₦airaland Forum

emkz:
Olusegun Dada traces the origin of the project as far back as 1955 and explained it didn't kick off in the 1st Republic.

He explained that construction began during President Obasanjo's time in what is today East-West Road. He also said President Tinubu extended the plan from the Epe axis to the Lekki axis.

He explained the funding model which is reasonable.

He further explained the benefits, including expanding tourism frontiers, enhancing job creation and boosting GDP.

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What he deliberately failed to explain is why it hasn't been completed since 1955, why Obasanjo didn't complete the East-West road and neither Jonathan nor Tinubu completed their own plans up to this moment.

Godfullsam:
Mention one currency that have been in an upward trend since the past 15yrs till date.

Even your Almighty dollar has lost it's purchasing power when your compare what $5 can buy in USA 2014 and what the same amount can buy for you in the same USA today.
Even though the naira has consistently lost values, it not @ 50% yearly rate.

I am trying to point out to you how miserable hatred and bitterness has ruined you, you are here talking about English comprehension.

Lol.
I was right about your poor performance in English.
You must have failed it woefully,and still doing so today.
I was not referring to inflation when I said that mentioned loss of value over the next 5yrs, but loss in value to major currencies of trade.

But, I glad you agree that ' Naira has consistently lost value' .
Now ,my question is what do you see on ground that might stop or reverse that downward trend over the next five years?

REDshouse:
The President as a person or leader can operate from any part of the world, the world is globalised and u can effectively rule or lead as far as u are connected by phone, internet or any other means . . They can only be present if there is need by invitation by National Assembly.

This is complete BS, and you know it.

Show me any nation in this world, and at any time, where the the leader and his deputy are out of the country at the same time.

It is unheard of.

It can only happen in this dystopian paradise.

CommonSense1967:
The positive impact of the Lagos Calabar coastal road on the Nigerian economy will be huge and generational.
I have tried to explain to some why this is a brainer but they seem bent on looking at it from a political and sentimental perspective.
Even if Obi was President and he proposed this road, I would have supported it with everything I have.

Nigeria has a long coastline and most are not been used to their full potential. Imagine how many beaches will open up from Lagos to Calabar, imagine world-class hotels, imagine the potential for resorts in many areas.


Look at it from the potential benefits instead of the potential delays and costs.

Projects of this magnitude will experience delays, cost overruns, and many other problems. But we must still start it and plan for potential hiccups as we go along. No matter how ell you plan there will be issues but that is not enough reason to back away form it.

My dear,
The positive economic impact of good roads, pot-hole free good roads all over Nigeria is too numerous to mention, as with the positive impact of 24hr electricity, functioning local refineries, more investments in health and education, etc etc.
Do you my drift ?
If we cannot take care of the simpler responsibilities, it is delusional to expect to manage more complex and more costly ventures.

Does anyone still remember Tinapia?
It was supposed to do magic for our economy.
No one talks about it anymore. Why ?

If I'm wrong that this just another grand corruption loading, even if it well intentioned, the cost overruns will inevitably render it another white elephant project.
This is Nigeria. We know how things roll in this country.

Godfullsam:
So according to you, Nigeria should be losing 50% of its currency value every year.

You are wishing this to a country you called your own and where you have children and relations?
See how hatred and bitterness have rubbished your life?

This is the problem I have with mor.ons. Some are able to read,but unable to comprehend. I bet you failed all your English comprehension exams.

Nigeria is what it is today because of idi.ots who do not know how to deal with facts and figures. Every policy is done with wishful thinking and hail Mary's.

If you're old enough, you might have noticed that over the past 5yrs, 10yrs ,15yrs...., the Naira has shown a consistently downward trend.

If you recognize any economic factors that is going to change or reverse that trend over the next 5yrs, kindly share it here with us.

Sprinklepee:
I never wan answer this op now. Why you dey think the coastal highway nor fit work, na people like una dey go against the development of this country yet una go dey blame govt.

The simplest reason why it will never work is that in 5yrs time, if the Naira continues to lose 50% of value every year for the next 5yrs, cost overruns will render this project impossible to complete. Then Nigeria will be indebted to Chagoury forever. This means that we will be forced to concede our most profitable oil fields to the Chagourys.
This is debt trap that might eventually enslave coming generation Nigerians to the Chagoury clan.

