Gbawe:

How will there be hope for Nigeria with many of her citizens clannish feudalists happy to run around in ignorance? Hate people all you want but defer to facts and stop pandering to sentiments, emotions and bias primitively like a cave man. You only demean your Country with such neanderthal behavior.

Garri the 1st:

Abeg park your face since nothing sensible seems to come out of your flat head. People in ACN states may not like Tinubu, but they definitely realize that they owe him a debt of gratitude for his role in chasing out the killer party from the SW. This ensured that the era of "Ogogoro and Palmwine" ends in the south west.

So stop weeping louder than the bereaved and start weeping for your state which is being looted blind by your "village illiterate governor"..

EasternLeopard: @GBAWE So to construct East-West road which will be about 1500km will cost the govt 1.5 trillion naira at the rate of 1billion per kilometer. Abeg which community secondary school or glorified secondary school posing as a university u attended.

nOble^gEnt:
I'm so shocked that people can still argue an obvious truth, blindly......its only God that will save us in this country.

nOble^gEnt:
I wonder how we reason with sentiments in Nigeria.If I had my way,I will have denounced my citizenship in Nigeria.Is elective post about parties or the individuals?

Bushdiri: My fellow Nairalanders,if you will believe me,without putting into consideration your religion,region or political affiliate, then you should know from these day that ACN is far corrupt than PDP, I pray that Nigerians should start seeing things the way they are.

emiye:

East-west road is 1500km ?

Use facts to make sense now, are you saying east west road is like 10 times longer than the Lagos-Ibadan express way (130km)?

Bushdiri: My fellow Nairalanders,if you will believe me,without putting into consideration your religion,region or political affiliate, then you should know from these day that ACN is far corrupt than PDP, I pray that Nigerians should start seeing things the way they are.

nOble^gEnt:
I'm so shocked that people can still argue an obvious truth, blindly......its only God that will save us in this country.

Neo-XVI:


You guys are a disgrace to any decent person. SMH. You are an ACN looney and I never believed in your sincerity for one day. Want to know how I knew? 1. You were all for Ribadu because your master, Tinubu said so, until he didn't. You saw nothing good in Buhari. Now you're all for Buhari because Tinubu said so. 2. You never praise Jonathan even when he stumbles upon doing something good once in a long while. That is how I knew that all you ever do is dance to Tinubu's tune.

Don't just go online and pick out the cost of road projects in spain or wherever. You should also give us details of the soil test in those areas. Even in the Niger delta region with their poor soil conditions, how much is a kilometer of road built for? We aren't morons now. How is it that your neighbour builds a road for 50 million and you build yours for 1 billion? What are you building it with? Gold? SMH

Please remove your head from Tinubu's a$$. You're a grown man and it is disgraceful that you follow someone without thought.

@topic. Yinka spoke the truth, and Buhari should be ashamed of himself for not standing by him.

Goddex:

I think, East - West Road will be like five times the distance of Lagos - Ibadan but with a very bad terrain and involving several bridges. The road starts in Delta cutting across Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Akwa Ibom and terminates in Cross River.

On the topic, we have several Shameless hypocrites on nairaland - the likes of Gbawe. His paymasters are sacking us dry in the South West while bombarding us with loads of propaganda

http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/blog/east-west-road-of-promises-without-end/

THE Federal Government in 2006 awarded contracts for the construction of the 337-kilometre East-West Road. The job, worth N211 billion, according to the original agreement, is supposed to be completed by August 2010.

Sincere 9gerian:

Note: this does not exonerate PDP controlled states of corruption. But the DIFFERENCE is that in ACN controlled states, the corruption level is times two, ie the resources of the states most cater for the corrupt tendencies of state chief executives (governors) AND the
godfather (Tinubu). But in PDP controlled states, we have to contend with only the corrupt tendencies of state chief executives (governors)

Nigeria: On the throes of infrastructural boom?
Written by Gbemi Solaja Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:00



NIGERIA, home to over 160 million people, has, over the years, been called the giant of Africa, due particularly to its large population and abundant natural resources. However, the ‘giant of Africa’, over the years, has been plagued by the corrupt attitude of its leaders and people in power. This has stalled the economic and infrastructural growth of the nation and encouraged the scourge of poverty among its citizens.

