₦airaland Forum

Dbegining:
Sch a stupid statement.

I should visit the building?

Okay, when you visited, no building was demolished? The resort was not demolished? The basketball court? The football court? The relaxation center?

And come to think of it? Are you really that daft? If his business wouldn't have Ben affected do you think he will be sad that a road is being built that can bring people right to his doorstep?

Use you head!

Topman7:
IF YOU HAD A WORKING BRAIN IN YOUR HEAD, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT IT IS PRECISELY INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT THAT PROVIDED MASSIVE EMPLOYMENT TO THE CHINESE, WHILE IMPROVING THEIR EASE OF DOING BUSINESS, AND OPENING UP BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES TO MILLIONS OF PEASANTS WHICH ADDED TO GDP GROWTH AND ANNUAL INCOME, WITH WHICH THEY WERE ABLE TO COMBAT THEIR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.

THEY DID NOT COMBAT THEIR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS BEFORE BUILDING INFRASTUCTURE.

IT WAS THE INFRASTRUCTURAL REVOLUTION THEY EMBARKED ON, AT GREAT COST TO THE PEOPLE (INDEED UNDER COMMUNIST MILITARY DICTATORSHIP) THAT LED TO THEIR ECONOMIC EXPANSION.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU NEED TO BUILD WEALTH AS A NATION. TO GROW YOUR NATIONAL INCOME AND ANNUAL BUDGET.

YOU CANNOT SIT DOWN ON A 30 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET WHEN COUNTRIES LIKE THE USA HAVE A 7 TRILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL BUDGET, UK, 2 TRILLION, FRANCE, 2 TRILLION, SOUTH AFRICA 120 BILLION, ETC.

SO YOU MUST INCREASE YOUR NATIONAL INCOME.

THE OIL INCOME IS A PITTANCE FOR YOUR HUGE POPULATION.

HOW DO YOU INCREASE THAT INCOME?

BY CREATING A LARGE NUMBER OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, AS BUSINESSES PAY TAX, WHILE GENERATING EMPLOYMENT.

THE COASTAL ROAD WILL ATTRACT MULTIPLE INVESTORS FROM HOME AND ABROAD.

THAT IS HOW DEVELOPMENT WORKS!

CommonSense1967:
Abandoned like the Lagos train system or like Eko Atlantic that is now the home to the largest US embassy in the whole world? May be like the Free trade zone that is home to the largest refinery in the world. Ok maybe like the like the Lekki Seaport. All these projects have Tinubus's brain and hands on them.

You keep going back while we move forward.

ONNYX:
Apt!

My very position here.

It has nothing to do with political or ethnic
affiliation. This project is ill timed. Yes I understand that government is spending very little on the project......but even that little could draw us humongous benefits even if it just carefully and judiciously deployed to the Medical sector.

I mean look at the news the world still reads from Nigeria in 2024; just yesterday a child with an emergency could not be treated because of some stupid pecuniary excuse.

DCmonster:
APC is using Marxist style to rule Nigeria.
Distracting the citizens with propaganda while they languish in severe Poverty and suffering, promising them that it's a sacrifice for the betterment of the country. If you speak against their propaganda they will tag you Igbo or omoale who doesn't want the good of the country.
Many of their online warriors don't even realise that they are being used
This fool that wrote this article actually tried to compare Niger Delta terrain to this.

CommonSense1967:
So you rather tackle poverty and hunger by giving out food palatives and 50k handouts instead of investing in projects that will get you employed where you can actually make real money and ffed yourself?

This is the kind of shallow thinking that you get from Nigeria's so called "educated" youths then you wonder why the country if fvcked up.

The worst thing that politicians have done to Nigerians is those stupid moronic handouts that will only feed you for a week or two. INshed of giving you a fish , ask to be shown how to fish and you can eat for a long time.
Investments, will bring jobs directly and indirectly, people will get salaries and spend those salaries on products and services thereby creating more jobs .

LegendHero:
So all the years that we’ve not built coastal highway, did the government used the money to cure poverty?

Why is there poverty in Nigeria in 1960? Did they used the money to build coastal road too?

That coastal road will come to pass. It won’t stop government from spending on other roads and etc if they want to.

Rather than just embezzle the money for his cronies, Tinubu is opening new frontiers but you guys keep wailing daily. Maybe he should have just steal the money and hand it to his friends, like that no one will even know anything is missing until he is gone.

Imagine government creating new roads and you guys are crying. Would you rather they embezzle it all so you can be happy?

Smartcitizen:
Hahaha!


This was how we were told of the INEC BVAS and so much money invested that later became the biggest election fraud in the history of Nigeria.


NIGERIA HAS THE BIGGEST FOOLS IN THE WORLD.

