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Flood Chaos on Lagos-Ore-Benin Road Sparks Fresh Criticism of Priority Projects

A trending video has captured a dramatic scene on the Lagos–Ore–Benin federal road: a car nearly fully submerged in deep, muddy floodwater while several men struggled to push it free.

The footage shows the vehicle’s roof barely visible above the water, with other cars, buses and motorcycles stranded nearby. Sand piles line the roadside under overcast skies, showing a stretch of the highway transformed into a dangerous swamp after heavy rains.

The footage also shows several young men attempting to help the occupants of the stranded vehicle retrieve some of their valuables. In the background, a distressed voice can be heard lamenting about the situation, claiming that the resulting traffic has stretched for a long distance and that some vehicles have reportedly been stuck on the road for as long as three days, with little or no movement.

The poster, @Ekwulu, used the clip to question the federal government’s priorities. He argued that major new projects such as the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway and the Badagry–Sokoto Superhighway should not take priority while existing federal roads remain in such poor condition. He described many of these roads as “death traps.”

The clip has also drawn comments from viewers describing the large infrastructure schemes as “white elephant” projects that could divert attention and resources from urgent road repairs.

The video has once again drawn attention to the long-standing problems of flooding and inadequate maintenance on key Nigerian highways.

This is a sad one for the car owner. Nothing less than 109k will be spent to fix it after.

PerfectStranger:
This is a sad one for the car owner. Nothing less than 109k will be spent to fix it after.

109k? Are you joking? That car is a total write off. It will cost more to fix that car than to buy another one. The engine and electronics are totally gone. If the owner of that car dares to try starting the engine, the water in the cylinders will cause what's called hydrolock. The engine block breaks and the metallic rods bend.

Didn't the driver see where other cars are passing? Or was the car parked there?

Was it that the driver parked there?
That side has been like tht for a while now

That Lagos-Ore-Benin road is so bad that it's now turning into a River.

make the owner just call iron condemn, sell .and buy another motor

How is this the fault of Tinubu? Wait till the dry season, the issue will be addressed. Elo fokan Bale, Tinubu is coming. By the time Tinubu leaves office, we will know his value.

Tilumbu is rather busy with construction of a coastal highway to link his SW region to the coastal oil producing areas.

Dogalmighty17:
109k? Are you joking? That car is a total write off. It will cost more to fix that car than to buy another one. The engine and electronics are totally gone. If the owner of that car dares to try starting the engine, the water in the cylinders will cause what's called hydrolock. The engine block breaks and the metallic rods bend.

that's a big lie

He should just wait for the flood to go down, tow the vehicle to a mechanic place.....leave it there for few days n the mechanic should work on the car engine, rewire should also do his job.

He will spend money but the car isn't write off, if na like that car dey write off nobody go use car again...haba

chiiraq802:
That Lagos-Ore-Benin road is so bad that it's now turning into a River.

if the government starts fixing it now, some people will start saying it's not needed that their candidate would have fix it in his bank of interest.

Imagine the loss to car owners n when Tinubu fix infrastructure some people will still cry foul

Tinubu is a failure

If it's not a coastal highway to fraud
APc is not interested

OBI told them to forget building new roads and upgrade old and already existing roads that are an eyesore, they attacked him and called him names.

Obi remains an ocean Atlantic and Pacific combined.

Tinubu and Dave just ordinary river and swamp.

PerfectStranger:
This is a sad one for the car owner. Nothing less than 109k will be spent to fix it after.

You obviously don't have a car.
Even if na Korope, it would cost more than that

Do you have any idea the level of electrical damage?

I entered water in Dolphine estate, e no even reach my top grill, the water spoil my steering rack, spent 5m.
Velar got for my baby-mama she enter water for Agungi the rack pack up. Velar steering rack na 6m.

You no even know the car wer dey inside that water.
Even if na corrola bro. You go sweat.

onuman:
Tilumbu is rather busy with construction of a coastal highway to link his SW region to the coastal oil producing areas.

at least Tinubu is doing something, your obi kept the money in his bank when he was governor of Anambra n u hailed him

Sad that vehicle is done for. The electrical, Engine, interior is also done. Fixing will be expensive

Wizardslayer:
OBI told them to forget building new roads and upgrade old and already existing roads that are an eyesore, they attacked him and called him names.

Obi remains an ocean Atlantic and Pacific combined.

Tinubu and Dave just ordinary river and swamp.

no b Atlanta n pacific, na red sea


So u think it's that content creator that should be taken serious?

Confused man n his confused followers

BATified2023:
at least Tinubu is doing something, your obi kept the money in his bank when he was governor of Anambra n u hailed him

Obi will never be so ethnocentric like Tinubu who constructs a coastal highway to link his SW region to the oil producing areas on the coast but ignore the Ore-Benin-Onitsha road to become a river like that.

