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Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by jmoore(m): 7:29pm On Oct 11, 2025
favor914:
Na the minister I even blame for wasting his time replying nonentities.

Explain from now till the return of Christ, una must find a reason to complain.
Babablu Bulabu

You are here wasting your time too replying me.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by Dpaulie(m): 7:29pm On Oct 11, 2025
favor914:
Na the minister I even blame for wasting his time replying nonentities.

Explain from now till the return of Christ, una must find a reason to complain.
Calling a sitting governor a nonentityhuh?
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by Advancedman(m): 7:29pm On Oct 11, 2025
This umahi has lost my respect just because you are a minister under apc you suddenly lost your common sense, are there no engineers building roads outside government project?
Almost anything land project is by sq/meter so what is the fuss about giving the price of the coaster road project per kilometers?

So and so was budget per km at naira to dollar but presently due to exchange rate it has drop or rise to XYZ is that too difficult to answer.

Power drunk minister even Mumu join saying report to president so they are not serving the country and the people but ass licking BAT .
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by U09ce: 7:30pm On Oct 11, 2025
Quelme:
Mankinde is a senseless governor. An Oluwole engineer who doesn't have a clue about road construction.

Who do you give cost per kilo on a road which transverses different terrain? But Rufai and Makinde are senseless....
So you mean Shell employed an Oluwole engineer to work several years with them? Makinde is way ahead of Umahi in work experience
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by yongg:
Quelme:
Mankinde is a senseless governor. An Oluwole engineer who doesn't have a clue about road construction.

Who do you give cost per kilo on a road which transverses different terrain? But Rufai and Makinde are senseless....
They were not senseless, Umahi is dodging the question needlessly.

Money spent so far on work done is apt question, both from the engineering perspective and the citizens paying, and necessitates an average cost according to the latest evaluation of work done.

Do you feel senseless for asking how much expenditure has gone into executing any project you contract service men to do in your sphere as the paying client or project financier?

I hope you know that every cost incurred on that project is going to be tolled and paid eventually by everyday Nigerians, all citizens.


The senseless one is the public servant that missed the opportunity to answer the public he is serving the question appropriately and the citizen for whom the concept of accountability is alien or one who feels a public servant is above questioning.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by jamafa: 7:34pm On Oct 11, 2025
AqualinaXYZ:
Tinubu is a thief




A criminal from unproductive region trying to take over Rivers state vault
Watin concern Tinubu with DX trend 😂

If U guys never talk Tinubu 😂

Unah body no go calm 😂
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by TheBizGenius: 7:36pm On Oct 11, 2025
Quelme:
Mankinde is a senseless governor. An Oluwole engineer who doesn't have a clue about road construction.

Who do you give cost per kilo on a road which transverses different terrain? But Rufai and Makinde are senseless....
I have a first degree in mechanical engineering and I am disappointed in what Makinde said.

If you have a road project that transverses

A. over marshy areas and you have to sand fill,

B. over water and you have to build a bridge and

C. over hard soil and you simply lay your asphalt on it,

how do you get the average cost of such a project?

But I also understand that Umahi dey hide figures to dey chop as naija politician anyway but professionally, he is right.

Make I no even mention the Arise broadcaster own. Mtchew.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by F117nighthawk:
A senior that cannot answer a very simple question,basic as how much is cost per kilometer?
Because una no want dey accountable,when person wan thief,he will never dey transparent
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by zoedew: 7:42pm On Oct 11, 2025
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by Nijaforward: 7:43pm On Oct 11, 2025
This man is too arrogant and i don’t know how these kind of people got to be in a critical position though this is why Nigeria is still not getting there …must he say he is senior to anybody that asked him a simple question even when a novice knows that Seyi Makinde knows much more than him on this field we are talking about …if not that Nigerians are too naive this question he is dodging to answer should turn to what there will be a protest to get an answer for
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by aribisala0(m): 7:44pm On Oct 11, 2025
Umahi has shown himself as weak and insecure the same trait we see in many Nigerian politicians
Imagine coming out to drag seniority
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by Ekaka14: 7:44pm On Oct 11, 2025
phransix2:
Wetin coastal road dey talk?
No name wey una never call that izan or abi na owiakpo...abeg edo make una help me out since "A new sheriff in town" friend din dey give us headache again grin
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by flokii: 7:44pm On Oct 11, 2025
Governor Seyi Makinde is a seasoned Engineer if na that one.. the guy has engineering firms worth billions before venturing into politics.
I hope Mr. Umahi knows what he is doing with that coastal highway.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by yongg:
TheBizGenius:
I have a first degree in mechanical engineering and I am disappointed in what Makinde said.

