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Tabithatim:I SEE THIS MAN AS A FUTURE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA. YOU CAN SEE THE MAN IS A SERIOUS PERSON WHO KNOWS HIS JOB. A DEDICATED, FOCUSED ADMINISTRATOR AND TECNOCRAT JUST LIKE TINUBU. WHEN THE SE PRODUCES A CANDIDATE LIKE THIS, SAY IN 8 YEARS TIME, NIGERIANS WILL GLADLY VOTE HIM IN. |
WHO REMEMBERS WHEN THIS 80s PARTY JAM WAS BIG IN NAIJA? Before all this una Kpangolo music wey una dey play today? OP just reminded me of the jam.. 'DREAMER' BY THE BB&Q BAND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enli1xAArJM |
OP, please, stop drinking ogogoro in that your local short-time joint you call 'hotel'. It's detrimental to your system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLJB2Urs5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrgGM-H-b6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URj_juboDK4 |
COEMMA:THANK YOU. HE SHOULD FLY OLD AND DANGEROUS PLANES, RIDE IN KEKE AND LIVE IN A DECREPIT HOUSE BECAUSE HE IS ANSWERING PRESIDENT. ABEG GO AND SIT DOWN. NONSENSE. WHEN IT REACHES YOUR TURN TO BE PRESIDENT, YOU CAN BUY KEKE TO BE USING, AND LIVE IN FACE-ME-I-FACE-YOU, SO WE CAN CLAP FOR YOU AND CALL YOU ANGEL GABRIEL. |
^^^^TRANSLATION: YES, WE HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT THE FEDERAL GOVT IS WORKING VERY HARD TO RESOLVE THEM. |
AI ANALYSIS OF THE INCIDENT: The Nigerian national grid experienced a major partial collapse on Monday afternoon, 19 October 2026, causing widespread power outages across the country. The grid suffered multiple trippings on the 330kV transmission network at approximately 12:40 PM. This caused total electricity generation to crash by over 80%, plunging from roughly 3,840 megawatts (MW) down to just 476.70 MW by 1:00 PM. Key facts about the disturbance include: • Plants Knocked Offline: Major generating stations like Egbin, Jebba, Shiroro, and Kainji recorded zero electricity output during the height of the crash. • Official Stance: The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) clarified that the incident technically affected only a section of the grid rather than a total nationwide blackout. • Recovery Status: Working alongside the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), engineers deployed corrective measures and successfully brought generation back up to 2,315 MW by Monday evening as power was gradually restored to regional distribution networks. This marks the first major grid disturbance under Nigeria's recently appointed Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, who took office in May 2026. Why did it happen? The electricity crash on Monday afternoon happened due to multiple trippings on the 330-kilovolt (kV) transmission network. At approximately 12:40 PM, a series of electrical faults triggered an automated safety shutdown across a core segment of the grid. This cascading failure knocked major generating facilities offline—including major plants like Egbin, Jebba, Shiroro, and Kainji—forcing them to report zero energy output. While authorities have not yet pinpointed the precise mechanical failure that sparked the initial trip, power grid failures of this nature in Nigeria are systematically linked to several deep-seated structural issues: • Inadequate Spinning Reserves: The national grid lacks the localized battery or power reserves required to absorb sudden voltage drops. When a single line or plant failure occurs, the entire system cannot balance itself, causing widespread plants to trip as a protective measure. • Aging and Weak Transmission Lines: Much of Nigeria's transmission infrastructure is decades old and highly sensitive to unexpected fluctuations in power demand or environmental stress. • Historical Substation Disturbances: Localized technical issues, such as past voltage disturbances originating at volatile substations (like the Gombe transmission hub earlier in the year), frequently trigger broad network failures. The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) emphasized that because it was triggered by localized trippings, it was a partial network disturbance rather than a complete national system collapse. What's being done to address this fundamentally? To fundamentally solve the recurring collapses, the Federal Government of Nigeria and the newly appointed Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, have recently pivoted from temporary patches to aggressive structural overhaul. The primary long-term and structural strategies currently being deployed include: 1. Splitting the Grid (The "East & West" Grid Project) In October 2026, the government approved procurement plans to build new independent Eastern and Western electricity grids. Moving away from a single, centralized mega-grid means a localized electrical fault in one region will no longer trigger a cascading, nationwide system failure. Construction and procurement on these designated energy corridors are expected to bear fruit within two to three years. 