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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by marlow1962(m): 11:43am On Oct 08, 2025

If you know the cost of embezzlement from our so called politicians, your head will burst.

If you as an elected public office holder, can't not provide basic amenities for you people, them you should be there.

How many head was blown when they did the German Autobahn? Nigerians and sentiments.

For poorly constructed road that will was away when it rains. If naso Germans take do am, nobody go dy race their twin turbo v12 for there.

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by ChiefOloye(m): 11:43am On Oct 08, 2025

FarahAideed:
When we warned about Tinubu devaluing the Naira , this is what we mean ,his policies have devalued the Naira so much state govts might not be able to construct more than 12kms at a go

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by adecz: 11:43am On Oct 08, 2025

Tinubu and Umahi's white elephant
coastal highway costs an average of
N20bn/ kilometer

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by ChybuzzDD(m): 11:44am On Oct 08, 2025

Image123:
The cost per kilometer of a 750km project cannot be determined. It can only be estimated or averaged. And conditions may change. This is not building a kiosk or chicken hatch. The terrain and soils are different. Some will need more work or fillings, some different contractors, some will be bridge. Cost of materials and labour from place to place, weather, some diversions, some unexpected challenges, all differ.
We should focus on intelligence, professionalism and patriotism instead of theatrics and media trials.

Can you listen to yourself? And we're talking about a contract that has already been awarded!

So, how did they determine the cost they used in awarding the contract then?

By guessing huh

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by VanuatuWycombe: 11:45am On Oct 08, 2025

We can go with very durable interlocking and paving stones way. We can use those made from recycled tires 🛞 and rubber wastes.

Once the earth is well compacted and leveled evenly, and drainages are well constructed, we will save money.

Accuracy and neatness of the construction are key.

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Kewekubosineh: 11:46am On Oct 08, 2025

guobe:
Ah you just hit the nail in the head.
You can imagine the amount being used now ,how many roads will they now construct.
Nigeria is presently a joke.

We don't need to build new roads for now.

What we need is rehabilitating existing roads and infrastructures. Example is Benin -Asaba Expressway. The highway has failed. In a decript state. Ditto Benin Sapele Highway. In a sorry state. They need rehabilitation. Not new roads like Lagos - Calabar costal highway costing N15trillion.

Half of the amount could take care of dilapidated federal highways across the states.

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by omoredia: 11:46am On Oct 08, 2025

Too big to say but not too big to steal

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Btruth: 11:46am On Oct 08, 2025

guobe:
Exactly, Nigerians should not expect massive road construction as it used to be before.
The currency devaluation has crippled all sectors.
Presently ,just expect patching of roads here and there.

people like me don't mind the patching of the roads. But it must be done nice so that it won't be bad soon. I honestly understand what Nigeria & Nigerian are going through now. But we will survive

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by WhizdomXX(m): 11:48am On Oct 08, 2025

Afriifa:
People be asking what played out on Arise TV.
Umahi was triggered by Oseni's unprofessional media practice. But as a public servant he ought to have handled it better. Umahi could have simply told him the cost per 1kilometre road, and explained the technicalities behind the overestimated budget.
What does Oseni mean by "reporting me to Mr President?"
Who does he think he is?
Rufai Oseni feels journalism is about having a loud opinion on subject matters that defy his pedigree. There was a day this guy was arguing an economics subject with an established scholar in the name of journalism, even me that was watching felt triggered.
Finally, whether Umahi is right or wrong about his claim of professor in practice, it sha depends on who is judging.
Umahi is a seasoned engineer. where he earned a degree in Civil Engineering in 1987. His early career spanned various engineering roles, including stints with major firms like Saipem and SCC Nigeria Limited. Before his governorship, Umahi held several leadership roles in the private sector, including co-founding Norman Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd and leading Brass Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd. He is well-known for his tenure as the Governor of Ebonyi State, serving from 2015 to 2023. Managing a small state and delivering. He is the current Minister of Works.
If you are the one, will let someone who has no knowledge no pedigree in your field talk to you in the manner Oseni did in the name of journalism?