For decades, the nation depended on its agricultural products and later, with the discovery of crude oil, petroleum resources which till date, has helped grow the country’s economy but not without attendant crises from the Niger Delta region from where the bulk of the crude oil is extracted.
The nation was grossly lacking the basic infrastructure needed by its citizens, which was not helped by the corruption and careless attitudes of the then governments which led to a lot of good projects being abandoned midway or not adequately maintained.

But fast forward to the present day Nigeria and all that seems to be changing drastically. From the capital cities of states to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, it is obvious that most urban centres are wearing new looks, with major infrastructural projects being implemented by each state government to give necessary facelift to its immediate environment.

The visible changes that are taking place all over the nation range from various road constructions to building of bridges, rebuilding of drainage to the reconstruction of rail lines, upgrading and building of airports and stricter laws enacted to regulate corrupt practices between government officials and contractors. Even to the ordinary eye, according to an engineer, Femi Ogundele, infrastructural development is taking centre stage in Nigeria.
For example, the Federal Government, recently approved a contract worth N1.61trn for the modernisation of its railway system, and about 15 different railway projects were pencilled down for completion between now and 2015.
According to a document on the 2013 capital projects of key federal ministries released, 13 of the projects will receive attention this year at a total cost of N44.35bn.

The railway investment, it was learnt, would involve the construction of new rail lines across the country and rehabilitation of the existing narrow gauge lines. Also, the federal government’s agenda to revamp the sea and air ports will be valuable to federal, states and the local governments, importers and exporters.
Toeing the line of the FG’s transformation agenda, many states have also initiated and embarked upon various infrastructural developmental projects.
Apart from enhancing the aesthetic beauty of major cities in the country, the general development, according to societal critics, has also contributed immensely to the socio-economic sectors, more so, with the creation of the needed employment opportunities for jobless Nigerians.
Today, the construction industry is flourishing as everywhere one turns to there is one construction or the other going on.
According to Godson Ihenacho, an electrical engineer, Nigeria is in the throes of an infrastructural boom. “At the beginning of this political dispensation, we were made to know the agenda of some elected members, including the executive arm of the state. With the deplorable state of infrastructure in most states of the country, one would truly affirm the need for any government to focus mainly on infrastructure while making sure that collapsed public infrastructure is rebuilt to make life more comfortable for the people. I am happy that the governments of most states are taking note”.

[b]Even cities which were known to be critically short of infrastructure are now changing. In this regard, Oyo State, for example, is not left behind in pursuing efficient urban renewal programme, aimed at making the state to compete favourably with other states in the provision of quality infrastructure for socio-economic transformation and sustainable development.
T
he Governor Abiola Ajimobi-led government had embarked on massive road construction and maintenance, pulling down old structures and relocating roadside traders to newly built markets. Today, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, is wearing a new look and residents are beginning to marvel at the new emerging mega city.
In Ogun State and in most states in the South-West, the same story is the order of the day, with each state governor embarking on state-wide constructions and restoration of state order.
A point of reference is Lagos which, over time and with successive administrations, had enacted laws prohibiting illegal roadside trading, parking, settlement, and with law enforcements agencies more diligent than before, dislodging illegal traders, while earthmoving equipment demolished marked illegal structures in many areas. Illegal structures built on drainage and walkways had been pulled down to pave way for easy movement and traffic flow. Also, the proposed Eko Atlantic City is a project of the Lagos State government that says volume about how aware governments have become about the importance of adequate and tasteful infrastructure for its residents. When completed, the Eko Atlantic City is estimated to accommodate over 400,000 residents and a daily flow of 250,000 commuters, thus increasing job creation for Nigerians and foreigners.
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Sincere 9gerian: @Gbawe.,tried to play smart on this thread by reducing all of Odumakins statements to simplistic comparison of the cost of constructing per km of road. We all know that several factors determine the cost of road construction and these factors vary from one geographical location to another. Even in the same state, the cost may vary from place to place. Factors such as soil structure, number of lanes, design of the road, number of bridges, drainages type and size, pedestran walk ways,etc all eventually add up to the final cost of the road. Most of these factors, vary from place to place, even in the same state.