2. Decentralization via the Electricity Act Leveraging the Electricity Act, the federal government is legally allowing individual state governments to construct their own state-managed mini-grids. For instance, the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) launched the construction of 17.7-megawatt hybrid solar mini-grids in Oyo State. By offloading consumers onto decentralized local power, the main national grid experiences less physical strain. 3. Deploying Grid Automation (SCADA Systems) Historically, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has manually balanced grid frequencies, a process that takes up to a minute and often fails to stop a crash. The government is funding a fully functional Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. This automated smart-grid control detects voltage anomalies and self-isolates faults within 5 seconds, preventing a regional glitch from bringing down the entire country. 4. Integrating Massive Battery Storage (BESS) To fix the lack of "spinning reserves" (buffer power), Nigeria partnered with the African Development Bank (AfDB) on a multi-billion dollar framework to deploy Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). These massive industrial batteries store excess electricity and automatically inject it into the grid during sudden plant trippings, artificially stabilizing the grid frequency. 5. Ongoing National Infrastructure Audit The Ministry of Power is conducting an immediate, nationwide technical infrastructure audit. Because many transmission lines and towers are nearly 50 years old, this audit aims to isolate specific conductor, transformer, and relay vulnerabilities to prioritize capital investments exactly where failures originate. -AI |
mickyeddi:SHUT UP AND STOP LYING. I JUST ASKED AI WHAT NIGERIA GENERATED IN 1940, WHICH WAS 50 YEARS AFTER BRITAIN INVADED NIGERIA, AND IT SAID: ''If you are asking about the year 1940, Nigeria's exact grid power generation is not recorded in megawatts because total countrywide capacity was less than 10 to 20 megawatts.'' WITHOUT INDEPENDENCE, YOU WOULD BE IN A BUSH RIGHT NOW, HUNTING BUSH MEAT, SO SHUT UP! SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DRUM IT INTO YOUR HEADS THAT THE ONLY REASON A FOREIGNER COLONISES YOU IS TO LOOT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND LEAVE YOU WITH NOTHING, WHICH IS WHY NIGERIA WAS A BIG, FAT BUSH IN 1960 DESPITE 80 YEARS OF BRITISH RULE. THEY EVEN HAD THE AUDACITY TO DEMONISE YOUR BEAUTIFUL TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND FORCE THEIR FAKE ''JESUS'' ON YOU, SO YOU COULD BE WORSHIPPING THEM AS YOUR ''LORD SAVIOUR'' WHILE THEY PLUNDERED YOUR RESOURCES. 65 YEARS AFTER THEY LEFT, YOU'RE STILL CARRYING THEIR ''JESUS'' ON YOUR HEADS, WHILE THEY HAVE ABANDONED THAT FAIRYTALE NURSERY STORY LONG AGO AND CONVERTED THEIR CHURCHES TO BANKS AND DRINKING JOINTS! NONSENSE! |
The west is slowly receiving their Karma for what they did to Africa and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere over the last 1000 years+. The only reason they are so rich today is because of slavery, colonisation, exploitation and plunder. They fail to realise that God doesn't sleep ....or forget. |
kingjayzeelan07:THIS IS THE SAME MAN WHOSE WIFE CARRIES IMPORTED DESIGNER HANDBAGS WORTH 150,000 DOLLARS EACH. THAT'S 250 MILLION NAIRA PER HANDBAG. CHAI......OOOOHHHH.. AND THEY ASKED HIM ABOUT IT AND HE REPLIED ''I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH HER BAGS COST''. A WOMAN WITH NO JOB ANYBODY CAN POINT TO, THAT IS WHY NIGERIANS ARE HUNGRY, PETER OBI. BECAUSE YOU ARE A LOOTER AND THIEF. WHY DON'T YOU SELL YOUR WIFE'S HANDBAGS SO YOU CAN FEED ALL THOSE HUNGRY NIGERIANS IN THIS ''NATIONAL EMERGENCY''? CRIMINAL. |
