Rossikki:


Where in Nigeria is the traffic so congested that we need that monstrosity?

Even in Lagos that is supposedly congested, I can't think of anywhere such a massive interchange is actually needed.

Can you?

Obviously, everything that looks good to them must be in Nigeria and if not, it means Nigeria is rubbish even when it's obvious that we don't need such wastefull monstrosity.

plaindealer:



The 3 level Dangi Interchange is way way better and functional and it cost only N4 Billion, unlike the N35 Billion ugly rubbish they wasted money on in Ghana.

I think they are still working on it that picture can't be the final picture of the project.

Aconomist:
GDP per capita is the GDP divided by population. Ghana has surpassed Nigeria on this metric.

LIAR.

Ghana GDP Per capita

2,202.12 USD

https://www.google.com/search?q=ghana+gdp+per+capita&bih=1073&biw=2048&hl=en&sxsrf=ALeKk00p71Ht3vHJAlJnRuvnnBfxnT3qIQ%3A1618082721061&ei=oftxYPL5AsD_7_UP18CU-A4&oq=ghana+gdp+per+ca&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAOgQIABBDOgoIABCxAxCDARBDOggIABCxAxCDAToHCC4QsQMQQzoNCC4QhwIQxwEQrwEQFDoKCC4QxwEQrwEQQzoECC4QQzoHCAAQhwIQFDoHCAAQsQMQQzoOCC4QsQMQxwEQowIQyQM6BQgAEJIDOgUIABCRAjoCCC5Q98kcWOvkHGD68hxoAHACeACAAeUBiAGvD5IBBTguOC4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz


Nigeria GDP Per Capita

2,229.86 USD

https://www.google.com/search?q=nigeria+gdp+per+capita&bih=1073&biw=2048&hl=en&sxsrf=ALeKk01Wwz4qXhp1SZhxBbxJsNcc3KVaXQ%3A1618083195936&ei=e_1xYKjDOKSI9u8P1MCzuAY&oq=nigeria+gdp+per+capita&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyAggAMgcIABCHAhAUMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgYIABAHEB4yBggAEAcQHjICCAAyAggAMgIIADoECAAQDVCnzQNYmuYDYNPoA2gEcAJ4AIABdogBugSSAQM3LjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwjo7PDQtfTvAhUkhP0HHVTgDGcQ4dUDCA0&uact=5

Remarkable considering Nigeria has 210 million people in a currently volatile country, and yet still has a higher GDP per capita than 'peaceful' Ghana, with 25 million people and oil and gas, cocoa, and gold resources.

I really wonder what Ghana does with all their money.

Their GDP per capita should be double Nigeria's, at the very least.

plaindealer:



Obviously, everything that looks good to them must be in Nigeria and if not, it means Nigeria is rubbish even when it's obvious that we don't need such wasteful monstrosity.

It's obvious the Ghana govt just looked at some photos of interchanges in Singapore or somewhere, and just said ''Right! We want this in Accra!'' Even though they don't really need it.

afube:





Utter garbage! well over 70% of FDI into Nigeria goes into the extractive industry namely oil and gas, Ghana's FDI is going to Oil and gas plus medical industry, agric, gold, real estate, and tourism, Nigeria has fallen behind other key African nations all because of a sectional APC administration peopled mainly by Fulanis and their sidekicks the Yorubas......they have run the country aground.

Even though Nigeria is the largest economy in the whole of Africa, our industrial output is second to none, Ghana can not even survive without shipments of industrial goods and services from Nigeria.

I don't know how FDI means GHANA's- GDP $66.98 billion is better than Nigeria's GDP $446.543 Billion


Beats me why some of you just can not reason and formulate thoughts like right-thinking adults..

Rossikki:


It's obvious the Ghana govt just looked at some photos of interchanges in Singapore or somewhere, and just said ''Right! We want this in Accra!'' Even though they don't really need it.

Obviously an ego and show-off project with zero rhyme and reason. Not that I'd love to show off with that N35 Billion money inside basket monstrosity.

EMMY76:


I think they are still working on it that picture can't be the final picture of the project.

Even picture after completion can not change the fact that it's a pointless, convoluted and ugly rubbish.

