₦airaland Forum

It's good we have Airpeace competing with the foreign airlines.

But Airpeace should man up and stop all this victimhood.

ebenholer2:
They should do first thing first…by putting in place good management team(i.e. referees, assistant referees, match commissioners and people of high repute). If these will not be done then the billionaires money is about going down the drains

Unfortunately the integrity level of 90% of Nigerians are nothing to write home about when put in a position of influence.

Freshtruth:
you think if it happens dey will engage Nigerian refs? The ref will be from Europe

To much corruption in Nigeria. It affects everything.

Will all the officials from top to bottom also come from Europe?

Nigerians that see white but call it blue and still expect the country to develop. Too much nepotism. It affects the common good.

indigenous234:
When I spoke about the safety of investments, I meant it from a state government policy perspective.
Would a state like Imo State demolish a business that pays it about N2bn in annual tax? How many times have you heard about a state government in the Southeast demolishing or closing down a market because the demographic composition of the majority of it's traders didn't vote for the party in power?
How many times have you heard that markets in Imo State/Southeast caught fire because the Governor had a proposal build new markets in the same exact location?.
Instead of taking the business outside the shores of Nigeria as you proposed earlier, I think locating it in a state with less tension and politics on the ethnic origin of the investor(s), like anywhere in the Southeast, especially Imo State is a better option.

You are not very informed. Does Company Income Tax go to State government??

Which market was demolished because they didn't vote for a particular candidate?

And what of the market places that were demolished in Anambra and Abia? You did not hear of those ones??

Abia Govt set to remodel markets, begins demolition of weak structures
https://businessday.ng/news/article/abia-govt-set-to-remodel-markets-begins-demolition-of-weak-structures/

4000 traders, others displaced as Anambra demolishes 2000 shops
https://punchng.com/traders-displaced-as-anambra-demolishes-over-2000-shops/

300 illegal structures, 5 plazas demolished in Onitsha
https://dailytrust.com/300-illegal-structures-5-plazas-demolished-in-onitsha/

You are better stop looking at everything from the tribal prism. It will limit your sight.

yewit37486:
Exactly.
The 3 commenters above you registered their nairaland accounts barely 24 hours ago.

Look at them. Paid agents mscheeew.

I don't even know the woman from anywhere, but took my time to read the report and it is just too academic. An hatchet job.

Imagine how uninspiring the story is. Nairaland front page that people are always rushing to comment and make their opinion have a vantage position. See how neglected the thread is, despite being on the frontpage for hours.

Abel7777:
https://www.signalng.com/tinuade-sanda-examining-a-legacy-of-controversies/

This has all the hallmark of a paid campaign of calumny against this lady.

The write-up lacks originality, and therefore communicates its intent.

Babinski:
The earlier plan for the West African Highway of which this Lagos-Calabar Highway is a part, according to Paul Owuanibe, followed a path through Water Corporation Road which till today is undeveloped. Rather than kill a thriving business employing thousands, why not re-route and simply follow the Water Corporation Road as planned earlier? Particularly when there is nothing on that path presently.


https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/lasg-set-to-demolish-parts-of-landmark-for-lagos-calabar-highway-project/td9vnxt

The water corporation Road is even not big enough to have 5-a side lane with rail tracks in-btw and it's a regional road. The super highway is supposed to be a standalone express road. Not to be used as service Road for daily commuting. The water corporation road will serve as a service lane, similar to the service lanes on Ikorodu Road and the Lagos Badagry express.

A good number of the land corridor on this road has even been leased out by the Lagos State govt. And significant demolitions will still happen.

There's no way this Road is to be built that thousands of building will not be pulled down.

indigenous234:
You're right on the quick RoI in Lagos but that's exactly why they're (Igbos) having to grapple with the new reality of the Nigerian polity, post 2015. How did Nnewi develop?. Same scenario is playing out but our people presently are more concerned with a quick RoI. It's not primordial ethnic sentiment to take your investments where they're a lot more safer. It's basis instinct and economics.

Well, a better Nigeria is all I pray fo

Everywhere has security challenges in Nigeria, but Lagos is about the safest place and that's the reason it continues to attract significant investment, and even human capital.

