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WizardOfNG:
This thread illustrates again why some are passionate fans of regional autonomy. We are now enemies of each other along ethnic, religious, sectional and political lines to the extent the mission of most Nigerians today is to automatically find fault, even if totally senseless, with those they are prejudiced against and wish to discredit by any means possible.

What point is this misguided group making seemingly suggesting commissioning should only happen for the Lagos Calabar coastal highway at 100% completion stage when the FG had announced the highway, a humongously big project, would be completed in sections with each fully completed section then put into full use and tolled to derive more money to plough into completion of other sections?


Crystal clear that the greatest problem of Nigeria today is how we are primed to be each others unobjective enemies because we resent others for their religious, ethnic, political, cultural and sectional affiliation.

Better Nigeria gains a regionally autonomous structure where people with homogeneity of socio-economic ideals lead themselves so that solutions that delivers growth and development can be ratified and implemented quickly without time-consuming dissent, objection and mischievous criticism devoid of logic almost 100% of the time.

Ikaeniyan0:
The government has always make it clear that any section that is completed will be opened and put to use. I don't understand the need for this article after the explanation by the FG

WizardOfNG:
This thread illustrates again why some are passionate fans of regional autonomy. We are now enemies of each other along ethnic, religious, sectional and political lines to the extent the mission of most Nigerians today is to automatically find fault, even if totally senseless, with those they are prejudiced against and wish to discredit by any means possible.

What point is this misguided group making seemingly suggesting commissioning should only happen for the Lagos Calabar coastal highway at 100% completion stage when the FG had announced the highway, a humongously big project, would be completed in sections with each fully completed section then put into full use and tolled to derive more money to plough into completion of other sections?


Crystal clear that the greatest problem of Nigeria today is how we are primed to be each others unobjective enemies because we resent others for their religious, ethnic, political, cultural and sectional affiliation.

Better Nigeria gains a regionally autonomous structure where people with homogeneity of socio-economic ideals lead themselves so that solutions that delivers growth and development can be ratified and implemented quickly without time-consuming dissent, objection and mischievous criticism devoid of logic almost 100% of the time.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Just imagine that this was done by an OBJ or Jonathan
Would you have accepted this explanation from the govt

Image123:
Who be this? NEFGAD ko, na nefarious. For context of the ignorant, the Lagos Calabar coastal highway is arguably Nigeria's biggest infrastructure project ever. It is 6lanes highway with provision for railroad in future.
Lagos ibadan expressway is 127km.
Third Mainland bridge is 12km.
Niger bridge or Onitsha bridge is 1.5km.
2nd Niger bridge is 1.6km/12km. Your favorites avoided building it and used it as campaign promises for over a decade.
Your governors commission 1km roads and fly overs once in 4years. But you have a problem with commission of completed 30km. You hypocrites deserve hell.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Did you check the name of the convener if the group before you started foaming about regional autonomy?
Would you have accepted the explanation of commissioning uncompleted projects if such was given by an OBJ who is also Yoruba for example

We are now enemies of each other along ethnic, religious, sectional and political lines to the extent the mission of most Nigerians today is to automatically find fault, even if totally senseless, with those they are prejudiced against and wish to discredit by any means possible.

koladata:
I believe there's something diabolical about that aso rock, once a good man gets there, he or she turns bad. I didn't expect all these from Tinubu or buhari judging by their past records

Nteogwuija:
Just pretend to be realistic and rational for 5 minutes. We all know how continuity is a problem in this country.

So they've completed 4% of the project in 1year. In essence, by the end of Tinubu's first tenure, we can infer that 12% would have been completed.

Let's say he wins in 2027. We can also infer that another 16% would be completed in 2031 when his tenure elapses. That's 28% completion. Let's say 30%. What then happens to the remaing 70%?

Because the probability of another administration not continuing that project is like 0.7.

ElSudani:
If the 4% is useful it can be commissioned. Perhaps for people who may want to jump off it out of hatred. A road and a bridge are not the same even when both require construction.

WizardOfNG:
Is it Tinubu and his team that are not normal or you contributes senseless talk, everyday on this forum, because of prejudiced hatred of others?

