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Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by lexy2014: 8:34pm On Aug 13, 2025
yemre:
This is commendable.

Tinubu is trying everything possible to ensure he leaves an unprecedented developments at the end of his 8 year tenure. I pray this project is completed and delivered on schedule and I also pray that the next president coming after continues from wherever he stops so that this development can go round all the regions.

That way, the upcoming generation can come to meet a well civilized and developed country they can proudly call their own.

Good job, FG.
indeed. let us see how he is doing it.

Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs 7 times more per km than Pan-African Cairo-Cape town route.

1. Nigeria’s Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700 km highway.

Budget: $11–13 billion

2. Cairo-Cape Town Highway, a 10,228 km Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Budget: $1.65 billion
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by nickxtra(m): 8:35pm On Aug 13, 2025
abc115:
https://punchng.com/fg-firms-to-build-60bn-high-speed-rail-in-nigeria/
White elephant projects that would later not see the light of the day
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by adamkkk: 8:36pm On Aug 13, 2025
Pharaoh4rin:
Audio

Or

To be contracted to the Chagoury family.

Tinubu and stealing is like
the last construction project was done by Seyi, so i guess he is getting this one too even though d last one is not completed
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Itwas: 8:37pm On Aug 13, 2025
Another scam hgshdhsyhjshsheuushsgsgsgsg hhgsgsgs gggsgsyshs iufsusyuisvudik
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Putindbutt(m): 8:38pm On Aug 13, 2025
“Today, with our partners, I have just presented the official approval form for the project. The fund is coming from the Asian Development Investment Bank. And it is to cover the first phase of the project that cuts across four major cities in Nigeria.
When Nigeria became a member earlier in the year, those ignorant wailers were talking carelessly, they're too myopic to understand the long term benefits. Here we go. God bless President Tinubu, God bless Nigeria.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by SAMAJ: 8:39pm On Aug 13, 2025
Beckyroman:
Na Only God go deliver us for this country.
There is too much hunger in the land so all this audio project no benefits us ooooo.
Your own no dey pass hunger. You want to eat your future? Man shall not live for bread alone......
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by JuanDeDios: 8:40pm On Aug 13, 2025
lexy2014:
Indeed. TInubu is really "thinking big".

Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs 7 times more per km than Pan-African Cairo-Cape town route.

1. Nigeria’s Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700 km highway.

Budget: $11–13 billion

2. Cairo-Cape Town Highway, a 10,228 km Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Budget: $1.65 billion
Interesting figures. No financially literate person will believe you can build a road from the Cape to Cairo for $1.65 billion though.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Bluntemperor: 8:41pm On Aug 13, 2025
DEXTROVERT:
That
Will
Take
Another
20years

Coastal rain
Na 3okm
For 2years
Una get a Very Bad Mind,but if be Una nonexistent Opposition,Una go de jump up and down.
Anyway, President Tinubu should Continue his good works.
THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT MANY Past GOVT SHOULD HAVE DONE,BUT UNA LIKE AS NIGERIA-COULD NOT DEVELOP , WELL,SINCE THEY DON'T HAVE THE VISIONS.
BUT WITH JUST 2- YRS Of Tinubu,UNA SAY THE PROJECT GOOD BUT YOU WANT TO SEND IN YOUR OWN COMPANY TO VET BECAUSE OF BAD BELLE.
HAVE YOU CALCULATED THE RETURNS ON CAPITAL,IF AND WHEN THESE PROJECTS ARE COMPLETE?
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by KillahPriest: 8:45pm On Aug 13, 2025
Do you people have any idea what 60 billion dollars is ? Anyways, let's see the list of the most indebted countries to China and how much they owe cool
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by franchasofficia: 8:47pm On Aug 13, 2025
Even though the project is audio.


Why does Tinubu and his failed regime think excluding Southeast from key national projects will make him a hero?


Tinubu is just repeating the same nonsense Buhari started and he thinks he would end well like this? Where is Buhari today? Who talks or remembers him for good?



Will heaven fall if Tinubu mandate the project planners to take the rail to Enugu or Onitsha which are very vital cities with high commercial values.