Rayjay45:SHUT UP. THERE IS NO FUNDING SHORTFALL. WHAT PART OF THAT ENGLISH IS BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION? ENEMIES OF PROGRESS. TELL YOUR CORRUPT BOX FACE TINAPA LOOTER, DONALD DUKE TO SHUT UP AND ACCOUNT FOR HIS TINAPA SCAM BEFORE DARING TO CRITICISE ANY PROJECT IN THIS COUNTRY. JUST BECAUSE HE BUILT A WHITE ELEPHANT TO CHOP MONEY DOESN'T MEAN TINUBU IS LIKE HIM. |
potent5:Don't mind the arrogant idiot. Small kid of yesterday forming big dog because of music fame. Rubbish. |
mikeapollo:BLOODTHIRSTY MONSTER...... MAY THE EVIL YOU WISH ON OTHERS COME TO YOU. |
adenigga:SLAVES TO FOREIGN RELIGION. THE OONI OF IFE ALLOCATED LAND TO BUILD THE WORLD IFA TEMPLE IN ILE-IFE. USE THAT MONEY AND HELP THEM BUILD IT WELL SO THAT OTHERS CAN COME HERE ON PILGRIMAGE TOO. OUR ANCESTORS KNEW GOD 150,000 YEARS BEFORE ARABS AND EUROPEANS EXISTED. AFRICANS INVENTED RELIGION ITSELF. NOW TEACHER HAS TURNED STUDENT, BRAINWASHED BY FOREIGN INVADERS TO SHUN HIS OWN RELIGIOUS HERITAGE AS ''EVIL'' AND ''DEMONIC'', AND WORSHIP ARABS AND EUROPEANS AS HIS ''LORD AND SAVIOUR''. ARRANT NONSENSE. ONE DAY YOU WILL START TO USE YOUR BRAINS. FOR NOW, KEEP SLEEPING. USELESS GENERATION. |
Nigeriapen:What I like about K.O.K. is the way he made his suggestion while also acknowledging the work and sacrifice of our Police in general. Not like some idiots that will go to Ghana or some foreign country and start talking self-hating rubbish about how that country is heaven and Nigeria hell. Kudos for your patriotism, intelligence and maturity, K.O.K. This is what constructive criticism looks like. I also believe that the coming STATE POLICE will solve most of those problems. God bless Nigeria. |
Ofunaofu:One minute you're Nnamdi Kanu, the next minute you're supporting northern looters like Atiku. Make up your mind, Confusionist. |
Meanwhile, Atiku and Obi say they will REINSTATE the fuel subsidy, because they have FOAM where their brains ought to be. |
Tianamen1:The Nigerian economy was based on fuel subsidy then. That fuel subsidy is why we remain underdeveloped today. According to AI analysis, ''Before President Bola Tinubu announced the total removal of the fuel subsidy policy on May 29, 2023, Nigeria spent an estimated cumulative total of between ₦25 trillion and ₦30 trillion on fuel subsidies. When calculated in foreign currency across the modern era, data from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) indicates that Nigeria spent at least $74.39 billion on fuel subsidies between 2005 and 2021 alone. The Hyper-Inflationary Peak (2016–2023) • The Buhari Administration: Between 2016 and 2023, the administration spent ₦11.7 trillion ($26 billion) to maintain the artificially low pump price. • The Final Year Boom: By 2022, the annual subsidy bill hit a staggering ₦4 trillion, which was more than half of what the country had spent across the entire decade from 2006 to 2015 combined. • The Breaking Point: Right before its removal, finance records showed the country was draining roughly ₦18.4 billion ($41 million) EVERY SINGLE DAY to sustain the program. This cost eventually surpassed the national budgets for healthcare, education, and infrastructure combined.'' - AI |
Twist4u:Unsubstantiated? IMF figures based on multimillion dollar research are what your village mouth is calling ''unsubstantiated''? Oya, show us your own substantiated figures. ARRANT NONSENSE. You are the people trying to pull Nigeria back, and you will surely fail. |
Metrosavana:IN ITS OWN WAY...? YOU MEAN WITHOUT ETHNIC BIAS AND HATE? YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT ABOUT THAT. |
Jagabanfromcali:As usual....what else do your type know but ''ethnic this, ethnic that''? That's why nobody takes you serious. |
So, Nigeria, due to the powerful economic reforms of President Bola Tinubu, is now ranked the 3rd fastest growing economy among the major nations of the world by the IMF. THIS POWERFUL, EARTH-SHAKING LIST SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF NIGERIA, IS CONCRETE EVIDENCE that it would be ABSOLUTELY CRIMINAL to vote him out of office this elections. Nigerians must be PATIENT and allow this man's policies to mature, and take us to the PROMISED LAND where we belong!! I mean...we're about to overtake CHINA in our economic acceleration. CHINA!! President Xi Jinping must be looking at this list and thinking ''My goodness. Nigeria is about to overtake us in economic growth.. What is happening in that country? They're finally getting their act together.'' 