₦airaland Forum

DMerciful:
Its just a normal road, no special economic prospect esp if it will be tolled.

This road will not be completed in 25yrs and you know it.

True, 30 years is even my suggested completion date

abc115:
God Bless former President Buhari
God Bless President Bola Tinubu
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

You spoilt it by mentioning tinubu. It was Buhari's effort from start to finish. The contractors were busy at work even before and after Tinubu's inauguration. It was a contract which was to be completed at a deadline so, Tinubu had no influence on it.

Buhari's government may not have done much. I give him kudos on road construction

YeyeGbami:
Even War torn Libya!!!

Dey play. Libya is bouncing back but silently. They've sent almost all the illegal immigrants back to their countries, including Nigerians

Thanks to North Africans for covering Africans up. Even Ghana and Gabon dey the list. O ga ooo

My assembly plant is situated along the lagos-ibadan expressway. E get why . If you don't belong to the lagos landlord's the clique (who won't live forever), you're in trouble

motymop:
Government is only paying compensation to those who have valid documents and whose land got encroached on.

Government isn't paying anyone who encroached on the sea shores.

Also the compensation for those who were affected is around 1,420,751.40 USD ( 2 Billion naira) not millions of dollars

I've spoken my mind. You sounded in your long message as if those who built there built illegally, including landmark, the beauty of lagos beaches

motymop:
Tayo aina doesn't know what he talking about, those people sponsors his youtube channel, so he cant speak ill of them even though they are breaking the law.

In Europe, and America or even south africa, you can not build on a property just because you bought the land, you need to have the right permit and government approved documents.

Landmark isn't a tourist destination. Landmark is just like a small beach side resort for those who can afford it. and lets not talk about the overpriced and exploiting restaurants and cafe along that oniru beach shorelines

How many tourist visit landmark? majority of customers in landmark are Nigerians

it unfortunate that some people have spined these stuff into a tribal issue but along that shores, lot of restaurants, shops and also shanties will also be destroyed.

if we take into consideration, the effort the lagos and federal government took to reclaim most of that land from the ocean, they spent billions of naira doing that, but then how can you now claim ownership of something that has a master plan and the government have spent billions of dollars in doing.

Have you ever thought why there are no beach front house properties in Nigeria? it is because of the landuse acts and the claim that from 250M from the beach shore, the government owns it.

so why spin the news into something tribal, when you know you are breaking the land use act and also the government master plan

With all these your epistle, why is the government paying a compensation of millions of dollars to them around that place, if those lands were acquired illegally? Can any government pay compensation on illegal structures demolished?

You're one of the problems of your generation. Do have a rethink.

iSense247:
I agree with you sir. But don't you think some of these things can be achieved by the state governors? Despite having federal air and sea ports, governor sanwo olu is still planning to build state air and sea ports. It's not as if these governors don't have the resources to do so. Some oil producing states in Nigeria are making more money than some African countries. What are they using the money to do?

Nigeria economy depends on three things: oil, electricity and dollar. There's nothing bad in state government building mini refineries even if it will serve only their state capital for a start. They can also generate electricity. The governors are not doing enough and their body language is not attractive investors into these areas. FG cannot do all.

Yes, you're right but our politicians aren't futuristic.
They only aspire to get there and steal and not to serve. There's a place in Germany called Bad Ems, under which there's a small town called Gackenbach. The place is a replica of lokoja. They rake-in millions of euro yearly from tourism in that place alone. Hotels also sell well. There's an elevator that starts from the beginning of the mointain, up to the mountain top, where you find hotels and fun parks. The top is as flat as lokoja mountain top, where they have the confluence fm owned by Tunde Ogbeha. I had driven to that place before, even snapped the Lord Lugard's house there.

Yahaya bello saw all these potentially but looked the other way and he called himself a dynamic youth governor. He just acted like his predecessors. He needs to be sent to jail by stealing the kogi state's money. Politics in Nigeria is business oriented. 99% of our politicians cand survive without Politics.

iSense247:
South-southeast region of Nigeria is landlocked. I have never been to UAE before. And what about you?