That's the pain of being in public office, you must take the grace of being there.

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Image123(m): 11:50am On Oct 08, 2025

Afriifa:
People be asking what played out on Arise TV.
Umahi was triggered by Oseni's unprofessional media practice. But as a public servant he ought to have handled it better. Umahi could have simply told him the cost per 1kilometre road, and explained the technicalities behind the overestimated budget.
What does Oseni mean by "reporting me to Mr President?"
Who does he think he is?
Rufai Oseni feels journalism is about having a loud opinion on subject matters that defy his pedigree. There was a day this guy was arguing an economics subject with an established scholar in the name of journalism, even me that was watching felt triggered.
Finally, whether Umahi is right or wrong about his claim of professor in practice, it sha depends on who is judging.
Umahi is a seasoned engineer. where he earned a degree in Civil Engineering in 1987. His early career spanned various engineering roles, including stints with major firms like Saipem and SCC Nigeria Limited. Before his governorship, Umahi held several leadership roles in the private sector, including co-founding Norman Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd and leading Brass Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd. He is well-known for his tenure as the Governor of Ebonyi State, serving from 2015 to 2023. Managing a small state and delivering. He is the current Minister of Works.
If you are the one, will let someone who has no knowledge no pedigree in your field talk to you in the manner Oseni did in the name of journalism?

Umahi is not a lawyer or media talk person. As an engineer, he should have a media person doing the talk for him. In media, you need the gift of gab, not competence or honesty. Those are not enough in the face of propagandists and people who are pretending to sleep.

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Image123(m): 11:52am On Oct 08, 2025

ChybuzzDD:
Can you listen to yourself? And we're talking about a contract that has already been awarded!

So, how did they determine the cost they used in awarding the contract then?

By guessing

One, estimate, two, budget. That's why you can hear next year that an extra amount of money is approved for a project. Obviously, you don't have experience of handling anything big. Try listening to experience. Not just commentaries.

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by hush15: 11:54am On Oct 08, 2025

guobe:
A couple of years ago,roads were constructed with about 10 million naira per kilometer.

The amount presently being used in constructing road per kilometer has so skyrocketed that it is very difficult for anyone that knows to mention it and you won't even hear it from me too even as I am an Engineer.

The inflation currently in the country has cut across so many things and it will be very difficult to construct roads with this present amount as it is just too expensive to say the list.
We are in a dire situation.

That's why Umahi is avoiding it but its better Nigerians knows the truth and deal with it than hide it...

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by SeriouslySense(m): 11:56am On Oct 08, 2025

Standard two lane asphalt road cost about 200 million.

High spec highways, multilane with drainage cost about 1 billion.

Just say the truth. undecided

Say the truth in time. It will help

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by SMARTMOTORS(m): 11:56am On Oct 08, 2025

Are you working for them?? Why reducing 23Trillion to 15Trillion??

obinna58:
Very cheap for the government
That means it’ll only take 500billion to construct road from west all the way down to south east Nigeria

Way cheaper, e no even reach the amount they use for item 7 services or aso rock maintenance

Now the question is why coastal road construction taking 15trillion naira budget if they’re not thieves

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by YoshihideSuga: 11:57am On Oct 08, 2025

guobe:
A couple of years ago,roads were constructed with about 10 million naira per kilometer.

The amount presently being used in constructing road per kilometer has so skyrocketed that it is very difficult for anyone that knows to mention it and you won't even hear it from me too even as I am an Engineer.

The inflation currently in the country has cut across so many things and it will be very difficult to construct roads with this present amount as it is just too expensive to say the list.
We are in a dire situation.

In your previous topics and posts, you said you are a lawyer who studied in the UK and worked there for 12 years. Today, you're an engineer.

