₦airaland Forum

free2ryhme:
The Lagos-Calabar coastal highway is a transformative project set to boost economic growth, enhance connectivity, and create thousands of jobs. By improving trade, tourism, and transportation along Nigeria’s coastline, it will reduce travel time and unlock new opportunities. While transparency concerns are valid, ensuring accountability and oversight is key to realizing its immense potential for millions.

iLoveYouToo:
People world say anything to demonize a person/project. I don’t expect you guys to ever understand the impact that project when completed will have on the states being linked. Keep talking money


Obasanjo and his friends wasted $16b on failed electricity projects. This project costs about half of this sum and is progressing nicely yet you all are crying.

emkz:
The submission was not targeted at someone at an advanced stage of idiocy like you.

Move on.

BreconHills:
What is the percentage of transportation and good haulage by road vs by train?

The greatest resistance to change is people's current legal behaviour and habit.

Does Nigeria have time to build point to point trains, (without arteries by the way) educate people, and persuade haulage and road users to take trains irrespective of the absence of arterial connections? The answer is capital No.

When a person starts off by thinking their opponent is stupid without reviewing the data, they self fulfil their utterances.

Roads and their arterial connections, link people to small micro communities, Trains connect people to large significant areas ( at least at this stage)

Is their something scary in lifting up the "small people" ? Why do we hate and fear the 90% so much?

emkz:
Perhaps try and read to understand. I never said Nigeria built nothing during the oil boom.

Remember Gowon said Nigeria had more money than could be spent.

I said we could have done ambitious projects. I went ahead to list examples. That was the crux of my entire submission.

HeadNigga:
Truly, it's just about selfish interest in Nigerian politics. Only few politicians in this country mean what they say...why not give us steady power first?

DeepSight:
Of course, it can only be targetted at dim witted congenital retards similar to you who see no problem with their leaders picking a misplaced priority and funding it illegally and without any iota of due process and awarding it to their crony - who is a convict in two countries, Mr. Chagouri, and a long time business partner of the president (oh, no conflict of interest!).

Of course, someone like you can never distill the issues. . .

With citizens like you, we will wander long in darkness.

emkz:
You are not intelligent. I cannot read the crap you submitted.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Gowon said so based on his level of understanding

Building 3 refineries in the space of 5 years will be seen as ambitious by anyone especially for a country just coming out of colonialism

How many of Nigeria's contemporaries then had a refinery to boast of

We also kicked off Ajaokuta in the late 70s under same OBJ

Lagos-Ibadan expressway as well as Ibadan to the north was also built in that period

The construction of Abuja as FCT started in that period as well

It's always easy to blame the past

But a fair comparison will show that Nigeria's problem started in the mid-80s from Buhari who came in and started cancelling projects to IBB who introduced SAP

The politicians who took over in 1999 have not fared better. Instead, they've been more pedestrian and transactional then revolutionary or visionary.

DeepSight:
Cop out.

1. Due process. No appropriation. No BPP.

2. Conflict of Interest.

3. Chaugouri - a convict in two countries.

Are the foregoing all crap. Just say you have no possible answers.

Olodo.

emkz:
I don't waste my time engaging deodorized nitwits. Go find those at your level. Please stop calling yourself Deepsight. Deepshit is more appropriate for the things you say.

Chucks13:
Pls help me tell them.

One thing I know is so many Nigerians are insane they suppose to be in mental home because I'm shock when someone like obj, atiku, ibb etc suddenly turned saint simply it is Tinubu in power its so annoying especially all those emergency Nigeria citizen who lost character and are jumping here there bastardised our social media space praising those that supposed to be stone in public for plunging our nation into these mess.

impeccablephili:
.My brother, many of those praising those wicked souls were not even born when they were in government. Moreover, these corrupt politicians have successfully divided us along tribal and religious lines.

They use the ‘divide and rule’ tactic on the gullible ones.

Just imagine that wicked IBB, who ordered the killing of many school children during the 1993 election annulment protests (I witnessed it because I was in senior secondary school and even protested). He introduced hardship and gave it a deceptive name—'SAP'—and now he has written a useless book to manipulate some regions into siding with him ahead of 2027.

Instead of people to collectively seek justice against him, it is painful to see some jubilating about the 1966 coup.
Is that not a misplaced priority?

