₦airaland Forum

Funkyswagzz:
Goodluck started the project point of correction. I doubt if you've seen the kind of congestion that is experienced along that bridge besides that it's a 1.6km project. So lemme ask you a simple question, you have a road that is already exists, is it better to build a coastal highway and abandon the existing one?

And secondly, are you saying the present economy of this country can be compared to the previous administration

First I must assume I am discussing with a sane mind and not obidient who has lost their mental capacity to emotion and tribalism.

Who initiated or started is not the bone of contention here but the amount of investment made into the project at the time Nigeria was in recession and was borrowing heavily.

Why would you justify the construction of a brand new bridge when the existing one could have been dualised to save cost at a time of recession and heaving borrowing but against the creation of a coastal road that would link 8 states?

If you claim the government should first rehabilitate all FG roads before embarking on such a project then why didn't you ask FG to first complete all FG in SE before embarking on the 2nd Niger Bridge?

LOVEALAIGBO:
Anyone that challenges your bigotry and counters your idiocy is IPOB abi!? In your alternate universe, but for IPOB, your Nigeria would be developed, united, peaceful and progressive! It then begs the question as to why you fought a war to ensure the ‘IPOB’ don’t detach themselves from you…and why you’re not supporting their present efforts to see the back of you!

You have proof the second Niger bridge cost $2 billion dollars? If so, can you share it with us? If it does turn out that the bridge cost the amount you claim, then the cost has obviously been inflated by your darling APC gov’t! Face them!

If we check all the billions of dollars Nigeria has sucked out from Alaigbo, with little to show for it in their region by way of federal presence, then wouldn’t you say they more than deserving to have $2 billion dollars worth of project in their region!? That’s assuming the figure you quoted is correct.

I laugh in Chinese.

Which ''billions of dollars'' is being sucked out of the East?

Is it your palm kernel and yellow garri you make there that is fetching you ''billions of dollars''?

Once you IPOB boys eat that your mkurumiri or whatever you call it, you will start hallucinating about all sorts.

Ttalk:
First I must assume I am discussing with a sane mind and not obidient who has lost their mental capacity to emotion and tribalism.

I mentioned someone and you attacked my opinion, now I asked you a simple question instead you started talking about obidient, mental capacity, emotion and tribalism. Like how does it correspond with our discussion or are you trying to gaslight me to avoid the question?

Look if the federal roads are in good shape do you know it will force alot of people to reduce cost of transportation and also reduce inflation. Like I'm trying point something that is very obvious but it seems you don't care

Chekwume16:
From your write up its very clear you have probably just left your village once to anambra state. If you were informed you wouldn't even question the importance of that second bridge and I am not here to read them out to you. Continue in ur ignorance or pretense

No one is saying the 2nd Niger Bridge has no advantage, but why condemn the building of a coastal road on account of paucity of resources and priority when the same factors were present when the 2nd Niger Bridge was built and you didn't complain

Tellmeastory:
How is the bridge ''dilpidated''? That bridge looks okay, and seems to just need a spray wash!

When a bridge like that is getting old, you do reinforcement engineering to strengthen it.

The solution is not to build a 2 billion dollar brand new ''2nd'' bridge right next to it, unless you are UAE and all these money miss road gulf oil countries with tiny populations.

After all we have far older bridges than that all over the world that are still standing gidigba till today, like Brooklyn bridge New York, that was built in 1869.

1st Niger Bridge was built in 1965!

Yesterday!

You are an idiot to answer your questions.

Tellmeastory:
How is the bridge ''dilpidated''? That bridge looks okay, and seems to just need a spray wash!

When a bridge like that is getting old, you do reinforcement engineering to strengthen it.

The solution is not to build a 2 billion dollar brand new ''2nd'' bridge right next to it, unless you are UAE and all these money miss road gulf oil countries with tiny populations.

After all we have far older bridges than that all over the world that are still standing gidigba till today, like Brooklyn bridge New York, that was built in 1869.

1st Niger Bridge was built in 1965!

Yesterday!

Have you ply the bridges before?
If not, it wouldn't make economic sense to you.

You should be asking, what is the initial design load of the 1st Niger brigde?
Don't come here and start comparing two different brigde designs. Have you ever travelled on the 1st Niger brigde when there's heavy traffic? Have you ever felt the vibration on the brigde structure when these loads are applied?
Are you also aware that an integrity test was carried out on the structure (1st Niger brigde) before the second Niger brigde was suggested?
Don't allow hate or tribalism bcloud your sense of reasoning @Tellmeastory

tricksters:
You asking what the FG as down shoqa you are either born foolish or will perish in foolishness.

What infrastructure as the FG built in the NW NE SW n SS to name a few ?

