They only built what will blend with the roofs around the bridges

Some bridges for LAGOS

Lagos's bridges

Lagos for show

God1000:
you need to do a little research about China, In 1978, China was one of the poorest countries in the world. The real per capita GDP in China was only one-fortieth of the U.S. level and one-tenth the Brazilian level. Since then, China's real per capita GDP has grown at an average rate exceeding 8 percent per year.

Read BBC report about China's history here.

It took China less than 70 years to emerge from isolation and become one of the world's greatest economic powers.

As the country celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we look back on how its transformation spread unprecedented wealth and deepened inequality - across the Asian giant.

When the Communist Party came into control of China it was very, very poor," says DBS chief China economist Chris Leung.

There were no trading partners, no diplomatic relationships, they were relying on self-sufficiency.
Over the past 40 years, China has introduced a series of landmark market reforms to open up trade routes and investment flows, ultimately pulling hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

The 1950s had seen one of the biggest human disasters of the 20th Century. The Great Leap Forward was Mao Zedong's attempt to rapidly industrialise China's peasant economy, but it failed and 10-40 million people died between 1959-1961 - the most costly famine in human history.

This was followed by the economic disruption of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, a campaign which Mao launched to rid the Communist party of his rivals, but which ended up destroying much of the country's social fabric.

Yet after Mao's death in 1976, reforms spearheaded by Deng Xiaoping began to reshape the economy. Peasants were granted rights to farm their own plots, improving living standards and easing food shortages.

The door was opened to foreign investment as the US and China re-established diplomatic ties in 1979. Eager to take advantage of cheap labour and low rent costs, money poured in.

From the end of the 1970s onwards we've seen what is easily the most impressive economic miracle of any economy in history," says David Mann, global chief economist at Standard Chartered Bank.

was poor but saw civilization b4 us

[b][/b] all these bridges are built by eauropean engineers

What I hate most in these roads and bridges they constructs here is the paintings on the barriers it looks too childish to me u don't see such rubbish in advanced countries.

God1000:
Chinese engineers have built amazing infrastructure across China with their expertise, but what baffles me is the crummies they often construct for us in Nigeria, you won't see such in their homeland.

Who do we blame here? Maybe our leaders because it's the amount of money they award some of these projects and they will still embezzle part of it

Seun, lalasticlala, myn44 please do the needful

Op you should be grateful nau...atleast our own get street light but their own no get at all

JOemmy:
What I hate most in these roads and bridges they constructs here is the paintings on the barriers it looks too childish to me u don't see such rubbish in advanced countries.

honestly, I don't like the paintings as well

Francashy:






Op you should be grateful nau...atleast our own get street light but their own no get at all

lol

walefresh3:
Lagos for show

not too bad sha, but we still have a long way to go

For example
They will award 100mil

Members from house of assembly will collect 30m
Government go collect 20m
Local govt chairman go collect 10m
Street go share 5m
N d rest to d constructions company
That’s why u see d yeye bridge with no design for africa because corruption dey live with us all
In china
If u chop 10naira as bribe
Na death sentence u sign once dey catch u
That’s why China is most developed in dis whole wide world

God1000:
Chinese engineers have built amazing infrastructure across China with their expertise, but what baffles me is the crummies they often construct for us in Nigeria, you won't see such in their homeland.

Who do we blame here? Maybe our leaders because it's the amount of money they award some of these projects and they will still embezzle part of it

Seun, lalasticlala, myn44 please do the needful

Why should China build bridges for us in the first place? So after all these decades we can’t build common bridge??

We are lazy ooo. Our engineers dey sleep.

So... China has an annual budget of 5.3 TRILLION dollars per annum.

Nigeria has an annual budget of 35 billion dollars per annum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_budget

YET SOME OAFS ON NAIRALAND think THAT NIGERIA SHOULD HAVE BRIDGES AS ADVANCED AS THOSE IN CHINA.

KAI

Educated illiterates.

Get this. Nigeria is a relatively poor, developing country. It is NOT a rich country, in terms of how much it earns per annum. The oil income is a pittance for its huge population.