🇮🇳 India: 7.0% 🇨🇳 China: 4.5% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 4.2% 🇪🇸 Spain: 2.5% 🇺🇸 US: 2.3% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.2% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 1.5% 🇩🇪 Germany: 1.3% 🇬🇧 UK: 1.3% 🇨🇦 Canada: 1.1% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 1.0% 🇷🇺 Russia: 0.9% 🇮🇹 Italy: 0.8% 🇯🇵 Japan: 0.7% 🇫🇷 France: 0.4% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: -3.3%. Source: https://imf.org/en/publications/weo/issues/2026/10/13/world-economic-outlook-october-2026?cid=sm-com-x-am26-WEOEA20206002 |
MrEar:TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE THE BIGGEST EVIDENCE THAT SO-CALLED ''SUPERIOR WHITE INTELLIGENCE'' IS A SCAM. How do you explain MILLIONS OF WHITE FARMERS whose workers are mostly Mexican immigrants, voting for a guy who stated REPEATEDLY that the FIRST THING he would do in office is DEPORT all those immigrants?? Now, many of theIr farms are lying fallow, and they are on YouTube and TikTok moaning and crying that their workers are gone. I mean, for goodness sake. Make that make sense!!! ![]() VIDEO SHOWING DUMB WHITE TRUMP VOTERS TALKING NONSENSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Xwn21LtHg |
nedu666:WERE YOU THERE? YOU SEEM TO KNOW EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED FROM YOUR BEDROOM VIA MAGIC. JUST SHUT UP, OKAY? IF AI HAD SAID THE MONEY WAS STOLEN AND IS UNACCOUNTED FOR, WOULD YOU CRITICISE IT? CAPITAL NO. THIS IS WHY YOUR 'OPINIONS' ON THIS FORUM ARE GENERALLY WORTHLESS. THEY ARE NOT BASED ON OBJECTIVITY BUT ON ETHNIC HATRED AND BIAS. ARRANT NONSENSE. |
AMINDA:AI IS 2 BILLION TIMES MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU AND ALL OBIDIENTS COMBINED PLUS OBI ON TOP. SO KEEP SHUT AND LEARN INSTEAD OF SPREADNG WICKED RUMOURS ABOUT THE FG. |
FEMI FALANA, THE EMPTY-HEADED VILLAGE LAWYER, COME AND READ THIS AI ANALYSIS INSTEAD OF DISGRACING YOURSELF BY INSINUATING THE GOVT STOLE THE ''N15 TRILLION'' FOR THE PROJECT. ............... AI ANALYSIS OF THE LAGOS-CALABAR COASTAL HIGHWAY PROJECT AND RECENT DETOUR ANNOUNCEMENT The ongoing storm of public debate surrounding the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project highlights a recurring challenge in national governance: balancing lofty, popular expectations with the hard, unyielding realities of engineering science and fiscal responsibility. While critics and displaced interest groups have quickly accused the Federal Ministry of Works of “abandoning” the coastal corridor, a closer inspection of the data tells a completely different story. The decision to redesign the route—redirecting it inland through Edo State to align with the flood-prone East-West Road—is not an act of political trickery or a retreat. It is a brilliant masterstroke of engineering necessity and economic self-preservation. A great road cannot simply be willed into existence based on a lines-on-a-map drawing. Comprehensive geotechnical and soil investigations along the initial shoreline routing, particularly around sections in Ondo State, exposed insurmountable natural barriers. The original seaside alignment crossed treacherous terrain marked by deep swamp pits, weak peat soils, and a massive 100-metre-deep refuse layer that completely halted initial mobilization. Forcing heavy infrastructure over these subterranean hazards would require endless seaside bridges, expensive deep-piling techniques, and continuous variation orders. To build a standard, 6-lane reinforced concrete expressway over such a foundation would destroy the project’s original budget blueprint, burdening the national debt to satisfy a sentimental attachment to the shoreline. Furthermore, climate change and seasonal flooding along the lower Niger Delta basin have rendered sections of the pure coastal corridor a severe engineering risk. Rather than ignoring nature, the government heeded it. By using the new directive to absorb and reconstruct 400 kilometres of the existing East-West Road, the Ministry of Works is executing an incredibly efficient allocation of resources. While the original outline map relied on a continuous shoreline route that faced high risks of deep-swamp failures and multi-trillion budget overruns, the current realignment strategy merges with the existing road network. It diverts inland onto