The East-west road for instance is about over 338km dual carriage road, with about 37 bridges and is being constructed at the cost of about N360 billion (variation that has taken due to delayed completion since 2006 when the project was initiated at the cost N200billion).
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/east-west-road-to-cost-n360bn/116824/

It will be deceitful and pure mischief to now compare the East-west road (with 37 bridges and topography in the swamps of the Niger Delta) per km cost of construction with inner city roads in places like Enugu or Abeokuta.

However @Gbawe and co try to spin this one, it cannot fly. The message of Odumakin, which cannot be lost, is that massive corruption is taking place in ACN controlled states.

Even more damaging is the fact that Tinubu's contracting firm is the one getting most of the road contracts in the Southwest. Has anyone imagined GEJ setting up his own contracting firm and ensuring the company gets major jobs in the country? Clearly, in such setting TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY will be thrown out from the window.

What about Tinubu's IMMORAL imposition of his close relatives in prime political positions in the southwest?

Tinubu is a hard-sell any day, anytime. No amount of spins by Gbawe and co can remove the THIEF appendage to Thief-Tinubu

Note: this does not exonerate PDP controlled states of corruption. But the DIFFERENCE is that in ACN controlled states, the corruption level is times two, ie the resources of the states most cater for the corrupt tendencies of state chief executives (governors) AND the
godfather (Tinubu). But in PDP controlled states, we have to contend with only the corrupt tendencies of state chief executives (governors)

emiye:

I think you are the one doing the spin, you are saying the same thing he said about what influences cost variation.

Which Tinubu's contracting firm is getting the road contracts ? >>> any fact to back this up ?

While i am not too much of a fan of some Tinubu's family members placed in elective posts, things like this tends to happen all over the world. The bush family and clinton family in the USA is a very good example of this.

In fact Father and son became president of the country in a space of 12 years, there was a time 2 of George bush(snr) sons were governors of two different states at the same season.

Emotions cloud logical reasoning

Gbawe:

Haba Oga insincere9gerian. Do you not tire of lying? everyone, even critics of the ACN, are acknowledging the strides in delivered infrastructure being seen in the entire region. you're not really about intelligence and more about lies so I will use a simple contextual example even you should understand. How can the corruption under the ACN be worse when far more projects are being delivered especially when these are the same project PDP administrator abandoned or stated bluntly that they did not have the money to implement?

There are now literally dozens of projects completed across the SW abandoned for decades!! Feel free to join the sentimental elements here since you are not much better than them but your wild lies simply make no sense at all.

You sit here pretending to care about Nigeria yet you contribute to the deception of those more gullible than you with shameful spin and outright lies no one can believe. You stand here and facetiously clap with them about "propaganda" and you say inane things about the ACN being twice as corrupt as the PDP when even a child will tell you that delivered infrastructure objective Yoruba, Igbo, Ghanaian, Hausa, British and American folks now admit to , as typical of the SW under the ACN, flately debunk your ungodly lie. How will the ACN be able to achieve what is higlighted in the article below if more corrupt than the PDP they replaced that was happy for the SW to be synonymous with the word "stagnation"?

It is the PDP that typified evil corruption with how they literally took every kobo and gave back nada to South-Westerners and onlyleft many abandoned projects everywhere. How many times have you heard of "abandoned projects", after billions has been collected, under the ACN? Yet do we not know that this is what the PDP is very famous for this? Keep leading the pack of clannish minions with deceit instead of telling the truth all neutral news-sources now routinely reveal about the SW and the exemplary progress being made there others should be busy lobbying their leaders to emulate instead of sitting here lying and denying what the entire world is seeing and praising about the efforts of the ACN.


http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/10123-nigeria-on-the-throes-of-infrastructural-boom

kingoflag:

I dont know if your just ignorant or daft. Re-read your own post and see how you just bounced from wall to wall like a looney in a straight jacket confined to a padded room.

