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*This is an actual photo of a completed stretch of the 700-kilometre Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway, which will start in coastal Lagos before traversing Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom State before terminating at Cross River State.*

When completed, it will be the longest coastal highway in Africa. Imagine driving for endless miles and just seeing the turquoise-blue colours of the Atlantic Ocean. It will almost feel as if you are driving to heaven!

With the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway, you will no longer have to depend on ports in Lagos or Port Harcourt. The freeway will link seven ports, including Tin-Can Island, Lekki, Koko, Warri, Port Harcourt, Gelegele and Calabar ports.

For the layman who does not understand what this means, it translates to cheaper importation costs, because ships would no longer accrue demurrage charges while waiting to berth at the congested Lagos ports. They can choose any of these seven ports, which will increase to eight when Ondo State completes construction of the Ilaje Deep-Sea Port.

The multiplier effect of this is that Nigerian corporations and individuals will eventually stop using the Port of Cotonou in Benin Republic, meaning that the increased marrying traffic will almost immediately increase our GDP.

You see, the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway is not just a road. It is a catalyst that will reduce travel times and costs within Nigeria and open up our ports to increased commerce. Not only will goods arrive in Nigeria, but they will also leave Nigeria.

This road was first conceived fifty years ago. It is now gradually becoming a reality. It will boost Nigeria's internal and external tourism. And that is why I cannot understand why a trader like Peter Obi can be against that road because of politics.

Anyway, when we finish building it, we must not catch Mr. Obi on the road!

Reno Omokri

Gospel let. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

tunde1200:
*This is an actual photo of a completed stretch of the 700-kilometre Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway, which will start in coastal Lagos before traversing Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom State before terminating at Cross River State.*

When completed, it will be the longest coastal highway in Africa. Imagine driving for endless miles and just seeing the turquoise-blue colours of the Atlantic Ocean. It will almost feel as if you are driving to heaven!

With the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway, you will no longer have to depend on ports in Lagos or Port Harcourt. The freeway will link seven ports, including Tin-Can Island, Lekki, Koko, Warri, Port Harcourt, Gelegele and Calabar ports.

For the layman who does not understand what this means, it translates to cheaper importation costs, because ships would no longer accrue demurrage charges while waiting to berth at the congested Lagos ports. They can choose any of these seven ports, which will increase to eight when Ondo State completes construction of the Ilaje Deep-Sea Port.

The multiplier effect of this is that Nigerian corporations and individuals will eventually stop using the Port of Cotonou in Benin Republic, meaning that the increased marrying traffic will almost immediately increase our GDP.

You see, the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway is not just a road. It is a catalyst that will reduce travel times and costs within Nigeria and open up our ports to increased commerce. Not only will goods arrive in Nigeria, but they will also leave Nigeria.

This road was first conceived fifty years ago. It is now gradually becoming a reality. It will boost Nigeria's internal and external tourism. And that is why I cannot understand why a trader like Peter Obi can be against that road because of politics.

Anyway, when we finish building it, we must not catch Mr. Obi on the road!

Reno Omokri

Gospel let. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

That's an impressive and compelling perspective right ABOVE by Reno. Saved.


With the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway, you will no longer have to depend on ports in Lagos or Port Harcourt. The freeway will link seven ports, including Tin-Can Island, Lekki, Koko, Warri, Port Harcourt, Gelegele and Calabar ports.

For the layman who does not understand what this means, it translates to cheaper importation costs, because ships would no longer accrue demurrage charges while waiting to berth at the congested Lagos ports. They can choose any of these seven ports, which will increase to eight when Ondo State completes construction of the Ilaje Deep-Sea Port.

The multiplier effect of this is that Nigerian corporations and individuals will eventually stop using the Port of Cotonou in Benin Republic, meaning that the increased marrying traffic will almost immediately increase our GDP.

The part of the report where Reno likens such smooth journey on this highway to a journey to heaven

.. abeg I disagree with that one.

