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PoliticsRe: Obidients Flaunt "Bitter Obi" (Photos) by BigkokoRep: 4:48am On May 08, 2024
I fit buy join? 2 more carton each for all of them. They thoroughly need to be cleansed so they can be useful in the New Nigeria coming on in 2027!



Feintline:
Give the following people 12 cartons each. On my account.
Umahi
FFk
Bayo onanuga
SeyiLaw
Yul edochie
Tonto dike

Give these one below 12 bottled each.
BATeria has fungus their brain.


Helineus
Stola
Aswani
Reno omockry
Seunmsg
Blamingdevil
Wwwihy and all the online tinubu built lagos miscreants.

They seriously need to be cleansed.
PoliticsRe: Shatima I Hope Is Not What I'm Thinking by BigkokoRep: 1:58pm On May 07, 2024
Pray for Asiwaju (sic)...... Wait fess, how you want take keep mouth pray for mandate tief?

Anything wey wan happen to am, Abeg make e happen fastest jare.....

On the other side, make nothing happen to my Asiwaju because of bros Seyi my own cool first son, Aunt Remi, my married woman crush and for the fact that Shege banza never go round thrice? But come to think of it, aunt Remi too quiet ohhh....
PoliticsRe: Lagos Admits Dumping 371 Residents In Osun, Labels Them Miscreants, Beggars by BigkokoRep: 12:43pm On May 07, 2024
His own is worse than a curse from the gods! He might have done something abominable sometime ago, or in his former life, to warrant having such an evil, black heart that supports crooks, druggies, corruption and firth from leaders......this is the type that encourage and enburdens leaders. No wonder he has no wife, no children, no work, no nothing! Tufiakwaaaa


beejaay:
I'm sure you will be Gere to defend stupidity everytime and everywhere.. Don't worry Nigeria shall happen to you someday and you shall what an average Nigerians feel.. I have never seen someone with so much back heart like this mofo.. Always everywhere defendong stupidity
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PoliticsRe: Lagos Admits Dumping 371 Residents In Osun, Labels Them Miscreants, Beggars by BigkokoRep: 12:40pm On May 07, 2024
PoliticsRe: Point Out Any Business Reno Omokri Has In Nigeria & Win $200 Cash! by BigkokoRep: 9:42am On May 07, 2024
Wait fess Ohhh! The baba wey sponsor this $200 for anyone who can point out any business Reno Omokri has started, nurtured and run since he started growing goatee, wants to collect his money back!

Point out any business Reno Omokri has and get $200 sharp sharp!
PoliticsRe: You Can't Be Hating On The Progress Of Your Country And Still Succeed In Life by BigkokoRep: 9:11am On May 07, 2024
One pastor before the election actually said something like this on tape, that it appears Nigerians had a strong satanic contract with backwardness. That before elections everyone would be complaining but present candidates, they will go for the worse, and expect everyone to accept it that it's not the worse candidate fault..... especially people from that side!


kYjelly2:
If next election, you present this same lover of Nigeria with MC Oluomo vs Elon Musk

This guy would be opening threads by 5:00a.m abusing Elon Musk, calling him a fraud, saying how his companies were not his ideas, how he stole the money used to setup PayPal...

He will ask you to show him the MEN that Elon Musk has brought up in Nigerian politics compared to MC Oluomo who has made so many families in Nigeria

2 years after electing Oluomo, he will be saying others are haters of Nigeria when progress seems slow.

The covenant these guys have with backwardness ehn
PoliticsRe: Much Ado About Lagos: Once All Seaport Become Viable, It's Otilo To Lasgidy! by BigkokoRep(op): 9:05am On May 07, 2024
Every year, I spend at least 4 months in Europe, 3-6 in East Africa and remnants in either Asia or USA..... I represent one Super European Company as a their On-the-Go Agent in East Africa, two manufacturers representative contract from India and then I still run my own business with it's HQ in Kigali Rwanda and branches in Stockholm, Abuja and Lome!

In my travels around the world, Germany is particularly striking.
The country is highly polarized into East Communist leaning and West capitalist leaning, much akin to Capitalist leaning omoyeebos and socialist yollubas.