If you have a road project that transverses

A. over marshy areas and you have to sand fill,

B. over water and you have to build a bridge and

C. over hard soil and you simply lay your asphalt on it,

how do you get the average cost of such a project?

But I also understand that Umahi dey hide figures to dey chop as naija politician anyway but professionally, he is right.

Make I no even mention the Arise broadcaster own. Mtchew.
Don't brag this with your degree anymore, What!! you mean you don't understand what "Average" is ?

Even if the road passed through space to the moon, there is an average cost.


Infact, as the project progresses, there will be an average cost for the work done and one for the proposed budget or alterations. What are you talking about? You mean even with all the calculus you ought to have learnt a statistical and math fundamental concept such as average is what is evasive as this? So are you saying you couldn't track if you were going to run out of budget or within as the project progressed? It is just betraying irresponsibility if you asked me.

But at the end, we as engineers know he is dodging the question.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by ogascomax:
Manny21:
Continue to fire back fire for fire. This guy is a clown

“I am his senior both in governance and in engineering practice. So, anything he doesn’t understand, he should call me and ask."

He has not changed. Very proud and arrogant
The same way he told Oseni Rufie that he is a professor in practice. Funny guy.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by damosade(m): 7:47pm On Oct 11, 2025
In as much am not a supporter of this government . I think we must be knowledgeable enough about project management and when it comes to road construction you don't give an exact amount because it is subjected to changes in accordance with the state of the economy that js why it is always . estimated. Cost , budgeting and contractual type plays a lot in determining the cost.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by TheBizGenius: 7:47pm On Oct 11, 2025
yongg:
They were not senseless, Umahi is dodging the question needlessly.

Money spent so far on work done is apt question, both from the engineering perspective and the citizens paying, and necessitates an average cost according to the latest evaluation of work done.

Do you feel senseless for asking how much expenditure has gone into executing any project you contract service men to do in you sphere as the paying client?

I hope you know what ever cost on that project is going to be tolled and payed eventually by everyday Nigerians.


The senseless one is the public servant that missed the opportunity to answer the public he is serving the question appropriately and the citizen for whom the concept of accountability is alien or one who feels a public servant is above questioning.
I validate what you have said.

As a civil servant, he should have simply said, "So far, this is how much we have spent".

But he can't use that amount to appropriately explain the cost per km.

It's different projects muddled together.

It's sand filling, bridge work, cement work etc. You can't find an average of all of that together.

You can't be building a house and use the cost of when laying the foundation (which may be tiny) as average when you will still spend massively on the decking part when the time comes. You talk of average when the project is the same all through.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by Bobodee09: 7:47pm On Oct 11, 2025
Nwaikpe:
This man is just going after everyone.

If you had done what is right, what will people hold onto in order to call you out?

Going around and making noise, calling yourself an "engineer" simply because you are a graduate, maybe even from a polytechnic sef, does not make a man smart.

Relax.
Your hate for the government has made alot of blind with sentiment.

All over the world when you embarking on multi billion dollars project you can never state how much it will cost until you finish.

Dangote tried it when he started his refinery project...he state how much it will cost but at the end the cost was almost double.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by Lovit(m): 7:47pm On Oct 11, 2025
Quelme:
Mankinde is a senseless governor. An Oluwole engineer who doesn't have a clue about road construction.

Who do you give cost per kilo on a road which transverses different terrain? But Rufai and Makinde are senseless....
Oga, there is an estimated budget for that road, also some kilometers have been completed. Umahi can give us a cost per kilometer estimate, based areas completed

The truth is APC and Tinubu has been siphoning money through these projects; coastal Highway, Lagos airport refurbishing, Third Mainland bridge repair works. Sometimes you hear these figures and wonder if we are building new 10 more copy of those projects?
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by greatseed: 7:48pm On Oct 11, 2025
AqualinaXYZ:
Tinubu is a thief




A criminal from unproductive region trying to take over Rivers state vault
What are they saying ? & what are you saying? How does this conversation correlates with your insensitive statement, if dem shake you small now, u go begin cry like small baby begin shout & lie say it's d work of d devil that u can't tame ur mouth to constructive conversations. Some pple sef!
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by ArinzeAnthony03: 7:51pm On Oct 11, 2025
Senior no be for person way know book pass you...

