Urheadmaster:




"Upon completion, it will undoubtedly be recognized as one of the greatest infrastructure wonders of our time."

When will this project be completed, sir?

When will you notice that "your time" is wasted one?

Your generation got the best of nigeria... see what you have left for my generation!

You are a big part of the problem. Have you heard from your community in Bayelsa about the impact of this project, how many bridges needs to be built or you're giving us the "Tale of Two cities" from Lagos?

You are part of the problem Sir...

ANSMEDIA:
Attention to details in the inner streets of Awka

MARKone:


Exactly, those guys are just plain ruthless. And people are not asking questions. Bolt have been in nigeria for close to 10 years, if not more than, and they have just 45 staffs, to fire 22, across 33 cities in nigeria. That'll be 23 staffs across 33 cities now. They want to be the cheapest ride hailing services at the detriment of the driver's. Reduce commission, them no gree, increase the fare, no way, they still end up reducing the fare by giving riders ridiculous discounts every day. And they are making massive money.

blackgold2018:
no. This one in particular is not about economy. Its about Bolt greediness on their unfair treatment to their drivers.

Now most of those drivers has chosen Indrive app to bolt.

AmTruth:
Psalm 69:34-36...Let heaven and earth nigeria praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in nigeria. For God will save nigeria and rebuild the cities of nigeria; and [His servants nigeria] shall remain and dwell there and have nigeria in their possession; The children of nigeria shall inherit nigeria, and those who love nigeria shall dwell in nigeria for good.
Amen

God bless President Tinubu.
God bless Vice President Shettima.
God bless our Securities Agencies.
God bless our Ministers.
God bless our Lawmakers.
God bless our Judiciary.
God bless our Governors.
God bless our Local Government Chairmen
God bless our Religious and Traditional Leaders.

God bless nigeria.

opamoses1:
The burgeoning tourism industry has also motivated local people who used to work as migrant workers in more developed cities to return to their hometowns.

My best part of the article.

muhammaduyusufu:


http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0205/c90000-20131252.html#:~:text=Opened%20on%20Dec.,widely%20spread%20on%20the%20internet

CommonSense1967:
The positive impact of the Lagos Calabar coastal road on the Nigerian economy will be huge and generational.
I have tried to explain to some why this is a brainer but they seem bent on looking at it from a political and sentimental perspective.
Even if Obi was President and he proposed this road, I would have supported it with everything I have.

nigeria has a long coastline and most are not been used to their full potential. Imagine how many beaches will open up from Lagos to Calabar, imagine world-class hotels, imagine the potential for resorts in many areas.


Look at it from the potential benefits instead of the potential delays and costs.

Projects of this magnitude will experience delays, cost overruns, and many other problems. But we must still start it and plan for potential hiccups as we go along. No matter how ell you plan there will be issues but that is not enough reason to back away form it.

opamoses1:
The burgeoning tourism industry has also motivated local people who used to work as migrant workers in more developed cities to return to their hometowns.

My best part of the article.

muhammaduyusufu:
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[quote author=Dennisochampa post=129817361]Enemies of nigeria who don't want the progress of this nation won't like this news....
They want their brother to keep making money off the people but it is well... nigeria will be great again

aguluobi:
Bro leave all this clowns against the project.

It takes a visionary leader to drive a vision not a drunkard like Peter Pandora Obi.

I can not believe graduate can not comprehend the vision behind the coastal highway as basic as it is. Funny enough I sincerely believe they do but just chose to be mischievous because SW Lagos S& Tinubu Eko Atlantic will benefit massively from it that is why they chose to antagonize it.

DMerciful:
Lagos is almost entering the Atlantic Ocean geographically so there'll always be flood occasionally. Don't use this normal flooding consistent with coastal areas as excuse for demolitions.

Even if you demolition 100% of houses in Lagos, there'll still be occasional flooding. Coastal cities like Venice, Sicily gets flooded constantly. Countries like the Netherlands and Italy gets flooded.

