her full potential. Infact most promising states around the globe have imploded in the past, under the enermous weight of their iniquitous history full of tribalism, favouritism and grand injustices. This is so, because for the people of any given country to come together and galvanize their collective abilities towards modernizing their state, there must exist a sense of nationalism, patriotism and a common purpose. This can't happen when it has become a government policy to marginalize, antagonize and deprive a certain section that contributes immensely towards the economic growth of the country, her fare share of national projects and recognitions..

A case in point here is the over dramatized Second Niger bridge. In the history of this eternally convulsing amalgam, no project has been so dramatized, so politicized and so unashamedly utilized as a political football by the close minded political class in Abuja, at the detriment of the welfare and greater economic activities in the South East and the South South regions. The drama started way back during the military era, when the aging bridge built by the then Eastern government in the 50s, started to show signs of wear and tear. This bridge was bombed during the Nigeria - Biafra war and was extensively damaged as a result of the endless skirmishes there. For a long time, the bridge has been the only shaky link between the former Eastern Nigeria and the rest of the country. With the economic activities going on in such wonderful places like Onitsha, Aba, Port Harcourt, Owerri and the rest, the enermous economic importance/impact of this bridge can not be over emphasized..

It's against this backdrop, that one is overwhelmingly alarmed at the disdain with which the federal government has carried on with this project over the years. Firstly, under Babangidas administration, a drawing of the bridge was made with plans for a rail crossing. But nothing happened as it rgards construction proper. Obasanjo came in and only laid the foundation stones few hours to his abdication of office in 2007, which was basically nothing but a taunt" to those who considered the bridge an essential project to them! The plan for the rail lines over the bridge was also shelved. Jonathan did start the project but suggested a partnership between the construction companies, the state government and the federal government as it regards the funding. Then came Buhari, whose administration saw the second Niger bridge as the most convenient project to use as a balancing act for his brazen but shameful display of bigotry and classic igbophobia.

The bridge will now have almost a dozen Toll Gates!! This will be the first and only project built under any administration since the coming of civilian rule in 1999, that will demand that those using it will pay for all bills incurred during construction! Ofcourse, it's mainly the people of the South East. There are many projects in the North being handled as we speak, by the federal government that have bigger cost outlays when compared to the second Niger bridge but whose total cost are shouldered entirely by the federal government, even if it means borrowing! A good example is the nearly One trillion Naira Abuja - Zaria - Kano road. Infact, Nigeria has gone on to borrow billions of dollars to erect highways and railways and pipelines to Niger republic, another country! Nigerians as a people will collectively pay for these projects in another country, while the South Easterners, who are going to be the main users of The second Niger bridge, will pay through their noses for EVERY cent used to build that bridge!

"Fellow Nigerians", Is this fair??


Below is The Muhammadu Buhari Toll gates at the yet to be commissioned second Niger bridge:



There was once toll gates in all corners of Nigerian and then one man came and dismantled them all


Let. Them complete it First and put the persons to collect the toll

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by Besk: 12:44pm On Mar 15, 2022
Missionaire:


Oga sir. I just quoted a post. No be me write am.
Take am easy.

Ha, my brother, I apologise wholeheartedly. I thought you wrote it. You know everyone’s fed up with these confused lots who keep spreading hatred everywhere.

I go go delete am sharp-sharp nau. No vex bro.

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Re: The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge by KosiGee(m): 12:44pm On Mar 15, 2022
ednut1:
The other bridge is still open. If you cant afford the toll follow the other one na. There are tolls in other countries too.

It’s going to be a game of chess till the people affected reacts and send strong message to the power that be.

The route to the old bridge would be more expensive as police, military and navy would be extorting while customs would do the clearance by detaining and confiscating goods.

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