Konquest:
That's an impressive and compelling perspective right ABOVE by Reno. Saved.


With the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway, you will no longer have to depend on ports in Lagos or Port Harcourt. The freeway will link seven ports, including Tin-Can Island, Lekki, Koko, Warri, Port Harcourt, Gelegele and Calabar ports.

For the layman who does not understand what this means, it translates to cheaper importation costs, because ships would no longer accrue demurrage charges while waiting to berth at the congested Lagos ports. They can choose any of these seven ports, which will increase to eight when Ondo State completes construction of the Ilaje Deep-Sea Port.

The multiplier effect of this is that Nigerian corporations and individuals will eventually stop using the Port of Cotonou in Benin Republic, meaning that the increased marrying traffic will almost immediately increase our GDP.

Yea right when several goods are limited to being imported through apapa port lmaoo

Tell the federal government to make all ports equal

mrvitalis:
Yea right when several goods are limited to being imported through apapa port lmaoo

Tell the federal government to make all ports equal

Do you even realize that professional maritime experts such as Mr. Lucky Amiwero who is a Niger Deltan, have for over a decade emphasized that the Calabar River Port should NEVER have been built by the military government back in the 1970s because it's built along a shallow river depth that needs expensive and constant annual DREDGING thereby making the port operations unprofitable. Large Ocean-going ships ALSO CLEARLY CANNOT sail into Calabar, Koko, Warri, Onitsha River Ports because of shallow river depths. Onne Port is a River Port but is fortunately functioning. A Sea Port is a port that is built along the SEA (or OCEAN) a lot of Nigerians (including some Journalists who should know BETTER) embarrassingly do NOT know the CLEAR differences between a Sea Port and a River Port.

It's the big international shipping companies that decide where they want to berth because it's cheaper for them to import containers and then ship containers out from Industries for export instead of ONLY importation. Therefore, they find Lagos ports to be OK for them since there are major industries located in Lagos, Ogun (Ogun has the highest concentration of industries in Nigeria after dethroning Lagos State a few years ago), Oyo States (Oluyole Industrial Estate and more in Ibadan) with big-time importers of raw materials. Lagos State also serves as the beginning of the famous Lakaji (Lagos-Kano-Jibia) route which is the busiest trade route in Nigeria based on several official documentation from AGOA, Chambers of Commerce, etc. So, the Lagos Ports favor this trade route and areas contiguous to Lagos State.

How can all ports be equal when MOST ports are shallow River Ports built along rivers NOT Sea Ports? Warri, Calabar, Onitsha, Onne, Port Harcourt are ALL River Ports.

Only the "Lekki Deep Sea Port" is the first true Nigerian Deep Sea Port with a deeper water depth for allowing huge ocean-going ships to sail in.

Coastal Highway of Fraud.

The same people who praised Buhari as the best for 8 years, then condemned him as the worst soon after he handed over, are the same ones who will explain to you all the benefits of the fraud that makes it a priority over insecurity and other pressing issues

Tueh

Konquest:
Do you even realize that professional maritime experts such as Mr. Lucky Amiwere who is a Niger Deltan, have for over a decade emphasized that the Calabar River Port should NEVER have been built by the military government back in the 1970s because it's built along a shallow river depth that needs expensive and constant annual DREDGING thereby making the port operations unprofitable. Large Ocean-going ships ALSO CLEARLY CANNOT sail into Calabar, Koko, Warri, Onitsha River Ports because of shallow river depths. Onne Port is a River Port but is fortunately functioning. A Sea Port is a port that is built along the SEA (or OCEAN) a lot of Nigerians (including some Journalists who should know BETTER) embarrassingly do NOT know the CLEAR differences between a Sea Port and a River Port.