What should we believe?

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by immaculatesense(m): 11:59am On Oct 08, 2025

guobe:
A couple of years ago,roads were constructed with about 10 million naira per kilometer.

The amount presently being used in constructing road per kilometer has so skyrocketed that it is very difficult for anyone that knows to mention it and you won't even hear it from me too even as I am an Engineer.

The inflation currently in the country has cut across so many things and it will be very difficult to construct roads with this present amount as it is just too expensive to say the list.
We are in a dire situation.

People who do not understand engineering will be quoting figures per kilometer which is wrong. Road estimates are not made per km, it is only a quack or fraudulent engineering that will give you estimates per km. Land and terrains differ and a cost for a particular portion of a road WILL (not may) differ from another portion of the same road.
Now to a coastal highway, there is no where in the world where a contractor engineer will give you estimates of work on a COASTAL HIGHWAY in kilometer. How will you divide it? Will you use the same yardstick for portion on land as portion on the water or even on the same water, their depth and (I lost the word now) are not the same.
VERDICT:
RUFAI was wrong to ask the minister to give estimates per km. Who does that?

No Be Juju Be Dat?

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by mastereyebee: 12:00pm On Oct 08, 2025

Road construction is not rocket science. the materials needed is not infinite and can be list. no head will burst because of calculation. Road construction has always been expensive like other items, even now a village house is in hundreds of million, all effect of devaluation. Please lets not glorify criminality for lack of transparency. everything in nigeria is a secret thats why we are still allowing men to discuss national issue in their bedroom and on their whatsapp with there cabal rather than in board meetings and national assembly and public gathering and stakeholders meetings, now stakeholders are babariga politicians at every community. most institutions have crumble to men in charge through politicians

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Dbestbrest: 12:00pm On Oct 08, 2025

We need to be careful in condemning what we have little or no knowledge of. Let us consider the market price of materials they are now using to construct road. Do we know that a 30 tonnes of granite today goes for NGN 900,000.00 to deliver to the nearest site? A 30 tons of bulk cement is NGN 4,800,000.00. A 30 tons of sharp sand is NGN 195,000.00. A 30 tons of reinforcement is NGN 36,000,000.00. Cost of hiring equipment per day ranges from 56,000 to 300,000 per day. Diesel cost is 1,100.00 per litre and one equipment consumes at least 200 litres per day. Daily labour rates varies from region from 3,500 to 8,000 per day. Community settlements, the nature of soil, and other factors needs to be taken into consideration. By the time all these are factored together, to construct a kilometer of road in Nigeria will be between 1 billion to 2 billion Naira without exaggerating

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Duplex90: 12:03pm On Oct 08, 2025

During GEJ time standard for any road was max 155m naira so now lets factor inflation it shouldn’t be more than 500m at most!! Including drainage or any kind

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by kayperry: 12:05pm On Oct 08, 2025

guobe:
A couple of years ago,roads were constructed with about 10 million naira per kilometer.

The amount presently being used in constructing road per kilometer has so skyrocketed that it is very difficult for anyone that knows to mention it and you won't even hear it from me too even as I am an Engineer.

The inflation currently in the country has cut across so many things and it will be very difficult to construct roads with this present amount as it is just too expensive to say the list.
We are in a dire situation.

I guess you are another professor in this engr field grin

... that you cant call or pronounce the figures does not negate the fact that it as a " Price"

All we just need is estimated kilometer for the project and cost expended to get an hint of average cost per kilometer

we understand cos of terrain cost per kilometer might varies Buh that doesnt negate " average cost idea"

all these engineering people sef dem dey always think say naa dem no book .. they don't believe we can know 2 × 2 sef undecided

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by mastereyebee: 12:07pm On Oct 08, 2025

