₦airaland Forum

Shine u Eye: Gbawe is fast becoming the master of regurgitating "news spin" from APC ministry of propaganda.


Anyone in APC is a good man jare, even if Satan join them.

emiye: Some of you ethnic bigots purely because of bitterness think it is cool poke-nosing on developmental projects in SW to castigate and belittle it, but sincerely, it is your regions loss. You are losing so much energy you ought to have used to put your region leaders in check.

dayorx: Most people seem to forget that Rauf Aregbesola was commissioner for works in lagos under Bola Tinubu for X years. He has massive experience in construction, most roads on lagos island, Ikoyi n V.I were reconstructed n rehabilitated by him. So d dude knows his onions...

REHOZIBAH: Pls can someone help fix that tundeolaniyi guy for good with a generational ban? We are discussing anambra guber,the enfant-terrible is talking something else

REHOZIBAH: The agents and apostle of doom who have been on the mountain all this while praying and wishing that APC doesn't get it right at the primaries can now come down as God has turned their ahitophel's counsel to nought!

agbameta: We are even yet to get into all the side expenses before construction sef.


The thing is, I really don't mind honest and sensible criticisms of government actions and spending where applicable, but not when it's based on just lame talk, ignorance and warped thoughts as if the rest of us are just dummies and mumu with no brains.

This is one thing Nairaland has shown me. Nigerians are ignorantly stubborn and never willing to defer to facts, specialist knowledge, superior logic, real examples and proven reality. Go to chat blogs of other African nations. You will find them equally passionate but you will note that contributors ultimately defer to superior logic, facts and proven reality. Not so Nigerians.

Pukkah: This says it all.

There was a thread on which I questioned the average sum of about N144million per kilometre which Peter Obi of Anambra planned to spend on some roads.

Many posters said that the cost was reasonable.

I left the thread because I didn't have the facts to support my feelings.

It's as simple as that.

agbameta: You can not assert that this is an over bloated project simply because you are yet to show us precisely what you based that conclusion. Is it cost comparison with similar project, similar terrain, similar workforce, cost of goods, supplies and materials, cost of labor and so n.

Until you are able to provide all that to back up your warped claims, you are spewing nothing but your own brand of ignorance.

agbameta: Again, the amount spent on any bridge has nothing to do with what's allowed or not on any bridge based on safety and longevity. Even if 10 billion was spent on the bridge, it doesn't mean that the state should not exercise prudence and safe practices.

So what's your point, spend 1 billion or spend 20 billion and allow everything to ply the bridge and instead of getting 20 years life span, you end up with 5 years...then end up sending billions to rehabilitate or even build another one? Where is the sense and wisdom in your warped argument?

Basically, money spent has has no bearing on safety and getting the best bang for your money.


Btw, are you a traffic or bridge engineer? Are you a contractor? Do you have labor and material cost or data spreadsheet relating to this bridge?

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The driver of a Wal-Mart truck misread the height limit to pass under a railroad crossing in Marion County Monday morning at River Road South and Orville Road South, authorities said. He tried to drive through, but jammed his 13 feet, 6 inch tall trailer under a bridge with clearance for vehicles 12 feet, 9 inches or less, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

deeptesting: My friend with all the parameters you have stated for a standard bridge 3 billion Naira is more than enough to meet all the standard for a heavy duty truck to ply the bridge.....Simple...the bridge is substandard and what evidence does the government have to prove that the barrier was intentionally destroyed by the opposition other than there unverifiable security report claim.

oiseworld: Even at that, should that small bridge cost 3billion? Haba. 3 Billion just for a flyover.

These APC people are the fathers of THIEVES!!!

Jilo83: Ladoja and his co-travellers 2 d land of destructn should shut up their fucking mouths. Substandard or not, we like it.

Pukkah: Fact. The challenge is out there.

Let it be countered by Akala (PDP) or Ladoja (formerly PDP, now Accord).

If Ladoja had shame, he would not be talking at all. He merely warmed the seat as a governor. What did he achieve? What did Akala achieve? How did Adedibu/Obasanjo as godfathers benefit the Oyo people?

Honestly, Ajimobi is not perfect and there's no government that can't be criticized but Ajimobi stands tall compared to his predecessors. I interact with Oyo people and their opinions agree with this.