We know the game plan but our electoral choices remains our electoral choices and will always be based on equity and justice!

franchasofficia:
No no, Yemi your half-brothers (Yorubas) said it's the best move to ensure Igbos are frustrated out of Lagos back to their barren (sic) southeast region. A region that houses the largest natural gas reserve in Africa is what uninformed Yoruba boys online call barren just because they see Igbos live and flourish in Lagos, when nobody except their inborn cowardice and lack of business doggedness stopped them from exploring opportunities in the east to their own advantage. Some will claim that their reason for not exploring Southeast is because Southeast is not developed, that Southwest is more developed, that what will they be doing in a less developed area when their region is an eldorado and you wonder their mediocre, mundane reasoning when Europeans left their super developed bubbling continent to explore all parts of the world even to the remotest areas in Africa, Asia and Caribbean, no wahala time will teach them a lesson about life.


Back to the demolition.


You know my people said when the gods wants to destroy a man, they first make him mad so that everything he does becomes very upright in his eyes. That is how great men fall.


Sanwo-Olu and his Tinubu inspired destructive-economy politics think their recent expedition into demolition of people's houses in Lagos is a very wonderful policy which they claim is because those houses contravened Lagos state building and environmental laws. They said it is such houses that are causing erosion in Lagos, and we hope erosion will never happen again in Lagos after their uncountable demolition of people's sweats and livelihood.


A time like this that nigeria is at its lowest economic situation is when these bandits in government who found their ways into government leadership through crooks and corruption are busy demolishing people's houses with flimsy excuses that doesn't even hold water.


If you search the pockets of the so called environmental sanitizers claiming that people encroached into government areas through their building structures, you will find lots of petrified dead rats.


They should continue, no city remains glorious forever, and it's mostly ill-thought government policies like this that murdered so many bubbling cities that once hosted the world's glamor



Meanwhile, wise people are gradually divesting from Lagos real estate albeit silently

franchasofficia:
No no, Yemi your half-brothers (Yorubas) said it's the best move to ensure Igbos are frustrated out of Lagos back to their barren (sic) southeast region. A region that houses the largest natural gas reserve in Africa is what uninformed Yoruba boys online call barren just because they see Igbos live and flourish in Lagos, when nobody except their inborn cowardice and lack of business doggedness stopped them from exploring opportunities in the east to their own advantage. Some will claim that their reason for not exploring Southeast is because Southeast is not developed, that Southwest is more developed, that what will they be doing in a less developed area when their region is an eldorado and you wonder their mediocre, mundane reasoning when Europeans left their super developed bubbling continent to explore all parts of the world even to the remotest areas in Africa, Asia and Caribbean, no wahala time will teach them a lesson about life.


Back to the demolition.


You know my people said when the gods wants to destroy a man, they first make him mad so that everything he does becomes very upright in his eyes. That is how great men fall.


Sanwo-Olu and his Tinubu inspired destructive-economy politics think their recent expedition into demolition of people's houses in Lagos is a very wonderful policy which they claim is because those houses contravened Lagos state building and environmental laws. They said it is such houses that are causing erosion in Lagos, and we hope erosion will never happen again in Lagos after their uncountable demolition of people's sweats and livelihood.


A time like this that nigeria is at its lowest economic situation is when these bandits in government who found their ways into government leadership through crooks and corruption are busy demolishing people's houses with flimsy excuses that doesn't even hold water.


If you search the pockets of the so called environmental sanitizers claiming that people encroached into government areas through their building structures, you will find lots of petrified dead rats.


They should continue, no city remains glorious forever, and it's mostly ill-thought government policies like this that murdered so many bubbling cities that once hosted the world's glamor



Meanwhile, wise people are gradually divesting from Lagos real estate albeit silently

franchasofficia:
No no, Yemi your half-brothers (Yorubas) said it's the best move to ensure Igbos are frustrated out of Lagos back to their barren (sic) southeast region. A region that houses the largest natural gas reserve in Africa is what uninformed Yoruba boys online call barren just because they see Igbos live and flourish in Lagos, when nobody except their inborn cowardice and lack of business doggedness stopped them from exploring opportunities in the east to their own advantage. Some will claim that their reason for not exploring Southeast is because Southeast is not developed, that Southwest is more developed, that what will they be doing in a less developed area when their region is an eldorado and you wonder their mediocre, mundane reasoning when Europeans left their super developed bubbling continent to explore all parts of the world even to the remotest areas in Africa, Asia and Caribbean, no wahala time will teach them a lesson about life.