EMMY76:
Unfortunately we don't have this kind of complex flyover anywhere in nigeria but am sure nigerian corrupt politicians will definitely budget for over $200m for this project.

This ugly thing?

plaindealer:
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Ghana is beneath us across the board.

I don't know why you low self-esteem and inferiority complect people always put countries that below you ahead of your own country.

Must be self hatred and self-loathing.

economic growth is not the same as economic development. one is on paper while the other is visible. hope you know GDP doesn't really count.

Godblessbiafraa:



That's the more reason they should let Igbos go their way


#GBB

Are you people not ashamed of always mouthing the lie of "they won't let us go"? Is it the 20 million Igbos in Nigeria living outside the SE you are speaking for? Do those folks appear as if they want anything to do with the SE or your Biafra adventure?

One thing with you Igbos is that you always act without thinking of the consequences of your action. Get majority of. Igbos to move back to the SE and turn their backs on the land and domain of others and you will see that everyone will take the "let us go" noise of Igbos seriously.

As things stand, most people consider the Igbos hypocritical and insincere noisemakers because you demand Biafra when the reality of how Igbos live dispersed on the ground in Nigeria, in every corner of "enemy domain", just portrays you guys as an unserious and deceptive people.

plaindealer:





They have serious inferiority complex issues, there's nothing in this world that's not better than them, they obviously hate themselves that they always feel below and inferior to things and entities that are actually below them.

It's a mental disease.

Honestly. It even affects them when they start these online duels with other Africans like Ghanaians.

You will see Ghanaians yabbing them and they won't even have anything to respond with, because they've spent so much time abusing their own country that they can't defend it.

Meanwhile, Accra itself is no great deal of a city, and certainly not a top 10 African city like Lagos and Abuja.

Outside Accra, what is there? Nothing.

Kumasi, their 2nd city is not even as developed as Aba.

The rest are just small towns that don't qualify as 'cities'.

They have just ONE serious airport in the whole country, Accra airport.

The rest are an embarrassment to behold, like something out of the 1920s.

Google Tamale airport or Takoradio airport, or Kumasi. Total jokes that wouldn't even qualify to be eateries in Lagos.

Yet Ghanaians will be trashing Nigerians online, and calling them all sorts of names, while Nigerians can't respond.

It's tragic.

plaindealer:




Even picture after completion can not change the fact that it's a pointless, convoluted and ugly rubbish.

The interchange allows a driver coming from the north to go either South, East or West, while the typical interchange only allows you to go south or West, putting strain on other parts of the road network.

Something like this will be useful in Marina District, Lagos.

Aconomist:
How much do you think this would cost in Nigeria?

Lol. You're here again with another topic revealing your self-hatred and inferiority complex.

Who cares how much this will cost in Nigeria? That interchange is in Accra which holds less than 3 million folks and is much smaller than Lagos that holds 21 million folks and is a lot more complex and far better built up and diverse as a city and a cosmopolitan arena.

As an example, to put things in perspective for an unexposed self-hater like you, the premier high street in Accra is called Oxford Street in Osu and no more than a poncy 1.5 kilometers or thereabout.

It is no better than Bode Thomas or Adeniran Ogunsanya talk less of Freedom way and the likes of Admiralty way before we even go into the many hundreds of commercial boulevards and high streets in Ikoyi, VI, Lekki, Ikeja etal.

Stop saying dumb things you think makes Nigeria appear shamed and discredited. Exposed folks will only laugh at your ignorance.

OneTemplate:


Lol. You're here again with another topic revealing your self-hatred and inferiority complex.

Who cares how much this will cost in Nigeria? That interchange is in Accra which holds less than 3 million folks and is much smaller than Lagos that holds 21 million folks and is a lot more complex and far better built up and diverse as a city and a cosmopolitan arena.

As an example, to put things in perspective for an unexposed self-hater like you, the premier high street in Accra is called Oxford Street in Osu and no more than a poncy 1.5 kilometers or thereabout.

It is no better than Bode Thomas or Adeniran Ogunsanya talk less of Freedom way and the likes of Admiralty way before we even go into the many hundreds of commercial boulevards and high streets in Ikoyi, VI, Lekki, Ikeja etal.

Stop saying dumb things you think makes Nigeria appear shamed and discredited. Exposed folks will only laugh at your ignorance.