stable foundations and safeguards the project budget cap. Instead of funding two massive, separate infrastructure headaches, the government is utilizing a single budget to achieve a dual objective of delivering a high-speed Lagos-to-Calabar economic corridor and overhauling, raising, and reinforcing the damaged, flood-prone East-West federal road system. This is not abandonment; it is the ultimate optimization of public funds. It delivers massive relief to millions of commuters trapped by failing infrastructure right now, while securing the future transit line. While the internet remains loud with political theories, the physical construction on the ground remains unbothered. The Ministry of Works has proved its commitment across multiple sections. Section One, spanning 47.47 kilometres in Lagos, has its pavement fully completed and is ready for commissioning. On Section Two, which covers 55 kilometres, concrete laying is scheduled for completion shortly, seamlessly accounting for subsoil adjustments and the intense weight requirements of heavy trucks serving the Dangote Refinery. On the eastern ends of the project, over 40% of the Calabar end is already finished, with Section Five in Akwa Ibom crossing the 20% mark in record time. Infrastructure development is defined by adaptability, not rigid stubbornness. True wisdom dictates that you build the road where people actually live, raise it above catastrophic floods, bypass crippling regional traffic bottlenecks, and safely reach your final destination. By altering the layout to dodge fiscal ruin and engineering failure, the administration has saved the coastal highway from becoming just another abandoned, half-finished monument in Nigeria's history. The highway is alive, moving forward, and firmly anchored in reality. Explaining the ₦15 Trillion Issue The ₦15 trillion budget for the 700-kilometre highway has become the biggest lightning rod for controversy in this project. To understand why it is such a massive issue, you have to look at the math, the financing, and the competing national priorities: • The Cost Per Kilometre: The government estimated that each kilometre of the road costs roughly ₦7.5 billion. The administration defends this price by pointing out they are building a 6-lane highway using reinforced concrete rather than standard asphalt. While concrete is far more expensive upfront, the government argues it will last for decades without needing costly repairs, making it cheaper over its entire lifespan. • Not a Single Lump Sum: A common misunderstanding is that ₦15 trillion was taken out of the national treasury all at once. In reality, this is a projected estimate for an 8-year construction timeline. The money is meant to be released gradually in phases through annual budgets, international loans, and partnership funds. • The Core Argument: Critics argue that Nigeria—which is currently battling a massive budget deficit, high inflation, and heavy debt—cannot afford to tie up ₦15 trillion in a single new megaproject. They believe it makes more sense to spread a fraction of that money across the entire country to patch up dozens of broken existing highways, rather than spending it all on one new corridor. The core counter-argument is that patching up old asphalt roads is a short-term trap that merely manages decay, whereas investing in a brand-new concrete super-corridor actively generates long-term national wealth. Proponents argue that standard maintenance consumes trillions of naira every few years with nothing to show for it due to frequent road failures. By spending a premium on a durable, reinforced concrete highway, the government is building an entirely new economic engine designed to last up to a century, unlock isolated coastal trade zones, and accommodate future high-speed rail lines. Furthermore, because this megaproject relies on specialized international loans and private partnership funds tied specifically to toll-earning assets, this capital cannot simply be repurposed to fix scattered regional roads. In short, while repairing old roads keeps the country moving today, the coastal highway is what will expand the economy for tomorrow. • Why Rerouting Mattered: The ₦15 trillion calculation was based on stable ground. When engineers hit deep swamps, forcing the original route would have triggered massive "extra costs," blowing way past the ₦15 trillion cap. By rerouting the highway inland and merging it with the East-West Road, the government argues they are saving the ₦15 trillion budget from collapsing, effectively fixing two massive road systems for the price of one. -AI |