Right now, there is so much construction activity in Ibadan, Ogbomoso, Oyo and Iseyin that you begin to wonder where the money or the zeal came from. More so, Oyo under Ajimobi is yet to start borrowing funds.

A few groups have emerged that try to campaign against Ajimobi's second coming, I simply ignore them.

emiye: Some of you just like to look for any thing(usually imaginary) to assert your pessimism or dislike for what you hate.

Why will you call the bridge useless, if truly you live in mokola environs?

CCECC was the contractor, and what is the link of that coy with Tinubu? they are working all over Nigeria, (abuja, akwa ibom,lag,..)

The barrier was simply to prevent heavy duty vehicles from plying the bridge, there is an alternative route .

The bridge did not also cost up to 3 billion naira, it was 2.3 billion naira.

moscobabs: Ajumobi is working,PDP is critisizing,Masses are watching,2015 is comming!!!!

wellmax: You have learnt how to read, next learn how to comprehend.
Where did you hear them say the barrier cost N3B?
The barrier was meant to prevent heavy duty vehicles from using the flyover since there is an alternative route for them (a common practice all over Nigeria).
So if PDP wants to politicize everything, to hell with them.

How Aregbesola Turned Osun State To Construction Site


A prominent member of the immediate past administration in Osun State during the turning of sod of the construction of Osogbo East bye dual carriage way recently said it had become imperative for residents of Osogbo to ensure that they monitor the movement of their visitors who had visited them three years ago else they would get lost in transit as a result of massive road construction that has characterized the state capital and transformed it to a city to behold.
Elder Peter Babalola who was a former chieftain of the main opposition party in the State, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Chief of Staff to former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola for over seven years noted that by the time Governor Aregbesola completes his first term as governor of Osun State, the State would have witnessed a development that surpasses what has been on the ground since it was created on the 27th of August 1991.

No wonder, the traditional ruler of the ancient town, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun Oyetunji, the Ataoja of Osogbo threw his weight and those of his subjects behind the governor and his administration over the construction going round the town when some elements wanted to whip sentiment following the demolition of illegal structures within the metropolis to pave way for the on-going developmental projects.

However, Governor Rauf Aregbesola has consistently reiterated his commitment to the urban renewal policy of his administration saying that he would not allow anybody or group of people to draw him back on his goal of making Osogbo a city worthy of the state capital status accorded it. He said that eight other towns in the state are also already witnessing similar experience which he insisted will transform the cities to enviable ones in the country.
The beautification drive of the present administration started with the separation of illegal structures at the heart of Osogbo, (the popular Old Garage) which used to be abode for hoodlums and a dreaded area for motorists as a result of incessant hold-up that has characterized the area for long.

However, with the separation and construction and opening up of link routes at the area now christened Freedom Park,
traffic congestion become a thing of the past as vehicles can now move freely to any part of the town while criminal activities in the area have become a thing of the past.

Until the emergence of the park that now adorns the centre of the city, residents were wondering what exactly government had in the oven over the demolition of the illegal structures around the area, but with the emergence of the edifice that can accommodate hundreds of vehicles conveniently with extra space for recreation and event centre, they have been giving kudos to the Aregbesola administration.

[b]Already government has spent N1.08billion to complete the rehabilitation of 83.66km of township roads in the six geo-political zones, and 21 roads that cover 26.35km. Osogbo township roads that will cost government N3.9billion has reached 65% completion.
Also, the on-going rehabilitation of 15 Ilesa township roads that would cost government N3.7billion has reached 65% completion.

On going road projects in Osun LGs
The rehabilitation/upgrading of six selected roads across the state that has reached various degrees of completion will gulp N17.5billion. these include the 4.2km Igbajo-Oke Irun – Iresi road that has reached 44% completion, the 4.7km Gbongan – Odeyinka – Orileowu – Araromi Owu – Ajegunle road that has reached 72% completion, the 4.17km Gbongan – Osogbo – Ife – Ibadan express road junction (township) that has reached 21% completion, the 6.8km Ijebu-jesa – Iloko – Iwaraja road that has reached 28% completion, the 68km Ijebu-jesa – Ijeda Ijesa – Iloko Ijesa – Ilesa/Akure express road that has reached 50% completion and the 71.1km Ijeda Ijesa – Erinmo Ijesa road that has reached 80% completion.
The dualization of 9.52km Osogbo – Dagbolu International market – Ikirun junction/Alamisi market and the dualization of 38km Osogbo (Old Garage) – Ikirun road – Ila Odo – Erinle – Kwara boundary that will gulp N17.8billion has reached 15% and 5% completion respectively.