The Lagos Calabar coastal highway is, for majority of it's length, a road. Very different to your comparison using a bridge. The highway will be constructed in well-defined sections the FG has provided exhaustive information about for progressive Nigerians to access.

Each section should, per FG stated plans, be usable upon completion and moves will be made to toll completed sections asap to make more money available for deployment towards quicker completion of other sections.

A sections of the highway that is completed, usable and capable of being tolled can/should be commission as a completed project within a bigger project the FG has always revealed would be modular.

Same as how Lagos blue metro rail line , terminating at Marina, was commissioned and is now in use daily even though we know, because Lagos State officially informed us of such, that a next phase will begin to extend the blue line beyond it's present termation point at Marina to the Epe corridor of Lagos.

Analysing you thougthless example of Third Mainland
brigdge, it is obvious a bridge over water cannot be commissioned at any stage, other than full completion, because it's purpose is to close the gap from one end of a body of water to another so that vehicle and pedestrian can cross said body of water.

So, who exactly is "not normal" if not the person unintelligently asking if the government would commission a 4% completed Third Mainland bridge, when that makes no logical sense, in comparison to a lenghty highway where sections can become fully usable once completed and thus deserve commissioning before official money tolling begins?

Agbegbaorogboye:
If this was an OBJ or Jonathan commissioning 4% of a road will you explain all these?
Why do you people have no shame

helinues:
Go to court

Ikaeniyan0:
The government is constructing a new road and claimed the roads will be opened phase by phase, why will I get angry about it?

koladata:
I believe there's something diabolical about that aso rock, once a good man gets there, he or she turns bad. I didn't expect all these from Tinubu or buhari judging by their past records

adenigga:
The recent move by the Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, to present a 30-kilometre segment of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as a completed and commission-worthy project has drawn sharp criticism from the Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development, NEFGAD, a leading public procurement advocacy group in Nigeria.


In a statement signed by its country head of office, Mr Akingunola Omoniyi, NEFGAD noted with deep concern that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a 750-kilometre unbroken contract meant to serve as a transformative infrastructure corridor across Nigeria’s coastal region.

According to NEFGAD, to commission just 30 kilometres—barely 4 per cent of the total project length—while the rest remains under construction is premature and misleading.


“We caution against the politicization of infrastructure delivery and stress that project commissioning should reflect substantive completion and usability of the project in its entirety or at least a major functional section.

“Presenting a fraction as the whole not only misrepresents the scope of work but risks undermining public trust in government communication and performance metrics.

“The minister must be mindful of the kind of precedent this action sets. If left unchecked, this could normalize the commissioning of uncompleted or partially completed projects across the country—turning what should be moments of national progress into mere photo opportunities and political theater,” parts of the statement read.


NEFGAD stressed that President Bola Tinubu should not be put under undue pressure of commissioning unfinished projects, maintaining that government is a continuum; hence, the minister, Umahi, should know that it is not possible for an administration to finish the business of government to the extent of thinking that all projects initiated must be completed during a tenure.

“President Tinubu himself met projects initiated by previous administrations, completed and inaugurated them,” the group observed.

NEFGAD called on the President to demand transparency and accountability in project delivery.


“The people deserve full value for every public infrastructure initiative—not staged ceremonies that paper over incomplete work.

“We urge the Ministry of Works to recommit to credible milestones, uphold project integrity, and ensure that future commissionings are tied to real, completed achievements—not fragments dressed up as finished products,” the statement added.
Source: https://dailypost.ng/Lagos-Calabar-coastal-Highway-unfinished-unfit-for-commissioning-NEFGAD

Image123:
Who be this? NEFGAD ko, na nefarious. For context of the ignorant, the Lagos Calabar coastal highway is arguably Nigeria's biggest infrastructure project ever. It is 6 lanes highway with provision for railroad in future.

Lagos ibadan expressway is 127km.

Third Mainland bridge is 12km.

Niger bridge or Onitsha bridge is 1.5km.

2nd Niger bridge is 1.6km/12km.

Your favorites avoided building it and used it as campaign promises for over a decade.


Your governors commission 1km roads and fly overs once in 4 years. But you have a problem with commission of completed 30km. You hypocrites deserve hell.