Litmus:
More like Custodian than owner. Govt owns only a part of all tribal ancestral lands, true. It effectively holds the rest in custody. Traditional owners are encouraged by the new Nigeria land law to register ownership of the largest part of thire land in custody of government, leaving a small part to government.

The new land law (1978) was instituted as a means of documenting Nigeria's lands and also to mitigate some of the old exploitative practices that saw traditional owners of the land continually reselling lands they already sold to individuals and business.

Currently, prospective land buyers can obtain C of O for government owned land or traditional officially owned land. Traditional owners do not own thire land until they register it with government ( it is a means of documenting and cataloguing). Government keeps a small portion of the land for itself. As a land buyer, you should do your due diligence before purchasing land even from traditional peoples that have officially owned thire land by registering it with government because they may deliberately or ignorantly sell you the bits of their traditional land government reserved for itself, see the bolded.

Government generally leases the land it owns to buyers i.e leasehold. Traditional owners that have officially registered their ancestral land and therefore own it, can sell you land out right i.e it becomes yours and your family's indefinitely.

Thank you for shedding more light.

tefishy:
Bring it on. Nigerians love anything that has queue

And pushing and shoving each other

Aussie2doc:
You are a clown. Without third mainland bridge, how will landmark beach come into existence?
Without third mainland bridge , Lagos island would be a slum.
Same way the coastal highway will spring a lot of investments and connects states with ease of movement of both finished products and raw materials.

By the way, I am personally affected. We are also fighting to get government to realign the road away from our estate as much as possible. My main complaint was that they only gave us one week which is insane. You asked people to move in one week without any compensation yet. Where should they go to?

However, this issue of IGBO THIS, IGBO THAT IS SICKENING

Please preach it oh. Its unbelievable the things I'm reading on this thread.

The one week notice is really inhumane though.

iReddington:
Do you know the magnitude of this project, the hundreds and thousands of jobs, real estate, motels, restaurants, fuel stations and other small businesses that will spring up along the coast in the entirety of the 9 states, do you guys think at all, you're bleating how investments and FDI but can the beach rival the economic benefits and upturn this massive project would bring to the country and all the all 9 states individually.

Apt!

Project that should bring excitement, some are whining. God! Will Nigeria ever progress like this?? Too many dull people.

dejol88:
I genuinely need someone to clarify why Nigeria at this time is embarking on this 1 trillion naira project. Do we really need this new road?

Yes we do.

indigenous234:
Akun ruo ulo... Gerrard nwanne. Akun ruo ulo. The Southeast is such a fertile land for business and I wonder why our people want to die in Lagos. Nigeria has 36+1 states & Lagos is the largest economy followed by Imo State !!!.

Akun ruo ulo 💯

The return on investment in Lagos cannot be compared with anywhere else. Checkout all the billionaires from the SE and identify the percentage of those not having any business connection to Lagos. You'll see its a miniature percentage. These are core smart business people that are moved by business decisions and not primordial ethnic sentiments.

indigenous234:
So the Beach resort didn't get building approval?... In as much as I feel for the guy seeing his hard earned sweat on the verge of being destroyed I can't but imagine if, just if, he had the wisdom to build it in Imo State.

If that investment is owned by an indigenous yoruba, would they not have found some solution to workaround not demolishing the place?.

The truth is such a bitter pill.

They bankrupted our fathers after the war by ceasing their wealth and only handing them 20pounds after the war and have been demolishing the businesses of the present generation. One day, just one day, Fathers and sons will say enough is enough.

Okay

Originalsly:
Has the road even begun? .... why not complete the first phase? ... iconic road .... these politicians and their grandiose plans. What happen to Fashola's promise of sky scrapers lining the coast and rivaling Dubai? ... or the gondolas for mass transportation? When this man site is demolished and the road project is abandoned ... would the ones be preaching now be available for explanation?... or sunbathing in Dubai with the looted funds.

Construction has started.

ebufa:
you tell this Lagos igbo to come home, they will abuse you and call you IPOB or ESN terrorist.....nngwa now! ee don happen! you go hold Sanwa olu for trouser! one nigeria na scam! How many yoruba people have that kind of investment in Enugu or even port harcourt! Igbo no dey hear word until the sharp needle of tribalism and nepotism enter dia eye and penetrate to the back of their skull!