Construction work that has reached various degrees of completion has also commenced on 35.2km Iwo – Ejigbo road, 23km Ede – Ara – Ejigbo road, 30.7km Ede – Awo – Iragberi – Ejigbo road, 14.4km Ejigbo – Oguro – Isoko road, and the construction of 18km Osogbo East Bye Pass.

The intra city roads are not just ordinary roads as they are adorned with infrastructure that make them outstanding and beautiful in outlook as obtained in the Alekuwodo road project that has continued to wear new look every day.
Since government is supposed to be a continuum irrespective of who comes in at any given time, Governor Aregbesola’s administration has taken it upon itself to complete road projects he inherited from the administration of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and they have all reached appreciable degrees of completion.

These include the 5.5km Oore – Agbeye road, rehabilitation of 28.3km Ife – Famia – Akinlalu road, rehabilitation of 30km Ejigbo – Ife Odan road, rehabilitation of 20km Ede – Alajue – Aminiwon – Osu road, rehabilitation of 19.7km Osu – Iloba – Kajola road, rehabilitation of network of 20km Ikirun township road, rehabilitation of 5.3km Okuku township road, rehabilitation of 19km Ifon – Ilie – Eekoosin – Ogbomoso road and rehabilitation of 20.3km 14 Ede township roads.
road-constructionWhile Osun Road Maintenance Agency (ORMA) has continued to carry on its responsibility of maintaining roads across the state, government has said that the construction of 58km Iwo-Osogbo road is in the pipeline.
A visit to the entire on-going road projects confirmed the submission of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works and Transportation, Engr. Sabitu Oladepo Amudah that Governor Aregbesola is committed to standard and quality job delivery in the execution of all projects.

The examination of the thickness of the asphalt surface, standard reinforced concrete drainages and lane markings on all newly constructed and rehabilitated roads projects across the state testify to this claim.

Besides, government has also slated some roads for routine maintenance in this year. These roads include the 16km Osogbo – West Bye – Pass, 29km Awo – Ogbaagbaa – Iwo road, 22km Ede – Ara – Ejigbo road, 21km Inisha – Agbeye – Eekoosin – Okuku road, 44km Osogbo – Ibokun – Imesi-Ile – Ekiti State boundary road, 10km Imesi-Ile – Igbajo road, 17km Ilesa – Ifewara road, 25km Ada –Ibokun – Ikinyinwa – Ilase – Orita Idominasi road, 16.8km Ife – Ogudu road, 16.2km Ogudu – Odeyinka road, 6.5 Ipetumodu – Odeomu road and 18km Ile-Ife – Mokore – Itagunmodi – Ibodi road.
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sun State government has also directed all the 30 local government areas including the Ife East Area office to embark upon the construction of quality 10km roads in their domain and work has started on the projects across the state.

It would be recalled that Governor Aregbesola had turned the sod for the commencement of the construction of Gbongan – Akioda trumpet exchange that is expected to provide uninterruptible link with Ibadan – Ilesa expressway for traffic turning into Osogbo and those from Osogbo turning towards Ife thereby eradicating traffic interception at junction crossing.[/b]

Governor Aregbesola had told the audience at the event that the trumpet bridge was a fulfillment of his campaign promise as enunciated in his administration’s Six-Point Integral Action Plan, adding that since the inception of his administration, he had given serious attention to the development of road infrastructure across cities and towns in the State.

His words: “It is on record that the height we have attained in two years in the area of road infrastructure dwarfs what the last administration achieved in 90 months.
“Its record of constructing 553 km of roads within this period pales into insignificance when compared with the 513 km of high quality roads we concluded in 24 months”.

Speaking on his commitment to ensure massive road construction, Aregbesola noted that good roads are critical to survival because many lives have been lost to bad roads while some able-bodied individuals have remained incapacitated as a result of accident caused by bad roads.