Umahi is very wrong not Rufai, you can provide an average cost per kilometer in a project. are you saying you wont have a project cost before embarking on the project? please lets not be playing games with serious issues. just like when you ask a local workman, engineer for a cost break down quote they wont want to give because you likely benchmark them. if the minister share his figures it will be a good place to start the conversation. I bet when he leaves office he will just leave a total cost of the project and empty details of the break and cost which is suppose to be public documents, no opportunity for the next guy to continue and learn from their mistake, use as a benchmark or even audit the project

immaculatesense:
People who do not understand engineering will be quoting figures per kilometer which is wrong. Road estimates are not made per km, it is only a quack or fraudulent engineering that will give you estimates per km. Land and terrains differ and a cost for a particular portion of a road WILL (not may) differ from another portion of the same road.
Now to a coastal highway, there is no where in the world where a contractor engineer will give you estimates of work on a COASTAL HIGHWAY in kilometer. How will you divide it? Will you use the same yardstick for portion on land as portion on the water or even on the same water, their depth and (I lost the word now) are not the same.
VERDICT:
RUFAI was wrong to ask the minister to give estimates per km. Who does that?

No Be Juju Be Dat?

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by travelzcruix: 12:08pm On Oct 08, 2025

Road construction and maintenance is not what you just wake up and wave a magic stick. Politicians come and go, but side by side we have Ministry of works, Ferma and their likes, if there is a sustainable framework over time say, 10 years, it should cater for road construction, day and night.
Our major source of revenue is oil,what makes 200 naira sidelined soley for this purpose at current pump price not being enough to at least fuel bulldozers and pay workers. The only magic stick should be reserved for sophisticated projects. I don't have strength to argue Nigerian problems when the solution is in their hands. Give us roads even if you use wood to construct it, or has timber finish in our forest?

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by obinna58(m): 12:09pm On Oct 08, 2025

SMARTMOTORS:
Are you working for them?? Why reducing 23Trillion to 15Trillion??

I don die, dem don increase am to 23trillion? Even devil sef go shock

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by kayperry: 12:10pm On Oct 08, 2025

aysnoopy:
I work with FERMA and the amount being used to repair roads alone is alarming not to talk of constructing Virgin roads

you meant the inflated cost, we all know how contract goes in Nig what wont cost more than 10m someone will call it 100m for govt, they bring the money out n share 90m among themselves

we are not babies enough we know wassup

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by obinna58(m): 12:13pm On Oct 08, 2025

PrinceofSarcasm:
A thread opened for paid cronies to come and launder the battered image of this corrupt criminal politicians . Just mark their usernames, these are the people working with politcians who are paid to lie on their behalf. These accounts are used to keep the Nigerian people under weaponized poverty

They’re literally running Nigeria government like drug cartel

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by bigiyaro(m): 12:13pm On Oct 08, 2025

sholatech:
With good drainages and asphalt laying, can we say its now 1 Billion naira per km?

that is to say, yahaya Bello stole what could have been used to construct 82km. Na d one wey we hear be dat ooh. I remember when Abuja Airport runway was extended, by a few kilometers, the cost alone was two time the cost of building a bigger airport from scratch, so much that the Chinese company had to back out, out of fear of being prosecuted for corruption back home. Naija is a huge crime scene.

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Boomyvig: 12:14pm On Oct 08, 2025

guobe:
A couple of years ago,roads were constructed with about 10 million naira per kilometer.

The amount presently being used in constructing road per kilometer has so skyrocketed that it is very difficult for anyone that knows to mention it and you won't even hear it from me too even as I am an Engineer.

The inflation currently in the country has cut across so many things and it will be very difficult to construct roads with this present amount as it is just too expensive to say the list.
We are in a dire situation.

I just have to quote you.
Do you know that accountability is an underlining feature of any government institution or administration?

Why and what is difficult is providing details of how much was spent in carrying out a project the people paid for with their hard earned money?

The only reason for gatekeeping such detail is no other than corruption. Silence where you’re expected to defend your action in law means admission of the alleged crime.

