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$800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by naptu2: 6:54pm On Dec 27, 2022
$800m rail will ease cargo movement – Lekki Port

[i]27th December 2022

Promoters of Lekki Deep Seaport, Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited, have said that the $800m rail connection is an integral part of port operations.

The Chief Operating Officer of Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise, Laurence Smith, in a chat with The PUNCH in Lagos, said that the rail connection would ensure easier and more effective evacuation of cargoes from the port.

He disclosed that the firm was developing plans to fund the $800m rail connection from the seaport to the rail line.

Smith said 30 per cent of cargoes are evacuated in Europe by rail while 70 per cent are evacuated in North America.

According to him, evacuating cargoes through rail is cheaper and reduces congestion on the road.

“It is cheaper because you can get 100 containers onto a railway system as opposed to one truck carrying a maximum of two 20-foot equivalent units out of the port. So, we are really championing that but we have to look at the mechanisms of funding the rail. The rail itself is quite expensive. So, we need to understand how those mechanisms will work,” he explained.

He also said that the first phase of the truck park would be ready by the end of the first quarter of 2023.

The Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise, Mr Daniel Odibe, said the management of Lekki Port has obtained Federal Government’s approval for the railway from the port to the proposed eastern coastal rail line through Ijebu-Ode.

https://punchng.com/800m-rail-will-ease-cargo-movement-lekki-port/

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by naptu2: 6:54pm On Dec 27, 2022
naptu2:


3) Rail lines: There are two rail lines that are meant to service that area: (a) The Green Line of the Lagos Metro system, which will run from Marina to the proposed Lekki Airport and Seaport. Provision has been made on the Eleko Road for the rail line to run on the median. There's also going to be a link from the Lagos-Calabar national line to the Lekki Port.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by naptu2: 6:54pm On Dec 27, 2022
Access to the Lekki Free Zone area.

1) Lekki-Epe Expressway via Eleko Junction.

2) Lekki-Epe Expressway via Magbon and Alade (This expressway is being built by the Lagos State Government and Dangote).

3) Araromi-Ibeju Expressway (being built by the Ondo State Government and NDDC from Araromi in Ondo through Ogun to Ibeju Lekki in Lagos).

4) Epe-Ijebu Expressway (from Epe in Lagos to Ijebu Ode in Ogun State).

5) Lagos Green Line Metro Rail Project (passenger train from Marina to Lekki Airport and Seaport).

6) Freight rail system from the Lekki Seaport to the Lagos-Calabar Rail Line.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by herkeem: 7:30pm On Dec 27, 2022
Impressive

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by ElSudani: 7:33pm On Dec 27, 2022
Railway connection will make operations seamless for the port.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by KingKO22: 7:55pm On Dec 27, 2022
Heart Attack for Nyamirin tonight





Sorry IPOB

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by seunmsg(m): 7:58pm On Dec 27, 2022
We thank Tinubu for coming up with the Lekki free trade zone idea and ensuring that it is now a reality.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by Oddfinder12: 8:09pm On Dec 27, 2022
Building another port in the already congested Lagos with thier lengelenge road.. na hold go finish una wen that port and refinery eventually come online
Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by Superwave16320: 8:16pm On Dec 27, 2022
Where are the foolish Obidaft Yorubas n Igbos. Can they tell us what year the rail Peter Obi signed will take off, it's been over 11 years of endless waiting abi Anambra no wan be world class city ? Na only Lagos God ordain must be world class city for refugees from Alaigbo.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by socialmediaman: 8:16pm On Dec 27, 2022
Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by femisplash: 8:28pm On Dec 27, 2022
Peter Obi signed an MoU to build a monorail in Onitsha in 2010, 12 years after, there's nothing to show, he scammed the people of Anambra and got away with it. When he loses by February, I hope we won't see him hiding himself anywhere in Lagos, otherwise, we would chase him back to Agulu barefooted to go live with his unknown gunmen.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by propsvilla1: 8:34pm On Dec 27, 2022
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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by PDPdestroyer(m): 8:39pm On Dec 27, 2022
If the electorates were to vote mainly on merits and antecedents of the candidates, INEC wouldn't need to conduct any election because it would be a no-contest and walkover for Tinubu, but I've come to realize Nigerians are motivated by premordial sentiments rather than what a candidate has shown capacity to do.
Hence, they only vote for whomever they 'like' out of considerations other than the capacity to deliver. Even the so-called educated ones are not left out, I deem those ones even far worse than those doing so out of sheer ignorance.
Imagine those who left a great administrator like Awolowo, who made the SW region the standard of good governance (1st skyscraper in Nigeria, 1st TV station in Africa, free basic education e.t.c) for Shagari, are the same folks trying everything to resist Tinubu, the governor who laid the foundation for modern Lagos (BRT, Eko Atlantic, Lekki free trade zone, LAWMA and other institutions, e.t.c) - the most progressive state in Nigeria by a stretch, that's to tell you people's ideology hardly change, it's a generational thing.
I hope we get it right this time around if truly the progress of the country is all we want
God bless Nigeria!

