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naptu2:
Yesterday confirmed something that I had previously written (I'll search for my previous post later).

I told you that the opposition to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road is purely political. I told you that years ago, when it was politically favourable, many of the same people that are criticising the construction of the road were actually criticising government for not building the road (this was in the period from 2006 to 2014). I also told you why they criticised government then.


They condemned government because they said that there was only one road into and out of Lekki. The Tinubu and Fashola administrations decided to expand the Lekki Expressway and people said that they were stu pid because they couldn't see that what was needed was another road. They said that the Coastal Road and Fourth Mainland Bridge should have been built instead of "Just adding one lane to Lekki Expressway".

Later, when the expressway was being tolled, they said that government should have built the coastal road before tolling the expressway.

Well, yesterday happened.

There was a monster traffic jam yesterday evening when I left the hospital. I gathered that it affected the eastern part of Victoria Island and the western part of Lekki Peninsula. It was partly due to people leaving their locations at the same time after the heavy rain that fell yesterday morning and afternoon. I was reading reactions while I was in the traffic jam.

Go to Twitter and you'll see some of the people that said that the Coastal Road is unnecessary. You'll see them complaining, insisting and appealing to government to open the completed sections of the Coastal Road. Some of them were able to go past the barriers and use the road anyway. These are the same people that say that the road is unnecessary.

See the reactions below.

Photo: Screenshot from a dashcam video of someone that used the Coastal Road yesterday night.

Sebi they said there’s no costal road

xtivin:
you mean the road that is already in Ondo state will take decades to complete? Please consider your choice of words

leave those bitter election losers that can’t see anything good In whatever the govt does……even there masters Atiku, bitter obi and the rest of the election losers who cried bitterly when the project started have all gone silent. a project that have continuously made progress non stop.

ntyce:
You failed to add that the congestion was as a result of trucks leaving Dangote Refinery.
Is there a need for another road corridor to Lekki, Yes
Is there an urgent need for Lagos to Calabar via the coast at such an humongous cost, No

The same traffic that had been on forever before Dangote trucks started rolling in around 1am.
And the Dangote trucks were not even the issue but the trailers and other tankers who were driving wrecklesly , the Dangote drivers were all on one land and they were very well behaved.
I left my office at Ikoyi at10pm and I arrived my Nicon Town Residence at 2am last night.
Sir in your hate for Dangote be truthful.

Esthered:
Someone who was in traffic yesterday said there were Dangote trucks on the road sir. It depends on where you passed.

The Dangote trucks rolled in from about 12:30am.
That traffic had been there all day, so how is it the Dangote trucks that caused the traffic?

WE always told you guy that those guys including their oga are demons. They hate anything progress. BAT is a man with foresight not hindsight like them.

God bless Nigeria, God bless Tinubu

The bot twice blocked me from responding to her, but that's OK.

As I said, I am still recovering.

I have eaten and taken my drugs. I have called the hospital to cancel my appointment. I'm not going anywhere and I'm not going to ar gue with anyone. I'm just going to relax.

SmartPolician:
It was later opened in the evening of yesterday. I know someone who used it to avoid the Lekki holdup and "burst out" at Ikate. That's how she was able to get home to Ajah at 11pm yesterday. She left her office at 8pm.

Lagos is FULL! I don't know why the FG is not intentional about developing other cities to decongest Lagos. Better still, Lagos State should start running a 24/7 economy like other advanced cities. Everyone must not be going to work and going home at the same time.

FG should develop other cities? What should the governor then do? What should LGA do? You think if most of the Governors actually do their work bring in investors that would bring in jobs and release funds to the LGA's people would want to leave and come to the city? The FG is not independently meant to develop the whole of Nigeria that's why we have Governors but most of them don't even stay in their states you would always find them in Abuja.

naptu2:
This person took a picture of a soldier that is guarding the Coastal Road and she is complaining bitterly. She said that VI and Lekki were on lockdown, yet the soldier refused to open the Coastal Road. She said that a few people managed to pass, but the soldier refused to move the barriers and allow people to use the Coastal Road.

