drsibz66:


Sorry the same can't be said about Nigeria. No foreignal is coming to Nigeria for treatment.
As for you , you can decide to be stupid but you can't harass others into been stupid like you.

Even the person that made this statement doesn't use Nigerian hospital. I'm very sure if he reads what you just wrote he will laugh very hard.

My friend SHUT UP.

Empty head.

I can take you to some hospitals in Nigeria today that are better than many hospitals in the UK. I have lived there, so I know.

Most of you are VERY simple-minded, with a very deep complex.

You don’t know anything, yet you think you know everything.

Right now there are first class private hospitals in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt who handle elite patients from places like Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Guinea, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, DRC, and other places.

They fly in quietly and do CT scans and other stuff not readily available in their countries. They pay in dollars and fly back home quietly.

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE WILL NOT HAVE SUCH HOSPITALS IN NIGERIA?

There are NUMEROUS Nigerian doctors who have RELOCATED from the US and established top medical establishments here with state of the art equipment.

Some of them even have foreign patients they treated when they worked abroad, who insist on still seeing them, even if they’ve moved to Nigeria. They fly in here, get their check-up and fly back out.

A LOT GOES ON WHICH YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.

Most of you are just kids who don’t know anyone or anything apart from the simpleton generalised stereotypes and rubbish that only sees things in black and white with no grey areas.

So irritating. And then when they try to enlighten you, your thick block heads insist on remaining ignorant and cretinous.

schekubeh:
Is this not madness? In the nation's capital later you will be angry when they say Nigeria is a failed state. Is it until they start kidnapping inside state house you will agree?

THAT PLACE IS NOT “IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL”.

It is far outside the city, in some remote place.

The headline is very deceptive.

AND THE USA MUST BE A FAILED STATE TOO.

THE CRIME RATE IN WASHINGTON DC IS 10 TIMES WORSE THAN ABUJA.

Mynd44:
Flying cars already exist. They are called Helicopters

WRONG.

Can a helicopter ride on the ground?

A flying car is just what it says. It flies in the air and will drive on a road.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycmGvWLo1as&ab_channel=NuoTechie

helinues:


Is the capitalist system working in USA?

Educate us about USA in precise

The capitalist system is working in the US, but definitely needs better regulation.

In the USA, virtually all innovation is privately driven. Power plants, railway networks, stadiums, universities, refineries, hospitals, airlines, they are virtually all private.

Harvard University is a private university.

Even in the UK, Oxford University is private. Cambridge is private. Heathrow airport is privately owned. British Airways is privately owned.

The services provided by these entities are always top notch BECAUSE they charge premium fees and are run on a profit principle, not a ''help the poor'' principle. That is why they are so big and successful.

It's only in Nigeria that we think it is the GOVERNMENT'S job to do EVERYTHING.

The Nigerian private sector seriously needs to STEP UP.

helinues:


And how is the capitalist system working globally when there will always be a recession after every decade as that's how the system was designed to work.

Should we continue practicing a system that has no benefits for the common masses?

During COVID-19, the billionaires gained $6tr profits while 80% of the world was facing hardship. Which kind of system is that that serves the purpose of the richest only?

It is not true that capitalism has no benefits for the common masses.

Is the US not a capitalist country?

So long as it is regulated to a fair degree, a capitalist system should lift the masses out of poverty into prosperity.

India is a country that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty by operating a capitalist economy.

Don't forget the Soviet communist system was tried by many African countries after independence, and it got them nowhere, and even failed in the Soviet Union and led to its collapse, as factories were shut down because they could get no capital due to no profits, as prices were fixed etc etc.

nairalanda1:
Problems with flying cars

1. Where would they land.

2. Licensing. Licensing.

3.Noise issues.

BBC has a decent article on the matter self.


If I was as rich as dangote...I won't be investing in private flying cars. I would be investing in maybe solar powered railway vehicles...

Yeah, I've read that. Those are just teething issues that will be resolved over time.

As the article noted,

"When cars began to replace horses, a lot of similar questions popped up: about safety, about what's going to happen to cities…many wanted to go back to horses. If done right, the flying car should be safer."

helinues:


Nah bro, the rate of poverty in Nigeria should be the first priority not producing something that would increase the level of the corruption in the country as those who can't afford it might look for shady means to get the money most especially the politicians

They should use the money to empower Nigerians and see if things won't be far better than this

The government, the leaders and the rich know the right thing to do, but it's unfortunate they just can't as they are insecure

This is not how you develop a capitalist economy.