Cavaet Emptor !!

helinues:
All those places Nigerians have been travelling to and enjoy such kind of coastal road projects, how have they been doing it that we can't replicate same in Nigeria?

Lol.

Whatever happened to Tinapia ?
Nigeria would never ever become a tourist friendly country, talkless of a tourist haven .
Where do Nigerian politicians, the same thieves selling this bogey, where do they and their families vacation?

Mark my words:
This project would never be completed, not in 5 years, probably not in 10yrs.
Let me give you one single reason why it not be completed.
Cost overruns.
Whatever it is projected to cost right now will triple or quadruple in just 5 years. There will be no money to continue funding it, and it will be abandoned.

shortgun:
It's truly baffling to see so many foolish people participating on this forum believe whatever Reno Omokri says without verification and it's troubling that Reno Omokri who lacks coherence and stability on his posts still manages to convince some people with his deceitful rhetoric.

Reno Omokri's modus operandi since he put out the challenge is to constantly block individuals who provide proof of schools built by Peter Obi as governor. He subsequently goes on to undermine their credibility with false information and creates the impression that no evidence has been provided....this has been the plan from onset.
Any rational person will not waste any time to see through Reno's tactic.
It's concerning and worrying how many people are fooled by simple trickery.

I'm glad people are beginning to figure out that fraud and coward. Reno , in reality, cannot stand to defend himself in any of his infantile arguments.
There was once he posted some nonsense on Facebook, I responded by refuting his argument. I was expecting him to respond and engage me in a civil debate, but the coward simply blocked me. Anytime you refute him with a good argument, his cowardly response would be to block you.
That is his MO.

odoemelamemmanu:
OUK At 64, The President, Nigeria May Not Have.

by Uche Aguoru

The name, His Excellency Senator Orji Uzor Kalu means different things to different people depending on how you perceive the persona of this successful businessman, politician, former governor, and Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Many perceive him as a tactical, bold, and courageous politician who bares his mind without inhibitions irrespective of whether he is right or wrong, others see him as an enfant terrible with a magic wand that evokes success and dominates his environment.

Others think of him as a man who is always courting controversies and never allows himself to get lost in the crowd even if he has just a partial grasp of the issue on the table.

But my evaluation of OUK suggests him as a hardworking and visionary character who lives his natural self, displays openness, is very humane, unpretentious about life, and is very vociferous, he doesn't hang onto malice and cannot display ethnicity or tribalism.

As a businessman, Orji Uzor Kalu was formidable, influential, and vast, he built his business empire at a very young age and is the owner of a conglomerate that consists of an array of successful companies, among which are Ojitex Furniture Company, SLOK Nigeria Limited, SLOK Vegetable Oil, SLOK Paper Factory, SLOK Airlines, Sun Publishing Limited, First International Bank Limited, and host of other international businesses under SLOK group, he is an employer of labour with thousands of Nigerians working and earning a living under his business empire.

In Politics, Kalu is persuasive, foresighted, outgoing, and confident, he is also analytical and creative, an astute politician with strategic thinking, and an amiable personality.

He became the governor of Abia state in 1999 upon the return of the 4th republic politics and during his time as governor, he pioneered most of the developmental milestones subsequent governors have been building on including the Aba Independent Power Project that is being celebrated across the country today, I can vividly recall how he recovered most parts of Aba from infrastructural decay, parts of cemetery road and other areas of Aba was fully submerged under the mud then, save for the intervention of OUK.

He established an indigenous home-grown and people-oriented security that effectively contained and to a very great degree decimated the activities of criminals and mafia groups that brazenly held the commercial town of Aba to ransom unchallenged, overpowered the police and were even imposing taxes on residents and grounded commercial activities until OUK stepped in, he established and equipped the Bakassi boys that later became Abia Vigilante Services and charged them with the responsibility of returning security and sanity to Aba and Abia state at large and till date we are yet to see a better equipped and more successful Vigilante outfil in the whole of Nigeria.

