Gerrard59:


Typical Nigerian who suddenly loves the country after voting for an incompetent feudalist in the name of Buhari.

In end the case, nowhere in the letter by Landmark was two weeks stated. Instead, the LASG mentioned seven days.

Regarding the bold, I did not support Peter Obi to win the election as I knew he would not win. Not everyone who questions the present government's policies is Peter Obi's supporter, and even they (PO's supporters) have the right to question government's policies.

https://www.nairaland.com/7225545/why-peter-obi-step-down

indigenous234:
You're right on the quick RoI in Lagos but that's exactly why they're (Igbos) having to grapple with the new reality of the Nigerian polity, post 2015. How did Nnewi develop?. Same scenario is playing out but our people presently are more concerned with a quick RoI. It's not primordial ethnic sentiment to take your investments where they're a lot more safer. It's basis instinct and economics.

Well, a better Nigeria is all I pray fo

Babinski:


The earlier plan for the West African Highway of which this Lagos-Calabar Highway is a part, according to Paul Owuanibe, followed a path through Water Corporation Road which till today is undeveloped. Rather than kill a thriving business employing thousands, why not re-route and simply follow the Water Corporation Road as planned earlier? Particularly when there is nothing on that path presently.


https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/lasg-set-to-demolish-parts-of-landmark-for-lagos-calabar-highway-project/td9vnxt

Blaze14k:


Dey dia dey yan dust.. did you read how many people they employ and u talking about ur stupid home

agabusta:


The water corporation Road is even not big enough to have 5-a side lane with rail tracks in-btw and it's a regional road. The super highway is supposed to be a standalone express road. Not to be used as service Road for daily commuting. The water corporation road will serve as a service lane, similar to the service lanes on Ikorodu Road and the Lagos Badagry express.

A good number of the land corridor on this road has even been leased out by the Lagos State govt. And significant demolitions will still happen.

There's no way this Road is to be built that thousands of building will not be pulled down.

olisaEze:
"Valued at over $200 million, according to Onwuanibe, the Landmark site is home to over 80 businesses and provides more than 4,000 direct jobs. It also generates over 2 billion Naira ($1.5 million) in annual tax revenue"

They’re prepared to lose $1.5 million annually in tax and 4000 jobs in these hard times. Why, because Tinubu and his all Yoruba advisers are real dullards who will not stop until they see the country in ruins. Even the CNN reporter is shocked! Funny thing there is, they think they’re dealing with the Igbos, but I bet over 50% of those 4000 jobs sent into the unemployment market will be Yoruba.

agabusta:


Everywhere has security challenges in Nigeria, but Lagos is about the safest place and that's the reason it continues to attract significant investment, and even human capital.

indigenous234:
When I spoke about the safety of investments, I meant it from a state government policy perspective.
Would a state like Imo State demolish a business that pays it about N2bn in annual tax? How many times have you heard about a state government in the Southeast demolishing or closing down a market because the demographic composition of the majority of it's traders didn't vote for the party in power?
How many times have you heard that markets in Imo State/Southeast caught fire because the Governor had a proposal build new markets in the same exact location?.
Instead of taking the business outside the shores of Nigeria as you proposed earlier, I think locating it in a state with less tension and politics on the ethnic origin of the investor(s), like anywhere in the Southeast, especially Imo State is a better option.

tunjijones:
Did you read the write up?

Did you have imaginations of how the road wld be and how much economic value the road will bring. It 5 carriage on each lane. It even has a rail track in between the lanes.

This is a milestone project and it's highly commendable.

Sorry to Mr. Onwuanibe forr your loss. Am sure you will be compensated accordingly.

agabusta:


You are not very informed. Does Company Income Tax go to State government??

Which market was demolished because they didn't vote for a particular candidate?

And what of the market places that were demolished in Anambra and Abia? You did not hear of those ones??

Abia Govt set to remodel markets, begins demolition of weak structures
https://businessday.ng/news/article/abia-govt-set-to-remodel-markets-begins-demolition-of-weak-structures/

4000 traders, others displaced as Anambra demolishes 2000 shops
https://punchng.com/traders-displaced-as-anambra-demolishes-over-2000-shops/

300 illegal structures, 5 plazas demolished in Onitsha
https://dailytrust.com/300-illegal-structures-5-plazas-demolished-in-onitsha/

You are better stop looking at everything from the tribal prism. It will limit your sight.

agabusta:


Yes we do.

Gerrard59:


The original plan did not involve Landmark resort areas. That is Paul's first and main grouse. The second is the short notice to vacate the property. The third is that he obtained the licence to develop the property in 2007 meanwhile the project was conceived more than forty years ago, and first approved by Jonathan.

nlfpmod:
Nigeria Wants A Road To Rival The Pacific Coast Highway - CNN

The first law of doing good is "do not do evil". I hope the ESIA averts some of these potential issues. There must be a balance between prosperity and posterity.
#LagosCalabarCoastalRoad #SimiladeADEODUN #CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/05/business/landmark-beach-nigeria-demolition-superhighway/index.html

Litmus:


More like Custodian than owner. Govt owns only a part of all tribal ancestral lands, true. It effectively holds the rest in custody. Traditional owners are encouraged by the new Nigeria land law to register ownership of the largest part of thire land in custody of government, leaving a small part to government.

The new land law (1978) was instituted as a means of documenting Nigeria's lands and also to mitigate some of the old exploitative practices that saw traditional owners of the land continually reselling lands they already sold to individuals and business.

Currently, prospective land buyers can obtain C of O for government owned land or traditional officially owned land. Traditional owners do not own thire land until they register it with government ( it is a means of documenting and cataloguing). Government keeps a small portion of the land for itself. As a land buyer, you should do your due diligence before purchasing land even from traditional peoples that have officially owned thire land by registering it with government because they may deliberately or ignorantly sell you the bits of their traditional land government reserved for itself, see the bolded.

Government generally leases the land it owns to buyers i.e leasehold. Traditional owners that have officially registered their ancestral land and therefore own it, can sell you land out right i.e it becomes yours and your family's indefinitely.