Here's the good part of German diversity.
There are Ports dedicated to all sorts of shipments at Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Brunsbüttel, Büsum,
Cuxhaven, Emden, Flensburg, Glückstadt, Hamburg,
Husum, Kiel, Leer, Lübeck, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Papenburg, Puttgarden, Rendsburg, Rostock, Sassnitz, Stade, Stralsund, Wilhelmshaven, Wismar.

1. Container hub Port.
2. Dry Bulk Port.
3. Liquid Bulk Port.
4. Automobiles Port.
5. Ro-Ro and High & Heavy Port.
6. Project Cargos and Raw bulk OOG.
7. Onshore/Offshore.
8. Int'l ⛴️ ferry traffic Port.
9. Int'l ⛴️ cruise shipping Port.

But in the case of a black man, they want everyone to come to Lagos.....and yet they want to develop Nigeria! Are you sure these people are normal?
PoliticsRe: You Can't Be Hating On The Progress Of Your Country And Still Succeed In Life by BigkokoRep: 7:56am On May 07, 2024
Anyone who voted Buhari twice back to back and Asiwaju will vote Yahaya Bello for president or even worse a domestic 🐈 cat! Such a person is ineligible to make such a post!

Moreover, it's only those with skills, experience or better that should even be dreaming of succeeding, not political jobbers, electoral hanger-ons!

I come in Peace, while holding my Abido Shaker for any show of vawulence!
PoliticsRe: Much Ado About Lagos: Once All Seaport Become Viable, It's Otilo To Lasgidy! by BigkokoRep(op): 7:39am On May 07, 2024
Can you imagine the impudence! Do you or did you ever worked in Onne? Una go read stuffs online, then open mouth waaa like pregnant fish dey talk rubbish!

The mere fact that you don't know FOT/FLT been the call name of the govt part of Onne Port means you are ineligible to talk about Onne.

For those you may likely deceive here, mostly yullobas urchins like you, there are two Govt operated ports in Rivers State, as (Onne isn't in Port Harcourt):
• Federal Ocean Terminal aka FOT and Federal lighter Terminal aka FLT.
• Port Harcourt Port aka Abonema wharf in PHALGA.

FOT/FLT is nested on the waters off Onne village, quite close to Ikpokiri island. It's a Deep Water port, that's you don't even need to dredge it to accept heavy vessels. Since after the war, the Port was purposely sabotage, abandoned and not made use off, but Nigeria govt has staff, custom, immigration etc stationed there.

It was the highly well positioned location that made Atiku & Ado Bayero to form Integrated Logistics Services aka Intels and got a 100 year lease of the area to develop their own Port.

Before now, that place looks like where area boys dey gather to smoke, until Intels through Prodeco and about 20 other smaller companies made it look attractive for this tribalistic confused lady to think it's full Operational. In other words, most of the Port equipment there is owned by a private company Intels.

This takes me to what Fully Operational means, because our dear confused lady has no clue what it means!

Fully Operational means Port facilities would be upgraded, refurbished or new ones installed. This would make the Port attractive for ships to berth instead of hanging around Lagos water for weeks before berthing. But these Ports lack all these, so most ships still prefer Lagos ports which has modern, best equipment. Now, what stops Nigerian Gov from installing modern equipment on these other Ports so that ship captains or Chinedu can have a choice of where to Land?

The answer is obvious even to our dear confused lady!

Finally, I'm sure you are not normal, because I'm here telling you that the Ports are not fully operational as a normal Port, you are insisting me & you know..that it is. Sincerely speaking, are you normal?

You're talking of bonded warehouses.... hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. El Rufai built lots of such warehouses for his ill-fated inland whatever.... Umahi built an airport which no plane has ever used.... that's the best I can liken your bonded houses. Ask OUK how many times his container designated for Aba market has used his bonded warehouses in Elimgbu? In case you don't know, it's the ships berthing that makes the bonded warehouses useful. And it's the Port equipment and facilities that makes the Port attractive to shipping companies. And ITS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF NIGERIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO UPGRADE, MODERNIZE THOSE PORT FACILITIES that would make these Port attractive to shipping companies, so that the bonded warehouses can be used for helping Chinedu bring in his containers from overseas!