May the hate and tribalism which you breathe and live for eventually consume you.

Gbawe:

@Topic.

The day one of the fans of GEJ/PDP can present themselves to defend, with facts , the glib saying "ACN is same as/worse than the PDP" will be the day I accept that Nairaland has GEJ/PDP fans as some of the politically sophisticated members of the forum able to defend their arguments with facts. As it is, the reality is that most GEJ/PDP fans are just like market gossips who deal in conjecture however ridiculous such sound.

They only excel at clannishly jumping behind anything negative stated about the opposition without inspecting such for facts.

Here, Oduamkin is now favourite "truth teller" of some because he is antagonising the ACN and the enemy of their 'messiah' never mind that he is saying things that make no sense to built environment professionals. That he gets away with it and is called "truth teller" for such show the functional illiteracy bedevilling Nigeria.



N50 million per KM is £200,000 per km i.e £0.2 million. You can all go to the thread below, from skyscrapercity.com, to see informed contributors talking about cost per KM of road in Europe and the USA with estimates ranging from $3 million to many times that amount !!!! How can Odumakin say what pays homage to functional illiteracy and he is hailed as "telling the truth"?

To a sensible, informed and erudite person, Odumakin is on a character assassination mission and he is not doing a good job of such except of course to an audience of clannish messiah-worshippers who simply prefer to be deceived than to read. It is only in a parallel universe all roads, never mind terrain challenges and appendages (median, drainage and culverts, pavements et al), will cost under £200,000.00 as 'uber town-planner' Odumakin tells us. Next some butcher who hates the ACN will tell us modern rail lines are built for thousands of pounds and not the millions the ACN say it is spending - never mind such is supported by appropriate documents.

Can Odumakin not simply get a hold of a bill of quantities or similar to show the "fraud" he is going on about instead of just pulling any figure that comes to his head from the air?

Anyway, Odumakin and co, i.e disgruntled elements bitterly envious of what the ACN has achieved while they are effectively zeros in the SW, will never be short of unthinking and clannish fans for their diatribe that is long on bitterness yet short on simple logic. You guys should simply go and get a bill of quantities and prove your case factually. Same as his example of road construction "fraud" does not stand up to Professional/factual scrutiny is how it will be established Odumakin simply does not know what he is going on about with most of his petty and personalised rants.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1520537

cheleku:

youre a prejudiced 'npoop. The cost of constructing roads, as you pinted out clearly varies. You should have given us info on what it costs to build a km of road in Ondo for instance. [size=23pt]Again, why didnt you also debunk Odumakin's statement condemnig Tinubu's tendencies to impose his family members upon Lagos and SW politics![/size]....The crazy dude even collects tolls on bridges in Lagos..He runs Lag like some mafian Russian oligarch.

EasternLeopard: @GBAWE 1 kilometer = 1000 meters. Athletic sprint distance is 100meters. If it takes 1 bil naira to construct 1 kilometer, mathematically it will take 100 mil naira to construct a 100meters Athletic sprint distance lane. U nid deliverance if u bliv this 2 a true.

cheleku:

youre a prejudiced 'npoop. The cost of constructing roads, as you pinted out clearly varies. You should have given us info on what it costs to build a km of road in Ondo for instance. Again, why didnt you also debunk Odumakin's statement condemnig Tinubu's tendencies to impose his family members upon Lagos politics!....The crazy dude even collects tolls on bridges in Lagos..He runs Lag like some mafian Russian oligarch.

PapaBrowne: Yinka Odumakin spoke the truth.

Buhari is hungry for power and doesn't want to offend Tinubu..

The same south west politicians who scream "corruption in Abuja" are the same people who consume a chunk of the funds accruing to thier states.
Tinubu is screwing Lagos and other south west states dry and Yinka Odumakin, a fellow opposition politician has spoken as is. 1 Billion Naira per kilometer of intra city roads happens only in the south west.


Notwithstanding, I prefer thieves to terrorists.
Tinubu is a thief.
Buhari is a terrorist.
I will go with Tinubu anyday over Buhari.

