Frankie9ice:

I am not a fan of GEJ,...but if truth be told I av noticed dt our roads are relatively more passable esp in d last 5-6months,esp those dt I ply regularly. Abuja-Lokoja,Abuja-Minna(is bin dualised at d moment), Sokoto-Kontagora(which I drove thru yesterday),Kontagora-Makera,Makera-Jebba. Up til early last year Kontagora-Ilorin which is abt a distance of 280km takes us at least 6-7hrs to drive thru because of d state of dt road (now we do it in at most 4hrs,and dts because of d Jebba-Ilorin stretch). I won't pat GEJ on d back just yet because I belong to d school of thot dt believes dt any Govt in power in Naija cud 50 times more,because Naija is so blessed with wealth. Why shudn't Abuja-Okene be 5 lanes on each side? Why shudn't Ibadan-Lagos be 6 lanes each? Why shudn't Sokoto-Kontagora be dualised? Don't we have d resources in dis country? Besides electricity & water,I feel gud roads r d only oda means goverance can av meaning to d masses. Abuja-Lokoja was originally awarded to dis Italian dude who renovated GEJ's Otuoke church,...now it has bin re-awarded to RCC, Dantata & Sawoe,Bulletin construction etc,...my concern is am sure d first contractor was allowed to walk away with tax payers money despite d fact dt he did no meaningful job. There is simply no way a 'paddy-paddy government' can impress me. All of des pseudo-developmental efforts are geared towards one end,...2015 elections/GEJ's 2nd term.

Frankie9ice:

I am not a fan of GEJ,...but if truth be told I av noticed dt our roads are relatively more passable esp in d last 5-6months,esp those dt I ply regularly. Abuja-Lokoja,Abuja-Minna(is bin dualised at d moment), Sokoto-Kontagora(which I drove thru yesterday),Kontagora-Makera,Makera-Jebba. Up til early last year Kontagora-Ilorin which is abt a distance of 280km takes us at least 6-7hrs to drive thru because of d state of dt road (now we do it in at most 4hrs,and dts because of d Jebba-Ilorin stretch). I won't pat GEJ on d back just yet because I belong to d school of thot dt believes dt any Govt in power in Naija cud 50 times more,because Naija is so blessed with wealth. Why shudn't Abuja-Okene be 5 lanes on each side? Why shudn't Ibadan-Lagos be 6 lanes each? Why shudn't Sokoto-Kontagora be dualised? Don't we have d resources in dis country? Besides electricity & water,I feel gud roads r d only oda means goverance can av meaning to d masses. Abuja-Lokoja was originally awarded to dis Italian dude who renovated GEJ's Otuoke church,...now it has bin re-awarded to RCC, Dantata & Sawoe,Bulletin construction etc,...my concern is am sure d first contractor was allowed to walk away with tax payers money despite d fact dt he did no meaningful job. There is simply no way a 'paddy-paddy government' can impress me. All of des pseudo-developmental efforts are geared towards one end,...2015 elections/GEJ's 2nd term.

Sam xiu lee: I really don't understand,just because Gej awards or re_award a contract for a railroad for lagos ibadan,does not mean that the SW should be excluded from the list,the rail road has being awarded and re awarded since abacha regime,obasanjo now its Gej.
The main thing is not the award of contracts but commission of those projects anywhere they may be in the country

Adbobo: Nawa for discremination in naija.

No a single road metioned in South/West.

We have dealy Lagos?Benin Road, Lagos/Ibadan road that are always busy.
You go as far as Tambuwal village to award road and Abia, Benus etc these places na cow they use the road network nah.

May God deliver people in government.

Thieves.

Gabbysky:

Goddex wrote: Just recently we read "Jonathan signs contract for $1,5billion (ie 250 billion naira) Lagos to Ibadan double track standard gauge railway". Lagos and Ibadan are all in South West but other ethnic groups did not crucify anybody. Even, I just summed up the costs of all those road contracts and it is just about 20% of the rail project. Let others share the crumps too.

Sincere 9gerian wrote: Do you know how much the govt has invested in building railways in the southwest, including the recently awarded Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line? How many rail lines have been built in the southeast or Niger delta?

league11:
so if no federal road in SW needs rehabilitation FG should award state roads to balance d geo political zones?

wawa_boy: work has already started on the road. Am from aguobu owa. The road will link aguobuowa-mgbagbuowa-umumba(ezeagu in enugu state) to ebenebe-mgbakwu(awka north anambra state). Good dev. It will save us all those traffic jam at 9th mile

Gabbysky:

My BRO, do you live in Lagos?
The Oshodi-Apapa exp.way, from Wharf to Ijesha Express has been completed (one lane), and second phase from Ijesha to Oshodi has commenced, being handled by Messrs Julius Berger.
Lagos-Ibadan expressway project is moving just fine, take a trip there yourself.

