₦airaland Forum

lexy2014:
what is the cost of a kilometre of road in nigeria?

what is special about the proposed road that makes it to justify the huge cost as acknowledged by you?

this road may be the only thing the people who provide the funds for this country may benefit from this government. I am talking about the people of the oil producing swamps of the Noger Delta. With the construction of this road, the hinterlands can be connected to the Atlantic and the rest of the country. The poor people of those regions can Start selling their farm products and be able to make profit. I can talk about this in depth but I lack the will.

lexy2014:
what is the cost of a kilometre of road in nigeria?



which currency do you see below?

Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs 7 times more per km than Pan-African Cairo-Cape town route.

1. Nigeria’s Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700 km highway.

Budget: $11–13 billion

2. Cairo-Cape Town Highway, a 10,228 km Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Budget: $1.65 billion

the difference between 10,228km and 700km is 9,528km?

how is a 700km new road 7 times more expensive than a 10,228km road just because it is new?

I don't want to go in circles. If your issue is with the high cost then you should state that clearly. I do not refute that, if it is against the project then that's where we disagree. Even if the budget is padded it doesn't matter much to me, it is the project that matters. It should remain.

lexy2014:
what is the cost of a kilometre of road in nigeria?



Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs 7 times more per km than Pan-African Cairo-Cape town route.

1. Nigeria’s Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700 km highway.

Budget: $11–13 billion

2. Cairo-Cape Town Highway, a 10,228 km Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Budget: $1.65 billion

I hope you know the cairo-cape town road is not a new road? There is an already existing road network. The funds is for road expansion and reconstruction, this should normally cost less compared to a newly constructed road.

ntyce:
You failed to add that the congestion was as a result of trucks leaving Dangote Refinery.
Is there a need for another road corridor to Lekki, Yes
Is there an urgent need for Lagos to Calabar via the coast at such an humongous cost, No

it's the same amount per kilometer that was used to construct other roads in the country. The amount for the other roads and railways were published in dollars but this was in naira to trigger the emotions of the easily manipulated Nigerian.

The media is a big problem in this country. This coastal road is one of the best if not the best project by this terrible administration.

kenben:
A VERY BIG FAT LIE!

I challenge you to show me where and when Tinubu appointed Samuel Ogbuku. HE WAS APPOINTED BY BUHARI. Get you facts right before going public to avoid embarrassing yourself the was Ogbuku is presently embarrassing the Niger Delta with his disappointing performance.

If the Niger Delta must make progress as a region, we must insist on displaying our best and most competent. Ogbuku is a beneficiary of the "man know man" style of choosing leaders.

Were you paid to come and say this rubbish? His achievements dwarf that of previous appointees. Every true son of the Niger Delta knows this.

See the source you requested, https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/08/tinubu-appoints-ogbuku-nddc-md-ebie-board-chairman-others/

The obvious lies in your posts betrays your malicious intentions. Anyone that believes what you say will be misled. compare him to previous administrations to prove your point.

ppogba:
Ogbuku, though I have never met him is a public servant that has distinguished himself at least with what we are seeing at NDDC.

But of course, the more you perform in your role, the more detractors are aiming at your jugular.

Alhaji Dangote can write a big book on this.

He is the best leader NDDC has seen so far, his projects span across the Niger delta. The governor of one of the states even felt threatened and made a public statement that he needs further permission to carry out projects in his state to limit his influence. One of the few appointments by Tinibu that is doing very very well.

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

one of the problem we have in this country is that fools are beginning to have a voice because of social media. What do you know about the doctor patient ratio in Nigeria in relation to other countries. Do you have an idea about how bad and dysfunctional the healthcare system is in Nigeria? Stop commenting on issues you know nothing about.

It is not tax payers money, it is oil money. Na oyinbo dey talk tax payers money. We na oil money we dey share.