Dogalmighty17:
109k? Are you joking? That car is a total write off. It will cost more to fix that car than to buy another one. The engine and electronics are totally gone. If the owner of that car dares to try starting the engine, the water in the cylinders will cause what's called hydrolock. The engine block breaks and the metallic rods bend.

You confidently wrote this without even knowing the brand of the car.

Nairaland sha, smfh.

Barrywilly:
How is this the fault of Tinubu? Wait till the dry season, the issue will be addressed. Elo fokan Bale, Tinubu is coming. By the time Tinubu leaves office, we will know his value.

He has appointed a works minister that has done nothing about the road, plus he hasn't done things like get a means to sustainably fund the road's maintenance and upgrades.

If he had done that, there might have been some changes...and maybe that would have been avoided.

Uneasy the head that lies the crown, old man.

Professor Minister



UMAHI




Only concerned on





COASTAL ROAD

That car life will never be the same no matter what

How did he get there , was it pack there or what for it to be this submerged, not even half way but completely submerged

BATified2023:
if the government starts fixing it now, some people will start saying it's not needed that their candidate would have fix it in his bank of interest.

Imagine the loss to car owners n when Tinubu fix infrastructure some people will still cry foul

So why isn;t the government fixing it? Isn't that a sign of incomeptence that they haven't done anything about it

We all blasted PDP for ignoring that road. Now you guys are in charge, and nothing is being done...so don't complain when the blasting comes in.

BATified2023:
no b Atlanta n pacific, na red sea


So u think it's that content creator that should be taken serious?

Confused man n his confused followers

Finally they've arrived, APC data boys.

30k monthly subscription.

We need to finish Lagos Calabar coastal highway and Lagos Sokoto highway first, they should manage for now

PerfectStranger:
This is a sad one for the car owner. Nothing less than 109k will be spent to fix it after.

You say what?? 109k in dollars or Naira?

onuman:
Tilumbu is rather busy with construction of a coastal highway to link his SW region to the coastal oil producing areas.

LOL...i am not a tinubu supporter, but let us tell ourselves the truth, there are some ongoing road projects in the SE...(I saw what you did).

Calabar–Ebonyi–Benue–Abuja Superhighway: A multi-section regional economic corridor linking the South-East, South-South, and North-Central, designed to slash travel times to Abuja.Enugu–Onitsha Expressway: Advanced reconstruction and dualisation of critical segments, alongside collapsed bridge replacements and solar illumination.Port Harcourt–Enugu Expressway: Ongoing systemic repairs and dual-carriageway expansions across state boundaries.Otuocha–Anam–Abaji Road: Recently approved procurement linking Anambra State directly to Kogi State.Oba–Nnewi–Uga–Ihube Road: Strategic connector route tying Anambra and Imo states into the broader Enugu–Port Harcourt corridor.Abakaliki–Afikpo Road & Ndi-Egbe Bridge: Valued at over ₦116 billion in fresh budgetary approvals to fast-track connectivity within Ebonyi State.Enugu–Abakaliki–Ogoja Road: Upgraded segments aimed at easing agro-trade movement to external border

It does not mean that tinubu is a good leader. My problem with him is that there is no sustainable means of funding those road's mainteance, plus priority should be given to railways above roads really.

What is the master strategist of amalanomics doing with his 53% solo share of the federation account if he has failed to fix all roads with his reforms windfall?

What APC defender knows the answer

franchasng:
We need to finish Lagos Calabar coastal highway and Lagos Sokoto highway first, they should manage for now

Yes, we got to be patient a little while...

The problem with Nigeria has never really been the political leaders. Rather its always been the ordinary people who sycophantically support nonsense out of useless sentiments.

Even the worst of dunces understands the basic concept of priorities, but somehow when we get to Africa, common sense always becomes rocket science.

Roads that are currently being used by millions are being abandoned for "brand new" roads that would take the next 30 years to complete.

The benin-warri highway is barely 60 miles long and it used to take 45mins to 1hour back in the days. But in the past 10 years, travellers have endured over 2-3 hours on same road. Meanwhile, the bad sections aren't even that extensive and it would take less than 0.01% of the money being expended on the so-called coastal road to instantly patch and make life easy for millions. But what do we get?

When sensible people suggested that existing operational roads be patched first to make life easy for Nigerians before embarking on white elephant legacy projects, useful idiots said we were "enemies of Nigeria's progress".

Wizardslayer:
Finally they've arrived, APC data boys.

30k monthly subscription.

if we challenge u to show account balance or lifestyle now u go run


Where I dey where I dey watch Liverpool match now, u no go fit enter am till u die no b mouth, how much is 30k that u believe someone will b collecting for full month?


All these poor kids self

allen113:
Didn't the driver see where other cars are passing? Or was the car parked there?

The car was parked there before the flood.