Let him go and sue sanwaolu in ogboni infested Lagos judiciary! Paul oga Landmark you are a mumu man!!

The Paul man is far smarter than you that is calling him mumu. The irony of life eh. Who are you?? How many people are you providing jobs to have the moral ground to be calling owner of Landmark mumu?

IbeOkehie:
I doubt there will be any compensation. I read somewhere a long time ago that the LUA allows government to dictate any price for compensation.

State Governor must also give consent to any land transfer.

No Nigerian owns any land. When I read about this guy a few months back my immediate reaction was that he must have some political protection. Anyone can go find the thread and see my post. A new era has arrived I guess.

Investing in Nigeria is too risky. The ordinary people are even worse than government. I'm sure many have been tested by Nigeria. I don't understand the mass credulity. Whatever.

Good Luck to Nigerians

Govt owns all the land in Nigeria. Its only leased to people and organisations for a term on the land document.

drlateef:
Please shut up. You are the real dullard. At what cost? That’s the question you should ask if you are not a dullard. That road project will most like attract more jobs than the whole of that resort. Secondly the multiplier effects of the road on Nigerian economy is far far greater than the $200 million resort. Several millions will use the road daily. The effect on the economy is uncountable. That’s how wise people think.

I'm just confused. It seems the general level of intelligence and knowledge is going down the drain in Nigeria.

Gerrard59:
The original plan did not involve Landmark resort areas. That is Paul's first and main grouse. The second is the short notice to vacate the property. The third is that he obtained the licence to develop the property in 2007 meanwhile the project was conceived more than forty years ago, and first approved by Jonathan.

Are you familiar with that place?? Where else will the road go through?? The middle of the Atlantic ocean?

Or they should now cancel the water corporation road, which is more of a community road. Even if they utilise the water corporation road, it will still cut into Landmark due to the magnitude of this superhighway.

Lavor234:
is the road worth the economic value of the resort? What is the rationale for the wanton destruction? May God help us in this country

You guys are not long term thinkers.

If there was no road to the current Landmark, will the investment be worth it?? Infact, those places are not realising their full potentials because access to the place from Ahmadu Bello way VI has to first go to Eko Hotel roundabout, which has never made sense to me.

After that road is completed, it will lead to the creation of 100 Landmark Centres along that corridor employing thousands and thousands of people and creating additional commercial activities. With that road, you can travel to Epe in just 30mins.

Have you ever tried to go to Landmark during the festive period? Does it make sense to stay in traffic for 3 hrs just to access resort/relaxation centres? This discourages people and therefore making the investments in resorts along this corridor not to be maximising their potentials.

With this kind of road, people will be encouraged to patronise resorts along this line due to ease of access and will increase economic activities. It is economic activities that brings the much needed employment we need. This is how govt creates employment.

Govt cannot create employment by magic and wishful thinking, neither can the govt employ everybody. It is when they invest in projects that stimulate economic activities that they indirectly create jobs!

That Lekki corridor opened up due to that Lekki highway that Tinubu did. That road increased the value of that entire axis with trillions of investment flowing in even till date. That was same way people thought Tinubu was mad when they needed to demolish some powerful people's houses on that Ozumba to give way to that road.

Today, the Lekki corridor has created thousands and thousands of investments and jobs. Even this current Landmark is a beneficiary of that Lekki-Epe express.

Splendid infrastructure is what invites investments anywhere.

Energist:
Not really a white elephant, but it will later be abandoned. What's the essences of doing a new route for say Benin - Warri or the East West road? All the main towns are already connected. The project is meant to develop Lagos. That's just it. If the SSers are smart, they should ask Tinubu to start the project from the Calabar end also, with priority given to the railway.

Lagos is more economically important. It is better to start at the Lagos end.

udomonday:
Nigerian govt is dumb,they can still find a way to build that road without destroying landmark beach,they can build a massive fly over across the landmark beach area and continue their road there after.

Flyover of 10 lanes and rail track because of landmark. Do you have an idea of how much this will cost??

There's what is called overriding public interest in governance.

lexy2014:
what will be the economic value that the road will bring?

My goodness! Are you seriously asking?

A superhighway linking the coastal region of Nigeria.

