berrystunn:



What do you know about governance? Go and look for food .

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.

Nightwolf1:


Abobaku

Haha 😂 that is a good title thanks!

CapitalBank:


A lot of you are lucky to be in Nigeria. Left for me, If I am allowed to plan the next election, 90% of you APC supporters will be hospitalized.

All it will take is you will inhale a gas that will paralyze you.

Your police and thugs will not be exempted.

But I like said, a lot of you are just lucky to be in Nigeria where there are too many foolish people who go out to vote without arming themselves...

And yes, there are some of us willing to carry out such act... let me come and see how Wike and all others will have guts to talk carelessly.

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.

emkz:


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.

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.

CapitalBank:


A lot of you are lucky to be in Nigeria. Left for me, If I am allowed to plan the next election, 90% of you APC supporters will be hospitalized.

All it will take is you will inhale a gas that will paralyze you.

Your police and thugs will not be exempted.

But I like said, a lot of you are just lucky to be in Nigeria where there are too many foolish people who go out to vote without arming themselves...

And yes, there are some of us willing to carry out such act... let me come and see how Wike and all others will have guts to talk carelessly.

This one completely mentally deranged.

Macphenson:


Please before making statements on a public forum try and get your facts right.

There was an initial design for that road, landmark and other people followed and observed that design. All of a sudden, they brought out this new design when people have already followed their initial design. I saw the 3d of both designs. Interestingly, the initial design is better as there will be no house to demolish thus saving government huge sums of money.

Besides there is no tangible reason given for the current design with the associated cost on state coffers.

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?

CheapHomes1:


pls what is the meaning of the highlighted? how is tinubu the "the only and best candidate among them in service delivery"? what exactly has he done since may 29, 2023 that makes him "the only and best candidate among them in service delivery"? what is the benefit of coastal super highway to Nigeria in future? how have nigerians benefitted from dangote refinery thus far?

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.

Eriokanmi:
Which region is landlocked? Have you been to UAE before?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? River Niger was better, compared to the arid( desert) land where they created a pathway for the ocean to reach them. Yaradua was a president Nigeria never had. He approved the dredging of the river Niger up to lokoja. I remember that day. Successive governments simply abandoned the project.

We're just not ready for growth in Nigeria yet. In less than a decade, they'd make double that investment in profit if they can dredge. It can be extended to Lokoja, which happens to be Anambra's neighbor . I've been to the river Niger spot in lokoja where there's confluence hotel. I once saw a boat that came from onitsha and returning with passengers.

Tribalism, bigotry and the likes have caused Nigeria a lot of setbacks, which had caused several nations who couldn't wear our shoes to leave us behind. Sadly, we're yet to learn any lesson from it. This cuts across all tribes. No one is exempted.

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.

This place is rife with drugg addicted ronu tribalists. My God this place has become so terrible

The money for this project is too much, I thought subsidy removal was because we had low funds?

Just another mega project that will quite quickly be abandoned with no accountability for the huge funds injected into the project.

passion007:
Just another mega project that will quite quickly be abandoned with no accountability for the huge funds injected into the project.

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 .

michylabo:


Agreed on getting the facts right and that is the position I am speaking from.
The cost I have no details on...but the engineering, execution and social economic impact I can boldly speak about.

Yes there is the option of repairing existing roads which past governments had poorly built. There is also the option of expanding new fronts like the coastal road. Either way would result in a debate. A decision either left or right still has its merit.

As an Engineer, I prefer a standard concrete road running across the country and which is durable than fixing bad roads that might need to be entirely re-built if it is to be done properly.

RoW is RoW. Simple charting in surveyor general's office and sticking to approved boundaries would have saved some businesses billions of Naira in damages.

Compensations are paid to those whose properties are affected by any adjustment in the RoW and who have approved papers.

Just my professional contribution.

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?

professorPABX:


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 .

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?

passion007:


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?

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

horsepower102:
Can any Tinubu supporter explain to me without insults why it is sensible to build a brand new highway from scratch that will take multiple decades to complete when there are over 50 federal highways that needs serious rehabilitation.

At a time when the economy is struggling.

Multiple decades to complete?

Where did you get this information from?

Obi don't mind FG, so far is not coaster road to anambra. FG is a wasteful organization

Eriokanmi:
Which region is landlocked? Have you been to UAE before? 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?

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.

Emmachudi:


Hope u will campaign to be in aso rock then?
Poverty Neva touch u wella, keep being sentimental until this ur 4 digit in ur account finishes.
What he (po) said is fact. Thank road is our want not a need.
We should focus on our needs now because of scare resources.
Pls I suggest you only contribute to ur village meeting where u can only bear the brunt of ur myopic view not in national issues that future of many is at stake.
Think of it.
Po can never go hungry again in this life while I doubt d quality of meal u take if truly it is a balance diet because ur reasoning is not balancing

Oga, you are wicked 😂😅🤣

iSense247:


South-southeast region of Nigeria is landlocked. I have never been to UAE before. And what about you?

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.

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.

PointZerom:


How will they loot if they don't embark on such projects?

You are right. The way Peter Obi looted when he embarked on projects in Anambra as a governor.

professorPABX:


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.

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.

Oga peter no dey talk again o for this matter. Except you no want people vote for you again in the next election.

No schools, no roads. We no dey build shishi.

berrystunn:


People traveled with fake passport in 90s , People do open bank accounts with fake name , working in mobil with fake documents is not a big deal.

Easterners? we shall know them by there comment.

berrystunn:


People traveled with fake passport in 90s , People do open bank accounts with fake name , working in mobil with fake documents is not a big deal.

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.

CapitalBank:
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.

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.

Eriokanmi:
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.

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.

professorPABX:


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.

1000% correct !!

Nightwolf1:
Highly misplaced priority... The only question I have for Thièfnubu and his brain dead zombies is;

They should show me where this road project will pass through in Rivers State and name the location..

Lagos shoreline is totally different from what is obtainable in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers State. Travel and see things yourself.

Are they going to build the coastal highway on swampy mangrove forest or in the creeks?

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I have also been wondering about this if they will totally abandon the existing east west road

OldBeer:
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.

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.