I'll be the first to say that Ghana doesn't compare to Lagos. But Nigeria needs to do better. By now we should be comparing ourselves to places like India, Indonesia, South Africa, etc.

Aconomist:


The interchange allows a driver coming from the north to go either South, East or West, while the typical interchange only allows you to go south or West, putting strain on other parts of the road network.

Something like this will be useful in Marina District, Lagos.

Cost-benefit analysis will easily defeat this idea in a city like Lagos with so many other priorities.

At some point it may happen, but right now.....nahhh.

The money is better used tarring roads and fixing roads that need fixing in the ever expanding city.

Rossikki:


Cost-benefit analysis will easily defeat this idea in a city like Lagos with many other priorities.

But so-called cost-benefit analysis didn't defeat the $1.5 billion rail link to Niger Republic or the "worlds largest gas powerplant" in Maiduguri.

The biggest problem in Lagos right now is extreme traffic.

plaindealer:
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Ghana is beneath us across the board.

I don't know why you low self-esteem and inferiority complect people always put countries that below you ahead of your own country.

Must be self hatred and self-loathing.

Ghana is beneath you yet common 24hrs electricity you can't provide, common free quality healthcare u can't provide, jobs zero, security on highway zero, checkmate inflation zero, eradicate malaria zero, provide clean water zero, pay salaries zero, stop corruption zero. They are beneath you yet millions of your citizens including your leaders are all seeking for international passport.

Instead of building a complex interchange here, the Giant of Africa decided to draw stripes on the road -- leading to accidents and massive traffic congestion. They were saving the funds to build a rail link to Maradi, Niger Republic.

Giant of Africa

There are at least 5 locations like this in Lekki. How do you expect drivers to navigate this nonsense without even providing traffic lights?

Aconomist:
But so-called cost-benefit analysis didn't defeat the $1.5 billion rail link to Niger Republic or the "worlds largest gas powerplant" in Maiduguri.

The biggest problem in Lagos right now is extreme traffic.

The development of rail Infrastructure that criss crosses the country is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.

It will help reduce the cost of doing business in Nigeria, which will be the single most important contributor to economic growth and industrialisation.

It was how America became the world's leading economy - the railroad revolution of the 19th century.

Nigeria MUST harness its gas resources. It is actually a ''gas-rich nation which produces a bit of oil'', according to one industry expert.

Becoming a major gas exporter will more than double Nigeria's annual budget from 30 billion to 65 or 70 billion USD.

The current gas line being built to connect Nigerian gas to West African nations all the way to Morocco and Spain, will be an absolute game changer on the world gas market, as it will make Nigeria a major supplier of low-priced, high quality gas.

So those are very important projects indeed, which are far more pivotal than some silly traffic interchange.

History555:


Ghana is beneath you yet common 24hrs electricity you can't provide, common free quality healthcare u can't provide, jobs zero, security on highway zero, checkmate inflation zero, eradicate malaria zero, provide clean water zero, pay salaries zero, stop corruption zero. They are beneath you yet millions of your citizens including your leaders are all seeking for international passport.

Ghana and EVERY OTHER DEVELOPING NATION ON EARTH (IE 80% OF COUNTRIES ON EARTH) have these problems you just listed to varying degrees. NOT JUST NIGERIA.

I know that you colonised Nigerians think everywhere outside Nigeria is like 'Dubai' and 'London'.

But the truth is that those places are just the minority in a world of developing nations, of which Nigeria is one.

Here's a suggestion: Next time you take a vacation, instead of running off to London or Dubai, or New York, or some other 20% part of the world where ''everything works'', travel to the real world of Peru, or Jamaica, or Honduras, or Sri Lanka, or Bhutan, or Ethiopia. Or Mozambique. Or Gambia. Or Lesotho. Or Senegal. Or Swaziland. Or Colombia. Or Tanzania. Or Ivory Coast.

The more you interact with the REAL WORLD, the less inferior you will feel, the less resentful of Nigeria you will be, and the more you'll realise there's nothing especially evil about your fatherland, and actually quite a lot to be proud of.

2Lynx:


economic growth is not the same as economic development. one is on paper while the other is visible. hope you know GDP doesn't really count.