Gboyinde @gboyinAM



https://x.com/gboyinAM/status/1970617046573412567?t=MJRDi1BYE67QtqMcR1GvTA&s=19

I thought that the Coastal Road was unnecessary and a waste of money.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The coastal road was actually opened 2 days ago!

Interesting.

Island people I hail Una.

EchoEnigma:
FG should develop other cities? What should the governor then do? What should LGA do? You think if most of the Governors actually do their work bring in investors that would bring in jobs and release funds to the LGA's people would want to leave and come to the city? The FG is not independently meant to develop the whole of Nigeria that's why we have Governors but most of them don't even stay in their states you would always find them in Abuja.

Oga, Lagos, Abuja and PH are the most properous parts of the country today because the federal government invested in those places more than other parts of the country. Development is a collective endeavour.

How much do governors get compared to what the FG get? Just before you reply to this message, make sure you know the revenue sharing formula of your country.

SmartPolician:
It was later opened in the evening of yesterday. I know someone who used it to avoid the Lekki holdup and "burst out" at Ikate. That's how she was able to get home to Ajah at 11pm yesterday. She left her office at 8pm.

Lagos is FULL! I don't know why the FG is not intentional about developing other cities to decongest Lagos. Better still, Lagos State should start running a 24/7 economy like other advanced cities. Everyone must not be going to work and going home at the same time.

Kundus to the Lagos state government, what are other state Governors doing in their states? The state Governors get allocations. If Lagos state government had not put in the work over the years, everybody will not be rushing into the city. I still feel LASG need to stop inflow of those developers into Lagos.


The Lagos-Calabar coastal highway is JUST ONE of federal government's projects to develop other parts of Nigeria especially the coastal states. Electricity has improved tremendously unless you want to be dishonest.

NOETHNICITY:
So your opposition to the construction of the road is that, because it will require complex engineering work the government shouldn’t even bother to undertake it.

Very smart take. Good one

I see sarcasm there, but I don't bother. I'd still respond to you. If Nigeria had a stash of $100 billion in sovereign wealth, why would I criticise if such a road is conceived. If they like it can be fully underwater. But here we are today, the road from Lagos through the East West road is terrible, why start a new one? The south south needs the completion and perhaps an upgrade of the EW road than a new coastal road that would take till eternity to complete. The completion won't cost more than $2billion. This is all about prioritisation.

soullove1881:
No, the opposition party in Nigeria is evil. They don’t know when to stop.

Many criticized the project simply because their favorite is not in power, and some did so simply because it doesn’t pass through their states.

not everything or opinion is from opposition. Let me use myself for instance, no federal road in Edo State is motorable, the bypass is even worse. Instead of hearing that the federal govt has awarded the contracts to do them, I suddenly hear the FG has borrowed money to do a coastal road, how will you expect me to respond to such news? Even when it is a good project, when there are lots of abandoned and dilapidated old roads all over the country not receiving any attention, especially my state? We should learn to be objective, not everything is opposition or political.

Glitcher:
it's the same amount per kilometer that was used to construct other roads in the country. The amount for the other roads and railways were published in dollars but this was in naira to trigger the emotions of the easily manipulated Nigerian.

The media is a big problem in this country. This coastal road is one of the best if not the best project by this terrible administration.

what is the cost of a kilometre of road in nigeria?



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

SmartPolician:
It was later opened in the evening of yesterday. I know someone who used it to avoid the Lekki holdup and "burst out" at Ikate. That's how she was able to get home to Ajah at 11pm yesterday. She left her office at 8pm.

Lagos is FULL! I don't know why the FG is not intentional about developing other cities to decongest Lagos. Better still, Lagos State should start running a 24/7 economy like other advanced cities. Everyone must not be going to work and going home at the same time.