AI ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT The ongoing storm of public debate surrounding the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project highlights a recurring challenge in national governance: balancing lofty, popular expectations with the hard, unyielding realities of engineering science and fiscal responsibility. While critics and displaced interest groups have quickly accused the Federal Ministry of Works of “abandoning” the coastal corridor, a closer inspection of the data tells a completely different story. The decision to redesign the route—redirecting it inland through Edo State to align with the flood-prone East-West Road—is not an act of political trickery or a retreat. It is a brilliant masterstroke of engineering necessity and economic self-preservation. A great road cannot simply be willed into existence based on a lines-on-a-map drawing. Comprehensive geotechnical and soil investigations along the initial shoreline routing, particularly around sections in Ondo State, exposed insurmountable natural barriers. The original seaside alignment crossed treacherous terrain marked by deep swamp pits, weak peat soils, and a massive 100-metre-deep refuse layer that completely halted initial mobilization. Forcing heavy infrastructure over these subterranean hazards would require endless seaside bridges, expensive deep-piling techniques, and continuous variation orders. To build a standard, 6-lane reinforced concrete expressway over such a foundation would destroy the project’s original budget blueprint, burdening the national debt to satisfy a sentimental attachment to the shoreline. Furthermore, climate change and seasonal flooding along the lower Niger Delta basin have rendered sections of the pure coastal corridor a severe engineering risk. Rather than ignoring nature, the government heeded it. By using the new directive to absorb and reconstruct 400 kilometres of the existing East-West Road, the Ministry of Works is executing an incredibly efficient allocation of resources. While the original outline map relied on a continuous shoreline route that faced high risks of deep-swamp failures and multi-trillion budget overruns, the current realignment strategy merges with the existing road network. It diverts inland onto stable foundations and safeguards the project budget cap. Instead of funding two massive, separate infrastructure headaches, the government is utilizing a single budget to achieve a dual objective of delivering a high-speed Lagos-to-Calabar economic corridor and overhauling, raising, and reinforcing the damaged, flood-prone East-West federal road system. This is not abandonment; it is the ultimate optimization of public funds. It delivers massive relief to millions of commuters trapped by failing infrastructure right now, while securing the future transit line. While the internet remains loud with political theories, the physical construction on the ground remains unbothered. The Ministry of Works has proved its commitment across multiple sections. Section One, spanning 47.47 kilometres in Lagos, has its pavement fully completed and is ready for commissioning. On Section Two, which covers 55 kilometres, concrete laying is scheduled for completion shortly, seamlessly accounting for subsoil adjustments and the intense weight requirements of heavy trucks serving the Dangote Refinery. On the eastern ends of the project, over 40% of the Calabar end is already finished, with Section Five in Akwa Ibom crossing the 20% mark in record time. Infrastructure development is defined by adaptability, not rigid stubbornness. True wisdom dictates that you build the road where people actually live, raise it above catastrophic floods, bypass crippling regional traffic bottlenecks, and safely reach your final destination. By altering the layout to dodge fiscal ruin and engineering failure, the administration has saved the coastal highway from becoming just another abandoned, half-finished monument in Nigeria's history. The highway is alive, moving forward, and firmly anchored in reality. Explaining the ₦15 Trillion Issue The ₦15 trillion budget for the 700-kilometre highway has become the biggest lightning rod for