You don't refuse to innovate or be part of technological development for ANY reason.

There is NO reason to be an importer of what you can produce at home.

You say ''the rate of poverty should be the first priority..''

You are thinking like a COMMUNIST.

It is not the job of the private sector to think about ''the country's priority''.

That is the government's job.

THE GOVT solves poverty issues with its policies, and as its income rises.

The private sector's job is to sniff out economic opportunities, innovate, develop technology, create employment, make profits, pay corporate tax to the govt, and boost the national GDP.

What they do to make money does not have to be ''geared towards the poor''. It is geared towards profits. Their target market could even be overseas! It doesn't matter.

AS they grow, the more corporate tax they pay to the govt, and the more people they employ, and that's how they contribute to our economy. The actual product they churn out matters very little, so long as it's profitable. And flying cars WILL be profitable.

We need to understand the roles of the two sectors - govt AND private sector.

They are NOT one and the same thing with the same set of responsibilities, vision, skills, talents, etc.

They are very different and need to be assessed differently according to their roles.

helinues:


Such innovation is for the rich who are just in few % in Nigeria.

Of what economy impact to the common masses?

But of course if we become a manufacturer, the prices will drop after some years, just like everywhere else.

And these flying cars are the FUTURE, so there is no running away from it, whether you are poor or rich.

At some point in the future, everyone will need to buy a flying car to move around, just like we buy road cars today.

In fact a time will come when building roads for vehicles will be obsolete.

Flying cars are the future, and all I'm saying is that WE should be right there at the start of the whole revolution, not be mere receivers of others ingenuity.

We can profit heavily from it as a big manufacturer if we get in early before other African countries like South Africa and Egypt.

helinues:
And are the cars going to be for the poor?

At first, NO. But eventually, like every new innovation, the prices will drop after a while.

Plus there will be used cars, so they can be bought cheaper than brand new.

tete7000:


Didirin ni e. Do you understand the meaning of the word trooping or you are just as daft as those you are trying to defend? If people are trooping in as claimed, it will be obvious from the airport. Borrow yourself brain and stop being being foolish trying to defend blatant lie.

You have obviously never stepped foot in a Nigerian international airport, or you would know that THOUSANDS of foreigners troop into Nigeria EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Air Peace flight from Mumbai to Lagos,

tete7000:


And I noticed your case is so pathetic, you have been around here awake trying to defend thus shit. How much are you being paid for this idiotic job you took upon yourself or is the nan your father and you share his loot with him?

How much did SIMON EKPA pay you to play happy traitor?

Emergency Nigerian.

Adamux:
Who are the sponsors of these terrorists?

Simon Ekpa, the Biafran Prime Minister of Finland.

omohayek:

The depths of ignorance on display here are truly shocking. How exactly is electricity that is generated and distributed by private power companies supposed to be ending up in "the federation account"? It's as if many of you can't even fathom the idea of private enterprise, and are still living under the delusion that Nigeria remains in the days of NEPA.

My brother, these are people who believe it is the govt’s job to build factories, build cars, aeroplanes, stadiums, tourist attractions, toothpicks, everything. They have no clue that they live in a capitalist society where it is the PRIVATE SECTOR that drives growth.

Kpatakpata:
People are even coming from Mars and Pluto to seek health care in Nigeria

Yes, we know your inferiority complex cannot accept that anyone can visit Nigeria for anything.

Unproductive, useless person.

izombie:
Must you defend n0nsense? Even you sef know sey that minister dey lie.

How do you know he is lying?

Do you think Nigeria is your backyard or village?

This is a huge country with nearly 250 million people and you do NOT know everything that’s going on. So keep quiet when you hear surprising news. It could well be true!

Bmaster:
op you are very delusional if this 8s your comparison.2nd Niger bridge that was proposed during Jonathan's era,when things were moving well with Nigeria.
Fyi,the lagos-calabar coastal highway is an unfinished project,mark it somewhere

The Lagos-Calabar coastal road was first proposed in 1955.

Nobody cares if you think it won’t be completed, you Emergency Nigerian.

ottersberger:


But we need a new super highway to built by your criminal president's equally criminal bossom friend. Truth warrior.

If the superhighway was passing through Onitsha, Enugu, and Owerri, you would be singing a different tune.

Devils.

Deltancapo:


Waste of money anytime Igbo misbehave Niger delta indigenous people will blow up that bridge to keep them in their five states.