It's alright
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by obayendo1010(m): 8:52pm On Aug 13, 2025
use that money build nuclear power for us first, leave rail give us cheap energy.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by lexy2014: 8:57pm On Aug 13, 2025
JuanDeDios:
Interesting figures. No financially literate person will believe you can build a road from the Cape to Cairo for $1.65 billion though.
based on financial literacy, how much should the cairo-cape town road cost?

which financially literate person will believe that a 700km road will cost $11-13billion?
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by AmazingELixir: 8:58pm On Aug 13, 2025
grin


Laudable initiative but my concern are these metal scrap boys that won't allow rail track clamps to rest...any kpararam for high speed train people dhan kpai finish oo
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by lexy2014: 8:59pm On Aug 13, 2025
Bluntemperor:
Una get a Very Bad Mind,but if be Una nonexistent Opposition,Una go de jump up and down.
Anyway, President Tinubu should Continue his good works.
THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT MANY Past GOVT SHOULD HAVE DONE,BUT UNA LIKE AS NIGERIA-COULD NOT DEVELOP , WELL,SINCE THEY DON'T HAVE THE VISIONS.
BUT WITH JUST 2- YRS Of Tinubu,UNA SAY THE PROJECT GOOD BUT YOU WANT TO SEND IN YOUR OWN COMPANY TO VET BECAUSE OF BAD BELLE.
HAVE YOU CALCULATED THE RETURNS ON CAPITAL,IF AND WHEN THESE PROJECTS ARE COMPLETE?
since you have calculated the "returns on capital" when the project is completed, can you please provide details of your calculation?
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by TimeManager(m): 9:02pm On Aug 13, 2025
“Today, $60 billion approval fund has just been submitted to the government through our financial and technical partners. The first phase of the project is $55 billion. So the fund is ready, and the country is ready to move forward with this project, ” he added.
Tinubu dey burst brain, I'm loving this man more and more.

-Kiss the truth!
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Reference(m): 9:04pm On Aug 13, 2025
Always thinking elitist. It is not high speed rail that Nigeria needs now. This country needs the kind of transportation that lowers the cost of commerce and industry to make our economy competitive.

We need heavy gauge rail lines to move petroleum products, cement, steel from producers to markets. The construction industry needs rail lines to move granite chippings from the mountain belts of Nigeria to the coastal regions and move dredged sand the opposite direction. Containers from the ports, farm products, minerals and ores and cash crops to export from the hinterland.

This is what effective transport means. High speed rail transport is elitist, expensive and not profitable in most countries. Just a white elephant.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by APOPTOSIS: 9:07pm On Aug 13, 2025
Sai Jagaban.
...na only your wife make me vex.
She too dey Tribalistic for my liking.
At some point we all have that intrinsic bias, but your wife no manage her own at all.
I still believe u.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by gaskiyamagana: 9:13pm On Aug 13, 2025
aribisala0:
How much do we owe them? Today
Do you have that information
He said the truth. Don't display ignorance about too much of Nigerian's indebtedness to China.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by ak22(m): 9:27pm On Aug 13, 2025
bigpicture001:
Tinubu should stop all this nonsense. .this money doesn't belong to him alone... How can he throw a small tiny country like ours into about 100billion dollar

This man should be just stop please
After you will be saying one African country is more developed than Nigeria.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Exclusive101: 9:41pm On Aug 13, 2025
What statw in the East of Nigeria are you from ?!

lexy2014:
Indeed. TInubu is really "thinking big".

Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs 7 times more per km than Pan-African Cairo-Cape town route.

1. Nigeria’s Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700 km highway.

Budget: $11–13 billion

2. Cairo-Cape Town Highway, a 10,228 km Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Budget: $1.65 billion

Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by hopexter(m): 9:47pm On Aug 13, 2025
bigpicture001:
Tinubu should stop all this nonsense. .this money doesn't belong to him alone... How can he throw a small tiny country like ours into about 100billion dollar

This man should be just stop please
Good news irritates you, that shows how dark your heart has become. Purge yourself from hate or else it will damage you severely.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by lexy2014: 9:48pm On Aug 13, 2025
Exclusive101:
What statw in the East of Nigeria are you from ?!
first, please what is the highlighted in your post and what does it mean?

second, did you actually read your screenshot or you just hurriedly generated it and pasted?
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by frog12: 9:53pm On Aug 13, 2025
these people wan kill us with projects dem no fit maintain. na joke this must be shocked shocked shocked

country we never dream of 60 billion dollars wan wallop am for rail project. airlines dey suffer
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by erico2k2(m): 10:01pm On Aug 13, 2025
abc115:
https://punchng.com/fg-firms-to-build-60bn-high-speed-rail-in-nigeria/
Abeg nah which electric them wan use power the train?
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Ofemannnu: 10:18pm On Aug 13, 2025
Some people are just averse to growth.
If to say den embezzle that money now,you will just cry,do gra gra and keep shut forever.Nothing wey una fit do.
Now dem wan develop Nigeria with this massive project,una still dey cry.Wetin una want gangan?
It is infrastructures that bring growth and development o.
Abi una just want Nigeria to dey backward for yeah?
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by yemre: 10:18pm On Aug 13, 2025
lexy2014:
indeed. let us see how he is doing it.

Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs 7 times more per km than Pan-African Cairo-Cape town route.

1. Nigeria’s Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700 km highway.

Budget: $11–13 billion

2. Cairo-Cape Town Highway, a 10,228 km Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Budget: $1.65 billion
Actually I was supposed to have let this slide but I won't.

If you are comparing issues, try as much as possible to use reasonable basis to compare.

The construction of Cairo Cape Town started in 1971 . This means that the budget was made before then. Besides, the so-called project is not yet completed till today - 54 years after.

Is that the kind of project you want?

How do you even compare a 1971 project to 2025. Who does that?

This Lagos Calabar coastal highway will be completed and delivered on schedule. And we will use it and even pay toll to the shame of all the people who never saw this economically valuable project as anything good.

Same with this speed rail.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by yemre: 10:22pm On Aug 13, 2025
Ofemannnu:
Some people are just averse to growth.
If to say den embezzle that money now,you will just cry,do gra gra and keep shut forever.Nothing wey una fit do.
Now dem wan develop Nigeria with this massive project,una still dey cry.Wetin una want gangan?
It is infrastructures that bring growth and development o.
Abi una just want Nigeria to dey backward for yeah?
they want to prosper but don't want development, they forgot that nobody and no government will share free money to them but can only help them to achieve their goals by giving them infrastructures that will enable them do their business. Besides , they have not yet recovered from election loss and they just hate everything because the person calling the shot is not their man.

Whether they like it or not, Nigeria will develop whoever doesn't want Nigeria to develop is free to relocate.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Ofemannnu: 10:23pm On Aug 13, 2025
yemre:
Actually I was supposed to have let this slide but I won't.

If you are comparing issues, try as much as possible to use reasonable basis to compare.

The construction of Cairo Cape Town started in 1971 . This means that the budget was made before then. Besides, the so-called project is not yet completed till today - 54 years after.

Is that the kind of project you want?

How do you even compare a 1971 project to 2025. Who does that?

This Lagos Calabar coastal highway will be completed and delivered on schedule. And we will use it and even pay toll to the shame of all the people who never saw this economically valuable project as anything good.

Same with this speed rail.
Dunno why we are in this nation with all these redundant people.
They want no development for the country but God always triumphs.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Big2bore(m): 10:37pm On Aug 13, 2025
[quote author=Beckyroman post=136447455]Na Only God go deliver us for this country.
There is too much hunger in the land so all this audio project no benefits us ooooo.[/quot



This is what you guys don't understand,
the project is actually Chinese-funded under a build-operate-transfer (or similar) arrangement, meaning they’ve invested their own capital and expect to recover it over several years before handing it over.
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by lexy2014: 10:55pm On Aug 13, 2025
yemre:
Actually I was supposed to have let this slide but I won't.

If you are comparing issues, try as much as possible to use reasonable basis to compare.

The construction of Cairo Cape Town started in 1971 . This means that the budget was made before then. Besides, the so-called project is not yet completed till today - 54 years after.

Is that the kind of project you want?

How do you even compare a 1971 project to 2025. Who does that?

This Lagos Calabar coastal highway will be completed and delivered on schedule. And we will use it and even pay toll to the shame of all the people who never saw this economically valuable project as anything good.

Same with this speed rail.
In your state of sliding (front sliding, back sliding or side sliding), what is the basis of comparison used that you say is not reasonable?

What makes that basis of comparison unreasonable?

Who decides what basis of comparison is reasonable or not?

What is your basis of comparison and what makes it reasonable?

How does your basis of comparison nullify my basis of comparison?
Re: FG, Firms To Build $60bn High-speed Rail In Nigeria by Kushites: 11:37pm On Aug 13, 2025
JuanDeDios:
Interesting figures. No financially literate person will believe you can build a road from the Cape to Cairo for $1.65 billion though.
Honestly, the kind of low-lifes we have on this forum is so depressing.

Tell me how an expressway from Cape Town to Cairo will cost $1.65 billion?

And I'm sure he goes across social media posting this garbage.
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