Tells us n why you think the SE only deserve infrastructure development.

Which of the regions lack railway except SE?
Should I continue?
Fools are quick to tag the wise foolish

This is funny.

You just want to blame the South Eastern people for a project that was carried out and executed by the FG. You said it costs $2bn to construct yet you do not fault the Government(s) that constructed it, but instead you decided to blame the people in the South East Region.

If you have been opportune to travel around Nigeria, you’ll know that the Niger bridge serves more than just the people of the South East.

Vehicles and goods coming from the Northern part of the country to the Southern part make use of this bridge and vice versa.

This hate and bigotry needs to stop. It makes some of you sound and look stupid because you’re blinded by it.

Funkyswagzz:
I mentioned someone and you attacked my opinion, now I asked you a simple question instead you started talking about obidient, mental capacity, emotion and tribalism. Like how does it correspond with our discussion or are you trying to gaslight me to avoid the question?

Look if the federal roads are in good shape do you know it will force alot of people to reduce cost of transportation and also reduce inflation. Like I'm trying point something that is very obvious but it seems you don't care

All FG road cannot be good at the same time as road are infrastructure that wears out as a result of use.

That doesn't stop FG or and other government from embarking on new road. Just as maintaining infrastructure would boost economic activities so also creating new roads in strategic location would equally do.

It is sheer hypocrisy to state government should abandon creation of new roads for maintenance when the two can go simultaneously

The OP should kindly approach the minister of information or the spokesperson to the president for the answer on why a second Niger bridge was built.
Besides, the South easterners did not point guns on the head of those that built the bridge.
Meanwhile, I believe that you have not visited the old bridge before especially during the festive period to see for yourself how commuters suffer on that bridge.

Ttalk:
All your epistles is not what the OP is asking.

His point is why did the SE blackmailed the FG to build 2Niger bride when it could have been rehabilitated and probably added another lane for wider passage rather than building a brand new bridge when there are other pressing commitment. Same Igbo are the one shouting at the top of their voice that the coastal road is a wasteful spending

[quote author=tricksters post=131546848]You see how dumb you sound?
Governors build adjourning roads to by pass the river Niger? Governors to handle trunk A roads?
And you didn't read from the news as you've never travelled that the 2nd Niger bridge comes with a By-pass. If you don't have money to travel, remove hate, read and learn so you'll at least sound smart.
Igbos never hated Buhari because he is a northerner, they only despised his poor leadership roles. Or have you heard Igbos badmouthing Yaradua? Tinubu so far hasn't been doing well and the north hates him the most. You personally know Tinubu is failing and is dying from his maladministration but Igbos has remained your problem. You are the typical chicken head that refused to bend from the knife that cut it but blaming the pot. Igbos preferred Osibanio during preelection but you couldn't talk about it.

Ttalk:
All FG road cannot be good at the same time as road are infrastructure that wears out as a result of use.

That doesn't stop FG or and other government from embarking on new road. Just as maintaining infrastructure would boost economic activities so also creating new roads in strategic location would equally do.

It is sheer hypocrisy to state government should abandon creation of new roads for maintenance when the two can go simultaneously

Ok please if they can't work all the roads please can you kindly list few they have embarked on or the ones they have completed cos I believe you should have these information. I would like you to share this so I can learn and understand with you

So do you have the statistics of the number of people from the South East that condemned the construction of the so called coastal road to those from other regions in Nigeria? Or you are just trying to be petty as usual.

Ttalk:
No one is saying the 2nd Niger Bridge has no advantage, but why condemn the building of a coastal road on account of paucity of resources and priority when the same factors were present when the 2nd Niger Bridge was built and you didn't complain

Neatb:
You should be asking, what is the initial design load of the 1st Niger bridge?
Don't come here and start comparing two different bridge designs. Have you ever traveled on the 1st Niger Bridge when there's heavy traffic? Have you ever felt the vibration on the bridge structure when these loads are applied?
Are you also aware that an integrity test was carried out on the structure (1st Niger bridge) before the second Niger bridge was suggested?
Don't allow hate or tribalism to becloud your sense of reasoning @Tellmeastory

Show us the integrity test that didn't factor rehabilitation and upgrading into account.

The only integrity test we see is blackmailing coming out from SE and the cry of marginalization.

3rd mainland bridge experiences more traffic and it's more fragile than 1 Niger Bridge but Lagosians do not blackmail the FG for another bridge but decided to look inward and the state government now proposes to build its 4th mainland bridge just like the state built its port when the the the the the pressure on the existing port controlled by the FG became unbearable.

The SE conveniently shifted the responsibility of the state government to the FG but would cry foul when the FG extended the same gesture to other regions.
One of the major ways FG should compensate the SS is to build this well-deserved coastal road and any SE that complains should be seen as selfish and wicked.