You should cover your face bro.
After criticizing coastal road. This is what you have to say.
So other state don't have a governor with thinking cap when Lagos completed two metro and they left theirs at MoU stage, the other one siphon state tax payers money through monorail when his successor continue siphoning through properties abroad

tollyboy5:
You should cover your face bro.
After criticizing coastal road. This is what you have to say.
So other state don't have a governor with thinking cap when Lagos completed two metro and they left theirs at MoU stage, the other one siphon state tax payers money through monorail when his successor continue siphoning through properties abroad

Yes, I criticised it and argued that the money be invested in power, but what did my criticism change? Did my criticism stop Escobar from building it?

Now that Escobar has built it, does it mean that people shouldn't use it? I didn't even say I used it and one l@ptop boy is already on my case.

As for the nonsense you wrote about, that's not the topic here. The discussion is about the Coastal road which is clearly a federal project.

overall90:
Bunkum.
Why didn't Tinubu and Fashola build the coastal road for Lagos with Lagos resources when they were governors ?
He has to wait to become president, and has to use scarce resources to constructing a coastal road to Calabar when the East West road is yet to be completed.

Each time East West road comes into discussion, it always brings to fore the gross ineptitude, crass naivity and what not of GEJ and his administration. People should always lay the blame at his feet.

What would the completion of the road has cost him? Of course, he was .......

In this same country, Buhari attempted to build a train to Niger Republic, na only online noise people make and nothing happened. Even with a Rivers man as Minister of Transport.

#blameGEJ

SmartPolician:
Yes, I criticised it and argued that the money be invested in power, but what did my criticism change? Did my criticism stop Escobar from building it?

Now that Escobar has built it, does it mean that people shouldn't use it? I didn't even say I used it and one l@ptop boy is already on my case.

As for the nonsense you wrote about, that's not the topic here. The discussion is about the Coastal road which is clearly a federal project.

It will be nonsense to you because that is how people fail to hold their government responsible in their various state.
Coastal road is from Lagos to Calabar but you're talking about federal government developing other state.
Does Lagos Map extends to Calabar on your own geography?
So jealous about Lagos that you have to input that unnecessary nonsense.
So I had to remind you how other governors killed development on their state.
When I tag sanwo on X, days later I see government talking about what I tagged them on. Can others say the same for their governors?
Stop the jealous statement about Lagos. State government developed Lagos mostly, and we the natives are not happy with congestion.

oz4real83:
not everything or opinion is from opposition. Let me use myself for instance, no federal road in Edo State is motorable, the bypass is even worse. Instead of hearing that the federal govt has awarded the contracts to do them, I suddenly hear the FG has borrowed money to do a coastal road, how will you expect me to respond to such news? Even when it is a good project, when there are lots of abandoned and dilapidated old roads all over the country not receiving any attention, especially my state? We should learn to be objective, not everything is opposition or political.

The thing is people don't learn to survive in this country.
That is why Ogun State has tremendous bad road unlike Lagos State.
When Lagos State is lobby to repair federal roads that are critical to economic activities of the state.
Other state were there waiting for federal government to fix the road. Other states like Ogun State.

naptu2:
Anyway, the heavy rains have started again and you'll need to consider whether you need to go out today.

This has been the situation since Monday:

On Monday there was a heavy traffic jam on Victoria Island and in parts of Lekki because of the Lagos State Government. The Government had announced that they were going to fix the Lekki Expressway, but that the job would be done at night. However, workmen appeared on the road on Monday morning and a carriageway was closed. It caused a massive traffic jam that affected places as far away as Ahmadu Bello Way. The workmen were removed from the road soon afterwards, but the damage had already been done.

Tuesday: There was a massive rainstorm in the morning after people had already left home. Admiralty Way and the Lekki-Epe Expressway were flooded. This caused a massive traffic jam that began around Jakande and extended into VI (ignore people that are talking about Dangote, the traffic jam did not get anywhere near there).