Chop these statics!
0. Lagos market was a recent Creation by Chinedu and Okoro due to skewed import guidelines.
1. 90% of goods brought into the country through Ports are used outside Lagos. So the end market is else where.
2. 90% of good importer is brought in by Okoro or Chinedu.
3. Chinedu and Okoro who import most of Nigeria imports requires Ports closer to his own market, which is Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi!

Finally, making the Port nearer to the end market of Chinedu and Okoro is what we should be talking off!

Not making fun of you, but I'd love to say, our so called educator would end up getting schooled him/her self! grin


confusedlady:
I see that as I am educating you,you keep on shifting the goal post on order to propagate your tribal agenda.
Stop misinformation to those who don't know better.
The fact that you know about FOT and FLT convinces me that you know Onne Port very well but in your mischief have chosen to spread lies and falsehood in order to achieve your agenda.

You and I know that Port Harcourt 1 and Port Harcourt 2 sea ports are fully functional. In your mischief you were even asking if there are cranes and forklifts to off load 40ft and 20 ft containers?
Are you alright at all?
Even the bonded container terminal opened by your brother Orji Uzor Kalu called SLOT bonded terminal at Elimgbu area of Port Harcourt use Kalmar forklifts to off load containers not to talk of the equipment used by a big container terminal like WACT.
Most of the container cargo to Port Harcourt 1 and 2 are destined for markets in Aba. 90% of the bonded terminals are owned by your Ibo brothers. 90% of cargo in Port Harcourt 1 and 2 are owned by Ibos who use the port to bring in their goods because their area is landlocked.
The sooner you accept the truth the better for you. Stop lying, stop being mischievous, tell the truth and let your soul be free of your hatred and bitterness.
Port Harcourt ports are optimally functional. Any one saying otherwise is a LIAR!!!
PoliticsRe: The Fury About Lagos-calabar Coastal Road, Is It About The Exemption Of SE? by BigkokoRep: 7:11am On May 07, 2024
Politics apart..... I personally love Buhari for a reason connected to my late dad. He's a personal admirer of Buhari due to his stoic lifestyle. But the usual political jobbers deceived him into self destruction.

There's something my guru taught me.... In making a Development Plan, in business or in life, point of reference has 50% Spread effect on others that follows it! Buhari was Asiwaju point of reference.
Buhari people cheered for years has actually crippled Nigeria finances. I'm a business man, and I know what bad, unproductive debts do to businesses. It will be highly skillful of Asiwaju to even do anything given the level of destruction carried out by Buhari.

In government business, people cheered Buhari into a fruitless venture of borrowing to finance a railroad from Daura to Niger, which has insignificant economic value. What a thoughtless wastage!

Now, the same is about to happen. Asiwaju would Finance through debt the coastal highway. Those funds would be tied down for five years according to his development Plan, with all the debt servicing to go with it. Those five years, RoI is Zero.
Now, imagine that 15 trillion on an already existing infrastructure, which has economic value such a East West road ~ powering movement of goods and services from all Igbo State through all ND States to all Yoruba State?
Also, imagine the Auchi-okene -Abuja Enugu-markudi road.... Also imagine the Benin Ore Ibadan Lagos express road?

This is what we mean, not that the coastal highway isn't great. It is. I'm already thinking of an investment to lure my European partners into making should that highway go ahead. But not anywhere near SW!!! Una too dey tribalistic!

helinues:
How can you be comparing the railway done by Buhari to connect to another country with a road project which connected within Nigeria?

Apple and Guava are not the same.

Reasonable number of you guys in the Obidients camp always have misconception about what I support or not, I don't support nonsense, I deliberately avoided the Buhari rail to Niger discussion because sense no dey. How connected is Nigeria by railway?

We know dey play one side politics bro. Spade should be a spade
InvestmentRe: List Of Fintechs That Bite The Dust Despite Huge Fundings From VC! by BigkokoRep: 6:57am On May 07, 2024
It's called "Kill them before they grow!" Easy money kills a business faster than govt policy. They know, before hand, that once they bring money, the founders losses focus and relax and with time the business collapse and there objectives achieved. That's with a healthy cut too. Those monies are often insured so the actually loss nothing.