During his time, OUK was rated as the best-performing governor and Abia was the most celebrated state in terms of infrastructural development after Lagos at the time, he influenced the context in which development could be evolved and sustained and that earned him the moniker "ACTION GOVERNOR"

OUK is referred to as the father of Abia Politics because most successful and less successful politicians in Abia State started under him directly or indirectly.
As a governor he prioritized education and health care and made primary education compulsory and free, Yes, he has his lows as a human but objectively one can attest to his visionary, charismatic, pragmatic, and sterling leadership qualities.

Little wonder he remained relevant even after leaving office as governor and without any political position for close to a decade.

As a Senator, it is debatable if any other senator had attracted more developmental projects to the zone than OUK or outperformed him as a legislator, he has attracted the construction of rural roads across the 5 LGAs, which make up Abia North senatorial zone, he has also attracted construction, and Renovation of public schools and hospitals, and had delivered empowerment items and scholarships to his constituents among other numerous achievements in the green chambers that earned him a recognition as the 2022 Best Senator of the Year in constituency projects.

The truth is that Senator Kalu has always demonstrated deep-rooted concern for the welfare of people particularly the underprivileged.

Senator Kalu is a revered political figure whose opinion on national issues is never taken for granted, a significant personality whose achievements and inputs in business and politics will remain embossed in Nigeria's history.

His Excellency Senator Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu is one outstanding stakeholder in the Nigerian project whose contributions to the growth and development of the country's socio-economic and political development have been very significant.

Though often misunderstood, he has always lent his voice to the injustice and imbalance in our political system and has in many political seasons signified intentions to contest for the presidency.

Senator Kalu is very eminently qualified with all the characteristics and qualities of a prepared leader, but sadly he may not have the chance again to be president unless, by some divine arrangement, the present political equation does not favour his ambition given his geographical identity as an Igbo Man
Senator Kalu will be celebrating his 64th Birthday on Sunday 21st April 2024 Let's wish Mmiri Riri Enyi Ndi Igbo, a happy birthday in advance.

Chief Uche Aguoru

A Public Affairs Analyst
Writes From Umuahia.

I will go with first paragraph.
To many Abians and Nigerians, " Thief, Convict and Egomaniac " are what comes to mind when we think of OUK.

I don't need to read the rest of this paid-for a.ss-licking.

No amount of soap and bleech image laundry will ever change that.

EleventhWeirdo:
See senseless comment.

So they should leave the sector unregulated, untaxable and not harmonize it with the larger picture of development? Ip0bs sha

Trying to supposed regulate IT in Nigeria is a joke. First of all , we don't invent anything in Nigeria, we just play with established standards.
Trying to regulate IT in Nigeria is like trying to regulate the entrepreneurial and creative spirit. You cannot，and should not even try it.
IT is an area that requires absolute and unfettered freedom for creativity and innovation.
Is should not be AGBERO-nized.

Jlow2:
South Africa with 50m people re generating above 20k megawatts, egypt is 50k mega megawatts, Nigeria is still below 3000 and they re building highway from Lagos to Calabar with 15trillion just loot away the money, Nigeria is just a shame of a country, why not repair the existing road with a fraction of that money, electricity will seriously drive the economy of this nation, many industries, factories small and medium scale enterprises have collapsed due to lack of electricity , the companies and factories still existing run losses because of high cost of diesel and low patronages because of how expensive things have become, it shall never be well with apc band of demons

Correction:
South Africa generates about 48,000 MW of Electricity.

helinues:
Toh

As long as what you are using the loans for are visible, we have no issue

When has that ever happened in Nigeria?

If we had ever used portions of these loans for the intended purposes, our economy would have been structurally sound by now.

loffyloffy:
Better than the initial proposal for the road. 🛣️

Nobody cares who handles the contract as long as it delivers on its promises and saves the country money. 💰

Hitech has a track record of delivering such complex projects and are willing and able to bear the bulk of the cost, so why should we go to China? #SupportLocalBusinesses or does that only applies to Airpeace?

I think your trying to be clever and a half.
You said cheaper than initial cost.
What was that initial cost and who gave that initial cost?
If there were no other competing bids, how can we ever know if we are getting good value for our money?
In any civilized country, awarding a no-bid contract to a company that has intimate business relationships with the President would be a big a scandal, even criminal.