In the 8th Assembly SE legislators were the arrowhead that killed the Bill to give Lagos State special status today SEDC Act exists when a president from the same Lagos state is in power.

SE should know that other Southerners are conscious of its selfish and parochial politics born out of hatred and jealousy.

Building coastal road will not affect the development of SE in anyway and any attempt to run down the project is just a manifestation of inherent hatred and jealousy known to SE

Tellmeastory:
Use your head, IPOB.

''only one lane comes to use during heavy traffic'' because LIKE I SAID, the bridge needed reinforcement engineering to strengthen it.

The Brooklyn bridge wasn't built in 1869 to handle the weight it does today.

It was strengthened to handle today's level of weight.

SAME should have been done with the 1st Niger Bridge, rather than building a brand new bridge for 2 billion dollars right next to it.

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At the bolded..

That's all you need, anybody further replying this dumbo have lots of time..

Why did the federal government build the third mainland bridge and planning to build another since there were 1st and second bridge?

Oweto bridge is longer than second Niger bridge and cost less. Both were completed under buhari. Op should drive to duara and demand answers from him on why second bridge cost 2 billion dollars

It may interest you to know that the bridge serves as a gateway between the North and the South East and South South. Buhari took it upon himself to finish that bridge due to the economic importance it served to Nigerians most especially his people.

Ttalk:
What I see from your comment is selfishness and lack of compassion for other. It is simply I Before Other mentality that disgusts average Nigerians from you people's egocentric nature.

If the 2nd Nigeria bridge was a priority, why is the coastal road not a priority?

2nd Niger Bridge was built when Nigeria took the highest loan and fell into recession twice and it was cool with an Igbo man but he can't just swallow a coastal road being built at a time Nigeria is paying back its loan.

Brimstone77:
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At the bolded..

That's all you need, anybody further replying this dumbo have lots of time..

Why did the federal government build the third mainland bridge and planning to build another since there were 1st and second bridge?

For your information it is the state government that proposed to build 4th mainland bridge and not the FG

tricksters:
Can you listen to the foolish excuse this clowns are dishing out for wasting 2 billion dollar on a bridge. If a truck break down why can't the lunatics you elected as governor provide standby tow vehicle like we have on 3ed mainland bridge ?!

So because you igbos elect lunatics n failures as governor we have to keep wasting 2 billion plus to build new bridges eveey now n then yet same you do not want others to have coastal road ?!

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Mention one governor in your region that's better than any south east governor.

kaludestiny10:
It may interest you to know that the bridge serves as a gateway between the North and the South East and South South. Buhari took it upon himself to finish that bridge due to the economic importance it served to Nigerians most especially his people.

Look do you know the number of trailers that ply Mile 2 Badagry express road. On a good day over 400 trailers with heavy loads ply that road.

Today that road is a ghost of itseft until FG now embark on rehabilitation of some section while the state government is doing large chunk of the road.

This is route to a border where custom generate it's largest revenue.

Look if Nigerians ignore SE rant it just based on tolerance and neighbourhood but SE shouldn't overstep its boundary

Ttalk:
For your information it is the state government that proposed to build 4th mainland bridge and not the FG

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Why was the third bridge built while the 1st and second can be renovated,and why will the state government want to build the 4th one while the other 3 bridges are still there?

Tellmeastory:
Can somebody tell me why the 2nd Niger Bridge was built?

That bridge cost nearly 2 billion dollars.

If you look at the picture, the bridge is within walking distance from the PERFECTLY FUNCTIONING 1st Niger Bridge to the left.

You can walk from one bridge to the next in about 10 minutes!

That 2 billion dollars could have been put to use in more productive ways for the masses.

The south east pressured the FG to build this WHITE ELEPHANT bridge.

https://mmo.aiircdn.com/370/634fec13bceef.jpeg

Here is the absolutely perfect 1st Niger Bridge.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_npInIXcAAbeeI.jpg

What was wrong with this bridge, that they had to build a brand new one right next to it for 2 billion dollars?

Meanwhile the much more productive potential Lagos - Calabar coastal highway was lambasted by the SE people as a ''waste of money''!

Even our president having a 100 million dollar plane purchased to fly him around safely was lambasted by Peter Obi and his SE cohorts.

Some of them even saying he should fly with Air Peace.

Yet they backed this useless White Elephant that cost 20 times more than the plane?

Am I missing something here?

Eboes were using the bridge to malign Nigeria for a long time, thinking it will never be built. But Buhari shamed them..

Brimstone77:
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Why was the third bridge built while the 1st and second can be renovated,and why will the state government want to build the 4th one while the other 3 bridges are still there?

