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biafra oyoyo....

emeke....

kiikii....

Tranquillity360:
you are just a full.


Did your buhari start the work.

Someone in Osogbo will be telling ME what happens in the site at my back yard.

haha....

calm your funky biafran assss down....

abusin me will not give you biafra....

gidgiddy:
Freedom of expression is enshrined in the constitution of Nigeria. Anyone is allowed to protest for whatever reason. If IPOB wants to protest that Snow should fall in Nigeria, it is their right.

that right was takin away from them,remember proscrition....??

NimrodEndOfDays:
Nigeria will not be a country forever.

biafra is a thing to earn money....nothing special....
if you realy want it,then you must fight for it....

their is no other way....
even cownunu doesnt believe in getting biafra in a peaceful way....

Jasparrow1:
There is no city in Kenya that can come close to Enugu I development. comparing Enugu with any city in Kenya Is an insult to Africa. Enugu has railway station, Brt, airport, good road network. Which city in Kenya apart from nairobi has railway station, brt and airport. Even the so called nairobi doesn't have brt bus Enugu is Fvcking planned and greenery. No city in Kenya that's planned and greenery

i just remembered now....
i visited a kenyan lady in europe and she had a big picture of nairobi in the sitting room....

i was wonderin back then why is it so important to have a picture of a city....

its not common....
do they realy have only nairobi....??

you will not see a nigerian hangin a picture of a city in the sitting room....

wat....

naptu2:
My apologies for the number of pictures that I’m going to post. I have a lot more pictures on the subject, but I’m going to try to post only a few pictures.

Let’s begin with the issue of ships.

1) That bridge will go over the Lagos Lagoon and the Lagos Lagoon is heavily silted and consequently, it is too shallow for ships to sail there. (Some independent “experts” brought up this issue when Governor Fashola was talking about moving goods from the Lekki Free Trade Zone by barge. I’ll come to that issue later).

2) Before any ship can get to the location where the bridge will be built, it’ll first have to sail under several bridges that are around the same height as the proposed 4th Mainland Bridge. If the ship chooses to sail via the Five Cowrie Creek, it’ll have to sail under the Independence Bridge (Onikan), the Five Cowrie Bridge (Falomo) and the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge before it can get to where the 4th Mainland Bridge is. If It chooses to use the Elegbeta Channel, it’ll have to sail unde the Eko Bridge, the Carter Bridge and the 3rd Mainland Bridge before it can get to where the 4th Mainland Bridge is.

These bridges are too low for ships with high masts to sail under and that’s because the people that built the bridges knew that the Lagos Lagoon is too shallow for large ships.


Now, let’s come to the issue of boats.

I was posting about the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and someone brought up this issue that it was too low for boats to sail under. I knew that that’s not true, but I could also understand how the person could make that mistake. I took a lot of pictures of the bridge at that time, so I’ll use the pictures to illustrate the point. If you look at this picture below, you would think that the bridge is too low for boats to sail under.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758799_15546061465115800412389187234386943765879n_jpeg8fbe377b301b2695d5cbaaea7d2ba344

However, this is just a section of the bridge. This is the section that runs alongside the shoreline. The section of the bridge that spans the Five Cowrie Creek is actually much higher. In fact, another person on the 2014 thread complained that it was too steep. Boats can easily sail under that section that is high.

The four biggest boats that sail on the Five Cowrie Creek and the Lagos Lagoon are the Nire Prest (Prest Lunch and Dinner Cruise), Sea Cat and Dangote and Otedola’s identical yachts (Mariya and Nana). I have seen all four of them sail under the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge and I have pictures of the Prest and one of the yachts (I don’t know if it’s Dangote’s or Otedola’s because they are identical) sailing under the bridge.

Look at this picture here. This is the Prest preparing to sail under the bridge. You can see from this picture that the bridge slants upward. Note that the Prest is much bigger than it appears in this picture (as you’ll see later in this post).

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758793_1055339814651159637457068202829441459638781n_jpeg51ece0b08dab600adda2855803793472

The Prest is a double decker boat that’s used for birthday parties, conferences and other social activities. It also does a lunch and dinner cruise. There’s space for a kitchen and they also have a live band on board. I went out on Id El Maulud 2014 and got pictures of the boat as it was going under the bridge. Coincidentally, a man on a jet ski was chasing the boat as I took pictures and when I posted the pictures on social media a friend asked me when I took them. I told him and he said that he was the one on the jet ski.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758777_15097121015224934542279012907729n_jpeg2ca8160ad10b2d5a959adaacb434d039

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758778_1656227101522493456227901700000975n_jpeg25306943ef8dd88803ee3523235e0e3e

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758779_1925232101522493457427901624429464n_jpeg6672d6f829b48ab21447ef9fdaf9ef00

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758780_161943510152249345902790121646299n_jpegcee1166bb193a557385190f8ad000c90

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758786_1779207101522493465927901520856977n_jpeg655b7be102641d8263b61178e6ebbc27

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I took this picture from the Prest Lunch and Dinner Cruise website to show you how big the boat is. None of the boats of the Lagos Ferry Service is as big as this, even though they are also quite big.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10758794_prestlunchanddinnercruise139353_jpegf666e22e86de824d97efbf364c146d10

http://www.prestcruiseng.com/

Finally, I revived this thread when I posted a link to this thread on another thread. However, this wasn’t the thread that I was initially searching for. There’s an older thread about this bridge and it provides more details. There was an image on that thread that showed that the 4th Mainland Bridge would also be a cable stayed bridge and it will also have a high section that boats can sail under.