I think this is not a question but a statement. I hope you know that UAE and most countries in the Persian gulf are not landlocked like Southeast region of Nigeria.

What is the priority of dredging a river when there's no functioning ports in coastal states? That would be similar to the ongoing 700km coastal road embarked upon by Tinubu. He should instead use the money to rehabilitate federal roads and sea ports across the country.

Your last paragraph makes me believe we're on same page, especially the last sentence of it. I've been to UAE several times. The Jabel Ali Port, which is the 9th busiest sea port in the world is man made.

For economic reasons, some steps can be taken in order to counterbalance this. Jabel Ali port location used to be a desert before they invited the ocean by dredging. The ocean was several kms away from that place. It was as far as lagos to Ondo state. They achieved this through dredging which took years. Today, its the main port serving the entire Middle east( and that was the economic advantage they foresaw).

I'm not from the south east but I think if dredging could be done on the river Niger, which already had a sea channel unlike the jabel ali port before formation, this can be achieved too, more easily. Lagos port will be decongested. I've been to America too, several times. I know the NY port. America didn't concentrate all their ports in NY. With dredging, Lokoja port would serve the north, onitsha port will serve the SE, Koko Port will complement the activities in Onne, Ondo port will complement that of Lagos and spread development and industrialisation.

The federal govt doesn't even need to be fully involved in these. With PPP, they will achieve this. For effective management and increased revenue, they should hand the ports over to private companies , like they did nitel in those days, the decision which Nigerians will remain thankful for.

See the jobs it had created, what of revenues it had generated to the FG over the years? Before then, a gateman at nitel owned mansions. They kept shortchanging the FG.

frankson1:
Why not mention states in the S/E like you mentioned other states

Anambra. Hope you're happy now

iSense247:
Can you create a Sea port in a landlocked region?

Which region is landlocked? Have you been to UAE before?UAE that dredged to the ocean bed and invited a pull of ocean to their doorstep and turned it into a world class sea port? River Niger was better, compared to the arid( desert) land where they created a pathway for the ocean to reach them. Yaradua was a president Nigeria never had. He approved the dredging of the river Niger up to lokoja. I remember that day. Successive governments simply abandoned the project.

We're just not ready for growth in Nigeria yet. In less than a decade, they'd make double that investment in profit if they can dredge. It can be extended to Lokoja, which happens to be Anambra's neighbor . I've been to the river Niger spot in lokoja where there's confluence hotel. I once saw a boat that came from onitsha and returning with passengers.

Tribalism, bigotry and the likes have caused Nigeria a lot of setbacks, which had caused several nations who couldn't wear our shoes to leave us behind. Sadly, we're yet to learn any lesson from it. This cuts across all tribes. No one is exempted.

Even baba go slow regime is much better than that of Tinubu, the self acclaimed Mr magic

People, Google witch doctor by Patricia majelika. Indomie generations weren't born when she samg that song.

SA and witchcraft with rituals eeh!

Waste of resources it is. Why not use the money to create more sea ports to decongest lagos port. Create one in Ondo, modernise the one at Koko in delta state and another one in the S/E. The ROI would have been massive.

But he won't do that because his company hitech would lose out of the project. He won't see anything to eat.

What do you expect from the corrupt propagandist? Someone who had been using the Lagos-owned airport and 4th mainland bridge to campaign for nearly 30 years now, on approaching every election time in Lagos. The airport, we no see, the 4th mainland bridge, we no see. We only see them in 3Ds ,8Ds etc.

By the way, has the UAE visa ban been lifted now?

What of the Qatar's investors coming to Nigeria? Are they here already?

Anyone who believes the coastal road will exceed 2 states in his tenure must still be under the bondage of his lies. The lagos-ibadan expressway, that is less than 200km, which Jonathan started is yet to be completed, 9 years after. That coaster road project, after being awarded to Tinubu's company called hitech, won't be completed in 3 decades.

emkz:
Olumide Akpata, this is not a good way to start.