😂

Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road: Leave the talk, let’s face the business

6th May, 2024

By Dada Olusegun

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/05/06/lagos-calabar-coastal-road-leave-the-talk-lets-face-the-business/

A coastal superhighway


The Lagos-Calabar coastal road project is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most ambitious transport infrastructure project since independence. In terms of scope, distance covered, and connectivity, not even the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos, the 2nd Niger Bridge in Onitsha/Asaba, or the Abuja-Kano expressway comes close. It is simply a world-class iconic project.

Before I go further, I want us to take a brief trip back to history. The idea for a major coastal federal road in Nigeria was first conceptualized in 1955 by the then Federal Commissioner of Finance, Late Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who hails from present-day Delta State. Okotie-Eboh proposed the development of a network of rail and road routes from Lokoja-Benin City-Koko-Warri-Onitsha to aid the movement of goods.

Specifically, he proposed the Koko-Ogheye-Epe dual carriageway project that was to traverse Delta and Ondo states and terminate at Epe in Lagos. This road is basically meant to hug the coastal areas of Delta and Ondo states and shorten travel distance between Lagos and the Niger Delta and the rest of the Eastern region. The project did not take off in the first Republic.

During the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo as civilian president, he elected to commence construction of a variant of the coastal road from Warri in Delta State to Calabar. This was what came to be known as the East-West road.

In 2010, however, the government of President Goodluck Jonathan through NDDC also awarded the Koko-Ogheye-Epe road to Levant Construction Ltd. The Lagos State government on its part during the administration of then-Governor Bola Tinubu was also independently planning to build a coastal road that will span the entire Lekki-Epe axis, which it foresaw as the next major economic frontier in Lagos and the country. Thirteen years later, the chief visionary of that Lagos coastal road is now Nigeria’s President.

President Tinubu then decided to marry his Lagos coastal road vision with that of Okotie-Eboh’s Koko-Ogheye-Epe coastal road vision in addition to the thinking behind the East-West road to come up with a variant of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road that we have now.
What is the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road Project?

This is simply a 700km mega-highway that starts from Victoria Island in Lagos and ends in Calabar, Cross River State. It will pass through Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom states before terminating at Calabar. This coastal highway is the first of its kind in the world. First and foremost, it comprises a 10-lane boulevard with five lanes on each side of the dual carriageway and a standard gauge train track in the middle. Concrete pavement technology is to be adopted in the construction of the entire stretch of the road.





The Lagos-Calabar coastal road has two major spurs. First is the 1000km Badagry-Sokoto road, which will connect the South West to the North Central and the North West through the shortest route possible, terminating at Sokoto. The second spur is the Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja road going to Cameroon, which essentially connects the South East to the coastal road.

This spur continues from Enugu to Oturkpo to Nasarawa to Apo in Abuja. Essentially, the Lagos-Calabar coastal road is an arterial road that connects the six geopolitical zones.

Synopsis of the Funding for the Coastal Road Project

The total estimated cost of the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal road project is put at N15.6 trillion. The funding model for the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project is EPC+ (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Financing) where the federal government would put up a counterpart financing of around 30% while the contractor funds the remainder.

Last October, FEC approved the EPC+ model for this project in favor of Hitech Construction company. Going by the estimated N15.6 trillion cost for the entire coastal road stretch, the federal government’s counterpart fund is around N4.68 trillion.

The federal government, in a bid to hasten the commencement of the project, decided to finance construction of the first 47km in phase 1 of the road project, which runs from Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island to the Lekki Deep Sea port. The contract sum of N1.06 trillion was awarded for this section by FEC to Hitech, and construction is ongoing with unprecedented speed.

Whatever funding FG is providing for this section of the road will come under the FG’s counterpart fund. I must emphasize that this funding model adopted by the Tinubu administration is the best model possible, considering the country’s revenue size. This is a monumental infra project being majorly funded with private finance. This is possible because the coastal road is extremely viable.


Benefits of the Coastal Road

Most of the unnecessary controversies that have been amplified by some people over this coastal road project have centered on demolition of structures along the path of the road, as well as misconceptions about the funding model, with critics of the project having an erroneous impression that the federal government would fund the entire project. Little attention has been paid to the staggering benefits that the Lagos-Calabar coastal road would bring about. I want to briefly lay them out now.