Recently, I received an offer to see my niche to a Chinese businessman for $50k USD, with down payment of $10k USD per year...with the condition that I don't startup a similar business for 5 years! Can you imagine?

What's my niche, a diasporas focused, Gift Remittance service. I politely declined, just like I often decline other partnership offers.


y3mi:
I've been following this thread closely for quite a long time and in as much as I'm in absolute agreement with you on certain points such as
1. adapting elements of business formulars native to Africa local realities to tech startups instead of Western frameworks, ie go local, provide local solutions for local problems leveraging available techs. I dig. Exactly way I think too.

2. Startups always hunting for foreign funds to scale and whatever is tantamount to death of passion, enthusiasm and zeal to actualize vision, it only enable laxity, redundancy and ostentatious indiscipline. Absolutely concur.

However, your thread clearly stated "List of Fintechs that bite the dust" but you've posted Agro-techs, food-tech, logistic techs etc where it is not hard for anyone to discern it but a disco-room of your making just to gloat over any business startup that has faced the guillotine. Dont get me wrong as it has also been a thing of concern and worry to me for years as to why Nigeria and west Africa has become a graveyard for the emergence and sudden capitulations of so many tech startups, particularly Fintechs, untill I learned lots of shady stuffs were behind the reason of their kick starting, but still a lot would be displeased with your gleeful remarks on how you promote yours at the pleasure of theirs sinking before taking flight.

Meta just lost $200B in stock and values, the Facebook parebt company are hitting harsh times. Apple is a bit not left out. The most recent of the Fintechs is ThePeer as reported by TechCabal in the link below

https://techcabal.com/2024/04/23/investors-request-audit-the-peer/

It's not about tribalism or always mismanagement, it could be one of a several factors.

Those factors are what should be discussed in great length in thread like this. Not to gloat over defunct tech or ones currently facing the noose. Most of the founders/co-founders tend to siphone investors money. But why do these VC and AI continue to pour their cash on startups offering the same old recycled paytech solutions with no USP, true novelty, innovations or business logic?
PoliticsRe: Any Good President Will Not Depreciate A Nation Currency by BigkokoRep: 6:49am On May 07, 2024
Ohhh my dear... Sorry for your ignorance! I'm sure you have never owned, Operate or run a business before....just like Reno Omokri the werey of our time, or Hellinus the old jobless one!

To cure your ignorance, Bigkoko is a Kigali based Business & Financial Technology Company with branches in Nigeria, Sweden and Togo. Currently, the company is operating the first of it's kind Gift Remittance service that connects Diaspora Africans back to homeland, with planned roll out of first of it's kind NFC based Shopping Cards!

As a Business Support LLC, Bigkoko was instrumental to all 36 state government visit to Kigali Rwanda in 2023..

Keep following us, you might be lucky someday to be a maiguard at our Abuja office, because na only mad man fit open eye go open office for Lagos as Asiwaju and jobless urchins take over!

See, we no be mate...if na lie go ask your governor who Bigkoko be!

So jobless one, tell us what you have done in your miserable life so far spent?


favor914:
Very nonsense so called Kigali businessman, his business must be a failed venture, hence he has all the time in the world to promote hate.

He has gone from Bigkoko, to kokorep now.
PoliticsRe: Much Ado About Lagos: Once All Seaport Become Viable, It's Otilo To Lasgidy! by BigkokoRep(op): 4:44pm On May 06, 2024
Why deleting my comment
PoliticsRe: The Fury About Lagos-calabar Coastal Road, Is It About The Exemption Of SE? by BigkokoRep: 1:49pm On May 06, 2024
The debts Buhari racked up for Nigeria on his ill-fated Daura-Niger railway is there for Nigeria to pay! This is same vseless, moronic quest by Buhari, you supported all through his 8years. That project now, is abandoned, while debts still gets serviced.

Now, una don start again with another white elephant project wey Asiwaju no go complete!

