FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo - Politics (3)

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Arnold1(m): 4:52pm On Oct 03, 2025*

fiercehillz:
I don't think they are extending the coaster highway to Edo State. I feel they want to contruct a linkage road from Edo State State to the coaster highway.

Edo is not a coaster state.

You are 100% correct.

They are just building a road to link with the coastal highway so that Edo State indigenes can access it
(since it is close by)

This is what many people here are failing to understand.

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by JuanDeDios: 4:53pm On Oct 03, 2025

DeepSight:
If it goes through Edo then its not strictly a coastal highway.

It's not. The Coastal Railway, which was the initial idea before Tinubu came with his own, was meant to pass through Edo though. So I'm sure Edo folks would have felt cheated if the new arrangement had excluded them.

I still hope and pray they include the train track. They don't even mention it anymore, just the road.

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by 82man: 5:01pm On Oct 03, 2025

To be honest, Tinubu is using Hi-Tech and ITB construction company looting Nigeria money

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Father4all: 5:09pm On Oct 03, 2025

Let it extend to all Edo ooo. Not some part of it

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by WYZAD(m): 5:10pm On Oct 03, 2025

If Tinubu finish this, let another president include rail way network on d Road. This will cause continuity and will ease alot of stress.
Gradually there will be North-south separation. The North is feeling Isolated already with their banditry and boko boys

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by overseapikin(m): 5:13pm On Oct 03, 2025

...and yet Benin bypass is the way it is. Very unfortunate.

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by aribisala0(m): 5:14pm On Oct 03, 2025

DeepSight:
If it goes through Edo then its not strictly a coastal highway.

strictly speaking assuming There were no states in Nigeria and the whole country is one unit or administered on the basis of Regions that existed in 1960 at independence, or Bendel state sill existed where would be the limit for it not to be "coastal "

Is coastal a definition based on geographical principle or administrative units like states
I do not agree or disagree with you just trying to understand what is the meaning of the word coastal

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by greatman247(m): 5:18pm On Oct 03, 2025

givedemwotowoto:
Coastal Highway of Fraud. Soon they will include Kano and Katsina and start clearing bushes and destroying properties, but people know the completed parts start and end in the SW, everything else is for election campaign in 2027

Don't mind the stupid president. He is desperate for votes in those states and he will be shocked!

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Guestmale: 5:23pm On Oct 03, 2025

givedemwotowoto:
Coastal Highway of Fraud. Soon they will include Kano and Katsina and start clearing bushes and destroying properties, but people know the completed parts start and end in the SW, everything else is for election campaign in 2027

I hope when the road is finally completed, you will avoid passing through it, when there is need for you to use it.

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Ttalk: 5:23pm On Oct 03, 2025

DeepSight:
How do you know my state and how do you know I am not Lagosian?

I am no "outsider."
And I do not appreciate the architects of corruption. narcotics and destruction of federalism.

If you are sincere, you will look at all the issues I raised and think deeply concerning the corruption involved.

Whether you are a Lagosian or not doesn't matter, what matters is for you to have experienced the leadership of Lagos state compared to other states.

As someone who witness the transformation of Lagos state, the introduction of LAWMA and waste management exercise is something that saved Lagos from epidemics.

The digital payment system with control that monitor the revenue system and eventually boost it is a miracle am yet to see in other states and the FG.

Now look at the determination that was driven into the Metrolane that many believe is a mirage is something a sincere mind must appreciate.

These and many other things are reason some of us are supporting Tinubu and his government.

Now talking about Federalism that you said Tinubu killed, let me ask you which of the governor or anyone smong the opposition leaders that exhibit traces of federalism while in power. Let me remind you that Tinubu in created additional LG which was later converted to LDCA and empowered it to function up till today.

Tell me any of the governor or the opposition leader that can rival his democratic record.