Natbrowny:
He should STFU for once and just focus on personal training to hit big. His comeback will do the talking. Criticism should even help him improve. See messi n ronaldo dem na. Criticize dem and dey'll score hatrick to keep u quiet

These clubs monitor players social media handles to know how players handles themsef off the pitch

Even yamal wey dey do blaaaw b4 dom reduce SM presence

sincerely, are you okay? Or should I say, do you think you are okay? Must you comment if you have nothing sensible to say?

This is the only reasonable person in this government. He should be very careful.

Hier:
My View on the Coastal Highway

It's all about selfishness. Every politicians seeks to develop their state by all means due to the fact they are in power.

I recently travelled through the Lagos - Benin Express Way and I can tell you for sure, the road just need little or no repairs, though a layer of asphalt would do so much good to the road. But coming to think about having another one, when a better one is still standing is some form of wickedness I do not understand. The coastal highway is nothing but a barricade. Like an horizontal fence to prevent the development of ports in future date. It is a blow to destroy the ports the more. Lagos as we all know is where the president identify with and two things Lagos and Nigeria are known for are, the port as for Lagos and the crude oil as for Nigeria. The highway is aimed at solidifying and cementing both into Lagos. As the coastal highway is developed. There are enough landspace to run miles and kilometers of crude oil tunnels into Lagos and at the same time, prevent the development of other seaports in other state. For instance, Port Harcourt, Calabar and other states believes the development of their states port would provide more direct and indirect business in the state. It would lead to more influx of investors, but some people don't want refineries working in some states and they don't want the seaports coming to those States and guess what, with the coastal highway, you kill two birds with one stone and by the grace of God, this stone shall die

On the bright side, it will open up the hinterlands of the Niger delta.

And this loan will be paid back by the wealth of the Niger Delta, the injustice of Nigeria. The Niger deltans need to start becoming aware of their suffering and hold their leaders accountable.

Only 65km? Not good enough. Multiple sections should be built simultaneously

PHIPEX:
Story that touch. People like you will disappear when it gets abandoned. The project is at Ajah in 2025, which year will it get to Ondo and in which decade will it get to Calabar?

That's how una dey use emotion to waste our scarce resources with white elephant projects. Common mile 2 to badagry is taking 15years to complete

What do you mean by waste "our resources " you don't have oil in your state do you? You wouldn't be this selfish if you had. There are countless abandoned projects out there by the federal government. If you want to be an activist go and fight against the others, if you have been silent on all other projects please remain silent on this too. Thank you.

Shidinky:
you cant cross bridges in the niger delta, they will have to join it back to the east west road, there is a reason the east west road avoided going inside bayelsa and some states. those are ocean wide waters lol/

there is nothing money cannot do.

Start the 3rd section that cuts across the heart of the Niger Delta. That is the part I am interested in. If they start that section then we know they don't plan to abandon it.

Set up state police, call them vigilantes, arm them and give them mandate to go after these killers, how difficult can that be?

PHIPEX:
So why are you building it in Lagos? Hypritically naive. It has suddenly become for Niger Delta alone yet you are celebrating a project that's still in Lagos

You should rather put pressure on the federal government to start multiple sections of the road not to say it should be scrapped. This will not be the first road in Nigeria to be abandoned even if it is eventually.

PHIPEX:
Story that touch. People like you will disappear when it gets abandoned. The project is at Ajah in 2025, which year will it get to Ondo and in which decade will it get to Calabar?

That's how una dey use emotion to waste our scarce resources with white elephant projects. Common mile 2 to badagry is taking 15years to complete

Oga it is not "our resources". It is the resources of the people in the Niger Delta, no amount is too much to spend if the development is for them. It is their money. Get that point first.

Anyone saying this project is a waste and unnecessary is very selfish. This may be the only project the people in the swamps of the Niger delta will benefit from since the beginning of oil exploration. This road will connect the hinterland to the Atlantic ocean and open up the oil producing rural communities. These are the people providing the money for the construction of roads in other parts of the country and they deserve a standard road too.

I have noticed two agenda on Nairaland
1) an attempt to fight religion primarily by anti Islam threads to the front page on Friday and anti Christian threads to the front page on Sundays.