They can easily be fooled.

Chidolalar:
Messi d undisputed GOAT has already completed football. Every other thing he is doing now is just bonus and re-completing football.
Imagine a playmaker with 800+ goals and still counting.
Imagine a playmaker with d highest number of goal contributions and still counting.
Imagine a playmaker with the highest completed dribbles in football history and still counting.
Imagine a playmaker with d highest number of balloon d'or, European golden shoe,league golden shoe, man of the match award, and highest number of MVP in international tournaments.
There will never be a player like Messi till they kingdom comes.
Ronaldo might be your GOAT based on emotions which is quite understandable but realistically Messi remains d undisputed GOAT based on facts, stats, game play, individual awards, individual records and team trophies.

Chidolalar:
Lol. When Netherlands equalized, they were celebrating and hoping Messi will be eliminated and didn't remember fifa dat time oh😂😂😂😂
When France equalized 2-2 they didn't remember fifa that time but when Messi finally won d world cup they now brought out baseless fabricated fifa conspiracy theories to console their burning and everlasting pain😂😂😂😂
Losers.

CommonSense1967:
Oponu, it's too complex for you to comprehend. it went over your head.it's above your pay grade. Keep moving with your zero IQ empty skull.

BYE

ThierryJay:
Agenda dead on arrival. Messi singlehandedly won them the MLS cup, their first ever trophy, last season. He is gonna win them the league this season.

This same team (NYRB) beat Inter Miami a whopping 4-0 when Messi was injured and Suarez played that match. Well, GOAT came back and showed them why they call him the Supreme player of all time.

CommonSense1967:
I hope you were joking when you typed the bolded part.

Capital projects have been used in many parts of the world to jinja up slow economics. When you build capital projects such as this roads it affects almost every aspect of the economy - cement factories will have to increase their production, raw materials for cement will be sourced, and local businesses for that raw material will benefit. Iron producers will benefit, fuel suppliers and producers will benefit, engineers and other road construction workers will benefit, food sellers will benefit because they have to feed the workers, and the list is endless
This will help circulate money hard earned money into the economy and act as a catalyst for economic growth.
Now, when the road is done, more and more people will move closer to those areas that have been empty for thousands of years, and businesses will spring up in many areas that have never seen human traffic before. The effect is unimaginable, it will change the Nigerian economy on a monumental scale. A brewery? Are you really serious?
Comparing this to a beer factory must be an attempt on your part to be comedic ...I will just laugh out loud.

CommonSense1967:
If you borrow money to build capital projects, that's perfectly ok.

Do you know that Nigeria was borrowing money to pay salaries towards the end of the Jonathan administration? Borrowing to pay salaries? Yes, they did. The finance minister at that time said clearly.

There is no logic in your argument. I live in the US and I can tell you that the US govt is the highest debtor on the face of the planet, I used to work for the US federal govt. They will always borrow money to build capital projects because they know that those capital projects such as roads, schools, and the like will bring more development and create an enabling business environment for businesses to thrive. When businesses thrive, the govt will get more taxes from those businesses, and employed people will also pay taxes. That's how you develop.
Nigeria has thousands of coastal lines that are wasting away right now. How many people do you know that are even thinking of investing along the coastline in other states besides Lagos? I don't know a single person.
With this road, many other areas will become economically viable not just Lagos, people will build hotels and other businesses along the coast in Ondo, Edo, Delta, Ogun, rivers, and others.
This is what you call out-of-the-box innovative thinking. Individuals borrow money to start businesses all over the world, govt also borrow money to build capital projects not to pay salaries.

The vast majority of those against this project are from the SE, so don't try to blame others for what is very obvious.
It also begs the obvious question - why didn't they bring up such objections when Buhari was building the 2nd Niger bridge? Was Nigeria not broke, was Nigeria not borrowing money, didn't we have many other roads in Nigeria that needed attention at that time?
To make it worse, the leader of these blind hypocrites is Obi. Now, this is a man who invested 30 MILLION DOLLARS into HERO BEER in Anambra while the state was facing many crucial issues such as erosion, bad roads, bad schools, doctors on strike for 13 months, and many more issues, yet he thought it was ok to invest that kind of money into a brewery.


vanguardngr. com/2015/05/govt-borrows-n473bn-to-meet-up-with-recurrent-expenditure-says-okonjo-iweala/

Ikpongiton:
If Tinubu can complete this project and touch no other thing I still consider him as the world best

Nightwolf1:
The common sense crooner is now senseless.

We are saying that the existing roads leading from Cross River State to Lagos State and the numerous bad roads across the country should be fixed.
The coastal highway shouldn't be a problem for now.