Some smart people waited until the flood had subsided and used the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge. Surprisingly the Bridge was totally free while there was a monster traffic jam on the Expressway. The traffic jam extended into Victoria Island, especially places like Eko Hotel, Akin Adesola, Muri Okunola and Ozumba Mbadiwe Road.

The rain has started again this morning.

@naptu2

First off, I absolutely wish you a quick recovery from your recent operation which I only just read about today.

Second, that's a brilliant update from you on the timeline or sequence of events (traffic jams and heavy flooding) within parts of Victoria Island and parts of the Lekki Peninsula. Indeed, it's BETTER for folks to stay indoors and monitor the weather updates which are now quite accurate globally in forecasting heavy rains, hurricanes and more due to advancements in satellite technologies.

Aside from the heavy rains in Lagos, Ogun, and more due to climate change (including the ongoing night construction work and flooding on the Lekki-Epe Expressway), a major part of the problem I'm getting from convos with some of my fam and folks in those two locations is that the "existing drainage system" on the Lekki-Epe Expressway is blocked with silt and would require desilting and total removal. So, the Commissioner, 'Tokunbo Wahab and his team will have to URGENTLY do something in that area. Wahab's team has done well in the CLEARING of the existing canals in Lagos State but more has to be done in desilting and opening up those drainages which a lot of relatively new migrants to Lagos State don't even know exists.


It's indeed important to do all construction work at NIGHT like Lagos State had already intended so that these lemmings and narcissists who claimed in the past that the iconic Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge by Babatunde Raji-Fashola was a waste of resources, and that the long-awaited iconic Federal Government construction project named Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway isn't important, do NOT use this grid-lock as an excuse to spread further disinformation online among gullible people.

SmartPolician:
Oga, Lagos, Abuja and PH are the most properous parts of the country today because the federal government invested in those places more than other parts of the country. Development is a collective endeavour.

How much do governors get compared to what the FG get? Just before you reply to this message, make sure you know the revenue sharing formula of your country.

I don't know if Seun or Fergie can move this comment to the joke section.
Abuja is the capital and completely receive federal government funding.
Besides no state in Nigeria is developed. Porth Harcourt is just a state with potential soaked in massive corruption.
Lagos State, Enugu State and some few other state are the only working state in Nigeria.

SmartPolician:
Oga, Lagos, Abuja and PH are the most properous parts of the country today because the federal government invested in those places more than other parts of the country. Development is a collective endeavour.

How much do governors get compared to what the FG get? Just before you reply to this message, make sure you know the revenue sharing formula of your country.

No, I disagree. The state governors have to promote meaningful and incremental development from rural areas to state capitals, they need to shift their focus from large, flashy projects to a bottom-up, decentralized approach that empowers and adequately funds local governments. The key isn't necessarily more money, but better management and a change in strategy. And this should start by first granting full financial and political autonomy to LGAs. Also the state governors can introduce micro credit schemes and grant programmes specifically for small businesses and cooperatives in rural areas. There should be incremental development that would benefit the citizens at the grassroots level making rural areas viable places to live, work and thrive this would lay a ground work for a more balanced and equitable state economy. But what they do instead is share money so that they can win the next election and have a control of the political field for years

bukatyne:
The OP is obviously pushing an agenda.

On this matter you're the one looking for agenda. Because people in the traffic already said the traffic started before Dangote truck. So not everyone saw the Dangote truck.
But you're looking for agenda to support

jmoore:
Someboby should tell the op that hundreds of millions of Nigerians don't live in Lagos.

Secondly, in his propaganda, I didn't see him saying that drivers used the Lagos coastal road and ended up in Calabar.

The major opposition to the road was the whole road, that is Lagos to Calabar.

The major opposition to the road are the people the road did not pass through their corridor

naptu2:
Yesterday confirmed something that I had previously written (I'll search for my previous post later).

I told you that the opposition to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road is purely political. I told you that years ago, when it was politically favourable, many of the same people that are criticising the construction of the road were actually criticising government for not building the road (this was in the period from 2006 to 2014). I also told you why they criticised government then.