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by Okoroawusa: 8:46pm On Dec 27, 2022
Tupac Shakur said, " To live and die in L.A ". But for me it's, " To live and die in Lagos"

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by YorubaNiBaba(m): 8:52pm On Dec 27, 2022
Tinubu's Lagos

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by YorubaNiBaba(m): 8:54pm On Dec 27, 2022
seunmsg:
The thank Tinubu for coming up with the Lekki free trade zone idea and ensuring that it is now a reality.
May God continue to bless Tinubu

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by drlateef: 9:41pm On Dec 27, 2022
kingmaster2009:
Nyamiri people will run away for this thread

They can even say it was Marwa that did the rail ...Sanwoolu just came to commission it...

Most of them came to Lagos state with Nylon bag and one clothes ...now they can have roof over their head yet ....it was the governors of Lagos state that did it....

Obi had his Christmas in Lagos and Kogi state ....peacfully....why he no go do Christmas for Anambra state ....?

A lot of Nyamiri people are trying hard to claim Lagos state as their state of Origin as some Yoruba people are doing...

Let them try harder. ... Because no Local government in Lagos state will issue a certificate of Indigeneship to any Nyamiri person...

Nyamiri people selling gala and soft drink on the third mainland bridge are enormous as if make dem turn am to part of Anambra state.

Chest beater people




Lol!!! Please have mercy on them. They are trying to get state of origin because they know that IPOB will spoil market for them with the Biafra agitation. We have already decided that only 1 out of 2 million applications will get a visa after they get their Biafra. And that will be for 1 week stay as tourist. We will charge them a million dollars at the airport if they are coming for business. None of them will get work visa and none will get permanent residence, not to talk of citizenship. They deserve all these draconian rules.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by FreeStuffsNG: 9:52pm On Dec 27, 2022
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise, Mr Daniel Odibe, said the management of Lekki Port has obtained Federal Government’s approval for the railway from the port to the proposed eastern coastal rail line through Ijebu-Ode

Awesome! They should remember to build the bridge that connects Ondo state directly to Lekki, Lagos.

Please bring your investments to Lagos. Thank you

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by AfonjaEmir: 9:59pm On Dec 27, 2022
The General foolishness of agnado miscreants can be seen from this thread, where they are masturbating foolishly on a project that has been discovered to be a white elephant project.

The fact still remains that the sea ports in the SE and SS regions, serve a better purpose for the "IGBO" race who control, the commercial sector of that shyt-hole. If you look keenly agbado miscreants HATE Peter OBI because he specifically talked about, shifting dependence on Lagos for Import and export purpose. He said he will decentralize, the Port Business and make other regions experience "commecial boost" with robust sea ports in their regions!!

Now i ask...

Why are agbado miscreants celebrating something very medicore??

The Highest importers and the largest container destination in that shyt hole is the SE.!!...So why are agbado idiats celebrating foolishly.

Ambode has already said it..and that thought process got himsacked as Governor.

But Peter Obi, will make sure that OIL COMPANIES will have all operations in the region of operations.
Peter Obi will also make sure that the "fishing industry" will be revamped", as the SS region, has a super abundance of fishing potentials!!
Peter Obi will also make sure that all the deep sea ports in the SS region will work effectively and receive good patronage!..From SE businessmen who want to exit that uselessly celebrated, slum called lagos..spits

So for the zombie crew, the SEA port is only viable, when it has patronage...and with establishment of different seaports along the coastline of the SS...that project will be an Oduduwa shrine!

I don talk my own finish...OYA KEE YASEF!!