No SWners is saying 2Niger bridge should not be built but we are pointing out your hypocrisy where you and your lord Peter Obi tagged coastal road as a misplaced priority.

You guys are playing dangerous politics,

Brimstone77:
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Why was the third bridge built while the 1st and second can be renovated, and why will the state government want to build the 4th one while the other 3 bridges are still there?

It was built for every reason that made FG build the 2nd Niger Bridge and must build the coastal road. So, there shouldn't be cry from any region

Ttalk:
What I see from your comment is selfishness and lack of compassion for other. It is simply I Before Other mentality that disgusts average Nigerians from you people's egocentric nature.

If the 2nd Nigeria bridge was a priority, why is the coastal road not a priority?

2nd Niger Bridge was built when Nigeria took the highest loan and fell into recession twice and it was cool with an Igbo man but he can't just swallow a coastal road being built at a time Nigeria is paying back its loan.

Let Tinubu announce that they are re-routing the road to pass through Onitsha, and it would no longer be a ''waste of money'' to them.

Tellmeastory:
Let Tinubu announce that they are re-routing the road to pass through Onitsha, and it would no longer be a ''waste of money'' to them.

They have no truth in them that's why they take to their heels when you have time to engage them

Sheuns:
This is funny.

You just want to blame the South Eastern people for a project that was carried out and executed by the FG. You said it costs $2bn to construct yet you do not fault the Government(s) that constructed it, but instead you decided to blame the people in the South East Region.

If you have been opportune to travel around Nigeria, you’ll know that the Niger bridge serves more than just the people of the South East.

Vehicles and goods coming from the Northern part of the country to the Southern part make use of this bridge and vice versa.

This hate and bigotry needs to stop. It makes some of you sound and look stupid because you’re blinded by it.

When you were opposing the Lagos - Calabar coastal highway, it wasn't hate and bigotry.

When they oppose your own it is hate and bigotry.

Rubbish.

tricksters:
Can you listen to the foolish excuse this clowns are dishing out for wasting 2 billion dollar on a bridge. If a truck break down why can't the lunatics you elected as governor provide standby tow vehicle like we have on 3ed mainland bridge ?!

So because you igbos elect lunatics n failures as governor we have to keep wasting 2 billion plus to build new bridges eveey now n then yet same you do not want others to have coastal road ?!

You can make your points without using abusive words… Anyone that says anything not aligned with your ideology automatically becomes ibo. From governors to 2 billion then to coastal road. I couldn’t comprehend your point at all. If you have passed that bridge you’ll know that it’s just two lanes. What happens if both sides got a broken down truck of which I have experienced? You can abuse me all you like.

Tellmeastory:
Can somebody tell me why the 2nd Niger Bridge was built?

That bridge cost nearly 2 billion dollars.

If you look at the picture, the bridge is within walking distance from the PERFECTLY FUNCTIONING 1st Niger Bridge to the left.

You can walk from one bridge to the next in about 10 minutes!

That 2 billion dollars could have been put to use in more productive ways for the masses.

The south east pressured the FG to build this WHITE ELEPHANT bridge.

https://mmo.aiircdn.com/370/634fec13bceef.jpeg

Here is the absolutely perfect 1st Niger Bridge.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_npInIXcAAbeeI.jpg

What was wrong with this bridge, that they had to build a brand new one right next to it for 2 billion dollars?

Meanwhile the much more productive potential Lagos - Calabar coastal highway was lambasted by the SE people as a ''waste of money''!

Even our president having a 100 million dollar plane purchased to fly him around safely was lambasted by Peter Obi and his SE cohorts.

Some of them even saying he should fly with Air Peace.

Yet they backed this useless White Elephant that cost 20 times more than the plane?

Am I missing something here?

A vast majority of the people from your region are just foolish and blinded by stupid politics. This is why Nigeria is sinking and will keep sinking untill you all senseless beings are relegated to the abyss.

Without mincing much words to addressing your flawed logic and regressed thinking, The second Niger bridge, built many years ago was in dilapidated condition and severally, it has failed to accommodate that amount of traffic, usually, that passes through.

On the coastal road you smuggled into the argument, can we start by asking ourselves pertinent questions as to where the coastal road will pass through? If you have traveled to the South or live in the South, kindly state where the coastal road will pass through in Rivers State.

I'm waiting for your response.

Tellmeastory:
When you were opposing the Lagos - Calabar coastal highway, it wasn't hate and bigotry.

When they oppose your own it is hate and bigotry.

Rubbish.

This is what other Nigerians see but SEners including their elites cannot see, imagining Peter Obi the yes daddy crooner saying Coastal road is a wasteful and misplaced priority