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Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Softmirror: 11:57am On Aug 19, 2025
TheBizGenius:
You get it.

Most people don't realize that the bigger your audience, the bigger the mental contributions to make the organization work, if you only listen.

That's why a church's growth will always beat a company's growth in Nigeria; the pastor can ask for "correct" advice from accountants, consultants, builders etc already in the congregation without any charge. A company has to pay big money to the same people to access their professional input.

The only pastors who don't enjoy this are the ones who are not open to being advised. The mega ones are though. My former pastor had 19 consultants (church members) brainstorming for the administration and marketing parts of the church.

A listening president will also hear daily corrections from citizens who are professionals yet ranting on social media and add these to his ongoing plans.

Again, great insight from you.

Kudos.
You have spoken well but I don't agree with your analogy using the church, especially if you mean Nigerian churches. We only have wealthiest Pastors infact ranking among the highest in the world but when it comes to church growth, no Nigerian church can be found anywhere on the list among the wealthiest in the world.

Your point is well understood but your analogy is not acceptable.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by TheBizGenius: 12:03pm On Aug 19, 2025
Softmirror:
You have spoken well but I don't agree with your analogy using the church, especially if you mean Nigerian churches. We only have wealthiest Pastors infact ranking among the highest in the world but when it comes to church growth, no Nigerian church can be found anywhere on the list among the wealthiest in the world.

Your point is well understood but your analogy is not acceptable.
I understand you.

But if you noticed, you have tackled the issue of effectiveness with their calling and their ability to change lives. I mentioned administration and marketing which gives the exact results you are using to condemn them.

So, the analogy actually works but definitely not for the results you would have loved for it to work for.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Softmirror: 12:04pm On Aug 19, 2025
TheBizGenius:
I understand you.

But if you noticed, you have tackled the issue of effectiveness with their calling and their ability to change lives. I mentioned administration and marketing which gives the exact results you are using to condemn them.

So, the analogy actually works but definitely not for the results you would have loved for it to work for.
Exactly! Thank you.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by 0taPiaPia(m): 12:05pm On Aug 19, 2025
bamasite2:
I strongly believe this man knows his job!

Please take a moment to write a quality post with at least 40 characters.
My problem with his project is poor execution , taste and poor finish.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by youngrichnigga: 12:06pm On Aug 19, 2025
Coastal highway of fraud shocked shocked shocked shocked
Kundus Engr. Umahi

Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by TheBizGenius: 12:09pm On Aug 19, 2025
Softmirror:
Exactly! Thank you.
I also understand and agree with what you mean though. And I validate your concern. It's painful if you are a Christian (Bible reader) and what you see does not align with what you feel you should see.

But I also don't blame the "consultants" making the churches grow in that way. The same way I don't blame a David who kills Goliath for King Saul, even though the king was no longer obeying God.

All we can all do is to be faithful in our own callings and pray for others to do their own parts too.

Just my opinion though.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by mustaphaseyi95: 12:25pm On Aug 19, 2025
Instead of them to show us the pictures of the drainage they are showing us Umahi
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Whois(m): 12:33pm On Aug 19, 2025
Pictures or I don't believe it. Lack of transparency like this is why I don't like paying that 50 naira electronic levy
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Germi9: 12:44pm On Aug 19, 2025
NO EVIDENCE
I. Expected him to show us the underground drainage
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by DrWokili:
“This is the only project in the whole country where you have 750 kilometers of roads and 750 times two of underground drainage all through,” he told journalists, adding, “what was on social media was very misleading. There are bound to be problems where a project is not completed.”

The minister explained that a recent incident of erosion at a section of the road was being addressed, stressing that the ministry and contractors were deploying new technology to safeguard the project.

“In fact, when we had done the concrete pavement, we had just about three metres for the ocean to break into that carriageway. We had to fight the ocean,” Umahi said.''

IF IT IS TRUE THAT UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE EXISTS, I DON'T EXPECT PEOPLE TO CLAIM OTHERWISE IF THEY SAW THE DRAINAGE CONSTRUCTION. SO, ONE OF THE PARTIES COULD BE PLAYING SOME PRANKS. ASSUMING IT EXISTS, IT IS COMMENDABLE TO PROVIDE THE UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE. STILL, MY CONCERN IS THE NATURE OF THE DESIGN, CONSIDERING THAT THE WATER TABLE MAY BE PERPETUALLY HIGH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO RENDER THE DRAINAGE USELESS, ESPECIALLY IF THE DISCHARGE POINT OF THE DRAINAGE IS BELOW THE WATER LEVEL. THE UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE FUNCTIONS EFFECTIVELY WHEN IT CAN PREVENT THE WATER TABLE FROM RISING TO A LEVEL THAT MAY INFLICT DAMAGES OR CAN DRAIN THE WATER CONTENT IN THE ROAD EMBANKMENT BACKFILL. I HOPE THE DESIGN IS RESPONSIVE TO THE SITE'S PECULIARITIES.