People are dying on these bad roads yet the govt priority is a coastal highway that we all know wouldn't be completed in 20yrs to come.

How is that a bad idea if I may ask Ben?

In a bid to support criminality they start sounding like uneducated people.

If this coastal highway is not all about criminality, they should equally award instant repairs for all the bad roads in the country and release a whooping 1 trillion naira to start up immediate work on them.

nenergy:
Can't be my family. They just want me to bring someone, even if its Mia Khalifa

stuffs2002:
She don old na...
Would you be happy if it were your brother getting married to an old woman with that much mileage.
An actress who had lived a reckless life sef

Stop being very wicked

smallrincowis16:
You're really displaying ignorance

ebufa:
ezi na ozu !!! kindly pick one! bloody douche bag!

countryman13:
Anchored on or not, Govt's influence cant be ruled out. u re simply saying dt Nigeria cant b good again. Abi u think say go come down from heaven ni? Life na jeje n surely e go better!

ebufa:
premium mumu YOU ARE!1

olusegun1990:
You have spoken well from your perspective and the first paragraph already identify who you are, the post was never in support of government, party, tribe or any affiliation, it is a pure economic observation that you should have asked for more knowledge about, but you choose to be blind to the economic reality happening to the Nigeria economy or perhaps have almost no knowledge about how the macro-economic of Nigeria runs, but i will advice that you don't just tag people "propagandist" always learn before you type.

casualobserver:
The reason an employer can offer a graduate N100k is because they do not rate you and if you say no another Nigerian university graduate will accept. Even my driver earns more than N100k. The problem you people with Nigerian degrees have is that you cannot apply for the jobs where those with good degrees apply and those with good degrees don’t apply for the low level jobs you apply for.

AskNgige2:
Na frustration de worry u..
I de my zuba chop de cash out with my motor spare parts..

U are here killing yourself for a made man...
Efulefu who doesn't have links of livelihood

😂

ebufa:
Black Africans especially Nigerians are so daft,it beggars belief......Chai, see as white man they mess us up on both ends of the supply chain.........we sell cheap and bunkered crude oil to them...........while they sell us expensive but dirty fuel to us.............the devil and demons that brought fulani to power in Nigeria no go die better!

casualobserver:
If you are earning less than 100k it just shows your degree is useless.

casualobserver:
She should go and find another job nah! The people that gave her target and are paying her what they pay her do so because staff are 2 a penny. Staff are 2 a penny because most have useless degrees and are unemployable.

The reality is that if she could have gotten a better job, she won’t be doing marketing g job where we all know what you are really selling is sex. If you are a graduate with a good degree from a good university you will not be on N350k

olusegun1990:
Anyone that understands how the economy works will know that constant palliative and increased minimum wage is a bad way to help the economy -especially one like Nigeria's(in the long-run). Albeit that doesn't mean it's not useful in the short-run.

To begin, palliative is meant to ease the effect of a negative shock in the economy temporarily as government forge a long term plan to ease the shock or pressure on the people, but when has palliative ever been equitably distributed -those who need it the most are the least to get. We may even consider the additional fact that constant government interference leads to lazy masses -there's a popular adage that goes do not give me fish but instead teach me how to catch fish, a better approach would be if instead government employed more people through capital projects.

Secondly, Increasing minimum wage has an inflationary effect, the increased minimum wage is mostly by the government and some big organizations, an increased in minimum wage without a corresponding value brings about inflation. The market men/women in a bid to get their own share will increased market prices, if you still have children in school, the school administrator will increased the school fees of your children in order to meet up with increased salary demand and other logistics demand prices that have risen, if you are still a tenant, your landlord will increase the house rent to also get his own share of the increased minimum wage and it goes on like that like that, at the end of the day minimum wage will even make you worse off than making you better off.

countryman13:
Meaning Ur days ahead will be terrible compared to d present. Let me quickly reminds you that my today is far better than my yesterday and for real,, there are better days ahead of me. It's not a prayer but REALTY! MO S'OPE TEMI OOOO!

chronique:
The word to use us that NATO is not officially fighting a war with Russia. They are however fighting a war with Russia, covertly. You listen to the words of the NATO secretary general and the US defense hierarchy and how they say it's cheaper for them to use Ukraine to fight Russia so as to weaken Russia cos it's cheaper for them to use Ukraine... They also repeat statements like Russia must not win in Ukraine as that would amount to a NATO defeat to Russia in Ukraine.

StOla:
What does the South of Nigeria truly want?

We lament that a Northerner built roads even into Niger Republic and sited many projects in his region.

Now a Southerner is in power and providing good projects that are not minimalist infrastructure, yet those lamenting the most are the same Southerners who lamented against the Northerner.