Also, Hiteck is not a Nigerian indigenous company. It is owed by a Lebanese brothers, unless you're suggesting that Tinubu's relationship with the company makes it an indigenous company.
While we are on this, can you kindly share similar projects they have done anywhere in the past .

Now, kindly answer my question, and let's know where you stand.
Do you agree that this is Nepotism and looks like high corruption?

loffyloffy:
Bigger ..and better 10lanes plus a provision for rails against 4 lanes.

Cost per km 4bn as against 11bn

You haven't answered my question of better than what ?
What is the comparison considering that there were NO competing bids for the project ?
If the project was of such an economic necessity, I am 100% sure that Nigeria could have found a Chinese or other foreign company that would have given us that project at far far cheaper cost.

The government awarding what is perhaps the most expensive project in recent times to a well-known business partner of the president the highest form of Nepotism and corruption.
Don't you think so ?

loffyloffy:
Yet they are building a bigger,better and cheaper (in dollar and naira terms)road, that initialy planned. Plus the potentential for a rail line on that axis.

Better by what standards and cheaper by what standards to what?
Pls answer.

The answer is simple.

It's payday for Tinubu.
It's a legal transfer of trillions of Naira to the Chagoury Brothers.

Fact #1: The contract was GIFTED to the Chagoury Brothers without competing tenders.

Fact #2: The Chagoury Brothers are long time business partners of Tinubu.

You can reach your own conclusions.

AlvinOO7:
Criticisms are welcomed…but, this man needs to know when to keep quiet. Haba!
Wait for your turn na!

You probably skipped classes when the subject of Democracy was being taught.
A lot of you people do not even have the basic understanding of what a democracy is, yet you are probably passing yourself as an educated person.
Says much about our educational system.

MrProlific95:
I am a Christian, I know Israel is not a Christian Nation, but I believe the Bible and as such I believe they are Gods chosen people who rejected God's only begotten son Jesus Christ.

This wins the prize for the dumbest statement I have read today.

It is only the disease called religion that make a person believe that another race are God's chosen people.
If you believe that another race are God's chosen people, then I'm sure you wouldn't mind having you and your family as their slaves.

DeepSight:
Look, I don't think there is a point in quibbling about the details - all of which you are very wrong about. This is because Your last line is right.

What you fail to see is that that last line being right does not render religion solely or mainly responsible for the backwardness of Africa.

Many other factors are at play and are far far far more important.

I cannot say and have not said that religion is solely responsible for the backwardness of Africa.
I did respond to the poster who complained about the rot in western society, supposedly speaking from a religious moral high ground.
And my point is that if religion is somehow connected to high morals, then as the most religious nation on earth, Nigerians should not only be the beacons of the highest morals,but should have built an egalitarian society for the citizens and not need to be economic refugees in the West.

DeepSight:
I am sure I dont need to say anything - you yourself know how lame this response is. The United States is a very religious country and has always been and has always been on the path of steady progress. There is no corelation between the emasculation of religion and the progress of the United States. And Europe has been largely religious throughout most of its progress. Deviation away from religion is fairly recent in historical terms.

Finally you just had to be silent about Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, didnt you? You had no choice but to ignore these references.
What these references show is that societies can, do and have progressed with religion.
Thus, its not just about religion as I said.

If anything, it can be argued that religion has in fact contributed much to many societies, in terms of education and charity for example. Most of the earliest universities were set up by the Church, for example. The Big Bang Theory was propounded by a Catholic Priest.

And the fact that I am saying all these things should give you cause for pause because you know just how much I detest religion myself. I am just trying to make a point to you: you are singling out religion as the single cause of Africa's backwardness and that is simply not so. The matter is beyond just religion.

First of all I kept silent on ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt because I'm not quite sure how we can attribute progress to these ancient societies considering that they all eventually spiraled into decline and exist no more. There is no way to measure the standard of living of the average citizens of these now defunct civilizations. If we can day that these were highly religious civilizations, then we might as well also say that their retrogressive religions ultimately led to their extinction.
Secondly, the United States is not very religious nation, as you claim. Yes, the religious south use religion as a political weapon and make a lot of noise about it.
In the United States, religion is both a political weapon to subdue and business that exploits.
And that's my point. Religion is a retrogressive evil weapon used to control and exploit.