I AM ALARMED TO READ THE MINISTER'S DISCLOSURE THAT SOME SECTIONS OF THE ROAD ARE JUST THREE METERS AWAY FROM THE OCEAN! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE ALIGNMENT OF THE ROAD SHOULD BE SO CLOSE TO THE OCEAN WHEN THE ROAD IS NOT MEANT FOR AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS BUT FOR HUMAN VEHICULAR TRAFFIC! SUCH SECTIONS OF THE ROAD AND THE VOYAGING VEHICLES CAN BE AT RISK FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE ACTIVE WAVE ACTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE OCEAN WATER LEVEL IS AT ITS PEAK. I EXPECT THE ROAD ALIGNMENT TO BE FAR FROM THE OCEANS, AND RUN THROUGH COASTAL COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERVED BY THE ROAD. I COME IN PEACE! SHALOM!!
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Grandeur2015: 12:48pm On Aug 19, 2025
TimeManager:
https://businessday.ng/news/article/coastal-highway-has-underground-drainage-critics-spreading-misinformation-umahi/?amp
President Bola Tinubu want to complete all the Federal infrastructures in Lagos before he leaves.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Nobody: 12:50pm On Aug 19, 2025
TimeManager:
https://businessday.ng/news/article/coastal-highway-has-underground-drainage-critics-spreading-misinformation-umahi/?amp

“In fact, when we had done the concrete pavement, we had just about three metres for the ocean to break into that carriageway. We had to fight the ocean,” Umahi said.


In a region that has a yearly prediction and warning of flooding, why would you situate a road 3 meters to the ocean? 10 meters is still a risk.

You never finish that one, you dey talk about Carter bridge. APC just want to sound the final knell on Nigeria's treasury.

You will hear their story. It will be the grandest theft of all times. Nigerians no kuku sharp but they are globally acclaimed as smart fraudsters, even though na dem dull pass. This can not happen in any nation. The opposition has been silenced through intimidation and defection pressure.

Country is gone. Otilor
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by kedeojo(m): 12:56pm On Aug 19, 2025
zero8zero:
Can you stop embarrassing yourselves in public, you go school?. This Local boy never seen underground drainage before.





You siddon for Agulu dey ask somebody to show evidence, you for enter motor come Lagos come see am yourself. That's how you prove he is lying.
person wey never chop bellefull na you say make he enter motor come Lagos.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Bizibi(m): 1:25pm On Aug 19, 2025
DrWokili:
“This is the only project in the whole country where you have 750 kilometers of roads and 750 times two of underground drainage all through,” he told journalists, adding, “what was on social media was very misleading. There are bound to be problems where a project is not completed.”

The minister explained that a recent incident of erosion at a section of the road was being addressed, stressing that the ministry and contractors were deploying new technology to safeguard the project.

“In fact, when we had done the concrete pavement, we had just about three metres for the ocean to break into that carriageway. We had to fight the ocean,” Umahi said.''

IT IS COMMENDABLE TO PROVIDE THE UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE. STILL, MY CONCERN IS THE NATURE OF THE DESIGN, CONSIDERING THAT THE WATER TABLE MAY BE PERPETUALLY HIGH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO RENDER THE DRAINAGE USELESS, ESPECIALLY IF THE DISCHARGE POINT OF THE DRAINAGE IS BELOW THE WATER LEVEL. THE UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE FUNCTIONS EFFECTIVELY WHEN IT CAN PREVENT THE WATER TABLE FROM RISING TO A LEVEL THAT MAY INFLICT DAMAGES OR CAN DRAIN THE WATER CONTENT IN THE ROAD EMBANKMENT BACKFILL. I HOPE THE DESIGN IS RESPONSIVE TO THE SITE PECULIARITIES.

I AM ALARMED TO READ THE MINISTER'S DISCLOSURE THAT SOME SECTIONS OF THE ROAD ARE JUST THREE METERS AWAY FROM THE OCEAN! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE ALIGNMENT OF THE ROAD SHOULD BE SO CLOSE TO THE OCEAN WHEN THE ROAD IS NOT MEANT FOR AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS BUT FOR HUMAN VEHICULAR TRAFFIC! SUCH SECTIONS OF THE ROAD AND THE VOYAGING VEHICLES CAN BE AT RISK FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE ACTIVE WAVE ACTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE OCEAN WATER LEVEL IS AT ITS PEAK. I EXPECT THE ROAD ALIGNMENT TO BE FAR FROM THE OCEANS, AND RUN THROUGH COASTAL COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERVED BY THE ROAD. I COME IN PEACE! SHALOM!!
that project is going to be a waste and it will be one of those whale projects that will not continue when the next time I successor and administration comes in........that money would have finished the ongoing and abandoned road projects in Nigeria.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by blackmantis: 2:14pm On Aug 19, 2025
Nbotee:
Hahahahahahaha... So na the underground highway make the edges of the construction dey erode and break abi
Leave them.

A project hurriedly put together with no credible Environmental Impact Assessment.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Newsmills: 5:45pm On Aug 19, 2025
He challenged critics to an open debate, saying: “It took us five years to read this thing (civil engineering) and 30 years in the field to understand what is going on. That is why this work is progressing

Which of the universities did you attend let me check something.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Konquest: 3:24am On Aug 20, 2025
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Nodogragra4me(m): 11:42am On Aug 20, 2025
Agbadocassava:
Umah is an engineer we should stop this nonsense of tarnishing good governance
An engineer that did concrete paving for an airport runway... Where did he learn that from or which consultant approved concrete runway



He should go and sit down.... Concrete road he did in Ebonyi have no grip on tire .... You can apply brake and still run into the object in front of you.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by bamasite2: 11:45am On Aug 20, 2025
Hmmmmm......
Can you give examples?
0taPiaPia:
My problem with his project is poor execution , taste and poor finish.
Re: Coastal Highway Has Underground Drainage, Critics Spreading Misinformation- Umah by Guestmale: 12:46pm On Aug 20, 2025
I like this man, when you're an expert in your field, you can face any challenges,he said he is ready for a debate.
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