It will bring Trillions in investment along the corridor!

It may even lead to the springing up of more viable cities along the corridor.

When the Lekki-Epe Expressway was built, the economic prosperity it brought is still being experienced today.

This road will bring x 5 of that.

onuman:
Roads are built to connect important cities not just to connect Oil producing Rivers state to Lagos.
Why not build a Lagos-Ijebuode-Benin-Onitsha--Nnewi-Orlu-Owerri-Aba-Portharcourt superhighway?

So connecting Lagos, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Cross Rivers by a super highway, which also has a railway does not make sense to you?

Can you quantify the Trillions of investment that the Lekki Epe Expressway way that Tinubu did in early 2000s added to the Nigerian economy?

StOla:
US has suffered greatly due to their unjust support for the refugee European Jews who were allowed to settle in the midst of Arab land owners of Palestine.

The Middles East crisis of the 20th and 21st century, all boils down to the forceful occupation of Arab land and villages, by Jewish refugees fleeing persecution, war, and genocide in Europe.

All the initial 8 Prime Ministers of Israeli State that was create in 1947, had no ties to the Palestine region. They were all born in Poland/Russia, Germany, or some other part of Europe.

Even this Benjamin Netanyahu, both his Parents were Polish Jews who settled in Palestine as refugees, only to change their Polish surname to Netanyahu.

The world did not start from when you are referencing. They were also displaced ab initio and scattered all over Europe. They are not indigenous to those places in Europe you are mentioning.

The evidence that they are not indigenous to those places is well known in their different way of life and having a common language though scattered all around different parts of Western and Eastern Europe.

olisaEze:
"Valued at over $200 million, according to Onwuanibe, the Landmark site is home to over 80 businesses and provides more than 4,000 direct jobs. It also generates over 2 billion Naira ($1.5 million) in annual tax revenue"

They’re prepared to lose $1.5 million annually in tax and 4000 jobs in these hard times. Why, because Tinubu and his all Yoruba advisers are real dullards who will not stop until they see the country in ruins. Even the CNN reporter is shocked! Funny thing there is, they think they’re dealing with the Igbos, but I bet over 50% of those 4000 jobs sent into the unemployment market will be Yoruba.

Myopia

meum:
They won’t accept the challenge.

The 20hours power supply on band A is a scam. Where I stay is categorized under band A. As at yesterday, we had light for a total of 10hours. 20 hours was promised to justify the N225 per kW. How is 10hours now equal to 20 hours?

Last year, EKEDC increased the tariff promising 20 hours power supply. We were paying more per kW. Did they deliver on the promise? Yes, but it lasted only a few weeks. Was the tariff reduced to what it was after they failed to deliver as promised? NO. During the few weeks it lasted, national grid collapse never affected our power supply. That’s when I realized that power can improve in the country if they want it to.

As for this their ‘band A’ scam, it’s just a way of increasing electricity tariff without causing protests. E go reach everybody. The issue be say power supply no go improve.

My goodness. You are so right!

Band A is a big scam!

This is the new scam that happens only when they announce increase.

biggybanking:
So much hunger in the land. People ain't even thinking straight. How is this an advice? If you don't have one rest tori Olorun. Why body dey pepper you. Omo na wa.

biggybanking:
I mentioned clearly he is into real estate, forex trading, he has personal clients. When you manage rental properties, you get commission when ever rents are paid or a property is sold. Are you clear now?

Yes, very clear. Real Estate and forex trading have a lot in common in Naija. The surest places to sink idle funds and "commissions"

I come in peace ✌

biggybanking:
Hi Champs good morning, I'm working on a cousins application, well travelled, has 3 Us visas, been to the UK more than 10 times, hisblast 10 yrs Visa expired last year. Kids are in the UK with ex wife, and they've been there while he was visiting. He has more than 5 schenghen visas, turkey, and countless African visas. He is a lawyer and he is been invited by a sibling who is a citizen. He wants to go for 10 yrs again. My concern is he is a civil servant but into estate management and private clients lawyer and gets alot of commission. His salary as a civil servant is less than 300k. I am attaching his payslips and his other account and not the salary account. His expenses are also higher. I need your advice gurus in the house.

Civil servant with lots of commission