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Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by emkz: 12:11am On May 01 |
berrystunn: Many of you assume everyone who supported Tinubu is hungry and paid. You even claim it is 30,000 naira. Even after I graduated years back, my starting salary was way above 30,000 naira. If you are not aware, I have given money twice in this forum out of my own pocket to several people I don't even know and I will never know. The last time I did it, I asked the person to propose some ideas to improve the economy. He did and he got paid. Many of you are mentally lazy to engage in meaningful conversations with. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by CluelessMODS: 12:42am On May 01 |
Nightwolf1:Haha 😂 that is a good title thanks! |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by professorPABX: 12:46am On May 01 |
CapitalBank: You are a small boy. Ojukwu and Kanu know better. I don't blame you. One million of your type cannot try what you wrote above except they want to die. Victor Banjo designed the Biafra War Strategy and led Biafra to War. It is noise, chest beating and propaganda that you know. 2 Likes |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by CluelessMODS: 12:49am On May 01 |
emkz:Honestly majority of them are very daft. Once you have a contrary opinion to their own you are automatically Tinubu supporter, paid or hungry. They don't know that a lot of people here are comfortable. Just like you I have helped so many people on this platform, one of them is even working in my company in Port Harcourt. They have no reasonable response, all they do is to call names: agbado, thiefn*ubu etc. Like you said they are mentally lazy. 1 Like |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by CluelessMODS: 12:51am On May 01 |
CapitalBank:This one completely mentally deranged. 1 Like |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by CluelessMODS: 12:54am On May 01 |
Macphenson:How on earth will such a long road be constructed without houses being demolished? Na wah! Can you please post the link to the 3d design that you saw? 1 Like |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by CluelessMODS: 12:59am On May 01 |
CheapHomes1:Nigerians always in a hurry! Dangote refinery that started just "yesterday" haba! The costal road plans has also been in existence before Tinubu came to power. 1 Like |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by professorPABX: 1:13am On May 01 |
Eriokanmi: Was Dubai entirely landlocked before the dredging? I don't want to take you on this. Ever since I left nairaland (babaolofin), I only restrict myself to the issue my friends put on my notice. Why are people complaining about this project now? When Atlantic Ocean that was almost 2 kilometers to main road in the 70s encroached to main road and claimed half of Ahmadu Bello way OBASANJO was fighting TINUBU calling Lagos a jungle. Several people were delivering lectures on how the Ocean would submerge the entire Lagos Island. Nobody gave suggestions on the way forward apart from Chagoury brothers and Tinubu. Most of the place became dilapidated and people were moving out. The suggestion all of you are giving now should have been given to Yaradua, Jonathan or Buhari and not Tinubu. Abacha made effort to dredge River Niger and River Benue to create Seaports and kill Lagos ports. Late Chief Gamaliel Onosode the Chairman of Niger Delta Environmental Survey (NDES) engaged international consultants to carry out environmental impact assessment on the environment and the affected villages. FG did not do any impact assessment they just want Seaport. They have instructed Embassies to leave Lagos by force. They instructed all Banks to move their Headquarters out of Lagos. They also ordered oil companies to move their headoffices out of Lagos. Chief Gamaliel Onosode placed his life on the line to defend the affected Niger Delta villages and people. The EIA by NDES under Chief Onosode leadership created problem for the contractor but Abacha was adamant. There was bottleneck for the dredging before he died in 1998. Yaradua came approved establishment of University of Petroleum in Kaduna while PTI Effurun was dying. It led to serious agitation before PTI was changed to University of Petroleum when he became sick. He resumed the prospecting for Oil in the North which was suspended under OBJ after billions of dollars have been sunk for decades. He also began the EIA for the dredging which Obasanjo also did. He abandoned OBASANJO OLOKOLA LNG, Sango Otta road and Abeokuta expressway. Nobody can stop this project. Every government has its priority and plans. If Lagos were to be in the North, nobody can have the audacity to challenge the project. Dubai is part of the 7 Emirates in UAE with population less than a small area in Lagos. The situation in UAE as at the time of development is not what is obtainable here. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by naijamerican: 2:12am On May 01 |
This place is rife with drugg addicted ronu tribalists. My God this place has become so terrible 1 Like |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by JapaPrince: 2:29am On May 01 |
The money for this project is too much, I thought subsidy removal was because we had low funds? |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by passion007: 5:34am On May 01 |
Just another mega project that will quite quickly be abandoned with no accountability for the huge funds injected into the project. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by professorPABX: 5:47am On May 01 |
passion007: How much is injected into the project? FG commitment is only 15% the remaining 85% is sourced by the private investor. Which major road project is funded that way in the history of Nigeria? Is the road project budget up to the proposed Lagos Calabar Railway project cost by Jonathan and Buhari? Is Coastal road not supposed to be high? If the Coastal Railway project has been awarded by Jonathan or Buhari structures on the pathway would have still been destroyed . |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by Macphenson: 6:00am On May 01 |
michylabo: As an Engineer am sorry you are speaking ignorantly even after my right up. Am happy you understand charting at the suveryor generals office. Government initially designed a road. People did their chart in surveyor general's office and followed the design in erecting their structures. All of a sudden government jettisioned the chart in surveyor generals office and foĺlowed and entirely different chart that will lead to serious demolitions with heavy cost and associated job losses. As an engineer, why is government abandoning its original chart in surveyor generals office to cause this calamity? |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by passion007: 6:03am On May 01 |
professorPABX: Why are you talking like you were born yesterday? This country is littered and dotted by abandoned PPP projects, which are neither new nor are they genuinely 'private partnerships'. Even going by your modest estimates, this highway will cost the government over N600 million per kilometre even before inflation is factored in. Can you not think of a thousand things those funds could be used to better your own local community? |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by professorPABX: 6:24am On May 01 |