In fact, barges often take containers across the Lagos Lagoon, despite the presence of all these bridges. There is a liter terminal at Ikorodu and another one at Epe. Containers are taken by barge from Apapa Port and Tin Can Island Port to these terminals in order to decongest the ports. Those barges sail under these bridges. Governor Fashola stated that goods will also be moved from the Lekki Free Trade Zone and Lekki Port across the Lagoon by barges.

wtf is wrong with you....??
am talkin about that bridge is too low desighned,you are talking about shallow and showin me yachts....

shey na everybody have a yacht....??

dont tell me you are a expatriwetin moroon....

Tranquillity360:
God bless Gej for starting the bridge.


If not for that wicked man called buhari who stopped work immediately he enter in 2015 only to resume in the end of 2017 with snailly process.by now the bridge would have been ready.

haha....on paper,yes....

soo,we should congrat the buffon for bringin it on paper....??

giant of nothing....

ATTemi:
Honestly this are same pictures from last year but taken from different angle!

I stand to be corrected.

haha....

this will lead nowhere and even make things much worse for ipob....
2 police officers were killed....

and people are pointin fingers at ipob....

NimrodEndOfDays:
Then let it be infinite.

kiikii....

you mean constant bashin of ipob....??

dont worry,nigeria will bash them till kingdom comes....

that bridge in san fransisco is the best option for a place like lagos....

naptu2:
I'm exercising right now. I'll answer your question when I get home. People asked this question about the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge, so I went to the bridge to take pictures so that I could explain it to them. I'll do the same here when I get back.

okay....

enjoy....

i dont agree with that....
problem with nigeria is,people to obey rules....and i dont mean only the politicians sef,even common people....

whats not so bad in america compard to nigeria....

if they survived george bush,they will survive buhari too....

that guy george bush was soo weird....

they are proscribed....
this will only lead to clashes that will not end....

wetin dey worry this kind of politicians....??
must you become emotional in everything....??

i dont understand nothing....
what type of people are this....??

and we should have voted them again....??
thats crazy talks....

anybody associated with this party na wahala....
ghan....

look china....
they will not allow expatriwetin people desighn their stuffs for them....

they say how they want it,or they tell you to fvck off....!!

this is what you nigerians should do too....

how can you design stuffs that blocks water transport....??

go study bridges in america....
do they build them like this....??

then why are they desighnin this for you....??

we have many indigenious architects,but una dont use them....

when you told to dont allow those expatriwetin desighn una stuffs,then una shout bloody murder....
how can i be the only nigerian on this thread that noticed this misdesighn....??

una dont trust una selves but una trust those expatriwetin thieves....

naptu2:
Do you have any idea where the bridge is that you are asking if ships can pass under it?? What ships??

must not be ships....ferries....big boats....something....
i have noticed this for a while now....

all bridges are so near to the water....
how can anything pass underneath....??

when americans design bridges,they design it that ships can pass underneath....

nigeria....??....mbanu....

na una dey congest una own selfs....

does that bridge looks like ships can pass under it....??

nearly all bridges are desighned like this....??

who desighns this bridges that dont allow ships to pass....??

when we told them that fee dee fee is useless,they will not listen....

abegi,dash them to au....let them go do au politics....
just not in nigeria....

Ikinternational:
Mr WE, I doubt seriously you can even control a lady.

But online party leaders come to your house to brief you n pay homage

Such imaginations..

and who told you i have any interest to control a lady....??

jln115:
You said coloureds try to be white!! Thus I asked you which coloureds remove their front teeth!!

Anyway they remove it because they think it looks sexy(the passion gap) , apparently its better for or@l sex to......

chai,chai....boelboel....

haha....

jln115:
at least now I know how to summon you!!

chai....

boelboel....

kiikii....

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
another suffering and smiling lover

am your fan,joor....

when you are around things are not that borin no more....

that,i must let you....

you,comedian....

this shows that nigeria is not that connected well to all rural areas....
atleast he visit and do something

Jimi24:
We should refit / upgrade Aradu. The figures being quoted as the estimate of doing the work are a scam. I am of the opinion that $130m should be enough for life extension of structure, new radar, ASW equipment and other systems
People were trying to steal funds that was why the figure was so high

that always happens in nigeria....everybody want their share....
its normal....

haha....look how sufferandsmile dey watch from a corner....