Back to the demolition.


You know my people said when the gods wants to destroy a man, they first make him mad so that everything he does becomes very upright in his eyes. That is how great men fall.


Sanwo-Olu and his Tinubu inspired destructive-economy politics think their recent expedition into demolition of people's houses in Lagos is a very wonderful policy which they claim is because those houses contravened Lagos state building and environmental laws. They said it is such houses that are causing erosion in Lagos, and we hope erosion will never happen again in Lagos after their uncountable demolition of people's sweats and livelihood.


A time like this that nigeria is at its lowest economic situation is when these bandits in government who found their ways into government leadership through crooks and corruption are busy demolishing people's houses with flimsy excuses that doesn't even hold water.


If you search the pockets of the so called environmental sanitizers claiming that people encroached into government areas through their building structures, you will find lots of petrified dead rats.


They should continue, no city remains glorious forever, and it's mostly ill-thought government policies like this that murdered so many bubbling cities that once hosted the world's glamor



Meanwhile, wise people are gradually divesting from Lagos real estate albeit silently

Reflect7:
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onatisi:
i never believed we could ever have a government worse than Buhari but with the way Tinubu is doing, it is evident that Buhari will eventually be hailed as a very good man and leader. Tinubu is virtually taking financial recklessness,carelessness and cluelessness to a height never seen before in the history of this nation. This is more than fraud , this is pure murder , they are killing this nation gradually

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) in LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* in July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS in OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS in nigeria SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS in OFFICE.

The Calabar-Lagos coastal road appears to be perennially swallowed in controversy since the first day of the project’s unveiling.

Over the weekend opposition leader and former vice president Atiku Abubakar added fuel to the fire when he revealed that the president’s son Seyi is on the Board of the firm given the gigantic contract and alleged that President Bola Tinubu appears to more concerned about lining the pocket of friends and family.

Analysts say there is a lot more about the huge deal than the government is able to disclose so far.

The analysts are shocked by the utter lack of transparency and empathy with which the construction is being handled and they have raised six mins boggling questions:

1. nigeria seeks to build a Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. Of the places it could possibly start off from is Lagos, it just has to start off from Eko Atlantic, which is or will be the preserve of the privileged, ultra monied elite. Why?

2. The original coastal road as the people were told during the construction of the Lekki expressway/toll gates, was the Water Corporation road. Nigerians were told it was going to be an alternative route to the tolled road. Today, a large expanse of that road has been abandoned and is virtually an eyesore. But, we have chosen to ignore it and instead start a brand new “Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway”. Why?

3. The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is such an ‘urgent’ project that work on it commenced even before it was announced to the public. Quite a feat and highly unusual for any government project in this part of the world. Typically, such projects are slow to take off and are riddled with delays. in this case it’s so very different. What’s the great, big hurry and why?

4. This is the only project of this magnitude Nigerians have ever seen/heard of where an EIA stakeholder meeting is being convened AFTER the project has commenced. It appears the views/concerns of stakeholders and the potential environmental impact of the project are of absolutely no concern to the project owners/sponsors. This is particularly strange given the centrality today of ESG factors to project financing and investment decisions.

5. Globally, there are major concerns over the impact on coastal cities of rising sea levels, erosion and climate change. According to some reports, Lagos is particularly at risk from rising sea levels. Yet our government appears to be embarking on constructing a coastal highway at a cost of N4B per KM with no hard evidence of having conducted a proper EIA. Why?

6. The opacity about the source of funds and the nature of the handshake between government and the private sector in the funding arrangements makes it all even more worrying. First the contractor was going to self-fund and then suddenly, – change of plan – the government is now going to fund. But we don’t know the full cost, nor was any competitive bidding done. Why?

Many questions but no one’s giving any answers and as we speak, the demolitions have started. What exactly is the reason for the apparent obfusacation and difficulty with (or is it reluctance to provide) providing full disclosure of information that should be in the public domain? The people are afterall being told the road and accompanying demolitions are for the greater good and in the public interest.