Who do una this kind thing?
CrimeRe: How I Killed My Cousin, Friend & 3 Others For Rituals – Ondo Fruit Seller by BigkokoRep: 1:34pm On May 06, 2024
Baba na normal things over there ohhh! No loose guard, or else your body parts don go!

Have you seen any of their elite or church pastor preach against it forcefully?


kenchop:
WHAT IS THIS THING WITH YORUBAS AND KILLING FOR HUMAN RITUALS. I MEAN, THIS IS NOW A NORM FOR THEM.

IM NOT ATTACKING THE TRIBE BUT THOSE THAT THINK I AM SHOULD FIRST SEE THIS TRAIT IN THEM AS BEING WRONG AND SHOULD DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP IT.
CrimeRe: How I Killed My Cousin, Friend & 3 Others For Rituals – Ondo Fruit Seller by BigkokoRep: 1:33pm On May 06, 2024
This one too go join dey shout omoyeebo should leave Lagos! Asiwaju on your manhood we stand! Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very lazy good for nothing people that think ritual brings money! They should give him all the corpse in the mortuary to make USD with!

Dirty, stinky, ritualistic people!


Curious345:
https://leadership.ng/how-i-killed-my-cousin-4-others-for-rituals-fruit-seller
PoliticsRe: Much Ado About Lagos: Once All Seaport Become Viable, It's Otilo To Lasgidy! by BigkokoRep(op): 10:58am On May 06, 2024
Really? So hard to believe!

aswani:
Why is that of any importance to me uncle, I have never voted for him.

If he likes let him resign today sef.
PoliticsRe: Kunle Ologundudu Slams Tinubu Over Fuel Price As He Call On Nigerians To Fight by BigkokoRep: 10:55am On May 06, 2024
Bruhnnn there's another opportunity in 2027....come out and vote. Standby and demand the votes are counted in every one face.

Take note of the PU official. If the vote change, pay him a visit after the election....

If Nigerians have been doing this for the past 15 years, nobody go get mind rig elections!

You rig elections you won't be alive to enjoy what the crook pays you?


StarRiderr:
then how do you think that you can make him drop his stolen mandate just by wailing on Nairaland without taking decisive action by joining others to protest..dey play u hear just dey play
PoliticsRe: Much Ado About Lagos: Once All Seaport Become Viable, It's Otilo To Lasgidy! by BigkokoRep(op): 10:47am On May 06, 2024
Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣... small Koko.... You got me laughing, so let me reserve my comment! Asiwaju is going in 2027...save this post!

aswani:
Peter Obi came third and no one stole his mandate. In actuality, he went to LP to steal the mandate of someone that is a long standing member of LP and believed in their ethos.

You are very right about stealing village drums and playing it in peace, look at the turbulence LP is facing under Peter Obi. Now they have shamelessly reserved a slot for him, no primaries, nothing.

President Tinubu lost the last Presudetual elections in Lagos, how many Ndigbo in Lagos were chased away? If anything, more are pouring into àlá Yoruba daily, not just Lagos, and nothing wrong with that.

Small koko, you wey dey shout deep state up and down, wey ya proof? That Rwandan hemp must be really strong.

I have never said Ndigbo want to dominate anybody. Feel free to fish out the post I did. Go and use that card on those that have.
PoliticsRe: Kunle Ologundudu Slams Tinubu Over Fuel Price As He Call On Nigerians To Fight by BigkokoRep: 9:41am On May 06, 2024
Igbos won't be part of any damned protest or fight! The people wey put Asiwaju for Aso Rock go use their hand comot am.

The only thing igbos go join others do, na to press Asiwaju neck well until he drop the stolen mandate, and also make sure he no enjoy the stolen mandate!
PoliticsRe: Much Ado About Lagos: Once All Seaport Become Viable, It's Otilo To Lasgidy! by BigkokoRep(op): 9:26am On May 06, 2024
Madam confused..... I know it comes down to this; tribal agenda... But I was expecting you to say you work there... instead of here say. What you not understand, keep quiet and enjoy the oza room, rather than coming online to say what you hear!

You dey send link to someone wey work for Onne Oil & gas port for years, abi you think na one random urchin dey talk? I know you your are trying hard to say what you learn online or whatever someone told you.