They condemned government because they said that there was only one road into and out of Lekki. The Tinubu and Fashola administrations decided to expand the Lekki Expressway and people said that they were stu pid because they couldn't see that what was needed was another road. They said that the Coastal Road and Fourth Mainland Bridge should have been built instead of "Just adding one lane to Lekki Expressway".

Later, when the expressway was being tolled, they said that government should have built the coastal road before tolling the expressway.

Well, yesterday happened.

There was a monster traffic jam yesterday evening when I left the hospital. I gathered that it affected the eastern part of Victoria Island and the western part of Lekki Peninsula. It was partly due to people leaving their locations at the same time after the heavy rain that fell yesterday morning and afternoon. I was reading reactions while I was in the traffic jam.

Go to Twitter and you'll see some of the people that said that the Coastal Road is unnecessary. You'll see them complaining, insisting and appealing to government to open the completed sections of the Coastal Road. Some of them were able to go past the barriers and use the road anyway. These are the same people that say that the road is unnecessary.

See the reactions below.

Photo: Screenshot from a dashcam video of someone that used the Coastal Road yesterday night.

NOW they are gradually getting to realize the importance of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway after the insidious criticisms. This Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway construction project unknown to a lot of younger people had been proposed since the former President Shehu Shagari years in the early 1980s, BUT the current Nigerian President 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu took the bull by the horns to start it. If construction hadn't started, construction costs would have gone up again due to the below sea-level terrain from Lagos to Calabar.

@Naptu2, the highly impressive update as of today from the videos I've seen in my YouTube timeline is that construction work has already started on the Lagos International Airport (MMIA) with the foundations of the entry and exit bridge interchange of MMIA being laid out. The total reconstruction of that airport from 2025 is the BEST thing to happen since it was FIRST opened for use in 1979 (46 years ago). The same relentless critics of the MMIA reconstruction would be the first to start using the new airport background to take selfies and videos just like they began taking selfies and featuring the iconic Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in home videos, documentaries, and adverts after unjustly and irritatingly criticizing former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji-Fashola for the bridge construction.

I've learned for years now that with these insidious groups of people, the BEST thing is to be very firm in your resolve to bring positive societal development and proceed with your major construction projects regardless of the naysayers BECAUSE their real intention is to distract and derail those who are actively involved in the different tiers of governance at the Federal, State and LGA levels.

Noticed this trend myself...the National Habit of Complaining.

We never enjoy the best while it's happening to us...our eye is too focused on what is wrong

We misunderstand the forces at work...

naptu2:
Yesterday confirmed something that I had previously written (I'll search for my previous post later).

I told you that the opposition to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road is purely political. I told you that years ago, when it was politically favourable, many of the same people that are criticising the construction of the road were actually criticising government for not building the road (this was in the period from 2006 to 2014). I also told you why they criticised government then.

They condemned government because they said that there was only one road into and out of Lekki. The Tinubu and Fashola administrations decided to expand the Lekki Expressway and people said that they were stu pid because they couldn't see that what was needed was another road. They said that the Coastal Road and Fourth Mainland Bridge should have been built instead of "Just adding one lane to Lekki Expressway".

Later, when the expressway was being tolled, they said that government should have built the coastal road before tolling the expressway.

Well, yesterday happened.

There was a monster traffic jam yesterday evening when I left the hospital. I gathered that it affected the eastern part of Victoria Island and the western part of Lekki Peninsula. It was partly due to people leaving their locations at the same time after the heavy rain that fell yesterday morning and afternoon. I was reading reactions while I was in the traffic jam.

Go to Twitter and you'll see some of the people that said that the Coastal Road is unnecessary. You'll see them complaining, insisting and appealing to government to open the completed sections of the Coastal Road. Some of them were able to go past the barriers and use the road anyway. These are the same people that say that the road is unnecessary.

See the reactions below.

Photo: Screenshot from a dashcam video of someone that used the Coastal Road yesterday night.