All of una be thief....
My case aress me... sorry, I arrest my case😂😂
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by yongg:
damosade:
In as much am not a supporter of this government . I think we must be knowledgeable enough about project management and when it comes to road construction you don't give an exact amount because it is subjected to changes in accordance with the state of the economy that js why it is always . estimated. Cost , budgeting and contractual type plays a lot in determining the cost.
There is average cost based on work done, there is average cost based on proposed or working budget or its alterations.

It is the comparison between the two that give ability to track when the project is overshooting budget threshold or not.

The man didn't give any figures based on what was last measured or what funding has been spent on the length of road so far.

These things are straight forward.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by Choiceone1: 7:53pm On Oct 11, 2025
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by TheBizGenius: 7:55pm On Oct 11, 2025
yongg:
Don't brag this with your degree anymore, What!! you mean you don't understand what "Average" is ?

Even if the road passed through space to the moon, there is an average cost.


Infact, as the project progresses, there will be an average cost for the work done and one for the proposed budget or alterations. What are you talking about? You mean even with all the calculus you ought to have learnt as statistical and math fundamental concept such as average is what is evasive as this? So are you saying you couldn't track if you were going to run out of budget or within as the project progressed? It is just betraying irresponsibility if you asked me.

But at the end, we as engineers know he is dodging the question.
No matter how proficient you are in mathematics, you would know you can't find an average of 2x + 4y. Why? They have different variable quantities and therefore different entities.

If, and I say this with my full chest, if he has covered 1km and it happens to have a bridge, then the average cost would be gargantuan and ridiculous to anyone hearing it and would not be reflective of what the average cost of the project would be in the long run.

PS
I never said he wasn't dodging explaining the question. I even made a comment somewhere that he could have simply explained better.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by CharlotteFlair: 7:57pm On Oct 11, 2025
The Professor in practice go fight taya. Wahala from every angle for the kleptomaniac.
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by OredoPikin: 7:57pm On Oct 11, 2025
22billion naira for one kilometre
The money is too much, reason umahi cant state it.
Total lenght 700km
Total amount budget 15trillion
15,000,000,000,000/700 = 22,000,000,000.
This is the most expensive cost per kilometre road in the history of mankind
Yet they are crying we are broke while they loot and squander our resources.
That 15trillion can fix 90% of our existing federal roads that are now dead draps.
Tinubu and his supporters will never experience good thing
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by lexy2014: 7:57pm On Oct 11, 2025
Bluntemperor:
If you are picked now, some of your Social Media gaulible audiences will charge - ' For What-but they would not see the great danger in your Statement " Tinubu Is A thief '' and in fact this Nairaland Forum for accommodating such messages -shows why some restraints needs to be placed on some Freedom, but you called it,Free Speech,abi?
Ok,o we don hear o!
is there anything he said about tinubu that is not true?

can you negate what he said?
Re: Umahi Fires Back At Makinde Over Lagos-calabar Highway Cos by theredaddy: 7:58pm On Oct 11, 2025
Quelme:
Mankinde is a senseless governor. An Oluwole engineer who doesn't have a clue about road construction.

Who do you give cost per kilo on a road which transverses different terrain? But Rufai and Makinde are senseless....
makinde is what ?? why not check wikepedia you want to compare Makinde to that elect elect calling himself engr 🤣 so were umahi naa elect elect nd he is that pompsy elect elect

Now i want to believe head is paing you and umahi for not understanding a very simple question

Asking what is the average cost per kilometer or estimste cost is like asking for a hint, we know he cant give Actual cost thats not feasible cos the project is stil ongoing

Average cost or estimate cost can be easily derived from relative project completed within time ...so what we are asking for is just an hint ..how much did it cost to do lagos coastal road 10km 20million we can say average cost per kilometer is 2 million just an idea not actual ... Umahi is just being mischievous dancing round the question who regard elect elect for school 🤣
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