controversy in this project. To understand why it is such a massive issue, you have to look at the math, the financing, and the competing national priorities: • The Cost Per Kilometre: The government estimated that each kilometre of the road costs roughly ₦7.5 billion. The administration defends this price by pointing out they are building a 6-lane highway using reinforced concrete rather than standard asphalt. While concrete is far more expensive upfront, the government argues it will last for decades without needing costly repairs, making it cheaper over its entire lifespan. • Not a Single Lump Sum: A common misunderstanding is that ₦15 trillion was taken out of the national treasury all at once. In reality, this is a projected estimate for an 8-year construction timeline. The money is meant to be released gradually in phases through annual budgets, international loans, and partnership funds. • The Core Argument: Critics argue that Nigeria—which is currently battling a massive budget deficit, high inflation, and heavy debt—cannot afford to tie up ₦15 trillion in a single new megaproject. They believe it makes more sense to spread a fraction of that money across the entire country to patch up dozens of broken existing highways, rather than spending it all on one new corridor. The core counter-argument is that patching up old asphalt roads is a short-term trap that merely manages decay, whereas investing in a brand-new concrete super-corridor actively generates long-term national wealth. Proponents argue that standard maintenance consumes trillions of naira every few years with nothing to show for it due to frequent road failures. By spending a premium on a durable, reinforced concrete highway, the government is building an entirely new economic engine designed to last up to a century, unlock isolated coastal trade zones, and accommodate future high-speed rail lines. Furthermore, because this megaproject relies on specialized international loans and private partnership funds tied specifically to toll-earning assets, this capital cannot simply be repurposed to fix scattered regional roads. In short, while repairing old roads keeps the country moving today, the coastal highway is what will expand the economy for tomorrow. • Why Rerouting Mattered: The ₦15 trillion calculation was based on stable ground. When engineers hit deep swamps, forcing the original route would have triggered massive "extra costs," blowing way past the ₦15 trillion cap. By rerouting the highway inland and merging it with the East-West Road, the government argues they are saving the ₦15 trillion budget from collapsing, effectively fixing two massive road systems for the price of one. -AI |
givedemwotowoto:FEMI FALANA, STOP BEING AN ILLITERATE AND USE YOUR BRAIN. THERE IS NO ''15 TRLLION'' SITTING SOMEWHERE. THAT WAS A GOVERNMENT PROJECTION ON WHAT THE ROAD WOULD COST, WITH FUNDING DONE ON AN INCREMENTAL PER KILOMETRE BASIS. EMPTY HEADED LAWYER TOO LAZY TO RESARCH BASIC INFORMATION. |
just2endowed:THE ORIGINAL EGYPTIANS WERE NOT 'KIND OF BLACK'. THEY WERE BLACK JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL MOROCCANS, THE ORIGINAL LIBYANS, ALGERIANS, TUNISIANS, AND OF COURSE, THE ORIGINAL ISRAELITES. "Are ye not as children of the ETHIOPIANS unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord.'' - Amos 9:7 ''Ethiopia'' of course was an ancient term for all of Africa south of Egypt, not a single country as it is today. And note the bible did not say ''as children of the Romans'' or 'Assyrians' or 'Greeks'. OR ANY OF THE ''OYINBO'' people from EUROPE claiming to be 'ISRAEL' today, while committing genocide. EVEN THE ORIGINAL ARABS WERE BLACK. THE MODERN DAY 'ARABS' ARE THE RESULT OF EURASIAN MIGRANTS TO THE MIDDLE EAST INTERMARRYING WITH THE ORIGINAL BLACK ARABS. |
idonhammer:AND SPAIN IS ''HEAVEN'' IN YOUR LITTLE COLONISED HEAD. SELF-HATER. |
Kelvinnchucks:YOU'RE THE SAME RACE WITH WHO? MOROCCANS?? SO YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE HISTORY OF THAT PART OF AFRICA? YOU DON'T KNOW THAT MOROCCANS DESCEND FROM ARAB INVADERS OF THAT ONCE BLACK COUNTRY? DID YOU PEOPLE SPEND EVEN ONE DAY LEARNING HISTORY IN SCHOOL? |
franchasng:SEE PROFESSIONAL TRIBALISTS WHO DO SIT AT HOME EVERY MONDAY FOR SECESSION CALLING OTHERS TRIBALISTS. WONDERS SHALL NEVER END. YOU'RE THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS OF TRIBALISM, SO SHUT UP. |