Many of you are not sincere in playing opposition and it's so sickening

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by tnerro1(m): 5:23pm On Oct 03, 2025

Nice but umahi better keep good records oo, cause make wetin emefiele dey pass through no be him own potion also

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by mikeapollo: 5:30pm On Oct 03, 2025

Biodun556:
https://guardian.ng/news/fg-extends-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-to-edo/

Corrupt, haphazard project. No proper planning, just rushing to justify the trillions of naira spent

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Dennisochampa: 5:37pm On Oct 03, 2025

Raxxye:
My initial impression of the road was that as you ply it, you would be having a view of the Atlantic Ocean from your starting point in Lagos to the end of the highway in Calabar.
But now that it's diverting to landlocked States, is it still "coastal?"

Edo state is landlocked?? See why them say make u try pass geography that time for secondary school....

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by dederocs(m): 5:45pm On Oct 03, 2025

Very good

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by dederocs(m): 5:47pm On Oct 03, 2025

Arnold1:
You are 100% correct.

They are just linking the coastal highway so that Edo State indigenes can access it
since it is close by.

This is what many people here are failing to understand.

It is a coastal state, google bight of Benin, the Benin Kingdom used this stretch of water to connect to other southern states from Benin, even down to Dahomey trading. Genz a little history could have helped you folks, the sad thing is that you people state fallacy with such conviction, confusing the unlearned kids out there grin

. Google bight of Benin.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Bight-of-Benin

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by APCNig: 5:47pm On Oct 03, 2025

givedemwotowoto:
Coastal Highway of Fraud. Soon they will include Kano and Katsina and start clearing bushes and destroying properties, but people know the completed parts start and end in the SW, everything else is for election campaign in 2027

Cry well well. To cry us human, to weep is divine

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by WizardOfNG: 5:48pm On Oct 03, 2025

fiercehillz:
I don't think they are extending the coaster highway to Edo State. I feel they want to contruct a linkage road from Edo State State to the coaster highway.

Edo is not a coaster state.

Correct and not surprising at all because this is what happens when a State is directly affiliated with the ruling Party and able to lobby the FG aggressively for infrastructure projects.

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by U09ce: 5:51pm On Oct 03, 2025

This road project would end up a south west coastal road, with some kilometers of roads in different states that might eventually not connect each other. I think the biggest victims are the south south people. They should go and beg Tinubu that he use the money meant for the coastal road to build the coastal railway. The proposed railway is more realistic because it's quite inland connecting the big cities of the region. Any one who knows how the creeks of Delta,Bayelsa and Rivers look like would tell you how mightily difficult it is to build a road there. The Lagos coast is nothing compared to that terrain.

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Arnold1(m): 5:59pm On Oct 03, 2025

dederocs:
It is a coastal state, google bight of Benin, the Benin Kingdom used this stretch of water to connect to other southern states from Benin, even down to Dahomey trading. Genz a little history could have helped you folks, the sad thing is that you people state fallacy with such conviction, confusing the unlearned kids out there . Google bight of Benin.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Bight-of-Benin

We are not talking about the ancient Benin Kingdom.

The map below shows Edo State as of today - 2025.

It is not along the coast.

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by WizardOfNG: 5:59pm On Oct 03, 2025*

dederocs:
It is a coastal state, google bight of Benin, the Benin Kingdom used this stretch of water to connect to other southern states from Benin, even down to Dahomey trading. Genz a little history could have helped you folks, the sad thing is that you people state fallacy with such conviction, confusing the unlearned kids out there . Google bight of Benin.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Bight-of-Benin

Bro, no need for this. We are living in an Information age. Edo is not a Coastal State of Nigeria speaking strictly according to States having direct shoreline access to the Atlantic Ocean which then defines them accurately as coastal State of Nigeria. It is as simple as that.

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by shinealight(m): 6:02pm On Oct 03, 2025

givedemwotowoto:
Coastal Highway of Fraud. Soon they will include Kano and Katsina and start clearing bushes and destroying properties, but people know the completed parts start and end in the SW, everything else is for election campaign in 2027

Hmmm…is that why they chose Umahi, from the South East to do the hoodwinking? I wonder ooo!

