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plaindealer:
Most of them haven't left their village so it's quite understandable. The only thing they wake up to is hatred and bitterness while their backward villages rot and decay..

I live in the U.S bro. Lagos is horrifically bad in comparison to a first world country.

Rossikki:
Stop typing what you don't know.

Abuja's masterplan stipulated a limit of something like 10 storeys for the last 2 decades up till just recently.

The central business district is zoned for tall buildings, but most of the lots are empty.

plaindealer:
I like what they are doing in Kano, even the pictures from Kano you posted were the ones I posted in the other thread where you still keep displaying ignorance,.


Their traffic situation is not the same in Lagos.

Are they constructing a Metro Rail in Kano to move hundreds of thousands of people or even millions per day?

Do they waterway transportation all over Kano to transport tens of thousands of people per day?

Below is what they did in Anambra where they supposedly have government.

Actually, the traffic situation is Lagos is worse than Kano. They built that interchange in anticipation of the future. If traffic grows in Lekki, that road system will need to be upgraded.

I'll admit I was wrong about this one. The roads in this area are actually quite well organized. But we should never lose the drive to do better.

plaindealer:
The danger of ransacking the internet to copy and run to NL to ridicule and abuse your country with when in fact you don't know your own country, you don't know the area you rubbish your country with.

This is what people do when hope for and nourish is the worst about their own country.

Don't even blame google because you saw exactly what you looked for, the bad and the ugly instead of nice and good.


Learn a little about your country before running to NL to abusew your country.

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plaindealer:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/13379771_bb_jpeg4ef006bd67084eb2081d4a21b69e6445


So, instead of the sensible, simple and functional solution above, we should have inserted the ugly and pointless bridge below in that location?

Does it look practical and sensible to you?

The flyovers allow for faster flow of traffic, which reduces congestion. But these images you show look good enough for the circumstances in Lagos. When was this completed or is this a rendering?

plaindealer:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/13379432_capture_jpeg6d0ce43c2e6495dc5ba7597dd3872afd



You miss road, we came up with the most sensible, functional and practical solution to what you are talking about, we don't have to throw N35 Billion inside shalanga to solve simple traffic and intersection proble.

O.K those actually look quite good. Impressive. Google earth must have been using an outdated image.

Kingdemu:
Vulnerable smaller nations with each agitations of dominance within the breakaways will surface.

The opportunities of larger Nigeria market will be lost.

The Landlock part will be severely hit.

There will be astronomical agricultural investment in the north.

Solid mineral development will be given attention immediately in both North and South.

The impact of stoppage of monthly allocations to states, most especially in the North, will create huge unemployment with explosive social unrest.

Too much money in the hands of Niger Delta states may lead to corruption and more agitations within..

I think we better together as true Federal nation.

"Biafra" should only be the Igbo states along with Cross River and Akwa Ibom (which will be in a semi-autonomous region). Oduduwa should be the Yoruba states with Lagos as a semi-autonomous region. Awerra should be the Northern states with Boko Haram governing the Kanuri people in the North. The rest should be Nigeria with its capita Abuja in the center. All of these countries will be economically integrated with a common currency and military. But the governments should be separate.

Rossikki:
The Abuja Centenary City under construction, will contain skyscrapers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL4IE8z7ANo

No it won't. Abuja's skyline is low because there is no demand for office space.

Rossikki:
No shortage of ''sophisticated roads'' in Nigeria, dude.

Abuja
https://www.julius-berger.com/fileadmin/_processed_/8/0/csm_julius_berger-expertise-infrastructure-abuja-airport-expressway-09_bc3e911895.jpg

When have you heard me complain about Abuja's road system? Abuja is great. The only problem with Abuja is a low skyline.

OneTemplate:
Lol. Why don't you just confess you're Ghanaian and spare us this rigmarole. Lagos is moving towards completing it's mass rail transport scheme. The blue line alone is 27km so what exactly do you want to impress us with in Ghana?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUeYC0xazwU

Below is latest development regarding the red line.

I'm very happy about the rail projects. But I do actually see your point.

The Ghanaians are even laying one of the most sophisticated roads in West Africa. The road stretches for several kilometers.

From the lekki toll gate to the end of the Lekki Epe expressway, there is not a single interchange. Giant of Africa

bobowaja:
This one is sha obsessed with Lagos.

On the entire Lekki–Epe Expressway, there is not a single interchange. Is this O.K with you?

Meanwhile in Lekki, they prefer this. With no traffic lights.

While the governors in Kano are building common-sense transportation projects to improve the lives of their citizens, the government of Lagos is sleeping. Kano built this for 4 billion naira.

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

Giant of Africa

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.

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.

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.

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.

plaindealer:
Need it exactly where in Nigeria?

For what reason and purpose.?

Or we should just waste money on anything with no reason or purpose just because it looks good to you?


Talk about pennywise and pound foolish.

They don't look good to me. They are just useful in easing traffic congestion.

plaindealer:
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I think this one switched to troll mode already.

Going back and forth with trolls is not one of my favorite online activities.

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

Rossikki:
Did it occur to you that ''we don't have that kind of complex flyover in Nigeria'' because we don't NEED one?

Nigeria needs it badly. Every serious country has them to keep traffic flowing smoothly.

Here is Dubai.

plaindealer:
Ghana can not do better than Nigeria, not in a million years and definitely not because of 1 year FDI money.

You are free to re-post when their GDP gets close to ours which can never happen to start with.

GDP per capita has already surpassed Nigeria, my friend.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Please kindly go through credible sources with links to cross reference and stop using screenshots of blogs sir. My link is there and it's by UNCTAD.
In case you miss the link, here it is again sir.

https://unctad.org/news/investment-flows-africa-set-drop-25-40-2020

Here is the BBC -- in pidgin so you can understand it

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-46972532

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.

Ghana is nothing compared to Lagos or any of the big southern states, but compared to Nigeria as a whole, it is doing better.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Please stop misinforming and peddling fake news sir. Nigeria is in the top 5 FDI for 2020 which is the latest report.

Ghana is not even in the top FDI destinations in Africa yet none of these top countries pay CNN to advertise sir.
https://unctad.org/news/investment-flows-africa-set-drop-25-40-2020

You need to update your data to 2020.

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.

The projects in the North are good. I'll admit that.

plaindealer:
Even though we built something better than that N35 Billion rubbish for just N4 Billion.


I really don't get you people's logic.

The only point of this thread is that Nigeria needs to do better.