On the bridge named after Chief Bisi Akande, the governor said: “the Trumpet Interchange Bridge at Gbongan junction will complement additional four pedestrian bridges along the motorway. The Omoluabi Motorway will be constructed with layers of asphaltic surface with 60mm and 40mm thickness”.

The method of financing the project is a replica of what obtains in other projects embarked by the government, Governor Aregbesola stated that his administration has concluded with construction company in charge to complete the project within 18months adding that the contractor has agreed to finance the road that costs N29.23billion on behalf of government with government mobilizing with 15% of the total cost to be paid in two installments.

Speaking on the infrastructural development of Osun State under the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Interim National Chairman of the newly registered All Progressive Congress, (APC) Chief Adebisi Akande simply described it as ‘Miracle’.

Akande who was formerly a governor in the State noted that knowing the financial strength of Osun State, he was surprise at what is on the ground interms of infrastructural and fund consuming programmes embarked by the administration saying that to him as a person, “this development is a MIRACLE”.

However, the concern of resident is the ability of government to complete this massive projects with the limited resources at its disposal and the limited time available at least for now, but governor Aregbesola has consistently emphasized to doubting Thomases that the method of financing adopted by government has made completion assured adding that all the projects are been executed by company that has faith in the ability of government to live up to the terms of agreement based on previous experience.

Collinsony: We can never be proud of our language... we never learn English finish na French him wan begin teach people..... That still make Nigeria dependable.....

OlaAjia: Blimey! I can't help but muse at the idiocy of demanding a Yoruba village in Osun state. Yeah, let's make a table and then because we can make tables, let's make another redundant table over the old table. Jeez!!! Osun state is a Yoruba village already in case you have failed to notice.

Twin towns and sister cities

Twin towns or sister cities are cooperative agreements between towns, cities, and even counties in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.[1] Conceived after the Second World War, the concept of twinning was originally intended to foster friendship and understanding between different cultures (and between former foes, as an act of peace and reconciliation[2]), and to encourage tourism[1] In more recent times town twinning has increasingly been used to form strategic international business links between member cities[3][4]

Afam4eva: I'm not surprised that the usual suspects are here extolling this wasteful and unnecessary development. What does a french village add to Osun state? I'm even more surprised that it's Aregbesola that embarking on such project. I have always known him to be a proponent of Africanism. Why not establish a Yoruba village or something. This is utterly embarrassing and shameful.

REHOZIBAH: Having read a few anti-Osun french village comments here, I am left with no choice than to shudder at the level of some people's thought process...for those who don't know, this action is in fact belated as it should have happened since way back. The people of Ejigbo,Ilobu,Ogbomoso have been going to Cote d'ivore since the 40s as I have a lot of them as friends hence there has been a yearn for a bilateral relationship between Osun state and cote d'ivoire as there is massive economic activity happening between indigenes and d CIV.

Dividends of democracy does not consist of the tangibles alone but also the intangibles which is meant to foster unity,break down barriers and open up new opportunities

Trans–West African Coastal Highway
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DAkar-Lagos Highway.

The Trans–West African Coastal Highway is a transnational highway project to link 12 West African coastal nations, from Mauritania in the north-west of the region to Nigeria in the east, with feeder roads already existing to two landlocked countries, Mali and Burkina Faso.[1]
The eastern end of the highway terminates at Lagos, Nigeria. Some organizations such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) consider its western end to be Nouakchott, Mauritania, and others such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa consider it to be Dakar, Senegal, giving rise to these alternative names for the road:
Nouakchott–Lagos Highway
Lagos–Nouakchott Highway
Dakar–Djibouti Highway
Lagos–Dakar Highway

wellmax: I'd seen mumus like you come here spewing nonsense, talking for talking sake, criticize everything and yet display low level intelligence. If you have market to sell, bring it on! #waitingonyou.

banky222: . They are known
for abadoning projects. Just wait and see

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/some-pdps-frailties-that-should-leapfrog-apc-to-power/


The other day I laughed my heart out at the spectacle of our dear President at the wheel of a Land Rover besotted by a swooning array of well decorated PDP women in a scene so reminiscent of Mr Bode George’s court days. A few questions immediately crossed my mind about this ‘Sagamu road-show’, as my brother, and colleague columnist, Dr Jide Oluwajuyitan, has described it: Don’t these otherwise innocent women know that their zone of the party has long been forgotten by the powers that be in Abuja?

