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Most of the roads constructed under obasanjo and Jonathan were majorly in the north.

Tinubu administration is the only govt that gives Southern roads a top priority. Yet people in the south are the ones criticising a project meant to better their lives. Is it a curse or what?

Even Donald Duke that wasted billions of naira on moribund Tinapa park is making mouth 👄. He said there is already A Road from lagos to calabar. The question is why should it be a road? What is wrong in having 2 to 3 alternative roads from lagos to calabar?

Sokoto Badagry highway is even longer than Lagos- calabar coastal highway yet no northerner ever comes out to condemn the project.

under normal circumstances, there is no reason why southern Nigeria should not have good road network than the north because most economic activities take place in the south.

They will complain of bad roads but when govt is ready to fix them, they are the same people that will condemn it

Mschew

This one go take molly for night, sleep dream about masquerade 😴

Den no born dem to criticize northern road construction.

garykoeman:
Den no born dem to criticize northern road construction.

The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

We have federal roads in the South that are in deplorable condition.
Let the Government fix them first before constructing new once

Biodun556:
Most of the roads constructed under obasanjo and Jonathan were majorly in the north.

Tinubu administration is the only govt that gives Southern roads a top priority. Yet people in the south are the ones criticising a project meant to better their lives. Is it a curse or what?

Even Donald Duke that wasted billions of naira on moribund Tinapa park is making mouth 👄

Sokoto Badagry highway is even longer than Lagos- calabar coastal highway yet no northerner ever comes out to condemn the project.

under normal circumstances, there is no reason why southern Nigeria should not have good road network than the north because most economic activities take place in the south.

They will complain of bad roads but when govt is ready to fix them, they are the same people that will condemn it

Lagos calabar road is not a fixing problem ...its a white elephant project.we dont need a coastal road we cannot afford.we should fix d roads we already hav n if possible build railway tracks to connect d country not some useless road we cannot finish in 20yrs time

AhmedPeacemaker:
The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

Could you list the names of those Southern politicians. Let's see where all of them are from

bdon123:
Lagos calabar road is not a fixing problem ...its a white elephant project.we dont need a coastal road we cannot afford.we should fix d roads we already hav n if possible build railway tracks to connect d country not some useless road we cannot finish in 20yrs time

When it's completed don't ply the road and if you do, be ready for the consequences

AhmedPeacemaker:
The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

every sector has it own share in the budget. You shouldn't leave one for another. The economic outcome of the road if completed is huge. Also we were all saying South South deserves more because that's where we get most of Nigeria revenue from so why are we changing mouth again?

Many South South youths have died in the name of fighting the govt because they believe the region deserves more. Now that the more is here we are saying it is too much. I don't get it

bdon123:
Lagos calabar road is not a fixing problem ...its a white elephant project.we dont need a coastal road we cannot afford.we should fix d roads we already hav n if possible build railway tracks to connect d country not some useless road we cannot finish in 20yrs time

Which state are you from?

Something is definitely wrong with the so called leaders from the South. Look at how he convinently left Badagry - Sokoto that benefit majorly the North to attack road that would directly impact the economy of the SS particularly where he comes from.

Calabar was once a capital city but how many development you can find in that part of the country? When will Calabar advance in development when the little thing that could enhance such development is being criticized by the leaders of that region?

The sophistication leader from the South attached to politics is so egocentric and regressively appauling.

Where was Donald Duke voice when Buhari and Amaechi were building railway to Maradi in Niger Republic. It is so sad that an average Southern politician will mortgage his region on the alter of politics, that's why many of them will always play second fiddle to the North and their elite

bdon123:
Lagos calabar road is not a fixing problem ...its a white elephant project.we dont need a coastal road we cannot afford.we should fix d roads we already hav n if possible build railway tracks to connect d country not some useless road we cannot finish in 20yrs time

Mention the existing road that is not under rehabilitation under this government

Biodun556:
Most of the roads constructed under obasanjo and Jonathan were majorly in the north.

Tinubu administration is the only govt that gives Southern roads a top priority. Yet people in the south are the ones criticising a project meant to better their lives. Is it a curse or what?

Even Donald Duke that wasted billions of naira on moribund Tinapa park is making mouth 👄

Sokoto Badagry highway is even longer than Lagos- calabar coastal highway yet no northerner ever comes out to condemn the project.

under normal circumstances, there is no reason why southern Nigeria should not have good road network than the north because most economic activities take place in the south.

They will complain of bad roads but when govt is ready to fix them, they are the same people that will condemn it

Why will the north complain,the funds for the project are from crude oil,why is tye north frowning about floating of naira and importation of rice.Hypocrisy is nigeria's bane fighting genuine development.The coastal Calabar-lagos highway is a coastal highway of fraud,overloaded contracts,15 billion dollars is not a joke,a country's annual budget.

AhmedPeacemaker:
The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

If we fix healthcare.

You would say no, it could have opened the roads.

Biodun556:
Mention the existing road that is not under rehabilitation under this government

Going through the motions and window dressing for optics by putting caterpillars on site is not tantamount to fixing the roads. The data shows that only 5% of the capital expenditure for roads were released for the past 3 budget cycles. Tinubu's first term is already gone. Name one road that has been successfully delivered. A man who chases many rabbits at the same time will end up with none. Are you aware that the 740km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway has barely 40km completed, but it has already been commissioned and named after Tinubu?

Alright, let's just have a little chat about this Calabar Highway project. It’s a fantastic investment, really boosting the economy. Don’t you think it’s a brilliant solution to connect the South and South to North?

Biodun556:
Most of the roads constructed under obasanjo and Jonathan were majorly in the north.