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by Racoon(m): 9:59pm On Dec 27, 2022
Nice project work

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by techWriter3: 10:11pm On Dec 27, 2022
myocardial aggressor for Nyamirin tonight Sorry the group

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by JAMO84: 12:11am On Dec 28, 2022
Obi Pandora the MOU governor. Signed contract to build rail from Onitsha to Awka, rail we no see, money don enter miss call. It's very easy to rob Igbo, just tell them Tinubu is the problem and they will believe you 100%

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by naptu2: 3:27am On Dec 28, 2022
naptu2:
So let's deal with the usual arguments.

1) Why Lekki? Why not Niger Delta? Well, why not both Lekki and Niger Delta? The Lekki Port has been on the drawing board for decades and it was proposed by the Lagos State Government, but it is not the only proposed deep sea port. There's also the new Bonny Deep Sea Port https://punchng.com/construction-of-462m-bonny-deep-seaport-takes-off-this-year-npa/ and the new Ibom Deep Sea Port http://www.idsp.ak.gov.ng/

So why not Lekki?


2) There's only one road into Lekki and it will lead to problems for people living in Ajah, Lekki Phase 1, etc.

Firstly, you need to know that the port is being built in Ibeju Lekki, which is far away from Lekki Phase 1, Ajah, etc.

Secondly, you also need to know that there isn't only one way to the port. There is the Epe-Ijebu Expressway, which easily provides a link to the hinterland (through Ogun State) from the port. The Ondo State Government is also working on the Araromi-Ibeju Lekki Expressway, which will provide a link from Ibeju Lekki to Ondo State.

3) Rail lines: There are two rail lines that are meant to service that area: (a) The Green Line of the Lagos Metro system, which will run from Marina to the proposed Lekki Airport and Seaport. Provision has been made on the Eleko Road for the rail line to run on the median. There's also going to be a link from the Lagos-Calabar national line to the Lekki Port.

4) Dedicated truck lane: The road will also have a dedicated lane for trucks (just as you have your BRT lane), so that they won't cause congestion on the axis.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by naptu2: 3:34am On Dec 28, 2022
Construction of the 6-lane rigid pavement on Eleko Epe T junction

Project Summary

This is the ONGOING Massive Construction of the 6-lane rigid pavement on Eleko Epe T junction by Messers Craneburg Construction.
Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu flagged off the construction on 1st November 2020.

Project Details:

- The Total Length of the road from Eleko Junction to Epe T junction is 18.75km.
- CONTRACTOR: Craneburg Construction
- Provision of reinforced concrete drains, Culverts and Median Barrier
- Installation of Traffic Lights
- Landscaping of Road Verges
- Preservation of rail line corridor with 50m RoW
- Installation of Street Lights
- Dedicated Truck Lane and Railway Line (for future).

- Road to serve as template for construction of road leading towards the Dangote Refinery, Lekki Ports and the Lagos Free Zones, so that we don’t have a future problem with the ports like Apapa.

Mr Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu promised this project, flagged it off and delivering quality infrastructure to the Lagos East axis of the State.

https://www.babajidesanwoolu.com/projects/construction-of-the-6-lane-rigid-pavement-on-eleko-epe-t-junction

Due to the pictures, I will continue my quotes in subsequent posts.

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by Nobody: 4:32am On Dec 28, 2022
Peter could not achieve 1% of Sanwolu achievements in 8 years!


Rather, he was funneling money out of Anambra state treasury through public-private partnership!

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by jaxxy(m): 4:35am On Dec 28, 2022
Nice and that will take how many years? another 20 years or less? U know that's almost 1billion dollars.

Anyways do if 1st and leave all these propaganda.

if this can be achieved at the duration stated then I will applaud lagos state government and whoever is incharge then.
Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by leisuretym: 4:46am On Dec 28, 2022
Campaign , my people, where is the over publicized 4th Mainland Bridge?
Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by lexy2014: 4:53am On Dec 28, 2022
seunmsg:
The thank Tinubu for coming up with the Lekki free trade zone idea and ensuring that it is now a reality.

The screenshot below tells a different story from yours.

How did he ensure that it is now a reality?

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by Moh247: 4:59am On Dec 28, 2022
Lagos is working

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Re: $800 Million Rail Will Ease Cargo Movement – Lekki Port LFTZ by ican2020: 5:00am On Dec 28, 2022
That would be Awesome

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