MightySparrow:



Good management, human resources, brain capacity.


Everyone rushes to Yoruba land to give meaning to their life.
Check history, almost everyone that becomes somebody has to pass through yorubaland or has a link.

What they can't get in their region, they get in Southwest.


Imagine a nigeria without Yorubas and Yoruba land? Majority of you will still be living in thatched houses.
Think of it the brown roofs in major towns and cities in yorubaland are relics of civilization of antiquity when most other regions were living in thatched houses and caves.

Most of these houses were built more than hundred years ago.

Yoruba has brought light and still first in most modern things. Even Ajayi Crowrher taught igbos how to write their own language.


Yoruba is the greatest of all blacks of all times.
Check the records nah!

ottersberger:

Yoruba, you heard it is Igbo gas. Where are your gas fields?. Now, apart from agbero, leeching and envy, what resources do you bring to the nigeria table?.

OasisX:
David Umahi is a typical example of round peg in round hole. The man too sabi.

Lagos - Ibadan Expressway will get solar street light.

Super Highway [concrete] from Abuja to Lagos ongoing [PPP]

Coastal Road from PH, across cities in the East, North and end in Lagos [Concrete and PPP].

I pray this man succeed.


https://twitter.com/DavidsOffor/status/1703283065970131128?t=jcOoiLYaJlwIn3gnDmKI_Q&s=19

predictor1:
So Yorubas are the ones holding ibos back in nigeria? When you are ready you will stay back in iboland and stop putting pressure on cities like Ibadan, Lagos and osogbo where we have ibos in their hordes. You need us more than we need you.

Rantingpiglets:
Same IGBOs want BIAFRA so you can have LAGOS to your worthless sef..

Same you will be shouting 1 nigeria...

When are you deporting the Northern community that has annexed all the areas in Lagos especially the Dangote refinery axis?

You nematodes are shallow and extremely useless...

Nonsense

Remman:
The best hero of our nation. He brought the idea to slash excess spending of NASS, so his death could be suspecious considering the greedy nature of NASS members. He gave Armnesty to Niger Delta militants, the first to actually publicised his Agenda and actually stood by it.

Seems to me like nigeria has an evil spirit to take away "better thing" from them. Somehow validates the common adage "better thing no dey last".

Omooba77:
…says nigeria experienced economic development during Jonathan’s administration

A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday, said the protest that trailed the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was due to political interests.

Fayemi said this in his keynote address delivered at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the 60th birthday celebration of the founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy and Fellow, Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Professor Udenta Udenta in Abuja.

The programme was attended by Jonathan, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, among others.

The PUNCH reports that on January 1, 2012, President Goodluck announced the removal of fuel subsidy and adjusted the pump price of petrol from N65 per litre to N141.

The decision sparked mass protests, tagged ‘Occupy nigeria’ across major cities of the country.

The price was later re-adjusted to N97, after more than a week of protests.

Petrol price was later reduced to N87 in 2015.

Jonathan faced serious backlash for the fuel price adjustment, especially from leaders of the All Progressives Congress, who were then in different opposition parties, including the defunct Action Congress of nigeria, Congress for Progressives Congress, All nigeria Peoples Party, and All Progressive Grand Alliance.

https://punchng.com/breaking-fuel-subsidy-we-played-politics-with-2012-occupy-nigeria-fayemi/

Vello:

When you compare statistics, why put Lagos which is a State in nigeria alongside countries like South Africa, Egypt and the rest. Your comparative basis ought to be Johannesburg, Cairo, Kumasi, Pretoria, Nairobi etc.
Typical Obi supporters and IPOB who are terminally sworn to yoruba hatred would lap up this shit from Fij without crosschecking.
Google would help most of you in healing

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/richest-cities-in-africa/

Vello:
When you compare statistics, why put Lagos which is a State in nigeria alongside countries like South Africa, Egypt and the rest. Your comparative basis ought to be Johannesburg, Cairo, Kumasi, Pretoria, Nairobi etc.
Typical Obi supporters and IPOB who are terminally sworn to yoruba hatred would lap up this shit from Fij without crosschecking.
Google would help most of you in healing

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/richest-cities-in-africa/