Sincere 9gerian: @Gbawe.,tried to play smart on this thread by reducing all of Odumakins statements to simplistic comparison of the cost of constructing per km of road. We all know that several factors determine the cost of road construction and these factors vary from one geographical location to another. Even in the same state, the cost may vary from place to place. Factors such as soil structure, number of lanes, design of the road, number of bridges, drainages type and size, pedestran walk ways,etc all eventually add up to the final cost of the road. Most of these factors, vary from place to place, even in the same state.

The East-west road for instance is about over 338km dual carriage road, with about 37 bridges and is being constructed at the cost of about N360 billion (variation has taken due to delayed completion since 2006 when the project was initiated at the cost N200billion).
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/east-west-road-to-cost-n360bn/116824/

It will be deceitful and pure mischief to now compare the East-west road (with 37 bridges and topography in the swamps of the Niger Delta) per km cost of construction with inner city roads in places like Enugu or Abeokuta.

However @Gbawe and co try to spin this one, it cannot fly. The message of Odumakin, which cannot be lost, is that massive corruption is taking place in ACN controlled states.

Even more damaging is the fact that Tinubu's contracting firm is the one getting most of the road contracts in the Southwest. Has anyone imagined GEJ setting up his own contracting firm and ensuring the company gets major jobs in the country? Clearly, in such setting TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY will be thrown out from the window.

What about Tinubu's IMMORAL imposition of his close relatives in prime political positions in the southwest?

Tinubu is a hard-sell any day, anytime. No amount of spins by Gbawe and co can remove the THIEF appendage on Thief-Tinubu

Note: this does not exonerate PDP controlled states of corruption. But the DIFFERENCE is that in ACN controlled states, the corruption is at TWO levels, ie the resources of the ACN controlled states must cater for the corrupt tendencies of state chief executives (governors) AND the
godfather (Tinubu). But in PDP controlled states, we have to contend with only the corrupt tendencies of state chief executives (governors)

hercules07: I remember Odumakin being very sick in the early 2000s and it took the intervention of Tinubu to save his life in India. The cost of most of our public projects are high, it is due to our culture and the way those projects are awarded, SW projects are still cheaper than those of the FG and when factors are considered, are inflated but not to the extent that people are shouting here. Odumakin has a right to air his opinions but he should not lie, some of us remember his beginnings in Pa Ayo and Adesanya homes.

Osun Awards N.6bn 3 Road Contracts In Ife


road in osun

On going road projects in Osun LGs
Government of the State of Osun has awarded a contract sum of N602,283,071.25 for the construction of three separate roads in Ile-Ife, totaling 5.45 kilometre.
The roads are Lokore/Okesoda Street (1.85km), Oranfe – Mokuro road (3.15km), Omi-Okun road (0.45 km) and the roads are in addition to number of roads that the state government had earlier embarked on in the ancient town.
The contract, which is awarded to Messr HANSMAG Nigeria Limited, is expected to run concurrently and be completed within six months.
Signing the agreement with the contractor in Osogbo last Friday, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works and Transports, Engineer Oladepo Amuda, said that the road would have asphalt concrete overlay of 40mm, reinforced concrete side drain, retaining wall, culverts, earthworks, as well as road marking and signs among others.
He added that in line with the agreement; the project will be contractor-financing, which would be repaid by the government in 24 months, saying that in such an arrangement, the commitment of the contractor has been guaranteed.
Amuda said: “The three roads are single carriage ways and they will have all the necessary parameters that will enable the roads to last a minimum of 25 years.
“No request for mobilisation and in such an arrangement, the contractor will be committed and the expectations on the work will be guaranteed”, he said.
The governor’s aide stressed that the contractors have been selected based on experience and the confidence the government has in them, saying that his ministry would ensure proper monitoring of the projects, with a view to guaranteeing a good job.
Responding, the MD/CEO of the company, Mr Demola Awofiranye, stated that his company would surpass the expectations of the government on the project by delivering a good job.
He added that the contractor-financing arrangement is not new to the company, and they are willing to partner with the state in this regard, having seen the present administration as a responsive and responsible government.
At the end of the project, he assured that the state government would be proud to work with his company.
By kazeem mohammed