– Job Creation: Critics talk about exaggerated job losses that may be witnessed as a result of demolition of structures on the coastal road’s right of way, especially in Lagos, but few pause for a moment to look at the immense amount of new jobs that this massive project will create, both directly and indirectly.

Already, the project has started creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs courtesy of the actual construction work currently ongoing at multiple sections of the 47km stretch. The workers that would be part of this project are not ghosts; they are Nigerians. The construction of the railway component of this coastal road is another source of massive job creation. Hundreds of permanent jobs will also be required after completion of construction, as people would be engaged to carry out toll management, road maintenance, etc.

New industries, filling stations, CNG stations, auto-mechanic workshops, shopping malls, hotels, etc., will dot the iconic coastal road axis while creating many jobs in the process. This is one of the direct effects of having that road.

– GDP Growth: The Lagos-Calabar coastal project is a very important project with unparalleled economic value. This is a road that connects Nigeria’s biggest economic zone, Lekki Free Trade Zone housing the Dangote refinery, Lekki Deep sea port, and many existing and potential industries to the rest of the south and the north via a 10-lane dual carriageway. The potential impact of this road on our GDP growth is huge, considering the fact that it will facilitate an increase in economic activity as well as improve ease of movement of goods and people and invariably ease of doing business.

Like I mentioned earlier, the road will drastically cut down travel time between Lagos to the South-South and South-East to less than six hours through an alternative shorter route and open new corridors of development.

With the 1000km spur from Badagry in the Atlantic coast to Sokoto on the edge of the Sahel, we would also have a North-South modern highway that smoothens land transport, connectivity, and trade between the north and south. As a growing nation that keeps expanding, it doesn’t make sense to limit ourselves to existing roads (which are equally getting massive attention by the Renewed Hope administration). We need to plan for the future. When the 3rd Mainland bridge was being conceptualized, many back then argued that it was not necessary or not a priority since there were already two bridges connecting the Lagos island to the mainland, but look at the importance of the bridge today.

In fact, the Lagos State government has approved the design for the 4th mainland bridge – a more ambitious undertaking. That’s grand vision!

– Tourism: One of the most regurgitated lines by critics of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project is that it would kill tourism (especially along the existing coastline in Lagos) and destroy our beaches (also especially in Lagos). How wrong they are! Contrary to this false insinuation, the most immediate impact of the new Lagos-Calabar coastal road is definitely going to be a massive boost in tourism.

This is not even debatable. Every known major coastal road across the world is always a magnet for tourism. The Lagos-Calabar coastal road, which will be one of the best coastal roads in the world upon completion, cannot be an exception. The coastal road is not going to run exclusively on the coastline. For example, around the Eleko axis, the road alignment is not on the beach front. Even in the landmark and Oniru beach axis, after construction of the coastal road, the tourism value of these areas would skyrocket.

It simply requires innovation by players in the tourism industry to make the most out of the coastal road. In fact, there are countless beaches along the path of the coastal road in Lagos, Ondo, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom that can become Nigeria’s top tourist destinations.

The Ilashe Island beach off the Lagos coast along the Badagry Creek with its beautifully arranged coconut trees and crystal white sand is one of such that can benefit from the Badagry spur.

The Ibeno beach in Akwa Ibom, which is the longest sand beach in West Africa and stretching for about 30 kilometers from Ibeno to James Town along the Atlantic coastline of Akwa Ibom State, is yet another tourism goldmine that the coastal road can trigger its extraction. It will only take innovative thinking and belief.

Sadly, many of our compatriots are instead exuding pessimism and pedestrian thinking with their opposition to this grand project.

As I conclude, I want to state that the hallmark of extraordinary leadership is having the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. A leader inspires the power and energy to get things done. He has a poorly developed sense of fear and overlooks the concept of the odds against him. His focus is not usually on the present nor on the obstacles that may stand in the way of his vision but on how to attain that vision by surmounting the obstacles.

While many critics of the colossal Lagos-Calabar coastal road are busy extrapolating how many decades it may take to complete the project using other existing roads of different models to judge or how the funding will come, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is looking at the various pathways that will deliver the project.

On the evidence of the pace of construction on the project sites, it is obvious that he has found many pathways. President Bola Tinubu is a visionary. He creates the vision of the future. He sees what others do not readily see, which is why people usually criticize his vision at the onset and later turn to embrace or even copy them. This is one of such times.

The birth of a modern Nigeria has begun with President Tinubu in charge and I have only one admonition for our dear compatriots who are still skeptical about this journey; Leave the talk, let’s face the business!