Vulcan24:
Defeatist approach!

Moral did not exist in a vacuum, morals are taught in religion!

Am not sure u are following! Where's the morality that dosent follow a religious belief? Point it out!!

Fo your own good, don't argue to win, argue to learn

There is a difference between being moral and claiming moral.
I should be asking you where exactly is the morality in any religious belief?
Religious belief, by definition is : Make it anything up as you go, including the claim to morality.
I have not seen any morality in any religious belief. Rather, I seen a lot of evil carefully dressed I'm religious garb.
If you a person cannot be good or moral without a religious foundation, then of us that try to be good without any religious mortgage are better adapted to face life and reality.

DeepSight:
United States is one example and Europe before the late twentieth century is another.

So was Greece, Rome, Persia and Egypt.

Europe began to progress with the emasculation of religion. Likewise the United States has seen the gradual but steady emasculation of religion on a parallel course with their technological and economic growth.

Vulcan24:
Are u a graduate? These ur questions are taught in GST courses!
Each subject or profession is an integral part of mans morality, religion and science!

What they produce in each compartment is not independent of each other! The man who made phone if he had been smoking colos at his young age and drinking concoction at the bar who wouldn't have lived or had the education n sense to invent a fone ?

Look at the man who invented Kalashnikov, look at the writings of Plato, book written by Hitler, the art of da Vinci, Handel music....all these great men are products of the embodiment of religion, moral and science. In real times their environment and an interplay of their innate skills developed by education.

Am not supposed to be educating u on the integral functions of moral, religion and science but I felt u are a young man needing tutelage

It is always laughable when people falsely equate religion with high morals.

DeepSight:
There are highly religious societies that have progressed well so it's not all about religion.

Namely?

Jokerman:
Not only on diaspora.

It happening even here in this country.

Children don't do bible study no more. No more sword drills, bible quizzes etc....

Parents always praying for blessings and blessings, while ignoring children growing up in the Lord

How many generations have grown in your so-called Lord ? What positive legacies have these tokunbo religions left in Africa?
Despite being the most religious and the most bible thumping and prayerful people in the world, today, Nigeria is one of the worst hellholes on earth ?
What gives ?
" The pre-eminence of any system ,religion or philosophy is to be measured in the quality of its output ".
To that end ,the quality of our national output after 64yrs of independence says a great deal about our minds and adopted religious philosophies that occupy those minds.
They are all cow dung.

Adonko:
if you have nothing to say pls keep shut...he is trying to talk about the rot in the society and possible solution. Who says you can't know more than your master/teacher..syllabus are updated everyday...as well as curriculum changes and also and student can choose to dive deeper In research than his master.

In this context ....these foreigner's don't know ..most don't know how to bring up children..both God fearing and morally.

The rot in which society?
Foreigners don't how to bring up children? ??
So Nigerians know how to bring up children? So how did the generations of good children that we bred in Nigeria turn Nigeria into a hellhole?
Are we that dumb not to recognize that the so-called badly brought up children in the west just happen to be the ones creating all the paradise, the well built countries that we run to for asylum because our own people ( born and bred in Nigeria) have failed us ?
As soon as a Nigerian arrives a foreign shore, that should be the first thing to recognize: that generations of Nigerians have failed Nigeria.
But unfortunately , because we carry the religious infection along with us, it continues to becloud our worldviews, even in the diaspora.
I find it very very funny and ironic when a Nigerian manages to escape the hellhole called Nigeria,
and then complains about the rot in his host country, the country that gave him asylum and opportunities for a better life despite his well-crafted lies.

rexbuton:
I attended two different church programmes this month and I noticed some trends that got me worried, so I thought i should share and offer some counselling too.

1. African women not knowing what to do with children in church. As soon as the service started, the woman in front of me brought out two large ear muffs for both of her children, blocked their ears while she began praising God. They weren’t sat close to a sound speaker. Other women in the congregation came with kids tablets, and you could see how engaged these kids were with their tablets. How do you expect these children to develop faith in God if they cannot hear the word?

(Rom10.17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.)

(2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby

(2Tim 3.15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.)