AMINDA:
This argued is lame. Was it the government that provided all the money for Buhari’s railways? Are the private investors giving us their part of the finance as charity? At the end of the day, Nigeria and Nigerians will inevitably pay the full cost of the loan (with interest).

emkz:
You forgot 3rd Mainland Bridge, the first LNG train, and universities. The last time I experienced pipe-borne water in my hometown supplied by government was during the military era.

There can't be democracy before development in the Nigerian context. It is known that Nigeria thrived under military rule in terms of the investment in infrastructure than in this stomach-induced democratic experiment. I wish the military laid a proper foundation for democracy.

AsgardKing:
I do not think that small minds understand the value of that project to Nigerias future with regards to travel, tourism, logistics and the vast business opportunities and social development that it will birth.

emkz:
It is not wasteful.

Obasanjo was already in government when Nigeria had too much money. That was in the 70s. Nigeria could have done many ambitious projects like railways, built large roads, built factories, built several energy stations, built the Lagos-Calabar coastal road, developed infrastructure for gas, built new cities like Eko Atlantic, built more refineries, and set Nigeria on the path to a sustainable future.

Had the likes of Obasanjo contributed their quota with long term vision, Nigerians would have been enjoying the results till today. In my travels, many countries' infrastructure are aged but the people were still enjoying them. They are still building new ones and upgrading old ones.

The coastal highway will not only open new economic frontiers, it would provide jobs and reduce congestion in urban areas. People can work in urban areas and go to their homes on the weekends. Prices of commodities would reduce when the ease of transportation is guaranteed.

Go to major countries, infrastructure is a major thing. China? UAE? USA?

Those opposed to the coastal highway are likely jealous that it is being done by Tinubu and not by them..

MakindeHassan:
So if Obasanjo wasted $16bn we shouldn’t learn from him and do better. We should do the same because it’s our turn?

Nobody is saying road is not good. The point is, the country cannot afford it now and they are other things to fix that can get us out of this situation before building roads.

If security isn’t fixed the tourism you claim the road will bring will not work because tourist will be scared. If income level is not fixed there will be nobody to patronize the businesses on the highway. If production is not fixed there will be little goods to move on the highway. If poverty persists the highway will become a hotspot for kidnappers. If per capita income is not fixed nobody will have cars to use on the highway.

Do you see the point or you guys just want a highway you can admire?

emkz:
It is not wasteful.

Obasanjo was already in government when Nigeria had too much money. That was in the 70s. Nigeria could have done many ambitious projects like railways, built large roads, built factories, built several energy stations, built the Lagos-Calabar coastal road, developed infrastructure for gas, built new cities like Eko Atlantic, built more refineries, and set Nigeria on the path to a sustainable future.

Had the likes of Obasanjo contributed their quota with long term vision, Nigerians would have been enjoying the results till today. In my travels, many countries' infrastructure are aged but the people were still enjoying them. They are still building new ones and upgrading old ones.

The coastal highway will not only open new economic frontiers, it would provide jobs and reduce congestion in urban areas. People can work in urban areas and go to their homes on the weekends. Prices of commodities would reduce when the ease of transportation is guaranteed.

Go to major countries, infrastructure is a major thing. China? UAE? USA?

Those opposed to the coastal highway are likely jealous that it is being done by Tinubu and not by them.

Tellmeastory:
“If this is not fixed, If that is not fixed”.

HOW DO YOU “fix” any of those problems without infrastructure?

If you shy away from building infrastructure?

It’s also DISHONEST to say we are spending huge money on this project,

Last I checked Nigeria was paying under 25% and investors the rest, on a Build Operate Transfer arrangement.

chopnaira:
Yes but not from a corrupt man like OBJ throwing stones. At least the FG is only putting down 30%. Obj, a crook, is calling out another crook. Lol.

MakindeHassan:
So if Obasanjo wasted $16bn we shouldn’t learn from him and do better. We should do the same because it’s our turn?

Nobody is saying road is not good. The point is, the country cannot afford it now and they are other things to fix that can get us out of this situation before building roads.

If security isn’t fixed the tourism you claim the road will bring will not work because tourist will be scared. If income level is not fixed there will be nobody to patronize the businesses on the highway. If production is not fixed there will be little goods to move on the highway. If poverty persists the highway will become a hotspot for kidnappers. If per capita income is not fixed nobody will have cars to use on the highway.

Do you see the point or you guys just want a highway you can admire?

Leonardo4:
The facts remains it's a wasteful venture , admit or not