You have just made enemies of Edo students of Uniben. Do not repeat that mistake in Ambrose Alli Unuversity.

Whether you like it or not, the student population have numbers and influence you don't want to lose.

At this time, you need a seasoned election campaign manager and image maker. You need a strategist to plot the road for you. One of your first major outing should not have ended in bad press.

A seasoned campaign manager would have met the SUG leadership, had a chat with them, give them money for drinks and negotiate with them not to disrupt things. You must anticipate these things. It is sadly the way of our politics.

You need to know the opinion leaders in these institutions and if you can't get them to support you, get them not to disrupt you or those who support you.

So far, your entire campaign reeks of inexperience and lack of tact.

In your opinion? It doesn't count. Those invaders were sponsored and it won't stop him

helinues:
Where is Peter Obi?

Abi, as Northerners have refused to be responsible for their own woes, they are waiting for outsiders to come and help them

The one he did was destroyed by your party bad belle people and the same went to tell Nigerians the borehole wasn't working. If he goes to kano to sink boreholes, it will still be sabotaged.

Hustling won't kill a man, hard work won't kill a man, success won't kill a man, educational background and plenty of degrees garnered wont kill a man.

The only thing everyman must be running away from is sex(not women). Sex will wreck what a man has been brooding for his entire life and could dash his future and hope for ever.

Have business dealings or relationship with women and let it end there. Hire them but with no strings attached. They're not at fault 99% of the time as they're not the ones forcing men into it. They're human beings created by God but men need to always be careful.

BERNIMOORE:
edo no be lagos proponents in 2020 are now withrawing their support one by one, Edo will return to Lagos control Master, the Jagaban.... Obaseki knows inside him that his candidate is Going nowhere......lets do the Maths, Oshiomole's Camp is gainining more Solid men from the delapidated PDP, wIKE will not spend a dime this time around, Shuaibu support will not go to PDP, Oba of Benin is not in good terms with Obaseki after the returned Artifacts from UK Obaseki embarrased him...PLUS The power of the Presidency .......not this weak PDP can wrestle anything from the FG

You spoilt it by mentioning tinubu. Tinubu in edo, lol

Most of those who voted him didn't know him, including the Northerners who fell for his muslim-muslim ticket tricks . Come and ask us in lagos. That's why he didn't win here. We shouted, our elders did, but they didn't hear

I always wonder why they always tag Obi, who said people shouldn't vote him based on his faith but based in his credibility, a religous bigot and spare tinubu, the real bigot.

See as his dogs are barking at asari now, but when he supported tinubu, they showered praises on him. Anyone sho says the basic truth about tinubu is their enemies. Una go get sense someday

jjcena:
One built a railway from his state to Niger Republic, this one is building a coastal road from his state to other coastal states. When it gets to my turn, I'll build a tunnel road from my state to China

As a yorubaman, I see this as a Greek gift so, don't feel sad yet. It won't take less than 2 decades to complete and by then, we don dey old. Come to lagos and see how long it took to get where they are today on the lagos rail project. 1999 till date is how many years now? 4th mainland bridge tinubu has been using to campaign to steal our votes every 4 years has been talked about several times. As I speak, they're still on masterplan brouhaha.

Lagos-ibadan expressway nko? This is the 3rd administration and it's not yet completed. How many years is that? They wat to use the coastal road project to steal money by inflating the contract 3 times its actual cost. Hitech, which is Tinubu's construction firm will get a lion's share. They will now win gullible souls to vote them in 2027 again by pointing to the road project which will cut across many regions where they have low support as part of their achievement. If you fall for it, na you sabi

Reflect7:
So you think that when deals are reached, you should start seeing results straight away, and it will be in the news and on nairaland and on your doorstep?

Do you know that for major projects, preliminary work can take up to two years before actual construction starts?

Naive, simple-minded man with a big mouth.