I also wondered what became of then President Obasanjo’s no less imaginative ‘road show’ as he flagged off the Ibadan-Ilorin road as Baba Adedibu held court in Ibadan and elsewhere? Is the road now completed a decade after? Then I remembered the delectable and hard-working Mrs. Deizani Alison-Madueke then of the Works Ministry who, overcome by her lachrymal glands, cried like a baby whose milk was snatched, bemoaning the sorry state of the Ore-Benin Road post N300Bllion.

Honestly, in ‘Mummy land’ – apologies music impresario Lagbaja, I think our ‘mumu e don do.’


Worse though is the fact that nothing suggests,given PDP’s track record, that the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way project will ever be competed even if it rules for its chimerical 60 years. I quote Oluwajuyitan, again,to buttress this view point. Wrote Jide in his column in The Nation of Thursday , August 8: [b]‘The Presidential Projects Assessment Committee (PPAC), set up in March 2011 to look into cases of abandoned federal government projects claimed that there were 11,886 abandoned projects that will cost an estimated N778 trillion to complete…’ More interesting is the fact that many of these abandoned projects are located within the really favoured territories of the PDP , namely: the 400 metre long Utor bridge along Asaba-Ebu-Uromi road awarded in 2006, the 36 kilometre Bodo-Bonny road in Rivers state, awarded in 2002, the abandoned 285 NNDC projects not to mention the never- never East-West road which has not only pitted the Rivers State governor against the Niger Delta Affairs Minister but has ensured that foot soldiers have already been conscripted in Burutu, Warri, Ughelli, Ozoro and Asaba, in what should be the mother of all wars between respected Chief Edwin Clark and his son,the wannabe governor, Godsday Orubebe, two unmatchable supporters of Mr President.

If all these are happening in the President’s geo-political zone, I do not think the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway stands a ghost of a chance of completion. After all,morning, they say, shows the day, and we already saw enough ruckus on that road. What that expansive ceremony and project would most probably achieve will be easy campaign funds, nor would that be the first time.[/b]


If the above are material and measurable damages to our common wealth, the PDP had also ensured they damaged Nigeria so morally that an international pariah like Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean owner, could, with a wave of the hand, reject the African Union’s appointment of PDP’s one-time Chairman, Board of Trustees, and Nigeria’s, unarguably, most remarkable living statesman -Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to lead its observer team to that country’s recent election. Mugabe did not have to think twice – no thanks to PDP’s record of ignominious election charades.

The above are obviously only a small fraction of the multitude of PDP’s infractions which the new party should adroitly exploit in getting rid of PDP; a party which inner peace has long deserted as there is no moral authority within it any longer. Billions, no longer millions at which eyes used to pop and for which a distinguished FEDECO Chairman said he would have collapsed, now reads like pennies in PDP’s corruption odyssey.

REHOZIBAH: LWTMB!!! So Monsieur Gbawe though cerebral is human after all!!!

Obiagelli: Parfaitement mis

REHOZIBAH: Excellente! Je suis tres content avec cet nouvelles qui dehors du etat osun! Vraiment, Ogbeni Aregbesola fait bien toujour. Vive L'etat Osun, Vive Le plus meilleur Gouveneur dans Nigeria!

9jacrip: This is a good move, this guy keeps impressing.

My question is - does this mean French Students in Osun State won't have to travel to 'French Village' in Benin Republic for their usual 300L 'internship'?

Aregbesola to establish French Village in Osun


Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has promised to establish a world-class French Village (Village du France) in Ejigbo to achieve balanced socialization and development for thousands of French-speaking Nigerians in Cote D’Ivoire, Togo and other French-speaking African countries.
The governor made this declaration on his last Thursday’s visit to Cote D’Ivoire where he met tumultuous crowd of Osun indigenes living in the country.

He also announced that a commercial bank that will provide efficient services to business men and women across the French-speaking African continent is to open a branch in Ejigbo town soon.

While assuring the state indigenes based in the French-speaking country that State of Osun is safe for business and investment, Governor Aregbesola disclosed that a 24-hour security surveillance backed by Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) is now in place all over the state to combat any threat to all banks operating in the state.