2) sending threads that show government failure in the western world to make Nigerians accept things like plane crash/mishaps and misfires by the military as acceptable on a subconscious level.

Seun, your evil strategy has come to light.

I have noticed two agenda on Nairaland
1) an attempt to fight religion primarily by anti Islam threads to the front page on Friday and anti Christian threads to the front page on Sundays.

2) sending threads that show government failure in the western world to make Nigerians accept things like plane crash/mishaps and misfires by the military as acceptable on a subconscious level.

Seun, your evil strategy has come to light.

They're academic doctors, it's just a title, nothing more.

Atuero:
With this record, it is possible we are not up to 200M people in Nigeria

don't forget there are children without phones who are usually more in number and people who don't use phone.

Poor goalkeeping cost us this 3 points. Silly misyake

Justiceleague1:
Those people there have working brains and they know what they are doing, thanks.
😁

I think they're taking it to a museum where the bones will be on display and they'll make money from it.

DonBenny77:
I said what I said.
You are trying to sound logical
They should keep counting scores.
Christians are endangered in the North
Apply wisdom we are in Nigeria
No go die for nothing
Pastors being kidnapped or killed in the north is a norm.
Was it not in Abuja they killed on woman doing morning evangelism. Did she get justice?
You think God sent her to go preach that morning and meet her death?
God don give you brain na to make use of am.
I did my NYSC in Jigawa state, Gantza Buji LGA precisely. Do you know the Christian fellowship and corpers lodge was relocated from inside the community to a bush close to their local govt. headquarters because their children often watched the Christains worship?
Even during orientation they even told us that it's a 98% Muslim state and we should be careful. After that warning you thing I will go to church in such a state. Because I want to worship God when I can pray in my room and God is omnipresent .
Desperate times call for desperate measures

You be coward. A true man defends what he believes in. Na man like you go allow person slap your wife still blame her in public for the slap. Mumu man

Igbos have no respect for smaller tribes, anybody but them. Even Hausa is better than Igbo. I am an Ogbia man and I currently live in rural Igboland.

kettykin:
1985 and 1975 are locations not year, bring it to Nigeria, how can a country be socialist, communist and yet claim to be a federal republic .

Niger delta generates the fund which through an advanced communisim is shared to 36 state using metrics that encourage annihilism and yet the country is supposed to be an advanced capitalist.

this is very sad bro. The sad thing is the crude oil doesn't last forever. Someday our descendants will curse us.

[quote author=eddie7 post=130229045][/quote]22. Resource control by the owners of the resources should also be implemented.

casualobserver:
You started with Inland and sea port, then big ship small ship, now you are talking about insecurity and roads, what next? Insecurity and roads is different if the port is inland or sea port?

You are more interested in arguing than having a reasonable conversation. I don't think there is a need to continue this conversation. Your views are your own

casualobserver:
My friend you are losing me. Money is being spent on Warri and other ports, let Warri and other ports handle MORE of what they can handle, let Lagos handle what it can handle. Your argument sounds like because Warri cannot handle the biggest ships upgrading it and more talraffic even if they are smaller ships won’t bring economic benefits or decongest Lagos? Seriously? Has it also occurred to you that when Warri is upgraded more “smaller” ships will go to warri because there costs will be lower in Warri?

We want all our ports viable and working, plus warri plus Lagos plus onne plus Calabar plus others plus new ones. Ports ultimately become specialized in the comparative advantage they offer. In the US for instance, Baltimore I think is the main port for cars, other ports are renowned for oil and gas shipments, some are renown for passenger ferries and cruises like same thing with ports like Hamburg, Rotterdam, felixstowe, Harwich, Ostend etc etc. Not every port must be a sea port my friend.not every port must handle the biggest ships to bring economic benefits.

if you look at things from a single point of view you will miss the main issue. Things have to be viewed holistically and what I said was because of the nature of my response. Other causes why the niger delta seaports are not used as frequently as the lagos port is the issue of insecurity, cost and efficiency. These are issues that when fixed will encourage importers to use these ports. The bad road network is another issue.