It's the big international shipping companies that decide where they want to berth because it's cheaper for them to import containers and then ship containers out from Industries for export instead of ONLY importation. Therefore, they find Lagos ports to be OK for them since there are major industries located in Lagos, Ogun (Ogun has the highest concentration of industries in Nigeria after dethroning Lagos State a few years ago), Oyo States (Oluyole Industrial Estate and more in Ibadan) with big-time importers of raw materials. Lagos State also serves as the beginning of the famous Lakaji (Lagos-Kano-Jibia) route which is the busiest trade route in Nigeria based on several official documentation from AGOA, Chambers of Commerce, etc. So, the Lagos Ports favor this trade route and areas contiguous to Lagos State.

How can all ports be equal when MOST ports are shallow River Ports built along rivers NOT Sea Ports? Warri, Calabar, Onitsha, Onne, Port Harcourt are ALL River Ports.

Only the "Lekki Deep Sea Port" is the first true Nigerian Deep Sea Port with a deeper water depth for allowing huge ocean-going ships to sail in.

You spent all your wisdom to educate comrades that don't relates with facts, statistics, research, objectivity. Nwa Nne, don't waste your time, they will still dismiss your facts.
Otherwise, you are too good

gr8ofnnetwork:
You spent all your wisdom to educate comrades that don't relates with facts, statistics, research, objectivity. Nwa Nne, don't waste your time, they will still dismiss your facts.
Otherwise, you are too good

@gr8ofnnetwork

Thank you.

Indeed, I appreciate your feedback here. It's important to continue to reiterate these FACTS for the benefit of ALL because the plan of these paid online troll farms (who derail NL threads and constantly post toxic disinformation) is to continue to repeat already debunked LIES again and again until those LIES become "truth" in the eyes of some highly gullible members of the public. That highly IRRESPONSIBLE habit of disinformation will NOT be tolerated here or on other online platforms BUT will be met with CLEAR and accurate evidence that will make these paid online trolls run off to hide like sewer rats.

Cheers.

Konquest:
Do you even realize that professional maritime experts such as Mr. Lucky Amiwero who is a Niger Deltan, have for over a decade emphasized that the Calabar River Port should NEVER have been built by the military government back in the 1970s because it's built along a shallow river depth that needs expensive and constant annual DREDGING thereby making the port operations unprofitable. Large Ocean-going ships ALSO CLEARLY CANNOT sail into Calabar, Koko, Warri, Onitsha River Ports because of shallow river depths. Onne Port is a River Port but is fortunately functioning. A Sea Port is a port that is built along the SEA (or OCEAN) a lot of Nigerians (including some Journalists who should know BETTER) embarrassingly do NOT know the CLEAR differences between a Sea Port and a River Port.

It's the big international shipping companies that decide where they want to berth because it's cheaper for them to import containers and then ship containers out from Industries for export instead of ONLY importation. Therefore, they find Lagos ports to be OK for them since there are major industries located in Lagos, Ogun (Ogun has the highest concentration of industries in Nigeria after dethroning Lagos State a few years ago), Oyo States (Oluyole Industrial Estate and more in Ibadan) with big-time importers of raw materials. Lagos State also serves as the beginning of the famous Lakaji (Lagos-Kano-Jibia) route which is the busiest trade route in Nigeria based on several official documentation from AGOA, Chambers of Commerce, etc. So, the Lagos Ports favor this trade route and areas contiguous to Lagos State.

How can all ports be equal when MOST ports are shallow River Ports built along rivers NOT Sea Ports? Warri, Calabar, Onitsha, Onne, Port Harcourt are ALL River Ports.

Only the "Lekki Deep Sea Port" is the first true Nigerian Deep Sea Port with a deeper water depth for allowing huge ocean-going ships to sail in.

Oga shallow or not allow all ports to be equal simple as that.... Let all ports compete to their advantage ... Is Apapa not a shallow port? Is it built on sea?

We have shallow ports across Europe doing far higher numbers than ports in Lagos

We have ships designed for shallow ports

Allow all ports to be equal means Nigerians can import what ever from any port they choose stop limiting certain goes to only Lagos