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/05/06/lagos-calabar-coastal-road-leave-the-talk-lets-face-the-business/

NaijaCowFarm:


Ode, 1.63Km bridge and 700 Kiliometer *11 are they the same??

You do not quantify the cost of a deep water bridge vis-a-vis a regular road based on mere kilometres.

You no go school?

obailala:
This is common sense; if the 1st niger bridge was dilapidated and barely motorable, and there is acute shortage of funds, the sensible thing to do with the limited funds will be to fix the existing bridge before embarking on a new one.

True, but the bridge is not even dilapidated!

There is nothing wrong with the bridge.

Someone there just decided a new bridge was what they wanted in the East, and they pressured the FG to build it!

Cost?

$2 billion!

Cindypresh:


Did you forget how the 2nd Niger bridge was funded? The terms and conditions??

Btw, the 2nd Niger bridge is tolled and most people don't use it today

“Vehicles plying the coastal road are expected to pay a whopping N3,000 per toll gate, per trip'', according to news reports.

And the difference is that, UNLIKE THE USELESS 2ND NIGER BRIDGE, many people WILL USE the coastal highway, so it will pay for itself many times over, and fund its own maintenance.

But Nigerian taxpayers have to COUGH OUT MONEY to pay for the 2nd Niger Bridge!

So the 2nd Niger Bridge is far more of a waste of resources than the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway.

?

Where is everyone?

No answer?

Betanaija42moro:
Rubbish question
Everybody is talking about the timing. Nigeria is passing through a lot now. Solve the current problems facing the country now.

But things were terrible when the 2nd Niger Bridge was being built.

Or was it not the same Buhari era when you people claimed Nigeria was the 'world poverty capital' and a failed zoo?

When Boko Haram owned territories across northern states? With herdsmen, banditry and kidnapping MORE rampant than today?

When IPOB gangs were shooting Igbos for not sitting at home?

And bad roads everywhere?

Why did NOT ONE of you stand up and say ''this 2nd Niger Bridge costing billions of dollars is a misplaced priority, since we already have the 1st Niger Bridge, and have so many other challenges facing the country''?

samwash:
I think the propose 4th mainland bridge and 5th mainland bridge is of no use.

Start a new thread for that.

We're discussing Onitsha here.

Is it One rule for ONITSHA and another rule for coastal Nigerians like Calabar people and others?

Did you see that first picture?

Two expensive multi-billion dollar deepwater bridges sitting right next to each other.

You can even walk from one bridge to the other in a few minutes!

How is that fair when we have so many roads in the country that need fixing?

Was 2nd Niger Bridge A ''Wasted Venture'' Since You Already Had The 1st Niger Bridge?

I don't recall any complaints about the multi-billion dollar state-of-the-art 2nd Niger Bridge being ''a waste of resources since we already have the 1st Niger Bridge, and there are numerous bad roads in the country that need fixing''.

Or is it one rule for a section of the country and another rule for others?

2nd Niger Bridge (and 1st Niger Bridge to the left)







1st Niger Bridge

obijc:
All thsese is traceable to looting of Nigeria's treasury, corruption and poor leadership the past years

SHUT UP.

Show us where anyone “looted Nigerian treasury”.

School dropout typing rubbish.

As if when Nigeria was at No1, you did not insult and abuse the country the same way.

Just get lost.

Emergency Nigerians.

hooklover:
The truth is US base us needed in north especially nigeria to expose does political bandits and bokoharam biznese in d north.
The north is afraid dere coming will expose alot if the games north plathe can decieve d country but not d west....

Let them come

You have no sense in your dumb head.

Mumu.

Illiterate dunce with internet access.

omoredia:
Haha una get alot to fear nah. Corrupt people. U fit take loan but u can't take military base? U are joking

What an illiterate post.

Every country takes out loans. Loans are not bad things. And taking out a loan doesn’t imply you should allow foreign military bases in your country, you blasted illiterate.

Adaisback:
I heard they said Obasanjo's real father is an Igbo man, air peace too is proudly of Igbo stock. So permit me to say ' Igbo amaka'.

Everything is ‘tribe’ now in your heads.

You people are seriously damaged, but you don’t realise it.

Even your parents were never this tribalistic.

Paulruth:
You ended up showing us one roundabout from different angles 😌😌

That’s a lie. Kano has many intersections and roundabouts, and OP showed some of them.