Do you work in Onne? Are you referencing FLT and FOT? Sha....so let me allow you confuse yourself well.

Since you insist Port Harcourt Port is fully operational, please tell what size or capacity is the port crane for offloading those container you talk off! Abi na area boys dey offload container from ship? And what seafaring Vessel have berthed there within the past one year! Abi Dem no get names....
Who doesn't know WACT? Abonema is also working if in your jaundiced comment, FOT pass off as working to you! If the decrepit state of facilities in Abonema wharf and FOT/FLT is what you call fully operational, may life be as fully operational as they are, no be so? You want vouch for wetin you no know ba? Oya say amen! Madam tribal agenda!

Go and learn what fully operational means in English language before showing signs of ewedu and gbegiri hangover!

It's absolutely clear those who quickly accuse others of tribal agenda, have always been the ones living, eating and ruining lives with tribal agenda!

If Dr. Allen Onyema did not publicly talk of how persons in Buhari Govt purposely sabotage his airline effort to gain London route right, will anyone know?

Go and tell whoever is telling you what to post, that it's in the best interest of Nigeria Economy for all Ports in southern Nigeria to receive the same attention, so that innocent importers can have the benefit of choice! Once Asiwaju and his horde of agberos makes Lagos difficult, every one just use sufri divert to Warri, Calabar Port Harcourt or Akwa Ibom!

What stops all Ports working like those in Lagos? What stops attention given to ports in Warri, Calabar, Port Harcourt and elsewhere, which will create jobs for locals and even people from your side?

Won't you be happy, seafaring ships are berthing in Port Harcourt as well as Lagos and elsewhere?

Whenever someone points out an anomaly, tribal bigots are always quick to accuse of been tribal!

confusedlady:
Oga,

You are getting seriously confused here.

Port Harcourt 2 Sea port at Onne has two sections.
There is the Oil and gas port which is separate from the Cargo goods part.
The two of them are inside the same port but at different zones of the port.

The Oil and gas zone is nearer the 1st gate of the port while the cargo zone of the port is at extreme end of the port at the second gate.

The cargo section has over 10 container sheds being operated by WACT(WEST AFRICA CONTAINER TERMINALS) company.
You are free to goggle this company name and where they operate to access the number of vessels that visit Onne port/Port Harcourt 2.

You are free to continue insulting me but I am telling you facts. Stop misleading members of this forum. WEST Africa container terminal is a Dutch company that has invested a lot into import and export business at Onne port. There is a constant and consistent arrival of vessels at Onne port every day of the week.
PLEASE STOP LYING IN ORDER TO PUSH YOUR TRIBAL AGENDA!!!

The question you should ask yourself is why have the Nigeria customs and Nigeria ports authorities approved over 20 bonded terminals and warehouses all over Port Harcourt where containers are transfered daily to prevent congestion inside the main port if no vessels were berthing at Onne port every day.
Educate yourself and stop spreading ignorance. Goggle is your friend on these kind of issues but your rabid tribalism has blocked your brain.

Port Harcourt ports are functioning at optimum capacity. Stop the lies!!!

YOU MAY LIKE TO EXPLORE THE WACT OFFICIAL PAGE IN THE LINK BELOW.




https://www.apmterminals.com/en/onne
PoliticsRe: Much Ado About Lagos: Once All Seaport Become Viable, It's Otilo To Lasgidy! by BigkokoRep(op): 9:04am On May 06, 2024
Hahaha 😂😂🤣🤣.... there's no Deep State? Y'all are quick to shout cabal.... Well, I forgive your ignorance! Pikin go talk as he understand!

While Asiwaju surreptitiously stole our mandate, we have no intention of allowing him enjoy the heist in peace! No be to tief village drum be the matter, na to play am in peace!

In your mind you pertain to speak for igbos in Yoruba land.
..lol

They're welcomed to stay while Asiwaju and his horde targets their investment whenever they lost out on election ba?

So igbos no wan dominate una again? What a people!
aswani:
I have told you, there is no Deep State that denied Peter Obi anything, he came third in the elections over a year ago. Let it go till 2027 bikonu.