WizardOfNG:
You people keep citing examples that mock the Nigerian education system. Duplex building and foundation tranches excavation? Guy, are you for real?

This is a huge project to be completed in sections with each section commissioned, upon completion, and then put to use immediately while work continues on other sections.

This is no different to the Lagos metro rail project where completed routes are commissioned with Lagosians then free to use those for their travels daily while work continues to add more stations and routes.

How is this simple concept lost on you to the extent you are talking Duplex and foundation? Is the Lagos blue line not commissioned and being used today even if it currently terminates at Marina?

Yet, and crucially, we know the blue line will move beyond Marina and end circa the Epe corridor of Lagos and possibly even beyond that point as an extension fo Ogun State rail connection under the regional integration master plan of SW Nigeria?

Even Lagos Calabar coastal highway is itself an idea with an expanded West African focus. I.e modular construction and with much greater interconnectivity capacity with great possibilities for pan African trade and cooperation like optimally transport-linked EU enjoys.

It is a visionary project conceived long ago and progressive Nigerians thank Tinubu for having the vision and focus to revive it and move aggressively to build and complete it.

Commissioning of completed sections about to be put in use is a development no progressive, objective and well-meaning Nigerian should have issues with.

Konquest:
Nicely put.

From time to time, it's good for those who have the FACTS to step right in, correct these trolls and prevent them from further spreading disinformation in order to engage in mass mind control which is their objective.

WizardOfNG:
God bless you for the bolded. It is in fact what keeps me here and posting.

Progressive folks need to balance out the narrative rather than let it be controlled completely by those who are hateful, bigoted, envious, tribalistic, vendetta-driven, religiously intolerant, covetous, imperialistic, unprogressive, backwards etc, etc.

Image123:
Who be this? NEFGAD ko, na nefarious. For context of the ignorant, the Lagos Calabar coastal highway is arguably Nigeria's biggest infrastructure project ever. It is 6lanes highway with provision for railroad in future.
Lagos ibadan expressway is 127km.
Third Mainland bridge is 12km.
Niger bridge or Onitsha bridge is 1.5km.
2nd Niger bridge is 1.6km/12km. Your favorites avoided building it and used it as campaign promises for over a decade.
Your governors commission 1km roads and fly overs once in 4years. But you have a problem with commission of completed 30km. You hypocrites deserve hell.

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
Why would you be comparing bridges to roads?
Are the construction demands the same? Or you think you are speaking to airheads?

Why would you be comparing state road projects to federal government road projects?
Are their financial capacities the same?

You sound as if the money for the project came from Tinubu's savings in Bourdilllion.
Anybody who assumes the seat of government is answerable to the people on how their money is spent.

Any president can introduce any developmental project, paid for from government coffers.
He wouldn't escape scrutiny or have a free pass to impunity just because his project is bigger or more fantastic compared to other presidents'.

Enough of the rankadede mentality.
Grow up.

Image123:
You missed the point. If we can commission 1.2km, it's very okay to commission a completed 6 lane 30km. You don't need to be a genius to be reasonable. Be wise.

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
If you build a 500m road project to completion, no law says you shouldn't commission it.

There's no sense in commissioning a 30km road out of over 700km just because the 30km looks big compared to 10km and 20km roads.

The 10 and 20km roads were commissioned at 100percent completion.
That's not a reason to commission a road that's barely 4% completed.

Imagine commissioning 400m out of a 10km road.
That's what this charade looks like.

Rufai JUNKnalist Oseni @ruffydfire interviewing an LP Gov(Alex Otti): ₦36B for 5.8km?

Alex Otti: Yes

Rufai JUNKnalist Oseni: WISE! PERFECT! ODINMA! 👏🏾

Rufai to APC Minister: ₦4B/km? Show me the sand receipt! Name the shovel vendor! Recite the contractor’s blood type!… pic.twitter.com/s4tWNpIcTX

— Senior Pastor Okezie James Atañi (@Onsogbu) June 2, 2025

Uche559:
I remeber when they parked themselves to portharcourt to commission d portharcourt refinery, n d pictures whr everwhr as one of d achievement. Time will tell

Image123:
What time would tell you about a ready six lane 30km road. Most of you have never even built a standard shop in your life so achievements are lost on you, or it's simply hate.