Sadly for you we are talking about economic growth, and instead of playing bait and switch, why not just come out and say to us categorically that because of 1 year fdi Ghana has growth than Nigeria because I don't see any sense in the baseless comparison especially when Nigeria's economy is 29 times larger than Ghana, a massive 29 times lead that whatever 2 year fdi can not change or ever overcome.

Aconomist:
I'll be the first to say that Ghana doesn't compare to Lagos. But Nigeria needs to do better. By now we should be comparing ourselves to places like India, Indonesia, South Africa, etc.

You never talk like an objective critic. Instead you always sound like a racist berating a black person to validate negative stereotype he already has in his mind.

Fact is Nigeria has challenges and corruption is an issue but trust me, as a universally well-traveled person, when I say Nigeria is still one of the best places to live in even with it's issues.

What people like you and most Nigerians fail to grasp is that the world, with dwindling resources, has to inevitably move towards private entities and individual bearing more financial burden per the sustenance of society at large.

The UK that has had a welfare benefit system like forever is now looking for ways to reduce and even totally stop the payments of benefit handouts because such is no longer sustainable!!! Where British students got tuition grants to attend University in the past they now have to take massive loans today to fund their own tuition because government can no longer afford to subsidize university education.

We have to get our heads out of the "government must provide everything" mentality. Being pragmatic and facing the reality of today, the Nigerian government will struggle to provide optimal Healthcare, power supply, core infrastructure and security let alone others needs of Nigerians like jobs, welfare stipend etal.

We all need to get creative rather than remain critics always pointing at what Nigeria is lacking while we hype those who are actually nowhere near us and have very different challenges to us.

I am currently putting together a proposal I will try and get an audience for with Lagos State regarding financing models, based on residents subsidized contributions, for modernisation and construction of internal roads and guttering in the State.

Suggesting solutions and/or looking for it is what develops modern societies. As it is right now, Nigeria is carrying too many critics and passengers like you who only know to show what obtains elsewhere and make demands without offering any solutions.

Rossikki:


Stop talking rubbish.

President Nana Akuffo Ado probably got a really good concessionary deal, and the low cost was an anomaly EVEN IN GHANA, as shown by this news:

https://www.theghanareport.com/akufo-addo-doing-4-interchanges-at-the-cost-of-one-mahama-interchange-bawumia/

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed the government has done more infrastructural projects with less money, unlike the previous Mahama administration.

At another town hall meeting Tuesday, he pointed out that the government is constructing four interchanges at nearly the same cost of one done by Mahama who is seeking a comeback to power.

Dr Bawumia mentioned the Tema, Pokuase and Obetsebi Lamptey interchanges in the Greater Accra Region and Tamale in the Northern region, all at a total cost of $289million.

But the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra alone was constructed at $260million, he compared.[/font]

“I would just leave that for you to ponder,” he said, suggesting his government has been more prudent than the NDC when it was in power.


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So don't be stupid by using a single UNUSUAL project to elevate Ghana to heaven.

You contradict your self... You say single unusual project yet the article you posted mentioned 4 interchange built at reduced cost...

Exactly what Peter Obi keep talking about.. Reduced cost

OneTemplate:


You never talk like an objective critic. Instead you always sound like a racist berating a black person to validate negative stereotype he already has in his mind.

Fact is Nigeria has challenges and corruption is an issue but trust me, as a universally well-traveled person, when I say Nigeria is still one of the best places to live in even with it's issues.

What people like you and most Nigerians fail to grasp is that the world, with dwindling resources, has to inevitably move towards private entities and individual bearing more financial burden per the sustenance of society at large.

We have to get our heads out of the "government must provide everything" mentality. Being pragmatic and facing the reality of today, the Nigerian government will struggle to provide optimal Healthcare, power supply, core infrastructure and security let alone others needs of Nigerians like jobs, welfare stipend etal.

We all need to get creative rather than remain critics always pointing at what Nigeria is lacking while we hype those who are actually nowhere near us and have very different challenges to us.

I am currently putting together a proposal I will try and get an audience for with Lagos State regarding financing models, based on residents subsidized contributions, for modernisation and construction of internal roads and guttering in the State.