Even when you get your seaport in ala igbo, Ndigbo born and bred in Lagos as well as their parents that have lived a large part of there lives in Lagos will not follow you to your Biafran utopia.
They are happy in ala Yoruba where they are welcome and have intermingled with the locals so much so that you can't tell what they are from their tone.

Victor Boniface is a footballer born and bread in Akurẹ, despite his relatively new uber rich status, he and his family have no intentions of leaving. Go and check his interview after he won the league when he said he couldn't wait back to get to Akure. And that is Akurẹ ó, not Lagos.
PoliticsRe: Premium Times, More Stakeholders Slam Asiwaju Highway As Misplaced & Unlawful! by BigkokoRep(op): 7:50am On May 06, 2024
They do, but only when looting or bypassing the very law designed exclusively to guide against fraud!

Do you tell me Asiwaju has no foresight but he knows how to add bros Seyi as partner to the Lebanese cartel HITECH!

Beautifulday:
Our leaders have no foresight
PoliticsRe: Premium Times, More Stakeholders Slam Asiwaju Highway As Misplaced & Unlawful! by BigkokoRep(op): 7:48am On May 06, 2024
I think it's high time Nigerians braze up and fight these shameless, self serving looters in all shades. See how he quickly elevated his son to the cartel and paid out more than 1 Trillion Naira upfront! While people are shouting Ebi pa won everywhere!

Bobloco:
This is nothing but a fraudulent highway from Bourdillon to Lebanon
PoliticsPremium Times, More Stakeholders Slam Asiwaju Highway As Misplaced & Unlawful! by BigkokoRep(op): 7:41am On May 06, 2024
A whooping 15Trillion NGN in a country like Nigeria!

• When the Highway of Fraud finally blows open, mark this words, Dave Umahi will be the fall guy, just like Godwin Emefiele is the fall guy for Buhari and his vseless looters!

• Contract Bidding procedure was not followed.

• Conflict of interest as his son bros Seyi is a partner to the Lebanese cartel that runs HITECH Ltd.

• Why is Asiwaju in a hurry while other more important, roads like East-West, Auchi-okene -Abuja, Enugu-markudi, Benin-Auchi, Lagos-Ibadan etc is there and on the last State of ruin?

PREMIUM TIMES believes that at a time in which the economy is bleeding profusely, there must be better areas to plough our little resources into.

Construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway has begun amid a myriad of fiscal and due process concerns. But indifference is the response of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to the challenges. The 700-kilometre stretch of road infrastructure, which will span eight years to complete, will gulp a staggering N15 trillion.

This figure is tentative, given the country’s inflationary spiral. The project might well have significant economic benefits for the country but there are real questions involved, especially as regime spokespersons have repeatedly reiterated the fact that our economy is bankrupt, of which there is no question.


The pilot phase of the construction has started at the Eko Atlantic City and it will terminate at Lekki Deep Seaport, for which N1.06 trillion has already been released. It is a highway of 10 lanes, which will cost N4 billion per kilometre, and would be the first of its kind in Africa, says the Minister of Works, David Umahi. His zealousness in its implementation brooks no dissent, and sometimes it gets spiteful. The first set of victims, whose properties were demolished to pave the way for the construction, were paid N2.75 billion in compensation last week.

There are similar road networks in the offing, in the Sokoto-Badagry Coastal Highway and the Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja-Cameroon Highway, in what seems like a geo-political balancing act. As a spur, the latter will course through Oturkpo in Benue State, to Nasarawa State and end at Apo, in Abuja. On the second project, Mr Umahi said, “We have started the design and I’m sure that as soon as the Federal Executive Council approves it, we will be starting at the Sokoto side.” Given its 1,000-kilometre length, it will surely gulp over N20 trillion.

The political ecosystem is already astir on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, with the circumstances surrounding its award. Adherence to due process has been raised by some critics, causing waffling in official quarters. The point has to be made: the project did not go through a competitive bidding process, which is imperative for such a huge venture, in line with the 2007 Public Procurement Act, as enunciated in Section 16 (1) (1) and (d), to create transparency, accountability and value for money.