Though sponsored by the World Bank and the ADB, but greatly supported in no small means by the FG, the Lagos-Badagry expressway project is gathering huge praises to all involved.
These road rehabilitation don't come cheap, considering the 2013 Budget of the Min. of Works and they are FG Roads,
The Wharf-Ikorodu exp.way would have gone far too, but Oga Fash has asked the Min. of Work to keep off for now, but I know whenever the FG decides on that road, BRF will know he's just a boy.

All said, be it campaign strategy or not, this administration ain't that bad afterall, I have no regrets for my vote in 2011 and I plus many other Progressives shall do it again come 2015, God-willing.

God Bless Nigeria!!!

Gabbysky:

My BRO, do you live in Lagos?
The Oshodi-Apapa exp.way, from Wharf to Ijesha Express has been completed (one lane), and second phase from Ijesha to Oshodi has commenced, being handled by Messrs Julius Berger.
Lagos-Ibadan expressway project is moving just fine, take a trip there yourself.

Though sponsored by the World Bank and the ADB, but greatly supported in no small means by the FG, the Lagos-Badagry expressway project is gathering huge praises to all involved.
These road rehabilitation don't come cheap, considering the 2013 Budget of the Min. of Works and they are FG Roads,
The Wharf-Ikorodu exp.way would have gone far too, but Oga Fash has asked the Min. of Work to keep off for now, but I know whenever the FG decides on that road, BRF will know he's just a boy.

All said, be it campaign strategy or not, this administration ain't that bad afterall, I have no regrets for my vote in 2011 and I plus many other Progressives shall do it again come 2015, God-willing.

God Bless Nigeria!!!

Sincere 9gerian:
That is the problem. When you HATE someone, no matter what that person does, you'll ALWAYS attach negative motives to it.

If the govt was not working, you'll say the govt is a failure, incompetent, clueless,etc. If the govt is working you'll say its because of 2015 elections. WHAT THEN DO YOU WANT THE GOVT TO DO?

Didn't the president promise to fix the roads when he was campaigning in 2011? Since he made such promises, why should anyone be suprised at what is happening now?

Mind you, his tenure has not gone half way, so why the MADNESS with 2015?

Personally, I can only conclude that comments such as yours emanate from HATEFUL minds.

Goddex:

My dear, your country is a very poor country not just because of corruption but because of our sole reliance on just one product - crude oil. The capital vote for ministry of works is just about 120 billion naira (ie less than $1 billion). Let us face facts, corruption is just about 5% of the problem. How many roads can 120 billion naira actually build in a year? Even, that amount is not enough for
Abuja roads alone. Meanwhile, Nigeria is such a big country with several kilometers of highways scattered around the country requiring attention.Is it 120 billion naira in an annual budget that will build 10 and 12 lanes expressways you talked about?

Nigeria's 2013 budget in dollars is about $36 billion with a population of 160 million people whereas, Saudi Arabia's 2013 budget is about $186 billion - close to 6 times the budget of Nigeria but with a less than 25 million population that is just about the size of Lagos and Ogun. Check the 2013 budgets of most of these countries in dollar vis-a-vis their populations and you will know that Nigeria is a very poor country.

seanet01: Not a single project in the South West?
Okay o. We siddon dey look.

Gabbysky:


Goddex wrote: Just recently we read "Jonathan signs contract for $1,5billion (ie 250 billion naira) Lagos to Ibadan double track standard gauge railway". Lagos and Ibadan are all in South West but other ethnic groups did not crucify anybody. Even, I just summed up the costs of all those road contracts and it is just about 20% of the rail project. Let others share the crumps too.

Sincere 9gerian wrote: Do you know how much the govt has invested in building railways in the southwest, including the recently awarded Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line? How many rail lines have been built in the southeast or Niger delta?

sainty2k3:

@Gabbysky you mumu no be small - for clarification lagos to kano railway project, can't be called SW project, it cut across other geopolitical zones unlike the road projects listed above; and whosoever listed lagos ibadn expressway should remember that that contracts has been awarded since the days of yaradua .
THIS IS PURE MARGINALIZATION. However the projects are good work from goodluck but SW was marginalized. Shikenah