The solution for raising national income is continued economic DIVERSIFICATION.

That is your biggest challenge. Far bigger than the much vaunted ''corruption''.

Even if not ONE kobo is stolen by officials, you still would NOT be able to afford those Chinese-style bridges.

Arrrrhhhhhgg, factors are...

Budget
Corruption
Design flaws
Environmental impact..

Pretty as those bridges are, certainly not needed in the areas described...


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I don't see much difference. The Nigerian picture was just taken from a closer range. Besides, if Nigeria doesn't need the complex structure, there's no need to pay for it.

If your father chose you both can be from hellfire. Who gives a flying furk the part of hellfire you come from ? Just rot in hell whichever way so long you are Igbo.

PrinceOfLagos:

So I am no longer from Imo state it's Abia now?

Maybe you will soon change my name from Prince Adedamola to Chinedu

You know, you cannot be a Tinubu supporter and still have your head intact ..

God1000:
Chinese engineers have built amazing infrastructure across China with their expertise, but what baffles me is the crummies they often construct for us in Nigeria, you won't see such in their homeland.

Who do we blame here? Maybe our leaders because it's the amount of money they award some of these projects and they will still embezzle part of it

Seun, lalasticlala, myn44 please do the needful

If the Chinks can build bridges for themselves why can't we build our own bridges? All the materials used to build that bridge were sourced in Nigeria. Local materials. Yet Nigeria keeps churning out engineers every year.

No one is disputing that or is Abia not part of Nigeria or is it not the worse state in Nigeria when talking about the same bridge.

For a state as bouyant as Abia not able to build a single flyover in over 20 years of democracy should all of you Igbos be out protesting but you clown can insult Tinubu that his Lagos built over 20 within same period n you don't see that as tribalistic insult. Mumu !

God1000:
why such tribalistic comment? This is about Nigeria as a whole, all our leaders are the same

Is this the reason why Ikpeazu told you wretch of a father not to question him for not being able to build a single flyover every other state in Nigeria built in over 20 years of democracy while he gift your hopeless mother N500 for birthing more lunatics n fools to come on NLn make similar comment as yours ?

dettolgel:

Foaming like a rabid dog if you get mind travel down to your ancestral home in osun state if them no mine your school?

China would not develop any country to be like theirs, worst still we corrupt leaders that look up to this kind of project so they can squander half of the budget money, at the end of the day what we ask for is not what we get.

@OP Shame suppose catch you..
Which one can your country men construct successfully? Almost all the infrastructure existing in Nigeria today were built by foreign companies like Julius Berger, China construction company etc.. Yet you claim you have universities, engineers and professors of civil and construction engineering.

Incase you don't know, Chinese don't run a democracy neither do they tolerate corruption or stealing of public funds that have become a norm in this part of the world. Once they catch you stealing government money, you alongside your family members will be executed publicly. No corrupt lawyers or compromised Judiciary there to save you.

What you pay for is what you get!

PrinceOfLagos:
They built for you what your money can carry


Unfortunately, the money your government signed for building that trash you called "bridge" in Nigeria will equal the same amount used in building that beautiful bridge in china but corruption

First of all, Nigeria import almost everything they need to build these things including the man power. This makes the price high.

The black race must invest heavily in science and research to enable them produce the machines they need to solve their local problems.
period.

He that thinks Nigeria is not a scam is a fool .

God1000:
Chinese engineers have built amazing infrastructure across China with their expertise, but what baffles me is the crummies they often construct for us in Nigeria, you won't see such in their homeland.

Who do we blame here? Maybe our leaders because it's the amount of money they award some of these projects and they will still embezzle part of it.

Can we afford that type of bridge?

We got what we paid for!

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For we to know the reason why we don't have such bridges here, one may have heart attack o.

This kain Chinese bridge fit lost person way no know road o, you go just dey do round about come dey see yourself for one place.

PrinceOfLagos:
They built for you what your money can carry


Unfortunately, the money your government signed for building that trash you called "bridge" in Nigeria will equal the same amount used in building that beautiful bridge in china but corruption

the money Chinese used in building their own bridge is going to be less I can bet on that .