As the minister admitted, the award sidestepped the public tender competitive bidding process. This raises the question of how the cost was arrived at.

-Was it a favour to a friend of the administration?

-Or is the government bidding farewell to the transparency and accountability of public tender and the competitive bidding process?

-In addition, why was the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) phase of the project not done before work began?

We know this through a letter dated 18th April that emanated from the Ministry of Works, soliciting residents living in the Section 1 and 11 areas of the highway in Lagos, to attend a workshop organised for a scoping study that will generate this all-important data, after the project implementation had commenced.

This action, the letter reads in part, will “ensure that the project is developed in a responsible and sustainable manner, in line with regulations in Nigeria as well as international standards and frameworks.” No, this is sophistry! The country’s statute and global best practices do not uphold putting the cart before the horse in the award of a contract, as the ministry’s letter exemplifies. The ESIA precedes any contract.


single world-class healthcare facility in Nigeria. Our teaching hospitals are relics of the last century; while our universities remain underfunded, denied of the N220 billion annual revitalisation funds in demand since 2009, to make them functional and ideal citadels of research and innovation.

Nigerians are presently being ravaged by fuel scarcity as the federal government is unable to pay oil marketers the N200 billion outstanding bridging claims owed them. Our seaports cannot compete with the best in Africa, which before now led to the loss of $7 billion annually to Cotonou and Ghana seaports, while the international airports are a laughing stock in comparison with their peers offshore.

Nigeria’s crude oil production has fallen to 1.23 million barrels per day, according to OPEC records in March. We urgently require strategic thinking on how to improve public finances. Nigeria’s revenue has plummeted, creating a foreign exchange shortfall with its crippling effect on the naira.

PREMIUM TIMES believes that at a time in which the economy is bleeding profusely, there must be better areas to plough our little resources into, not coastal roads. In fact, the over N77 trillion debt and 96 per cent of total revenue to service it, alongside the criminal negligence of our roads, are sufficient red flags against this super highway now.

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PoliticsRe: EFCC List Of Ex-governors: Reno Omokri Slams Peter Obi and Obidients by BigkokoRep: 7:32am On May 06, 2024
And yet he can not buy new shoes or maintain the old ones he has?

Praxis758:
The money Tinubu camp paid Omokri must be substantial for him to have see Obi as a nightmare.
BusinessRe: Forex: Turnover In NAFEM Falls 37% To 3.47 Billion by BigkokoRep: 6:41am On May 06, 2024
Na statistics we go chop?
PoliticsRe: ‘Emefiele Left Hole In Nigeria’s Treasury’ – Akpabio Hits Ex-cbn Gov by BigkokoRep: 6:37am On May 06, 2024
Chaiii...... Fighting corruption in the mud! Imagine this tief join dey talk! Nothing wey Ola Olukayode no go see from Nigerian politicians hand. No be this same Akpabio Ola Olukayode used as example of persons having graft cases during his clearing in the Senate!

I blame father Xmas Emefiele shall!
PoliticsRe: If Obi Were A Former Government Official In Europe; He Would Be In Jail - Omokri by BigkokoRep: 6:34am On May 06, 2024
This is what Nigeria need, just as it is here in Europe!

The people always form groups to hold the Govt accountable!

helinues:
We are still making use of our free gifted senses. We no dey do follow follow like zombie the way some people used to do
PoliticsRe: If Obi Were A Former Government Official In Europe; He Would Be In Jail - Omokri by BigkokoRep: 6:32am On May 06, 2024
I swear this is the first sane comment you actually made.... chai I feel like buying you one Baron De Val. You dey drink?

Our support of HE Peter Obi is not that he's a saint, but compared to most Nigerian politician, the guy is squeaky clean!

helinues:
All Nigeria politians would have been castrated if they were to be from those countries not only Obi
PoliticsRe: If Obi Were A Former Government Official In Europe; He Would Be In Jail - Omokri by BigkokoRep: 6:30am On May 06, 2024
Una don tire to cheer the werey? Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


helinues:
Too much of everything no dey good

Reno should at least dey calm down sometimes.

Opposing someone don't mean we should be wishing them evil

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