See this one. You know nothing ok? We do projects too, even cross-border ones. All you hear is audio. Did I hear you say such news won't come on NL? News fly like wildfire from the mouths of your likes, stop lying. You'd not hesitate to jump here on NL to post. I remember when you guys were jubilating over false hope on lifting of the UAE visa ban. So, that lifting takes ages to perfect too? Lol


Enough said!

SoNature:
It's not about Tinubu's ministers; it's about the attitude of Nigerians towards public service. Nigerians don't come to public offices to serve - they come to lazy about, gossip and loot.

Imagine the NCAA boss appointment yesterday, who bought a Toyota Landcruiser for himself.

Iremis:
Please joor this government is working.

The second news that made that made the day for so many people was the Bodo - Bonny road.

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What happened to those deals he secured in dubai, quatar? Has Emirates resumed flight to nigerian route yet? What of visa ban, has it been lifted now? Stop jubilating over deceit. Investors aren't daft. Dey play.

Vulcan24:
The smaller one would mean the Landcruiser Prado, VXR 70th Edition brand new 2022 is 135m
The 2021 is 109m

Prado 2.7L TXL - 118m
Prado 4.0L VX-L- 128m

Pls note Prado is different from Landcruiser Prado.

Thanks for the info. I was actually talking of Prado. The 4.0L VXL is my target. I'm comparing prices. What year/edition did you quote? I don't like 2023 model for a reason. 2021/2022 is OK. I'd be in the US soon and survey too. Whatever it is, I'd revert . Thanks

What happened to his inaugural speech....subsidy..is gaan?. Since I've been traveling to cotonou, I've never heard of petrol scarcity or queues, Kenya too. Hopeless government deceiving their hopeless supporters

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popweezy:
I hope it's not that the world has ended already and this country happens to be the hell they are talking about because I can't actually figure how a big sovereign state like Nigeria would be going through all these hardships

In fact, to say I'm speechless is an understatement. Go to Benin Republic where they claimed they were diverting our petrol to. There's fuel everywhere. They import petrol too. I wonder how we got here as a nation. Nigeria isn't the Africa's largest economy anymore. Check it

In his voice...subsidy is gaan . Why are we still experiencing fuel scarcity and long queues as seen across the nation today? Propaganda,.Propaganda and Propaganda. His supporters must learn by force.

Yesterday, it was dstv hiking their subscription and they started screaming and I know why. They don't joke with football. When multinationals were leaving in droves, the didn't bother cos they're so myopic and jobless.

Now, electricity tariff hike is on the front burner and they're kicking. By the time they can't afford the new electricity tariff, and petrol isn't there to fuel generator to play game lottery and dstv subscription is steering them in the face, they'd understand the consequences of making a bad choice.

SoNature:
These politicians are the same people who share USD during their national conventions. When elections are over, they start mopping up USD ahead of the next elections. I wrote earlier and I am writing it again: if these politicians want naira to grow, they know what to do. Ban all Nigerian businesses from asking Nigerians to pay in USD and criminalize the spending of physical USD in Nigeria.

Afterwards, you will see the results after 6 months. But they won't do this because they will be the biggest casualties. Those pretending to be working for the progress of this country are too many. We even see their riffraffs here defending them. That's why Nigeria can never genuinely make progress.

Tinubu is the major problem of Nigeria, not even buhari. He was same person who went and picked buhari and singly flew him in his jet all over and campaigned for him, spreading lies and propaganda in 2015, just to earn people's vote. He went as far as the Chatham house to redeem the former dictator's image in the eyes of the world

Now, the propaganda continues. Tinubu gave 25kUSD to every delegate, just to win the primaries.

In a decent country, he'd be arrested, same as atiku

Patch-patch government

Ijaya123:
Nothing new here. I know some homes as at 3 years ago who were paying N150,000 monthly for uninterrupted power supply in a ne of the estates in Lagos.

Stop lying. Only a factory will pay that amount in that location. I live in an estate under 33" in lag and I don't pay more than 30k monthly even with the AC constantly on whenever we are around. We enjoy light up to 22hrs daily. At times, light won't blink in 3 days