Tinubu administration is the only govt that gives Southern roads a top priority. Yet people in the south are the ones criticising a project meant to better their lives. Is it a curse or what?

Even Donald Duke that wasted billions of naira on moribund Tinapa park is making mouth 👄

Sokoto Badagry highway is even longer than Lagos- calabar coastal highway yet no northerner ever comes out to condemn the project.

under normal circumstances, there is no reason why southern Nigeria should not have good road network than the north because most economic activities take place in the south.

They will complain of bad roads but when govt is ready to fix them, they are the same people that will condemn it

That is because such road does not exist besides SW.And we know south to you people means only SW.The SS and SE are wiser than that rubbish about southern claims

AhmedPeacemaker:
The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

$2.8b can't fix healthcare of people with population of 250m.

This is Egypt healthcare budget for 2026, with a population of 120m

Egypt’s Fiscal Year 2026/2027 health budget increased by 30% to roughly EGP 618 billion (approximately $12.5 billion USD). This historic level of spending targets infrastructure upgrades, the expansion of the Universal Health Insurance (UHI) system, and increased subsidies for medicines and state-funded treatment

And the coastal road is majorly funded by private investment.

AhmedPeacemaker:
The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

so because we want to fix our healthcare n electricity, we should ignore the roads?

Same u lots are still praising obj n atiku that took 16 billion dollars loan for electricity n still mess everything up

Streetinvestor2:
That is because such road does not exist besides SW.And we know south to you people means only SW.The SS and SE are wiser than that rubbish about southern claims

the road only ignored the non productive region of Nigeria.

We can't afford to waste money on an unproductive region, south south was carried along n u know that for sure

Akwa ibom,cross river, Edo, delta were carried along so what's d noise about

I have known about that road now more than 20 years, the first time I heard sokoto--atan road I even thought maybe its one sokoto that they place inside atan😃

So it's a path already been used, but the coastal highway though good also, but there's an existing road that leads to calabar that just needed to be repaired

BATified2023:
the road only ignored the non productive region of Nigeria.

We can't afford to waste money on an unproductive region, south south was carried along n u know that for sure

Akwa ibom,cross river, Edo, delta were carried along so what's d noise about

Really a d formal governor said the road will only end in SW..lol
I know have never visited any of those states u mentioned because u can not afford such luxury. The states you mentioned don't need such road because they already have one that needs repair. The east west road runs through SS already.
And my region does not need anything from drug baron. That is why we know umehi is just using him to cash out. He does not exist to us

Southerners are the real problems the southern states get.
1. Name one person or any politician either ruling or opponents or elites or business guru from the Northern part has ever criticize sokoto badagry construction?.
2. Name one major federal road in Nigeria that construction is not going on?.
3. Name one Federal Government led from the past that has paid attention to federal roads with better quality than this?.
4. Mention Three prominent individuals from the Northern part that insulted Buhari when he did More for the northern part and even constructed railway to another country?.
5. Between now and before to be honest with the God you serve list the products of Governors will have now and before rate them in terms of
A. Infrastructure. B. Healthcare. C. Education. D. Empowerment. E. Security. F. Agriculture G. Investments and give verdict.
6. In Education compare what this Government has done to the previous administrations
7. In empowerment previous administrations gave 10k but now they are giving 50k above and people still complain.
8. Look at the Aviation system name the better version?

Biodun556:
Most of the roads constructed under obasanjo and Jonathan were majorly in the north.

Tinubu administration is the only govt that gives Southern roads a top priority. Yet people in the south are the ones criticising a project meant to better their lives. Is it a curse or what?

Even Donald Duke that wasted billions of naira on moribund Tinapa park is making mouth 👄

Sokoto Badagry highway is even longer than Lagos- calabar coastal highway yet no northerner ever comes out to condemn the project.

under normal circumstances, there is no reason why southern Nigeria should not have good road network than the north because most economic activities take place in the south.

They will complain of bad roads but when govt is ready to fix them, they are the same people that will condemn it

this is an evidence that all Muslims in this country directly support banditry and terrorism

The question you should be asking is if the government can complete it before 2031. We are talking about 400km.....

Bizibi:
The question you should be asking is if the government can complete it before 2031. We are talking about 400km.....

The question is not necessary. It is laudable project

Biodun556:
The question is not necessary. It is laudable project

I hope you know whoever that will come in after b.a.t will not complete it. All these praises mean nothing until it is complete.

No

AhmedPeacemaker:
The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

Ask Atiku if $16 billion is enough to fix electricity!
The cost of constructing a kilometre of road on a marshy land if far more than that on solid ground. Also the number of bridges involve and their length in the southern part of Nigeria increases the cost. Then the Bayelsa area is a low lying plain. That area needs to be sand filled to over 3 meters!

It's ignorance and politics of hate from those who don't want Yorubas to be in power.

As someone that has been to most parts of the North up till Borno State in the North East, I can confidently say that most Southerners don't understand the politics being played in Nigeria. Reason I said this is because, most roads in the North are tarred and smooth, there are some that you'll see are practically empty with little to no traffic but are well tarred with asphalt.
In the South especially places like Ogun and Lagos, you'll see abandoned roads, traffic congestion and gridlocks of huge magnitude yet no Government has ever deemed it fit to prioritize road projects in the South until now that President Bola Tinubu's administration is taking up the initiative to fix the bad roads in South and even open up new link roads. The most surprising is that Lagos that is the economic and commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, generating all the revenue got neglected under people like Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan.

Many of us don't need cash bribes to support a credible candidate for President.. actions speak louder.