Suggesting solutions and/or looking for it is what develops modern societies. As it is right now, Nigeria is carrying too many critics and passengers like you who only know to show what obtains elsewhere and make demands without offering any solutions.

Regarding the highlighted, may I suggest the development of a state-wide underground drainage system which eliminates open drainages and enforces the building of pedestrian sidewalks on every street?

I think that this will radically transform the status of Lagos for the better, among world cities, and most definitely increase tourism.

Obdk:


You contradict your self... You say single unusual project yet the article you posted mentioned 4 interchange built at reduced cost...

Exactly what Peter Obi keep talking about.. Reduced cost

The other interchanges do not approach the main one in complexity, so their costs are probably just about right.

So the Pokuase interchange under discussion IS the unusual project.

Rossikki:


Regarding the highlighted, may I suggest the development of a state-wide underground drainage system which eliminates open drainages and enforces the building of pedestrian sidewalks on every street?

I think that this will radically transform the status of Lagos for the better, among world cities.

That's a cornerstone idea of my proposal as I personally hate the lack of raised and clearly demarcated walkways for Lagos roads.

Covered drainage, with surface area extending 1.5 meters ideally or more, would act simultaneously as pedestrian walkway.

OneTemplate:


That's a cornerstone idea of my proposal as I personally hate the lack of raised and clearly demarcated walkways for Lagos roads.

Covered drainage, with surface area extending 1.5 meters ideally or more, would act simultaneously as pedestrian walkway.

Fantastic.

muykem:
That's around N35b for God sake. It will finish it also here in Nigeria. How much kano government use to do something like this?

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When Fashola is using 2.1 billion Naira to 1km of road.

Are you aware they are building Second Niger Bridge with N100 billion

Rossikki:


LIAR.

Ghana GDP Per capita

2,202.12 USD

https://www.google.com/search?q=ghana+gdp+per+capita&bih=1073&biw=2048&hl=en&sxsrf=ALeKk00p71Ht3vHJAlJnRuvnnBfxnT3qIQ%3A1618082721061&ei=oftxYPL5AsD_7_UP18CU-A4&oq=ghana+gdp+per+ca&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAOgQIABBDOgoIABCxAxCDARBDOggIABCxAxCDAToHCC4QsQMQQzoNCC4QhwIQxwEQrwEQFDoKCC4QxwEQrwEQQzoECC4QQzoHCAAQhwIQFDoHCAAQsQMQQzoOCC4QsQMQxwEQowIQyQM6BQgAEJIDOgUIABCRAjoCCC5Q98kcWOvkHGD68hxoAHACeACAAeUBiAGvD5IBBTguOC4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz


Nigeria GDP Per Capita

2,229.86 USD

https://www.google.com/search?q=nigeria+gdp+per+capita&bih=1073&biw=2048&hl=en&sxsrf=ALeKk01Wwz4qXhp1SZhxBbxJsNcc3KVaXQ%3A1618083195936&ei=e_1xYKjDOKSI9u8P1MCzuAY&oq=nigeria+gdp+per+capita&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyAggAMgcIABCHAhAUMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgYIABAHEB4yBggAEAcQHjICCAAyAggAMgIIADoECAAQDVCnzQNYmuYDYNPoA2gEcAJ4AIABdogBugSSAQM3LjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwjo7PDQtfTvAhUkhP0HHVTgDGcQ4dUDCA0&uact=5

Remarkable considering Nigeria has 210 million people in a currently volatile country, and yet still has a higher GDP per capita than 'peaceful' Ghana, with 25 million people and oil and gas, cocoa, and gold resources.

I really wonder what Ghana does with all their money.

Their GDP per capita should be double Nigeria's, at the very least.

Truth is that Ghanaians are very corrupt also. They just don't 'out' themselves like self-hating and disunited Nigerians.

The reality on the ground is far from the carefully packaged facade Ghana and her queen's English-obsessed leaders try to portray to the world.

Fact is that Ghanaian leaders have no qualms spinning reality to appear to be what they are not. The world swallows it same as CNN quickly bought the Lekki "massacre" propaganda.

Any intelligent and exposed person will know that Nigeria's challenges are unique and that it is unique solutions, peculiar to our needs, that will address those challenges. Not silly, simplistic and ignorant comparisons.