passion007: Mention one abandoned PPP FG road project. Mention one. Lagos to Ibadan (South West) was on PPP to Bi-Courtney. Under Jonathan, FG breached and frustrated the MM2 terminal built by Bi-Courtney on PPP which discouraged investors confidence. Apart from Lagos to Ibadan under PPP during OBJ and Yaradua Jonathan government, mention other FG major road under PPP. To me, the best the 15% FG's commitment can be used for is this road because there is no any other road project where investors are willing to source for 85%. I don't have any other immediate priority except this road |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by Globad(f): 6:28am On May 01 |
horsepower102: Multiple decades to complete? Where did you get this information from? |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by AbujaLagos: 6:34am On May 01 |
Obi don't mind FG, so far is not coaster road to anambra. FG is a wasteful organization |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by iSense247: 7:34am On May 01 |
Eriokanmi: Which region is landlocked? Have you been to UAE before?South-southeast region of Nigeria is landlocked. I have never been to UAE before. And what about you? UAE that dredged to the ocean bed and invited a pull of ocean to their doorstep and turned it into a world class sea port?I think this is not a question but a statement. I hope you know that UAE and most countries in the Persian gulf are not landlocked like Southeast region of Nigeria. What is the priority of dredging a river when there's no functioning ports in coastal states? That would be similar to the ongoing 700km coastal road embarked upon by Tinubu. He should instead use the money to rehabilitate federal roads and sea ports across the country. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by Scamburster(m): 8:16am On May 01 |
Emmachudi:Oga, you are wicked 😂😅🤣 |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by Eriokanmi: 8:40am On May 01 |
iSense247:Your last paragraph makes me believe we're on same page, especially the last sentence of it. I've been to UAE several times. The Jabel Ali Port, which is the 9th busiest sea port in the world is man made. For economic reasons, some steps can be taken in order to counterbalance this. Jabel Ali port location used to be a desert before they invited the ocean by dredging. The ocean was several kms away from that place. It was as far as lagos to Ondo state. They achieved this through dredging which took years. Today, its the main port serving the entire Middle east( and that was the economic advantage they foresaw). I'm not from the south east but I think if dredging could be done on the river Niger, which already had a sea channel unlike the jabel ali port before formation, this can be achieved too, more easily. Lagos port will be decongested. I've been to America too, several times. I know the NY port. America didn't concentrate all their ports in NY. With dredging, Lokoja port would serve the north, onitsha port will serve the SE, Koko Port will complement the activities in Onne, Ondo port will complement that of Lagos and spread development and industrialisation. The federal govt doesn't even need to be fully involved in these. With PPP, they will achieve this. For effective management and increased revenue, they should hand the ports over to private companies , like they did nitel in those days, the decision which Nigerians will remain thankful for. See the jobs it had created, what of revenues it had generated to the FG over the years? Before then, a gateman at nitel owned mansions. They kept shortchanging the FG. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by Okoroawusa: 8:49am On May 01 |
PointZerom:You are right. The way Peter Obi looted when he embarked on projects in Anambra as a governor. 1 Like |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by CapitalBank: 8:52am On May 01 |
professorPABX:Where were you when Your Tinubu sent people to maim and kill people? If for instance I had a brother or sister that was harmed because they voted... some of you will learn the hard way. Una go just dey see people from ur camp falling ill and dying. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by Rumundele(m): 9:51am On May 01 |
Oga peter no dey talk again o for this matter. Except you no want people vote for you again in the next election. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by ElSudani: 9:56am On May 01 |
No schools, no roads. We no dey build shishi. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by tunde1200(m): 10:05am On May 01 |
berrystunn: Easterners? we shall know them by there comment. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by OldBeer: 10:47am On May 01 |
berrystunn:If your papa get sense, e for do am so he can japa and give you better education so you go get sense. But the useless man no get that kind OT. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by OldBeer: 10:48am On May 01 |
CapitalBank:Empty barrel. Online chest beater. If una think say dem show una anything last year and you think say dem born your mama well, come out in 2027. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by iSense247: 10:55am On May 01 |
Eriokanmi:I agree with you sir. But don't you think some of these things can be achieved by the state governors? Despite having federal air and sea ports, governor sanwo olu is still planning to build state air and sea ports. It's not as if these governors don't have the resources to do so. Some oil producing states in Nigeria are making more money than some African countries. What are they using the money to do? Nigeria economy depends on three things: oil, electricity and dollar. There's nothing bad in state government building mini refineries even if it will serve only their state capital for a start. They can also generate electricity. The governors are not doing enough and their body language is not attractive investors into these areas. FG cannot do all. |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by WizardOfNG: 10:59am On May 01 |
professorPABX: 1000% correct !! |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by Mrexcell(m): 11:27am On May 01 |
Nightwolf1: I have also been wondering about this if they will totally abandon the existing east west road |
Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by CapitalBank: 1:25pm On May 01 |
OldBeer: Well, na OBi go talk Wetin dem no send am. Na why you think say u go fit do double come 2027. Someone need to teach you guys a lesson… that thing that gives you assurance need to be killed and make you fear. There is a reason why I said you are lucky to be in Nigeria. If anyone from my family was armed during last election, I can assure you that nothing less than 20 of you will be sent to your ancestors. You would be expecting bottles, guns or cutlass but you won’t see what is killing you all like flies. I personally don’t think or plan like your average Nigerian that’s why you are laughing at the possibility of what I am saying. But if you people want to push your luck too far, just do mistake touch Peter OBi or harm him in anyway… the retaliation that would follow will remind you that someone once said something like this would happen. No need for gun, no need for cutlass, no bottles… but people will fall like flies. |
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