The above three scriptures explain in detail how the word of God is necessary for growth, faith development and for wisdom. Christianity is not like chemistry where you mix acid and base to get salt and water, in this kingdom, the unseen controls the seen, and faith is the currency.

Our generation was fortunate; we did bible knowledge in primary and secondary school, our parents dragged us along to church revivals, even if we slept through it, the spoken word permeated us and was registered in our subconscious. Today’s generation in the western world do not have that privilege, instead they have tiktok, YouTube and Snapchat. And woe betide anyone who believes what they say about their societies being secular. There is nothing called secularism or atheism in the spirit, ‘’he who is not for us, is against us’’.

I have a teenager who works with me once a week, he’s in college, and he casually mentioned to me that they had to read Harry Potter in Secondary school Year 7! Little wonder young people overseas are increasing dabbling in occultism and paganism. Schools have a subject called Religious Education whose content varies depending on the country and county where you are. In most cases, there is no time or space for bible reading, but there’s enough time for gender ideology, sexual perversion normalisation , and other satanic nonsense

What can be done differently?
Parents must recognise that children must be exposed to God at a tender age, just as Hannah took Samuel to the Lord after she weaned him. We must recognise that school teachers would not do the job as in the times past, thus we must double our efforts in prayer and word study.

I can remember as a child, church was not the most interesting place to be, but how was my attention held?

1. Bible quizzes. Then we didn’t have the internet, so questions required tough bible study, and as I grew older, I learnt to use a concordance.

2. Sword drills. These were interesting events where you had to open your physical bible to a particular scripture as quickly as possible. Thus, most children knew where particular bible books were precisely.

3. Choir and drama events. In one Sunday every month, the kids choir would have a performance at the main church, during regular service, and as they got older, they could commandeer praise and worship even with their own instrumentalists.

4. Kids retreats. Usually once a year, 3-day retreats away from home, for word study, prayer, and fun games. Parents didn’t have to worry about their child’s nut and pollen allergy, because they were in God’s hands.

In conclusion, pastors and church leadership must concentrate on integrating children into the church. In today’s world, they grow up so quickly, we can’t risk having them fall to the wayside. Pastors ought to take personal interest in children’s development, guide them, pray for them, anoint them, recognise those that appear to have fallen into bad company, and create a specialized development plan, just to keep them engaged .
God bless you.

Ha ha ha.
I disagree with you completely.
That religious superstitions still follow Africans into the Diaspora is bad enough, but to insist that Africans in the Diaspora pass on that mentally debilitating disease to their children in the diaspora would be double tragedy.

The good news is that whether you like it or not, every generation is less drawn to religious superstitions than the previous generation.
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Blindfaith religion does not belong in this modern era.

opamoses1:
Africa is poor because of corrupt politicians and military dictators that have ruled the continent since independence. Using Nigeria as an example E.g. Abacha and IBB. The modafuckers that truncated the first Republic included.

What has that got to do with a poster on Nairaland who is not even a politician or even the topic..from where do you things crawl out from?

We can blaming politicians. Who are the politicians?
They are us and we are them.
It is a corrupt system that produces corrupt and rapacious politicians and elites.

Again, it is the poverty of the mind on a national scale that produces and nourishes a corrupt system .

Slytiger:
Projection.

If poverty is my problem, how is that your own problem. Why use Panadol for another man's poverty?

Why Africa is resource rich , but remain very poor is everyone's problem.
As a man thinketh, so he liveth.
Africa is resource rich, but Africa remains poor because of the poverty of our minds, you being a good example.

Slytiger:
I don't know what my post had to do with poverty 😂.
Last time I checked, I am very rich by Nigerian standards. You guys just like to insult people that you do not know for reasons best known to you.

Again you only think of money.
Poverty of the mind is a more pernicious form of Poverty. And the poster was right on, poverty is your problem.

AnonPoet:
https://newsdirect.ng/allen-onyema-and-air-peace-should-learn-excellence-from-the-bull-reno/

Imagine Reno Omokri, a political prostitute, a jobless destitute who has no single accomplishment to his life, advising a man who has actually built a business that employs thousands, a national legacy .
Well, social media does give every foo.l a voice.