You people should act like normal human being for once. The rate at which this country is going I am even beginning to think the real corruption are not the leaders themselves but individuals like you who enable their corrupt actions.

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by kayperry: 12:15pm On Oct 08, 2025

Afriifa:
People be asking what played out on Arise TV.
Umahi was triggered by Oseni's unprofessional media practice. But as a public servant he ought to have handled it better. Umahi could have simply told him the cost per 1kilometre road, and explained the technicalities behind the overestimated budget.
What does Oseni mean by "reporting me to Mr President?"
Who does he think he is?
Rufai Oseni feels journalism is about having a loud opinion on subject matters that defy his pedigree. There was a day this guy was arguing an economics subject with an established scholar in the name of journalism, even me that was watching felt triggered.
Finally, whether Umahi is right or wrong about his claim of professor in practice, it sha depends on who is judging.
Umahi is a seasoned engineer. where he earned a degree in Civil Engineering in 1987. His early career spanned various engineering roles, including stints with major firms like Saipem and SCC Nigeria Limited. Before his governorship, Umahi held several leadership roles in the private sector, including co-founding Norman Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd and leading Brass Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd. He is well-known for his tenure as the Governor of Ebonyi State, serving from 2015 to 2023. Managing a small state and delivering. He is the current Minister of Works.
If you are the one, will let someone who has no knowledge no pedigree in your field talk to you in the manner Oseni did in the name of journalism?

If you think the problem was Oseni, what about the female journalist that ask Umahi question and he said he does not understand english, tell me she was rude tew

thats was early days of is ministerial appointment

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by TechBaron: 12:16pm On Oct 08, 2025

Afriifa:
People be asking what played out on Arise TV.
Umahi was triggered by Oseni's unprofessional media practice. But as a public servant he ought to have handled it better. Umahi could have simply told him the cost per 1kilometre road, and explained the technicalities behind the overestimated budget.
What does Oseni mean by "reporting me to Mr President?"
Who does he think he is?
Rufai Oseni feels journalism is about having a loud opinion on subject matters that defy his pedigree. There was a day this guy was arguing an economics subject with an established scholar in the name of journalism, even me that was watching felt triggered.
Finally, whether Umahi is right or wrong about his claim of professor in practice, it sha depends on who is judging.
Umahi is a seasoned engineer. where he earned a degree in Civil Engineering in 1987. His early career spanned various engineering roles, including stints with major firms like Saipem and SCC Nigeria Limited. Before his governorship, Umahi held several leadership roles in the private sector, including co-founding Norman Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd and leading Brass Engineering & Construction Nigeria Ltd. He is well-known for his tenure as the Governor of Ebonyi State, serving from 2015 to 2023. Managing a small state and delivering. He is the current Minister of Works.
If you are the one, will let someone who has no knowledge no pedigree in your field talk to you in the manner Oseni did in the name of journalism?

Inside all this textbook that you typed, neither you nor Umahi have answered the simple question.

How much does it cost to construct 1km of road in Nigeria today?

Is that question too difficult for a professor in Engineering and his online spokesman to answer?

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by ayoncox: 12:18pm On Oct 08, 2025

lionshare:
Are you sure roads were built for under $30k per km just couple years ago? Do you even know what 1 km means? Show one example, or stop pretending you know what you’re talking about

He is right, I am a civil Engineer, except in rain forests and waterlogged areas as at 2010 10 Million Naira should be able to do 1 Kilometer in most areas in the north, because necessary aggregates are very much available at affordable costs. But because of corruption we often escalate the prices, that is why most times government kicks against individuals and religious bodies like churches from doing roads or repairing them

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Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by Jeffy1206(m): 12:24pm On Oct 08, 2025

This thread had better be sarcasm? 🤔🙄

Re: If You Know The Cost Of A Kilometre Of Road Construction, Your Head Will Burst by jayce232: 12:24pm On Oct 08, 2025*

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