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by deji68: 6:17pm On Oct 03, 2025

Ttalk:
Now talking about Federalism that you said Tinubu killed, let me ask you which of the governor or anyone smong the opposition leaders that exhibit traces of federalism while in power. Let me remind you that Tinubu in created additional LG which was later converted to LDCA and empowered it to function up till today.

This is the koko, in lagos most innercity road , are tarred, with drainage and even with pipes for portable water. take oyo state for example most innercity roads are are not develped, LG are not their even the most major roads are eyesore. I like his goal of empowering the LG , that will bring quick develpment to the people.

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by wirinet(m): 6:18pm On Oct 03, 2025

DomPerignon:
There's no project that does not require going back to the drawing board.

So adding an artery link directly to Edo to connect to the coastal highway is now fraud?

I am an architect by training, and also a contractor. From experience, I know this is not how projects are executed. No project requires continuously “going back to the drawing board.” You cannot keep returning to the design stage every time you receive an epiphany or new inspiration.

Yes, it is normal to make variations to a project design—usually to address unforeseen challenges on site or to implement slight modifications to the original plan. But you don’t fundamentally change the design at every phase of the project. That is not how professional project execution works.

What makes this particular project even more troubling is its extreme secrecy. We are not even allowed to see the original design before these so-called variations are introduced. As my friend Deepsight put it, this is a project without any real foundation: no disclosed design, no budget, no Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), no community participation, no Request for Proposals (RFP), no tenders, no progress reports, no legislative oversight—nothing.

Everything is shrouded in secrecy. All we ever hear are official statements from the Minister of Works and other government representatives, but no transparent process, documentation, or accountability accompanies them.

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Iziquiel(m): 7:01pm On Oct 03, 2025

onuman:
In an era where railway transportation and travel is taking over road transportstion and travel all over the world, ... somebody is wasting a country's resources because of envisaged benefits of connecting southwest to the oil producing areas of the southsouth.

There's nothing you lot won't complain about. I'm very certain that at a point in time, you must have condemned the Lagos state government for constructing the railways in the state.

I pity for people wey still never understand how una dey move.
Sadist.

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Alliswell248: 7:02pm On Oct 03, 2025

givedemwotowoto:
Coastal Highway of Fraud. Soon they will include Kano and Katsina and start clearing bushes and destroying properties, but people know the completed parts start and end in the SW, everything else is for election campaign in 2027

Wailing is free. When the high way is ready...pls boycott it
Sore loser and bitter obi followers.

Peter Obi would never rule Nigeria

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by Okoroawusa: 7:22pm On Oct 03, 2025

givedemwotowoto:
Coastal Highway of Fraud. Soon they will include Kano and Katsina and start clearing bushes and destroying properties, but people know the completed parts start and end in the SW, everything else is for election campaign in 2027

That was how you doubted the second Niger Bridge throughout the tenure of Buhari but now you drive through it.

Shame go catch you last last...ozu nwuru anwu

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Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by mastermaestro(m): 7:23pm On Oct 03, 2025

Raxxye:
My initial impression of the road was that as you ply it, you would be having a view of the Atlantic Ocean from your starting point in Lagos to the end of the highway in Calabar.
But now that it's diverting to landlocked States, is it still "coastal?"

Which states are landlocked? huh

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by ernieboy(m): 7:26pm On Oct 03, 2025

Raxxye:
My initial impression of the road was that as you ply it, you would be having a view of the Atlantic Ocean from your starting point in Lagos to the end of the highway in Calabar.
But now that it's diverting to landlocked States, is it still "coastal?"

Edo state is not landlocked though, however I would like to see the original route, how was it going to link dealta and bypass Edo? Anyway this is a white elephant project that will not solve any real problem.

Re: FG Extends Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway To Edo by FarahAideed: 7:29pm On Oct 03, 2025

Lol the fraud and lies ehh

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